The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 288 | | | 14.05.05 | |Over 40 guerrillas killed in | | |Chechnya on May 5-10 - Shabalkin|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |More than 40 militants were |14 May 2005 Natural Gas Supplies Delivered to Nozhai-Urt | |killed during sweep operations |Major gas supplies are now being delivered to Nozhai-Urt, | |in Chechnya on May 5-10, |which is welcome news here. Two pipe-lines have been laid from| |spokesman for the federal forces|the village of Gilyany to Simsir and Dattakh. 6 settlements | |in the North Caucasus Maj. Gen. |are already receiving gas supplies. The gas is being delivered| |Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on |from the main pipeline from Dagestan at a normal functional | |Thursday. Some of the guerrillas|pressure. It is now only needed to lay 2.5 kilometers of gas | |died as a result of an artillery|pipelines to the village of Zandak-Ara and the gas will be | |barrage fired against their |available in 16 other villages. This work is expected to be | |hideout in the mountains, |completed by this autumn and from then on 80 percent of | |Shabalkin said. Five militants |settlements of the region will be gasified. Vakha Magmgaziyev | |surrendered and another ten were|chief of the Nozhai-Urt regional administration underscores | |detained over the same period, |that gasification of the region would have a great social and | |the spokesman said. |moral significance, because we are talking of the more remote | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |villages from Grozny. And now they will soon be all gasified. | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |And the villagers do no longer feel neglected and see for | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |themselves how life in the Republic is coming back to normal. | | |Moreover, gasification of the region would finally be able to | |Gunmen base destroyed in |preserve the main wealth of the region the mountainous forests| |Chechnya |with valuable varieties of trees. Previously, they were | | |ruthlessly felled for fire-wood and heating and for other | |A base of Chechen gunmen was |economic needs. Now it becomes possible not only to preserve | |destroyed on Wednesday in the |them but also to increase their growth. Thus it would be | |republics Itum-Kale region. |possible to prevent mudslides , which threatened many | |Police acted on a tip from an |villages. The decision on the gasification of the region was | |arrested gunman, sources from |originally adopted by the first President of Chechnya Akhmad | |the regional headquarters for |Kadyrov. His successor Alu Alkhanov and the current Chechen | |control over the anti-terrorist |Republican government actively supported the idea, and | |operation told Itar-Tass. The |provided all necessary help for gasification work. The local | |base consisted of four dugouts |construction company Baitarki did all the work at the expense | |situated in the forest of a |of the Republican budget. An inspection commission seemed | |mountainous area, which made the|satisfied with the quality of work of the Nozhai-Urt builders.| |base difficult to locate. A |Their plans, however, will not end at that. There is need to | |self-made explosive device, two |replace gas pipelines in a number of villages. This year | |rounds for a grenade-launcher, a|construction workers plan to build a major bridge in the | |detonator as well as 1,200 grams|southern part of the Republic. One flight of the bridge is | |of TNT were found there. |already in operation. During this year a road will be paved | |Besides, police and security |from a regional center to the village of Meskheta and work | |forces found eight grenades, a |will be undertaken to pave a stretch of the road from the | |big amount of cartridges and |regional center to the village of Sayasana. Work is completed | |Wahhabi literature. The |on the water-purification station of the Struya system in the | |explosive device was blasted at |village of Nozhai-Urt. And the next stage will be prospecting | |the site. ([http:// |work for laying a water pipeline to the regional center. This | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |is a major project, according to Vakha Magamgaziyev, and the | |lng=eng] more...) |region hopes for its appropriate funding, so that if it cannot| | |be fully completed this year, but at least start working on | | Chechen history |it. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Chechnya...) | | | | |To Reader |13 May 2005 Militant group in Chechnya decides to lay down | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |arms | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||A militant group operating in Chechnya has decided to | |traditions| music |surrender to the authorities, spokesman for the regional | | |headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the North | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax Friday | |a Russian territory which has |morning. He said the group of six is based in the border area | |witnessed the most tragic events|of Achkhoi- Martan and Shatoi districts in the mountains of | |over the past decade. The book |Chechnya. The group's leader is directly subordinate to field | |is the latest update on the |commander Doku Umarov. | |Chechen Republic . And this is |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |very important, since a lack of |Chechnya...) | |fresh and accurate information | | |about events in Chechnya |13 May 2004 Flood waters destroy car bridge in Chechnyas | |generates many distorted |Shali district | |conceptions and rumours - both |More than 2,000 people have been evacuated from eight | |within and outside Russia . For |flood-hit districts of Chechnya. More than 4,000 rescuers and | |example, that Chechen society is|540 equipment units have been mobilized to work in the | |allegedly inherently alien to |disaster area, a source at the southern regional center of the| |Russia , that pro-Russian |Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass on | |elements in the republic are |Thursday. Two hundred thirty-nine houses were submerged under | |marginalised; and lastly, that |water as a result of inundation. Torrential waters have | |Russian power structures are |damaged 120 meters of gas pipeline in Achkhoi-Martan district.| |fighting the Chechen people, |A dike near Assinovskaya village, the Sunzha district, is in | |rather than armed bandit groups.|critical condition. There is a high threat that water will | |The reality, however, is that |burst through a dike near the village of Sernovodskaya. The | |only with the return of the |Shali district is the worst hit by floods. The rising waters | |legitimate authorities are |of the Bass River have destroyed a river bridge and brought | |villages and towns being |all road traffic to a halt. Floods have breached an earth dam | |restored, children going to |near Germenchuk village. Rising water levels in the Sunzha | |school for the first time in |River have flooded several households in Groznys Oktyabrsky | |many years, and pensioners |district. Rising waters are posing a direct threat to Barguny | |receiving long-forgotten |village, the Gudermes district. The local administration is | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |taking measures to localize the flood consequences. A center | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |to prevent the emergency situation has been created. Dikes | |referendum on a new Chechen |from the sides of the Sunzha and Terek Rivers have been | |constitution, and parliamentary |reinforced. The forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations| |and presidential elections. |and the United Group of Troops have evacuated nearly 1,300 | |These votes will be held, |residents from Barguny village. | |despite continued attempts by |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |bandit groups and their leaders |Chechnya...) | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican | Russia - Chechnya | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | Chechen culture | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not |Literary Ties | |against their own co-citizens is|Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the |[5330] | |Chechen people", but an episode |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |in the overall offensive by |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |international terrorism on the |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |fundamental principles of modern|nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |civilisation. The facts show |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |that being a part of the Russian|was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |Federation in no way threatens |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |identity, the free use of its |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |own language, and preaching |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |during de facto "independence" |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |from Russia that the Chechen |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |people suffered a humanitarian |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |tragedy on an unprecedented |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |trade and plundering came to |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |form the economic basis of the |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |new regime, while chaos and war |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |became the form of its political|Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |existence. We want to emphasise |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |once more: Chechnya is part of |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |Russia , geographically, |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |politically and |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |civilisation-wise. So a |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |hypothetical triumph of radical |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |Islamism on its territory would |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |be anti-historical. Such a |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |development would signify the |eng] chechen culture ...) | |establishment in the midst of | | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| Chechen tarditions | |with all ensuing consequences | | |for the international community.|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |The corporate author - |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |journalists of the Russian |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |possible on providing answers to|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |the most-often aked questions |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |(above all posed by a foreign |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |audience) about the Chechen |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |Chechnya : Questions and |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Answers". It draws heavily on |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |information provided by various |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Russian ministries and |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |departments that in one or |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |another way are involved in |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |normalising life in the |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |republic. |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Russian Information Agency |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Novosti |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| Chechen cuisine | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | Chechen economics. An |traditions| music | | Entrepreneurs Table Book |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | | Published in Chechnya |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | | |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |[6332] An Entrpreneurs Table |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Book with a circulation of 5,000|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |copies has been released in the |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Chechen Republic. Its appearance|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |comes in the nick of time, as |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |according to specialists, there |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |about 5,000 small businesses, |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |including farming collectives. |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |This sector of the economy |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |employes nearly 100,000 farmers.|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Over the next five years the |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Chechen leadership is targeting |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |to double the number of small |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |business and increase the number|their own. | |of employees up to 250-300 |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |thousand people. The Republic |eng] in detail ...) | |has set up a modern support | | |infrastructure for small | - | |business and developed programs | | |of development and support of |## | |small entrepreneurship. And the | | |most important thing is that | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |there are dynamic people, ready | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |to undertake small business. It | | |is precisely for those people | | |that An Entrepreneurs Table Book| | |has been released. Its compilers| | |include Shaarani Shuaipov | | |Committee Chairman on Small | | |Business and Entrepreneurship of| | |the Chechen government, and | | |Magomed Shovkhalov -- Fund | | |Director in support of small | | |entrepreneurship of the Chechen | | |Republic. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |newineng&row=1] more...) | | | | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=projectrus&lng|[mail][mailto:info@chechnyafree.ru] [mailto] | | =eng] [about] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=news.media.chechnyafree&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com