Actual News from Chechnya

News update

A landmine went off at a bus stop in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya. The attack apparently targeted a unit of sappers from the military commandant's office who were passing by the bus stop at the time of the explosion, sources in the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax. Nobody was killed or injured by the blast. Investigators are working at the scene. They are examining the explosive device used in the attack and questioning witnesses.
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Three guerrillas have been detained in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the press center of the federal forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Tuesday. "According to the federal forces' information, the detained men, born in 1981 and 1985, were members of Akhmed Avdorkhanov's group, which acted on the territory of the Kurchaloi, Nozhai-Yurt and Gudesme districts of Chechnya," the press center said. A submachine gun and cartridges were confiscated from one of the detainees. Another former member of Avdorkhanov's guerrilla group was detained in the village of Novolakskoye. "In the course of the investigation, the detainee has begun testifying and admitted that he and his accomplices were involved in a series of crimes in Dagestan and Chechnya," the press center said. A bomb exploded near a bus stop in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, the capital of the republic of Chechnya, on Monday, Chechen law enforcement sources said. An investigation is underway. A cache containing weapons and ammunition was found in a cave in the Nozhai-Yurt district, a local administration source told Interfax by phone. (more...)

Chechen history

Chechnya | Questions and answers

This pamphlet is about Chechnya, a Russian territory which has witnessed the most tragic events over the past decade. The book is the latest update on the Chechen Republic . And this is very important, since a lack of fresh and accurate information about events in Chechnya generates many distorted conceptions and rumours - both within and outside Russia . For example, that Chechen society is allegedly inherently alien to Russia , that pro-Russian elements in the republic are marginalised; and lastly, that Russian power structures are fighting the Chechen people, rather than armed bandit groups. The reality, however, is that only with the return of the legitimate authorities are villages and towns being restored, children going to school for the first time in many years, and pensioners receiving long-forgotten pensions, i.e. a social rebirth is underway. Lying ahead are a referendum on a new Chechen constitution, and parliamentary and presidential elections. These votes will be held, despite continued attempts by bandit groups and their leaders to scupper the process of normalisation in the republic, the latest terrorist act being the bombing of the republican government building. The war being waged by Chechen separatists against federal forces and more often than not against their own co-citizens is by no means a "national liberation struggle of the Chechen people", but an episode in the overall offensive by international terrorism on the fundamental principles of modern civilisation. The facts show that being a part of the Russian Federation in no way threatens the Chechen Republic 's cultural identity, the free use of its own language, and preaching Islam. On the contrary, it was during de facto "independence" from Russia that the Chechen people suffered a humanitarian tragedy on an unprecedented scale. Hostage-taking, the slave trade and plundering came to form the economic basis of the new regime, while chaos and war became the form of its political existence. We want to emphasise once more: Chechnya is part of Russia , geographically, politically and civilisation-wise. So a hypothetical triumph of radical Islamism on its territory would be anti-historical. Such a development would signify the 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
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Chechen economics. An Entrepreneurs Table Book Published in Chechnya

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.
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Issue 292
17.06.05

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

17 June 2005  The Civil Society Center To Open in Grozny
The Civil Society Center is going to open a youth democratic movement called Ours and a network of training camps all over Russia. According to the movements leader, V. Yakemenko, the opening ceremony in Grozny will take place at the end of June. A few scores of volunteers are now completing the construction. It will be a three-storied building built to the latest designs and located in the citys center. The center will house a movie hall, Internet cafe to relay immediate information, a press center, as well as premises for law-enforcement agencies. Premises will be provided to all those who realize that a civil society is of special importance to Russia and particularly so for Chechnya. The centers main objective, according to V. Yakemenko, is aimed at law-enforcement activities and technical support of the process. The center will also focus on regular programs such as struggle against family violence, fascism, Army hazing, freedom of speech, and educational programs. Training camps, V. Yakemenko said, will be a separate part in Ours activities. This will be a good opportunity for thousands of young people to meet renowned politicians, public figures, scholars and to engage in sports. In other words, Chechen youth will be given a chance to educate themselves. The camps will be open to anyone, as long as they become commissars of this organization.
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16 June 2005  Chechnyas Recruits Will Serve In the 42nd Motorized Infantry Division
Before the end of June 164 recruits from Chechnya will be called up for military service in the 42nd motorized infantry division that is deployed in the republic on a permanent basis. According to Chechnyas military commissar Major-General Said-Selim Tsuyev, 94 people will serve in the armed forces in the Vostok battalion and 70 people in the Zapad battalion of the same division. The commanders of these military units sent applications for recruits to the republican military registration and enlistment office, in line with which the call-up will be carried out. All recruits have already been named, and at the moment they are undergoing pre-army training. Major-General Tsuev says that he has received no instructions from the North Caucasus military district for the call-up of youths to military service. This means that Chechnyas recruits will serve in their home country. According to the latest reports, more than 7,000 call-ups have been registered in the military commissariats in Chechnya. All these are young people from 18 to 27 years of age, who have undergone medical examination and have been found fit for military service. They have been granted a delay till the next call-up period later this year. Possibly, the Chechen youths, as Said-Selim Tsuyev says, will be able to serve in the battalions, making part of the 46th brigade of Russias interior forces and Chechnyas ministry for emergencies units. This issue has already been considered. Meanwhile, young people in Chechnya are showing a greater interest in getting a higher military education. If 28 young people applied for admission to military academies in Russia, this year the figure is 101. However, the military commissariat in Chechnya says that in line with the present-day instruction only 83 people will be enrolled. However, all of them will go to take exams in different cities in Russia. 11 youngsters from Chechnya will start their studies in the Suvorov military colleges in Russia this year.
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15 June 2004  St. Petersburg Chechen Republic
Sevkabel-Holding Company, a leading enterprise in St. Petersburg plans to open its office in Grozny shortly. When Chechen President Alu Alkhanov met with the president of the company Gennady Makarov at the Hanover International Industrial exhibition the two men reached this agreement. They also concluded an agreement that the company would supply all kinds of cables and wires produced by the company to Chechnya. These goods will be used in electrical engineering, telecommunications and house wiring and will meet the demands of the republic. Severkabel-Holding Company was formed on the basis of several companies under the Severkabel trademark in 2003. Severkabel Company in St. Petersburg is Russias oldest cable factory and is the main enterprise of the Holding that embraces several enterprises that produce and sell cables and wires and a scientific research institute. The factory was built by German industrialist Siemens in 1879. It has been producing high quality goods, which are famous in Russia and abroad, including Western Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This means, cooperation with such a giant enterprise will be fruitful for the Chechen republic. Another enterprise in St. Petersburg, Elektropult will open its branch at the former radio factory in Grozny. Its general director visited Grozny and studied the situation and made a favourable conclusion. The factory in Grozny will start production by the end of the year. The Chechen government makes attempts to attract private investments, a larger part of which is being directed to building construction area. At a recent meeting with the Chechen President Roselectropromholding in St. Petersburg expressed readiness to invest about 20 million rubles to reconstruct two enterprises. One of them is the radio factory mentioned earlier. The other is Scientific and Production enterprise, Promavtomatika. Moreover, St. Petersburg will help to train technicians for the reconstruction of the factories.
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Russia - Chechnya

Chechen culture

The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he went there for the last time shortly before his death. The building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The employees will engage in search of items and materials of Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors.
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Chechen tarditions

The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen State University, writer and publicist directs his book to youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted to customs and traditions of Chechens.
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Chechen cuisine

"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. And it was not until the late 19th century that many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of their own.
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