The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 292 | | | 17.06.05 | |Landmine explodes in Grozny | | | |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |A landmine went off at a bus | | |stop in the Staropromyslovsky |17 June 2005 The Civil Society Center To Open in Grozny | |district of Grozny, the capital |The Civil Society Center is going to open a youth democratic | |of Russia's North Caucasus |movement called Ours and a network of training camps all over | |republic of Chechnya. The attack|Russia. According to the movements leader, V. Yakemenko, the | |apparently targeted a unit of |opening ceremony in Grozny will take place at the end of June.| |sappers from the military |A few scores of volunteers are now completing the | |commandant's office who were |construction. It will be a three-storied building built to the| |passing by the bus stop at the |latest designs and located in the citys center. The center | |time of the explosion, sources |will house a movie hall, Internet cafe to relay immediate | |in the Chechen Interior Ministry|information, a press center, as well as premises for | |told Interfax. Nobody was killed|law-enforcement agencies. Premises will be provided to all | |or injured by the blast. |those who realize that a civil society is of special | |Investigators are working at the|importance to Russia and particularly so for Chechnya. The | |scene. They are examining the |centers main objective, according to V. Yakemenko, is aimed at| |explosive device used in the |law-enforcement activities and technical support of the | |attack and questioning |process. The center will also focus on regular programs such | |witnesses. |as struggle against family violence, fascism, Army hazing, | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |freedom of speech, and educational programs. Training camps, | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |V. Yakemenko said, will be a separate part in Ours activities.| |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |This will be a good opportunity for thousands of young people | | |to meet renowned politicians, public figures, scholars and to | |Three militants detained in |engage in sports. In other words, Chechen youth will be given | |Dagestan - federal forces |a chance to educate themselves. The camps will be open to | | |anyone, as long as they become commissars of this | |Three guerrillas have been |organization. | |detained in Russia's North |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Caucasus republic of Dagestan, |Chechnya...) | |the press center of the federal | | |forces in the North Caucasus |16 June 2005 Chechnyas Recruits Will Serve In the 42nd | |told Interfax on Tuesday. |Motorized Infantry Division | |"According to the federal |Before the end of June 164 recruits from Chechnya will be | |forces' information, the |called up for military service in the 42nd motorized infantry | |detained men, born in 1981 and |division that is deployed in the republic on a permanent | |1985, were members of Akhmed |basis. According to Chechnyas military commissar Major-General| |Avdorkhanov's group, which acted|Said-Selim Tsuyev, 94 people will serve in the armed forces in| |on the territory of the |the Vostok battalion and 70 people in the Zapad battalion of | |Kurchaloi, Nozhai-Yurt and |the same division. The commanders of these military units sent| |Gudesme districts of Chechnya," |applications for recruits to the republican military | |the press center said. A |registration and enlistment office, in line with which the | |submachine gun and cartridges |call-up will be carried out. All recruits have already been | |were confiscated from one of the|named, and at the moment they are undergoing pre-army | |detainees. Another former member|training. Major-General Tsuev says that he has received no | |of Avdorkhanov's guerrilla group|instructions from the North Caucasus military district for the| |was detained in the village of |call-up of youths to military service. This means that | |Novolakskoye. "In the course of |Chechnyas recruits will serve in their home country. According| |the investigation, the detainee |to the latest reports, more than 7,000 call-ups have been | |has begun testifying and |registered in the military commissariats in Chechnya. All | |admitted that he and his |these are young people from 18 to 27 years of age, who have | |accomplices were involved in a |undergone medical examination and have been found fit for | |series of crimes in Dagestan and|military service. They have been granted a delay till the next| |Chechnya," the press center |call-up period later this year. Possibly, the Chechen youths, | |said. A bomb exploded near a bus|as Said-Selim Tsuyev says, will be able to serve in the | |stop in the Staropromyslovsky |battalions, making part of the 46th brigade of Russias | |district of Grozny, the capital |interior forces and Chechnyas ministry for emergencies units. | |of the republic of Chechnya, on |This issue has already been considered. Meanwhile, young | |Monday, Chechen law enforcement |people in Chechnya are showing a greater interest in getting a| |sources said. An investigation |higher military education. If 28 young people applied for | |is underway. A cache containing |admission to military academies in Russia, this year the | |weapons and ammunition was found|figure is 101. However, the military commissariat in Chechnya | |in a cave in the Nozhai-Yurt |says that in line with the present-day instruction only 83 | |district, a local administration|people will be enrolled. However, all of them will go to take | |source told Interfax by phone. |exams in different cities in Russia. 11 youngsters from | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya will start their studies in the Suvorov military | |index.php?lng=eng] more...) |colleges in Russia this year. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| | Chechen history |Chechnya...) | | | | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|15 June 2004 St. Petersburg Chechen Republic | | |Sevkabel-Holding Company, a leading enterprise in St. | |To Reader |Petersburg plans to open its office in Grozny shortly. When | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov met with the president of the | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||company Gennady Makarov at the Hanover International | |traditions| music |Industrial exhibition the two men reached this agreement. They| | |also concluded an agreement that the company would supply all | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|kinds of cables and wires produced by the company to Chechnya.| |a Russian territory which has |These goods will be used in electrical engineering, | |witnessed the most tragic events|telecommunications and house wiring and will meet the demands | |over the past decade. The book |of the republic. Severkabel-Holding Company was formed on the | |is the latest update on the |basis of several companies under the Severkabel trademark in | |Chechen Republic . And this is |2003. Severkabel Company in St. Petersburg is Russias oldest | |very important, since a lack of |cable factory and is the main enterprise of the Holding that | |fresh and accurate information |embraces several enterprises that produce and sell cables and | |about events in Chechnya |wires and a scientific research institute. The factory was | |generates many distorted |built by German industrialist Siemens in 1879. It has been | |conceptions and rumours - both |producing high quality goods, which are famous in Russia and | |within and outside Russia . For |abroad, including Western Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle | |example, that Chechen society is|East. This means, cooperation with such a giant enterprise | |allegedly inherently alien to |will be fruitful for the Chechen republic. Another enterprise | |Russia , that pro-Russian |in St. Petersburg, Elektropult will open its branch at the | |elements in the republic are |former radio factory in Grozny. Its general director visited | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Grozny and studied the situation and made a favourable | |Russian power structures are |conclusion. The factory in Grozny will start production by the| |fighting the Chechen people, |end of the year. The Chechen government makes attempts to | |rather than armed bandit groups.|attract private investments, a larger part of which is being | |The reality, however, is that |directed to building construction area. At a recent meeting | |only with the return of the |with the Chechen President Roselectropromholding in St. | |legitimate authorities are |Petersburg expressed readiness to invest about 20 million | |villages and towns being |rubles to reconstruct two enterprises. One of them is the | |restored, children going to |radio factory mentioned earlier. The other is Scientific and | |school for the first time in |Production enterprise, Promavtomatika. Moreover, St. | |many years, and pensioners |Petersburg will help to train technicians for the | |receiving long-forgotten |reconstruction of the factories. | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Chechnya...) | |referendum on a new Chechen | | |constitution, and parliamentary | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |and presidential elections. | | |These votes will be held, | Russia - Chechnya | |despite continued attempts by | | |bandit groups and their leaders | Chechen culture | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, |Literary Ties | |the latest terrorist act being |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war |[5330] | |being waged by Chechen |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |separatists against federal |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |forces and more often than not |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |against their own co-citizens is|nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |by no means a "national |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |liberation struggle of the |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |Chechen people", but an episode |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |in the overall offensive by |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |international terrorism on the |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |fundamental principles of modern|Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |civilisation. The facts show |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |that being a part of the Russian|building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |Federation in no way threatens |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |identity, the free use of its |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |own language, and preaching |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |during de facto "independence" |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |from Russia that the Chechen |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |people suffered a humanitarian |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |trade and plundering came to |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |form the economic basis of the |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |new regime, while chaos and war |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |became the form of its political|Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |existence. We want to emphasise |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |once more: Chechnya is part of |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |Russia , geographically, |eng] chechen culture ...) | |politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a | Chechen tarditions | |hypothetical triumph of radical | | |Islamism on its territory would |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |be anti-historical. Such a |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |development would signify the |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |establishment in the midst of | | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |with all ensuing consequences |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |for the international community.|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |The corporate author - |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |journalists of the Russian |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Information Agency Novosti - |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |have attempted to be as brief as|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |possible on providing answers to|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |the most-often aked questions |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |(above all posed by a foreign |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |audience) about the Chechen |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |Chechnya : Questions and |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Answers". It draws heavily on |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |information provided by various |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Russian ministries and |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in | Chechen cuisine | |normalising life in the | | |republic. |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Russian Information Agency |traditions| music | |Novosti |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |=eng] in detail ...) |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | | |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | | Chechen economics. An |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| | Entrepreneurs Table Book |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | | Published in Chechnya |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | | |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |[6332] An Entrpreneurs Table |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Book with a circulation of 5,000|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |copies has been released in the |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Chechen Republic. Its appearance|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |comes in the nick of time, as |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |according to specialists, there |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |about 5,000 small businesses, |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |including farming collectives. |their own. | |This sector of the economy |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |employes nearly 100,000 farmers.|eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |has set up a modern support | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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