The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual News from Chechnya Chechnya | economy chechen economics Quality of Passenger Transport Service in Chechnya Should be Improved [7530] The passenger transportation and upgrading the quality of service is an urgent issue in Chechnya. This is linked with the fact that 70% of production capacity and facilities that offer technical services in automobile transport system have been destroyed and bus depots have to be reconstructed. The restoration of the sector is gaining momentum. Over 430 million rubles have been allocated to reconstruct transport facilities since 2001. This sum has been spent to reconstruct the branches of state-owned Chechenavtotrans Company - Gudermessky, Yrus-Martanovsky, Shelkovakoi and Nadterechny and bus depots - Zapadny, Tsentralny and Yuzhnaya in Grozny and buy 490 buses. Consequently, 198 bus routes, including 84 intercity, 68 suburban and 46 city routes have been restored. During a study of Chechnyas automobile transport problem it has been revealed that money allocated under the federal programme has been used ineffectively owing to poor coordination of the Chechen government and federal executive bodies. Money and subsidies for the transportation of privileged persons are being directed to the account of the Chechenavtotrans Company despite the fact that Transport and Communications Ministry is the client of intercity and suburban transportation. The ministry enjoys the right to attract any kind of vehicles for transportation regardless their ownership. With the appearance of dozens of small businesses and businessmen on automobile transport market, technical conditions of vehicles and road safety have worsened. Nevertheless, to meet the demands of people in passenger transportation Transport and Communications Ministry together with the administrations of cities and districts has arranged about 800 mini-buses but the work of which has to be controlled regularly. According to Chechnyas traffic police, 5870 buses were registered in the republic as of January 1st. Many of them are engaged in passenger transport but their owners have no permissions to do so and do not honour rules and regulations in this area. As a result the republican budget does not get up to 20 million rubles a year. The maintenance of order in passenger transport does not realized at a deserved level owing to the fact that traffic police and tax service work independently and poor coordination between them and the shortage of experts. According to the head of Chechnyas Security Councils department M. Mamakaev, these bodies do not check up whether the drivers have agreements to work in the given route, drivers have no plans that shows the dangerous sectors of the routes and the vehicles have no information about the price of tickets and the rules and regulations for the use of buses. All this prompts the government to set up a single service to control tariffs and rules and regulations of passenger transport in Chechnya. [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? section=economeng&lng=eng] (More...) # #Issue 346 30.01.06 Chechnya: news | arguments | facts 30 January 2006 Two militants arrested in Chechnya Two members of criminal armed groups have been detained in sweep operations in the Chechen cities of Achkhoi- Martan and Grozny, Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Interfax on Sunday. "The militant arrested in Achkhoi Martan is suspected of joining a criminal armed group led by Dautov back in 2002 and participating in sabotage and terrorist attacks against law enforcement officials," Alkhanov said. The second militant, a resident of the village of Ashkhilkhotoi in Vedeno district, was arrested in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. "The operations were thoroughly prepared and the militants were arrested without a shot," the minister said. [http:// www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more) Restoration works on gas pipeline in Chechnya over The restoration works have been completed Saturday morning on the Aksai-Gudermes-Grozny gas pipeline where a crash occurred in the evening of January 26. The gas supply will be resumed by Saturday noon. Six meters of pipes have been replaced in the gas pipeline. This section of the gas pipeline is very difficult, and I want to thank workers who managed to restore the gas pipeline for a short period of time, head of the Chechenregiongaz dispatcher service Mairbek Mamayev told Itar-Tass. [http:/ /www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more) Five militants dead in two operations in Dagestan Five militants have been killed in two special operations in Khasavyurt, acting spokesman for the Dagestani Interior Ministry Anzhela Martirosova told Interfax. She said Lechi Eskiyev was killed on Energeticheskaya Street, and four militants were killed on Beibulatov Street. "One of the dead militants has been identified as a certain Nouzov, who assisted with financing for illegal armed units in northern Chechnya and Dagestan," Martirovosa said. "Eskiyev was the so-called emir of militants in the Shelkovskaya, Naurskaya and Nadterechny districts of Chechnya. Some sources claimed that he was recently appointed the emir of Grozny," she said. [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more) Chechen PM names new press secretary Lema Gudayev, deputy head of the Chechen presidential press service, was appointed the new press secretary of the Chechen prime minister. The office of the president and Cabinet told Interfax that his predecessor, Salavdi Visargov, was relieved "due to a transfer to another assignment." The presidential press service was reshuffled earlier this month. Said-Magomed Isarayev became the new presidential press secretary. [http:// www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Free Chechnya Radio station on "Chechnya free.ru" site You can listen to Free Chechnya Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM Moscow time on a frequency of 594 kHz on the medium wave band and on a frequency of 171 kHz on the long wave band. The programme is created with the involvement of the Ministry for culture and mass communication of the Russian Federation. [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=radioeng&lng=eng] ( Free Chechnya Radio station ...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chechen cuisine [160] "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. [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=eng] (More ...) Islam in Chechnya We wish peace to all people [3798] The residents of Sunzhen district celebrated the New Year and religious holidays, Arafat and Kurban bairam calmly and merrily. The motto of the celebrations was Islam is a religion of kindness. According to imam of the district Askhab-Hajj Gaev, all Moslems prayed for not only themselves and others of same faith but also people of other faiths in the world. We prayed Allah to bring peace to all regions so that there were no wars and people could live deservedly and bring up their children peacefully. Moslem who has made pilgrimage to Mecca also did so. Askhab-Hajj Gaev says: The Day of Arafat is the day that created world. Let our praying bring peace and benefit for all people in the world regardless their faith. There is an increase in the number of pilgrims to Mecca elsewhere in Russia. According to the head of the international department of the Council of muftis imam-hathyb Rushan hazrat Abbyasov, this figure has increased to 13 thousand from last years 9 thousand. Commenting on these figures Chechnyas deputy mufti Magomed Dadaev noted that the reasons for such an increase were more serious attitude toward Islam and improvement in living standards of Moslems. A recent conference at the hajji mission of Russia determined when and from where Chechen pilgrims can leave for Mecca. These people can travel by plane from the cities of Kaspiisk and Mineralnye Vody from the 26th of December. About 390 pilgrims will leave from Kaspiisk and the rest from Mineralnye Vody. Magomed Dadaev on behalf of the spiritual department of Moslems in Chechnya thanked Russias passport-visa service for paying maximum attention to paper work of those who desire to carry out hajji and issuing them passports without any obstacles. 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