The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |Free Chechnya Radio station | # # Issue 427 | | | 20.01.07 | |Free Chechnya Radio station | | |broadcasting live |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |20 January 2007 The East and West battalions have carried out| |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|assignment with honour | |Moscow time on a frequency of |For the last two months 55 servicemen from the East and West | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |battalions of the 42nd motorized rifle division stationed in | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|Chechnya protected 250 highway engineers of the 100th special | |the long wave band. The |bridge construction battalion of the Russian Defense ministry.| |programme is created with the |Earlier, the same two battalions helped restore bridges | |involvement of the Ministry for |destroyed during the war in Lebanon in 2006 and displayed | |culture and mass communication |excellent combat and human qualities, drawing no adverse | |of the Russian Federation. |comment from any quarter. The Chechen servicemen established | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |in Lebanon good mutual understanding with engineers from the | |listen.pls ] live |100th special bridge construction battalion, though initially | |broadcasting......) |there was discernible prejudice against them. The bridge | | |builders were proud about being protected by the Chechen | |Chechen economics |servicemen, they requested for a group photograph with them | | |and praised Chechen custom and traditions. Russian embassy | |Forests Restoration is Underway |officials frequently visited the Chechen servicemen, bringing | | |gifts to them. They also interacted with the locals through a | |The new Russian land law came |relative of one of the servicemen, who is married to a | |into force on January 1, 2007. |Lebanese doctor. All the Chechen servicemen have received | |It envisages fresh provisions |testimonials, while the four men have received awards from the| |aimed at forests protection and |Russian Defense minister. Servicemen from the East and West | |at enhancing effectiveness of |battalions believe that they have demonstrated to everybody | |the use of land throughout the |that Chechens can be trusted and that all Chechens should not | |country. The same problem is of |be tarred with the same bandit brush. They are ready to carry | |current importance for Chechnya |out any order by the commanders of the battalion and division | |as well. Suffice to say that |and are ready to go to any hot spot in the world. On their | |during the military operations |return to Gudermes the Chechen servicemen were feted at a | |about 50 thousand hectares of |special gathering, at which the Chechen leaders and chiefs of | |the republics 370 thousand |the 42nd division congratulated them on successfully carried | |hectares of land were damaged |out assignments. | |Currently the damaged parts of |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |the forests are being restored |from Chechnya...) | |and from 2005 to 2006 young | | |trees were planted in over 550 |20 January 2007 Chechnya anti-terrorism center officers | |hectares; more than 5 thousand |accused of robberies | |hectares have been rid of |A criminal case against anti-terrorism center officers in | |military debris and cleared of |Chechnya accused of committing 21 robberies in Grozny has been| |mines. Russian servicemen are |passed on to the North Caucasus republic's Supreme Court, | |helping Chechnya in the arduous |police said Friday. The gang, which was active in Grozny | |task of forest cleaning and |between December 2005 and May 2006, attacked apartments at | |regeneration, but 7 thousand |night. A total of 59 people have been identified as victims of| |hectares are still to be cleared|the gang, with total damages estimated at more than 2 million | |of mines. A sign of the rapid |rubles ($75,400). "During the investigation, it was | |rebuilding of Chechnya has been |established that an officer of the Chechen Republic's | |last years restoration of the |anti-terrorism center set up an armed group from among his | |dendrology park. Now it boasts |colleagues and acquaintances in December 2005. "During their | |more than 300 rare plants, |attacks, the bandits used Kalashnikov assault rifles, Makarov | |shrubs and trees brought to the |handguns, ammunition, military uniforms and equipment provided| |region from various parts of |to them by the anti-terrorism center," police said. A police | |Russia. |spokesman said the bandits would announce themselves as | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |officers with the organized crime department, charged with | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |checking passports. He said they would burst into apartments | |economeng&row=1 ] more ......) |and rob city residents of household appliances, jewels and | | |cash, beating anyone who resisted. RIA Novosti | |Ethnic Russians in Chechen |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |history |from Chechnya...) | | | | |Russian culture as part of |19 January 2007 546 militants respond to amnesty call in | |Chechen culture |North Caucasus - official | | |A total of 546 militants have responded to an amnesty and | |History has ruled that the |returned to peaceful life, a representative of the National | |Russian cultural tradition make |Counterterrorist Committee told Interfax on Monday. "Four of | |an important component of |them were on the federal wanted list, about 200 took part in | |Chechen culture. It is made |acts of sabotage and terrorism, and nearly everyone was an | |evident by the language spoken |illegal armed group member. There are three female accomplices| |four or five centuries ago, when|to militants amongst the surrendered. They were preparing to | |growing trade encouraged |become suicide bombers," he said. The majority of the | |contacts between ethnic Russians|surrendered militants are aged from 20 to 45. The youngest is | |and the Veinakh people. The |16 years old and the oldest is 75, the source said. | |Veinakhs settled to live side by|[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |side with Russian Cossacks on |from Chechnya...) | |the fertile land at the foot of | | |the nountains. The Chechen | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |"punt," "kiyla," "ishkap," | | |"chamda," "cheinik," "sukhar," | Russia - Chechnya | |stand for the Russian words | | |"pud," i.e. 16 kilograms, | Chechen history | |"kilogram," "shkap," i.e."a | | |bookcase" or "a wardrobe," |Y.Z. Akhmadov and E.K. Khasmagomadov. History of Chechnya in | |"chemodan," i.e."a suitcase," |the 19-20th Centuries | |"chainik," i.e."a teapot," and |[7489] | |"sukhar," i.e."dry bread." It is| | |on various occasions that |The Pulse publishing house in Moscow published on the History | |Veinakhs met with Cossacks but, |of Chechnya in the 19-20th Centuries. Its authors are renowned| |whatever their end, early |scholars of history Y.Z. Akhmadov and E.K. Khasmagomadov. This| |interethnic contacts enriched |book represents a thematic continuation of research by Y. | |the local cultural tradition and|Akhmadov The History of Chechnya from Ancient Times to the end| |contributed to the advance of |of the 18th Century (Peace Be on Your House, 2001). We posted | |the Terek region. An |an abridged version of the book on our Web-site. | |unidentified chronicler says |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |ethnic Chechens and Russians |historyeng&row=7 ] (more ...) | |"quarreled and mended relations | | |as often as any neighbors did, | - | |stole each other's cattle and | | |gave each other gifts of |## | |fast-running steeds, exchanged | | |weapons and sold bread, |Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | |kidnapped young girls and sat | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |down together at wedding | | |celebrations, were blood enemies| | |and sworn brothers." The | | |well-known "Lay Of The Most | | |Daring Ahmar Of Avtury" traced a| | |new line in Chechen literature: | | |two braves - a Chechen and a | | |Russian - meet to make friends | | |instead of fighting each other | | |because a fight would surely | | |leave one of them dead. Chechen | | |ethnographer Umalat Laudayev | | |says that "the flatland Chechens| | |and Ingushis are quick to cash | | |in on their advantageous | | |position: they replace their | | |wooden plowshares with | | |Russian-styled steel ones; do | | |the right kind of farming and | | |compare favorably in this | | |respect against all the | | |neighboring peoples." 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