The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 295 | | | 30.06.05 | |Problems of commuter transport | | |in Grozny are slowly being |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |solved | | | |30 June 2005 Chechnya_s only newspaper that is being | |The route of bus number 4 is the|distributed free-of-charge | |longest and most difficult in |This daily is Daimokhk, which has been published in Chechen | |the Chechen capital. 12 state |language since 1923. The first issue of the newspaper came out| |fixed route taxis and 30 private|of print on the 23rd of April and under a decree by Chechen | |ones are plying the route and |President Alu Alkhanov this day will be marked as the Chechen | |moreover, passengers using the |Language Day. The deputy editor-in-chief Buvaisar Schamsudinov| |route also enjoy the services of|says that the teachers of the Novoatagin secondary school were| |private car owners who carry |the first to receive the information about the move and they | |passengers without a license and|were very happy. The editorial board traditionally holds such | |or agreement. A raid has |meetings every week. This makes possible for journalists to | |therefore been undertaken to |get information about all problems that worry the society. The| |find out such cases but there |journalists try to highlight them in the issues published | |remains the problem of lack of |twice a month with 10 thousand copies. The newspaper examines | |appropriate, well equipped |regularly political, economic and cultural issues. B. | |stops. At the bus terminals |Schamsudinov is focussed on moral issues. He believes that it | |passengers wade through dirt to |is high time to teach the society to think correctly and | |reach vehicles and drivers have |assess the developments in the republic appropriately. The | |nowhere to make a turn also due |newspaper is basically oriented to residents in rural areas | |to the ever present dirt. The |and youth. And Schmasudinov believes that there is a need to | |problem is being looked into by |talk to young people in a simple and understandable language | |city authorities but so far no |as they are the future of the republic. This is not a | |measure has been taken. Reason? |difficult job for the staff, which consists of 30 people. Only| |Lack of funds. But attempts are |three of them are under fifty the rest is youth. | |being made to improve public |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |transport service in the Chechen|Chechnya...) | |capital and 4 additional buses | | |have been allocated to route |29 June 2005 Shali Provides Home for 89 Orphans | |number 4. The fare on that route|This home is the republican socio-rehabilitation center for | |is 4 rubles, twice cheaper than |minors commissioned a couple of years ago. Now it houses 89 | |by fixed route taxi. Passengers |children. The youngest of them are three years old. Eighty | |are satisfied and happy. |four of them live in the center itself, while five, aged from | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |3 to 11, reside in family educational groups, created at the | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |center. These groups are a novelty in the center_s activities | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |and this novelty has gone down well. These groups are led by | | |the center_s educators. The children in their charge live with| |Ecological Environment in |their families. They are cared for with the same affection and| |Chechnya Seen Deteriorating |attention as their own children. The center provides them with| | |food, clothing and footwear. foster children from the center | |The ecological environment in |attended classes in the neighboring middle school # 10 last | |Chechnya has significantly |school year. And nearly all of them received _b_ (good) and | |deteriorated. The level of |_a_ (excellent) grades (marks). Such academic achievements are| |deleterious exhausts into the |, of course, attributable to the children themselves. But the | |atmosphere has increased, the |center made its own contribution into that. Two classes were | |rivers are greatly polluted, and|opened of additional studies which are given by social tutors | |large segments of forests are |who have considerable school teaching experience with | |mined. According to Magomed |children. The center closes for summer vacations, as children | |Mamakayev _ Department Chief of |leave for rest and sanatorium treatment. This summer the | |the Chechen Security Council _ |children leave for Nalchik and Gelenjik. Each group of 6 | |no significant measures to |children is accompanied by an educator. And each | |improve the situation are being |three-year-old foster child from the center will have an | |undertaken. Although some |individual educator during the summer rest. Ruslan Berdukayev | |burning oil wells have been |_ the center_s director says proudly that it has become a real| |extinguished, which are being |native home for the children. _We do our utmost so that the | |taken care of by _Grozneftegaz_.|children begin to smile and be provided with everything | |And this is the only positive |necessary. It is hard to overestimate the noble mission that | |moment concerning the |the Shali center carries on. But he himself needs assistance. | |improvement in ecology in the |The center lacks a sports gym and play grounds for the younger| |Republic. The atmosphere is |children, as well as facilities to teach the kids work habits.| |badly damaged by the mini oil |And the children live in large multi-bed sleeping rooms, | |refineries located in the |although the federal law # 120 calls for settling no more than| |pre-mountainous villages of the |5-7 children to a room. Repair work was recently done at the | |Kurchaloi, Gudermes and Shali |center under the federal program, but the construction workers| |regions The capital_s chemical |failed to install partitions in the sleeping rooms. The | |combine is the greatest threat |center_s employees, after sending the children on summer | |to the ecological environment in|vacation, will do the work themselves. Ruslan Berdukayev is | |Grozny. One of its shops |sincerely grateful to the Labor and Social Development | |contains storage of radioactive |Ministry of the Chechen Republic for rendering assistance to | |materials. Radioactive radiation|the center. And he hopes that other co-founders of the center,| |exceeds normal levels by scores |such as the Health Ministry and the Interior Ministry of the | |thousands of times. But there |Republic, will not neglect the current needs of the center. | |are no funds to eliminate them. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |It will require 22 million |Chechnya...) | |roubles today to restore | | |ecological balance in the |28 June 2004 Lipetsk Designers Help Rebuild Naur Region | |Chechen Republic. ([http:// |The program of cooperation between Naur and Lipetsk regions is| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |in its third year. Last spring Lipetsk_s _Grazhdanproyekt_ | |lng=eng] more...) |research and design institute joined this program. This | | |institute is a leading organization in the sphere of designing| | Chechen history |the construction of civil projects. The institute has gained | | |profound experience and excellent specialists work for it. And| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|when representatives of Naur region turned to Lipetsk region_s| | |leadership for help in rebuilding a hospital and a boarding | |To Reader |school for 360 children, no question arose which organization | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |would handle the job. A group of 30 leading specialists was | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||formed, practically completed design and assessment papers for| |traditions| music |rebuilding these much needed sites. In order to do a quality | | |job, Lipetsk specialists visited Naur and took all necessary | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|measurements, because no documentation on the damaged sites | |a Russian territory which has |were available, since all archives vanished in the 90s. Those | |witnessed the most tragic events|who went to Naur acknowledged that after reading all those | |over the past decade. The book |horror stories about the situation in Chechnya, they went with| |is the latest update on the |considerable foreboding. But their apprehensions dissipated as| |Chechen Republic . And this is |soon as they arrived there. They were given a hearty welcome | |very important, since a lack of |and accorded all the necessary conditions for work and | |fresh and accurate information |acquaintance with the region_s life and how it was being | |about events in Chechnya |restored. The Lipetsk specialists who went to Naur now say | |generates many distorted |that they would gladly go there again. Their Naur friends | |conceptions and rumours - both |received a complete set of documents and technological | |within and outside Russia . For |sketches, prepared by the Lipetsk institute. They include | |example, that Chechen society is|restoration work schemes, engineering equipment, exterior | |allegedly inherently alien to |networks, facade designs and layouts of the adjoining | |Russia , that pro-Russian |territory. Lipetsk specialists will themselves oversee the | |elements in the republic are |whole process of construction work. Its implementation is | |marginalised; and lastly, that |entrusted to an experienced contractor, which has already | |Russian power structures are |established a close contact and complete cooperation with the | |fighting the Chechen people, |institute and with the leadership of Naur region. Lipetsk | |rather than armed bandit groups.|specialists are certain that reconstruction of the hospital | |The reality, however, is that |and the boarding school will be carried out with the highest | |only with the return of the |quality. Tatyana Nechayeva _ the institute_s general director | |legitimate authorities are |notes that _if need be, the institute_s employees will | |villages and towns being |continue their cooperation with Naur region on other projects,| |restored, children going to |which require reconstruction or development_. | |school for the first time in |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |many years, and pensioners |Chechnya...) | |receiving long-forgotten | | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |is underway. Lying ahead are a | | |referendum on a new Chechen | Russia - Chechnya | |constitution, and parliamentary | | |and presidential elections. | Chechen culture | |These votes will be held, | | |despite continued attempts by |Literary Ties | |bandit groups and their leaders |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, |[5330] | |the latest terrorist act being |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |the bombing of the republican |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |government building. The war |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |being waged by Chechen |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |separatists against federal |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |forces and more often than not |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |against their own co-citizens is|Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |by no means a "national |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |liberation struggle of the |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |Chechen people", but an episode |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |in the overall offensive by |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |international terrorism on the |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |fundamental principles of modern|begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |civilisation. The facts show |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |that being a part of the Russian|the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |Federation in no way threatens |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |identity, the free use of its |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |own language, and preaching |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |during de facto "independence" |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |from Russia that the Chechen |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |people suffered a humanitarian |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |trade and plundering came to |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |form the economic basis of the |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |new regime, while chaos and war |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |became the form of its political|eng] chechen culture ...) | |existence. We want to emphasise | | |once more: Chechnya is part of | Chechen tarditions | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |civilisation-wise. So a |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |hypothetical triumph of radical |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |development would signify the |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |establishment in the midst of |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |with all ensuing consequences |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |for the international community.|ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |The corporate author - |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |journalists of the Russian |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |Information Agency Novosti - |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |have attempted to be as brief as|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |possible on providing answers to|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |the most-often aked questions |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |(above all posed by a foreign |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |audience) about the Chechen |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Chechnya : Questions and |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Answers". It draws heavily on | | |information provided by various | Chechen cuisine | |Russian ministries and | | |departments that in one or |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |another way are involved in |traditions| music | |normalising life in the |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |republic. |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Russian Information Agency |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Novosti |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |=eng] in detail ...) |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | | |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | | Chechen economics. An |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | | Entrepreneurs Table Book |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | | Published in Chechnya |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | | |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |[6332] An Entrpreneurs Table |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Book with a circulation of 5,000|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |copies has been released in the |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Chechen Republic. Its appearance|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |comes in the nick of time, as |their own. | |according to specialists, there |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |about 5,000 small businesses, |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |business and increase the number| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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