The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 289 | | | 17.05.05 | |13 districts stricken by floods | | |in Chechnya, 143 homes destroyed|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Population and infrastructure of|17 May 2005 3,300 newborns in just one year | |thirteen Chechen districts and |The Gudermes central district hospital has been found to be | |three districts in the |Chechnyas best medical institution. The head doctor Idris | |republican capital of Grozny |Baisultanov says the staff should be given credit for the | |were affected as a result of |achievement, since all of them are very good doctors, nurses | |floods that swept across the |and orderlies who are keen on medicine and caring for patients| |republic on May 9-10. According |and who continually seek to improve their professional skills.| |to the republican Emergencies |Idris Baisultanov feels that although his hospital has won the| |Ministry, 643 people were |title of Chechnyas best district hospital, they did nothing | |evacuated from 143 fully |that any other hospital staff wouldnt be able to do. First of | |destroyed houses. More than |all, they analyzed the medical situation in the district, | |1,192 houses were inundated. All|singled out the more important problems and worked to clear | |in all, over 5,000 residents of |them up. First and foremost, they focused on the network of | |the republic suffered from the |medical institutions in the countryside, namely on obstetric | |floods over those days. A |aid stations and ambulance stations. The hospital got down to | |landslide-prone situation |restoring them and providing the stations with the necessary | |emerged in Duba-Yurt village, |equipment. The past two years have seen a major improvement in| |Shali district, department chief|the resource base of the district medical institutions, which | |at the Chechen Emergencies |now boast better diagnostic means, a grater scope of medicines| |Ministry Ruslan Abazov told |administered to patients, more convenient wards, improved | |Itar-Tass on Sunday. A landslide|treatment and better food. First aid can now be administered | |threatens 50 private houses in |quickly to whoever may need it, since four rural polyclinics | |the village. Torrential waters |have been equipped with ambulance cars to perform as | |in the republic damaged nearly |substations of the first-aid-station. Although the head | |50 pedestrian and highway |physician quickly enumerates the achievements, one can see it | |bridges and washed away more |took them a great deal of time and effort to accomplish what | |than 400 kilometres of roads, |they did. Today the Gudermes central district hospital boasts | |Abazov noted. Restoration work |a casualty department, a department of surgery, a gynecology | |is now underway across the |department, a urology department, resuscitation department, | |entire republic. Efforts are |infectious disease department, maternity ward, pathologic | |made to strengthen protecting |pregnancy department and a department of new-born pathologies.| |levees on rivers. The |The first city hospital has been used as a basis for a | |ministerial services continue to|therapeutics department and a department of paediatrics. Late | |work in the emergency regime, |last year the tuberculosis department was reinforced with a TB| |because weathermen forecasted a |dispensary. The rural district hospital in the Oiskhary | |new wave of floods in nearest |village can treat 50 patients in the maternity ward, | |days, Abazov said. According to |therapeutics department and the department of paediatrics. | |preliminary information, the |Then rural hospital in Engel-Yurt boasts the same departments.| |damage from the floods in |A 15-cot day treatment department has been opened at the | |Chechnya amounted to 600 million|district maternity welfare centre. The head doctor is | |roubles. However, experts |especially proud that 3,300 babies were born in the district | |believe that the sum may rise |last year in what proved a perfect reason for their mums and | |after detailed study. |dads, their grandmothers and grandfathers, and, of course, | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |medical workers to celebrate. Today the Gudermes region boasts| |index.php?section=newsarceng& |564 medical workers, including 131 doctors, who provide | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |effective protection against any disease for those building a | | |peaceful and prosperous Chechnya. | |Former Ichkeria vice-president |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Vakha Arsanov killed in Grozny |Chechnya...) | |in a special operation | | | |16 May 2005 Bomb confiscated from man in Dagestan | |Four gunmen were destroyed last |A man has been detained in Makhachkala, the capital of the | |night in a special operation, |North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, and a powerful improvised| |carried out by officers of the |explosive device has been confiscated from him, a local law | |Chechen Interior Ministry in the|enforcement source told Interfax on Saturday. The man was | |Staropromyslovsky district of |detained at around 11:00 p.m. Moscow time on Friday, the | |Chechnya. According to |source said. He has been charged with the illegal purchase and| |preliminary data, one of the |possession of weapons, ammunition, explosive substances and | |killed gunmen is former |explosive devices. Dagestani Interior Minister Adilgerei | |vice-president of the so-called |Magomedtagirov has confirmed reports that a man was detained | |Ichkeria republic Vakha Arsanov,|in Makhachkala and an explosive device was confiscated from | |Tass learnt from Chechen Deputy |him. A similar bomb was used during a terrorist attack in | |Interior Minister Sultan |Kaspiisk on May 9, 2002, Magomedtagirov told Interfax. | |Satuyev. According to the deputy|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |minister, the reputed gunman was|Chechnya...) | |visually identified by local | | |resident who knew him well. The |16 May 2004 Police car fired on in Chechnya, 3 policemen | |killed has a domestic passport |wounded | |for some others name. The deputy|A police car was fired on by unknown people from automatic | |minister noted that a medical |arms in Chechnyas Staropromyslovsky region. Three policemen | |examination would have the last |got injuries in the attack, Itar-Tass learnt at the republics | |say on the identification. The |law enforcement bodies on Monday. The incident occurred at the| |incident took place last night |crossroad near a secondary school building on Sunday night. | |at 23.25. The gunmen were |Policemen opened response fire, however, bandits managed to | |blockaded at a private house and|escape. Two wounded policemen were hospitalised, and the third| |spurned down a proposal to |one was given out-patient medical aid. A probe in the incident| |surrender. They were killed in a|is in progress. | |brief clash. Police found a |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |pistol, three submachineguns at |Chechnya...) | |the place of the clash, two of | | |them had been stolen during an | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |attack on the Ingushetia | | |Interior Ministry on the night | Russia - Chechnya | |of June 20, 2004. Other gunmen | | |are being identified. ([http:// | Chechen culture | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng] more...) |Literary Ties | | |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | | Chechen history | | | |[5330] | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | | |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |To Reader |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |traditions| music |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | | |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |a Russian territory which has |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |witnessed the most tragic events|Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |over the past decade. The book |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |is the latest update on the |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |Chechen Republic . And this is |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |very important, since a lack of |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |fresh and accurate information |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |about events in Chechnya |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |generates many distorted |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |conceptions and rumours - both |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |within and outside Russia . For |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |example, that Chechen society is|Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |allegedly inherently alien to |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |Russia , that pro-Russian |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |elements in the republic are |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |Russian power structures are |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |fighting the Chechen people, |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |rather than armed bandit groups.|underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |The reality, however, is that |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |only with the return of the |eng] chechen culture ...) | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being | Chechen tarditions | |restored, children going to | | |school for the first time in |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |many years, and pensioners |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |receiving long-forgotten |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |referendum on a new Chechen |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |constitution, and parliamentary |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |and presidential elections. |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |These votes will be held, |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |despite continued attempts by |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |bandit groups and their leaders |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |to scupper the process of |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |normalisation in the republic, |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |the latest terrorist act being |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |the bombing of the republican |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |government building. The war |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |being waged by Chechen |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |separatists against federal |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |forces and more often than not |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |against their own co-citizens is|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | Chechen cuisine | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |international terrorism on the |traditions| music | |fundamental principles of modern|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |civilisation. The facts show |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |that being a part of the Russian|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Federation in no way threatens |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |identity, the free use of its |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |own language, and preaching |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |during de facto "independence" |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |from Russia that the Chechen |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |people suffered a humanitarian |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |trade and plundering came to |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |form the economic basis of the |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |new regime, while chaos and war |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |became the form of its political|their own. | |existence. We want to emphasise |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |once more: Chechnya is part of |eng] in detail ...) | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and | - | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical |## | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |development would signify the | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |establishment in the midst of | | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| | |with all ensuing consequences | | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian | | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as| | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often aked questions | | |(above all posed by a foreign | | |audience) about the Chechen | | |issue. Hence the book's title: "| | |Chechnya : Questions and | | |Answers". It draws heavily on | | |information provided by various | | |Russian ministries and | | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the | | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics. An | | | Entrepreneurs Table Book | | | Published in Chechnya | | | | | |[6332] An Entrpreneurs Table | | |Book with a circulation of 5,000| | |copies has been released in the | | |Chechen Republic. Its appearance| | |comes in the nick of time, as | | |according to specialists, there | | |about 5,000 small businesses, | | |including farming collectives. | | |This sector of the economy | | |employes nearly 100,000 farmers.| | |Over the next five years the | | |Chechen leadership is targeting | | |to double the number of small | | |business and increase the number| | |of employees up to 250-300 | | |thousand people. The Republic | | |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 | | |there are dynamic people, ready | | |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