The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 294 | | | 27.06.05 | |In the Sovietskaya Rossiya State| | |Farm Wages Will Be Given In Cash|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The Sovietskaya Rossiya State |27 June 2005 Problems of commuter transport in Grozny are | |Farm has been listed as good not|slowly being solved | |only in the Grozny agricultural |The route of bus number 4 is the longest and most difficult in| |district but also all over |the Chechen capital. 12 state fixed route taxis and 30 private| |Chechnya. Last year the |ones are plying the route and moreover, passengers using the | |Sovietskaya Rossiya personnel |route also enjoy the services of private car owners who carry | |was awarded a Volga car and its |passengers without a license and or agreement. A raid has | |director, Zamzan Nagermanov, was|therefore been undertaken to find out such cases but there | |given the title of Honoured |remains the problem of lack of appropriate, well equipped | |Machine Operator of Russia. On |stops. At the bus terminals passengers wade through dirt to | |the results of last years gross |reach vehicles and drivers have nowhere to make a turn also | |harvest the Sovietskaya Rossiya |due to the ever present dirt. The problem is being looked into| |State Farm ranks first in |by city authorities but so far no measure has been taken. | |Chechnya. Ours will be the |Reason? Lack of funds. But attempts are being made to improve | |leading state farm this year |public transport service in the Chechen capital and 4 | |too! the director says with |additional buses have been allocated to route number 4. The | |certainty. This years winter and|fare on that route is 4 rubles, twice cheaper than by fixed | |spring crops are not inferior to|route taxi. Passengers are satisfied and happy. | |last years crops. In early June |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |there were 1,500 hectares of |Chechnya...) | |sown area, including 1,300 | | |hectares of food grains, 100 |26 June 2005 Ecological Environment in Chechnya Seen | |hectares of sugar-beet and |Deteriorating | |another 100hectares that are |The ecological environment in Chechnya has significantly | |sown with maize and vegetables |deteriorated. The level of deleterious exhausts into the | |the Sovietskaya Rossiya State |atmosphere has increased, the rivers are greatly polluted, and| |Farm has re-started growing this|large segments of forests are mined. According to Magomed | |year. Zamzan Nagermanov believes|Mamakayev _ Department Chief of the Chechen Security Council _| |that the Sovietskaya Rossiya |no significant measures to improve the situation are being | |personnel can be praised for its|undertaken. Although some burning oil wells have been | |former achievements. It is a |extinguished, which are being taken care of by _Grozneftegaz_.| |good and united team of |And this is the only positive moment concerning the | |high-class specialists, the |improvement in ecology in the Republic. The atmosphere is | |director says. All of them have |badly damaged by the mini oil refineries located in the | |a lengthy record of service and |pre-mountainous villages of the Kurchaloi, Gudermes and Shali | |are experienced workers, and |regions The capital_s chemical combine is the greatest threat | |besides, they are great |to the ecological environment in Grozny. One of its shops | |enthusiasts of agricultural |contains storage of radioactive materials. Radioactive | |work. And it is not accidental |radiation exceeds normal levels by scores thousands of times. | |that the Sovietskaya Rossiya |But there are no funds to eliminate them. It will require 22 | |farmers adopted cross-over |million roubles today to restore ecological balance in the | |sowing as long ago as the late |Chechen Republic. | |90s of last century: doubled |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |expenditures lead to desired |Chechnya...) | |results. And this year a | | |crossover method was used to sow|26 June 2004 Center for Disable Opened in Grozny | |winter crops. An attempt to use |Where and how does one spend one_s spare time? This is a | |a similar method to sow spring |problem facing the majority of young men and girls in | |crops ended in a failure: the |Chechnya. But if healthy and able-bodied young people can | |weather was bad, the soil was |resolve it themselves, disabled youth may have a problem. In | |not easy to plough and the |this case the Chechen division of the All-Russia Society of | |deadline was close. And though |Disabled Persons came to their help. Rabu Azdayeva, its | |an ordinary method was used to |leader, nurtured the idea for three years and applied to | |sow winter crops, the expected |various humanitarian organizations and to the government with | |results will be much better than|a request for financial support. Finally with the assistance | |last years results, as the |of the French humanitarian organization _Handicap | |Sovietskaya Rossiya farmers |Internacional_ such a center was opened in Grozny. The center | |believe. They are always eager |now has two computers, checkers, chess-men, dominos, guitars | |to share their experience in the|and karaoke. The center holds contests in karaoke play, chess | |application of advanced methods |and computer games. Here where young disabled youth can meet | |with other farmers in all parts |and communicate. The center is located in a two-room | |of Chechnya. The Yubileiny and |apartment. Young men who attend the center mainly prefer the | |the Gikalo state farms of the |computers. While girls like to sing along with the karaoke. | |Grozny agricultural district and|And they know how to do it well. This affects positively their| |also some farms of the Shalinsky|psyche , and helps elevate their self-esteem. The center has | |District in Chechnya have |an instructor in computer knowledge, who is himself disabled. | |already adopted the Sovietskaya |He takes care of all those who wish to learn it. The center | |Rossiya experience. The |will also hold meetings with prominent personalities in the | |Sovietskaya Rossiya director has|Republic: poets, writers and entertainers. A club for | |absolute certainty that his team|wheel-chaired young people and a club of quizzical and merry | |is on the right way. The |folks are also under consideration. Rabu Azdayeva believes | |crossover method has improved |that similar center should be set up in all regions of the | |considerably the material |Republic. But healthy and able-bodied people should also | |conditions of the local farmers.|attend them, which would be conducive to better social | |There are plans this year to pay|adaptation of disabled people. | |wages to the state farm workers |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |in cash, not by the goods they |Chechnya...) | |produce. This has become | | |possible thanks to the | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |realization of good harvest of | | |grain and vegetables. This | Russia - Chechnya | |decision encouraged their doing | | |shock work in future as well. | Chechen culture | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |Literary Ties | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | | | | |The Civil Society Center To Open|[5330] | |in Grozny |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | | |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |The Civil Society Center is |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |going to open a youth democratic|nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |movement called Ours and a |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |network of training camps all |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |over Russia. According to the |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |movements leader, V. Yakemenko, |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |the opening ceremony in Grozny |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |will take place at the end of |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |June. A few scores of volunteers|went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |are now completing the |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |construction. It will be a |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |three-storied building built to |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |the latest designs and located |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |in the citys center. The center |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |will house a movie hall, |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |Internet cafe to relay immediate|and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |information, a press center, as |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |well as premises for |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |law-enforcement agencies. |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |Premises will be provided to all|will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |those who realize that a civil |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |society is of special importance|Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |to Russia and particularly so |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |for Chechnya. The centers main |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |objective, according to V. |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |Yakemenko, is aimed at |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |law-enforcement activities and |eng] chechen culture ...) | |technical support of the | | |process. The center will also | Chechen tarditions | |focus on regular programs such | | |as struggle against family |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |violence, fascism, Army hazing, |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |freedom of speech, and |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |educational programs. Training | | |camps, V. Yakemenko said, will |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |be a separate part in Ours |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |activities. This will be a good |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |opportunity for thousands of |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |young people to meet renowned |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |politicians, public figures, |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |scholars and to engage in |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |sports. In other words, Chechen |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |youth will be given a chance to |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |educate themselves. The camps |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |will be open to anyone, as long |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |as they become commissars of |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |this organization. ([http:// |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |lng=eng] more...) |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | | Chechen history | | | | Chechen cuisine | |Chechnya | Questions and answers| | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |To Reader |traditions| music | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |traditions| music |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | | |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |a Russian territory which has |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |witnessed the most tragic events|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |over the past decade. The book |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |is the latest update on the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Chechen Republic . And this is |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |very important, since a lack of |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |fresh and accurate information |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |about events in Chechnya |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |generates many distorted |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |conceptions and rumours - both |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |within and outside Russia . For |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |example, that Chechen society is|their own. | |allegedly inherently alien to |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Russia , that pro-Russian |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |only with the return of the | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | |([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