The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |Free Chechnya Radio station | # # Issue 428 | | | 23.01.07 | |Free Chechnya Radio station | | |broadcasting live |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |23 January 2007 Over 600 militants surrender in amnesty offer | |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|Over 600 militants have surrendered since an amnesty was | |Moscow time on a frequency of |declared in Russia last year, a law enforcement official said | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |Tuesday. A partial amnesty for militants and servicemen not | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|involved in major atrocities during Russia's antiterrorism | |the long wave band. The |campaign in the North Caucasus was announced by Russian | |programme is created with the |authorities July 15, 2006, following the killing of the | |involvement of the Ministry for |region's most sought after terrorist, Shamil Basayev. Colonel | |culture and mass communication |General Arkady Yedelev, a deputy interior minister, told a | |of the Russian Federation. |news conference that 554 of those who had surrendered gave | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |themselves up in the Republic of Chechnya. "That is one of the| |listen.pls ] live |brightest examples of positive work in the last year," he | |broadcasting......) |said. Yedelev hailed the work of various non-government | | |organizations, public institutions and councils of elders, | |Fine Arts |which had distributed some 300,000 flyers announcing the | | |amnesty around the North Caucasus republics. The amnesty was | |Shamil Shamurzayevs 75th birth |initially set to last until August 1, 2006, but the deadline | |jubilee. |was eventually extended until January 15, 2007. Proposed by | | |President Vladimir Putin, the amnesty was part of the | |Shamil Shamurzayev is 75 years |Kremlin's offer of fair treatment for militants who agreed to | |old. He is one of the most |lay down their arms. However, it did not extend to those | |famous painters of this country.|guilty of grave crimes, including hostage-taking and terrorist| |The history of the Chechen |attacks, or foreigners and stateless persons. The official | |painting ranks him the second |also said the number of grave crimes had declined and that | |after Pyotr Zakharov, a |terrorists acts had decreased by 50%. "However, the problem | |prominent painter of the XIX |still exists, because 101 out of 112 terrorist acts in Russia | |century. By the way, Shamil |were perpetrated in the Southern Federal District," he said. | |Shamurzayev is his descendant. |Although the active phase of the North Caucasus antiterrorism | |Since 1962 Shamil Shamurzayev |campaign officially ended in 2001, periodic bombings and | |participated in all the |clashes between gunmen and federal troops still disrupt | |regional, national and federal |Chechnya and nearby regions, including Dagestan, Ingushetia, | |exhibitions. He is especially |Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachayevo-Circassia. The commander | |skilled in portrait painting, |of Russia's Joint Forces in the North Caucasus, Colonel | |though the master works in |General Yevgeny Baryayev, earlier said about 700 gunmen | |various genres. His most famous |continued to operate in Chechnya and neighboring regions. RIA | |portraits are A woman living |Novosti | |high in the mountains, A |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |pensioner and A breeder. His |from Chechnya...) | |portrait of a woman playing an | | |accordion is included into a |23 January 2007 Russia diplomats deny Chechen police version | |book of the best works by the |in journalist murder | |national painters. The book is |The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied reports it told the | |published by the Union of |U.S. Committee to Protect Journalists that the Prosecutor | |Painters of Russia. In 2001 |General's office is probing Chechen police officers in | |Shamil Shamurzayev was awarded |connection with the murder of investigative reporter Anna | |the title of the Honored Painter|Politkovskaya. "The claim of members of the Committee to | |of the Russian Federation. |Protect Journalists is absolutely untrue," the ministry | |According to Fatima Daudova, |information and press department told Interfax on Tuesday. "In| |secretary of the Chechen branch |actual fact Committee members were given the following reply: | |of the Union of painters of the |The Russian Prosecutor General's Office is checking several | |Russian Federation, his works |theories of the murder, including one related to her work as a| |are rarely unique because the |journalist. The Prosecutor General is monitoring the | |talent of the master and his |investigation," a ministry spokesman said. Interfax | |manner of painting speak for |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |themselves. As a result, his |from Chechnya...) | |works are always in great | | |demand, being presented both in |23 January 2007 Police officer killed in clash with militant | |state museums and private |group in Chechnya ministry | |collections here in Russia and |A special operation continues in the Kurchaloi district of | |abroad, say in France and Japan.|Chechnya to surround a militant group, Russian Deputy Interior| |The world-famous Tretyakov |Minister Arkady Yedelev told a Tuesday briefing in | |Gallery in Moscow has exhibited |Rostov-on-Don. "The operation has not been completed. The body| |Shamil Shamurzayevs works as |of a dead militant was discovered on the scene of the first | |well. |attempt at surrounding the militants. Steps are being taken to| |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |identify him, and the documents discovered in the dugout are | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |being examined. The terrain in the area of the operation is | |cpaintingeng&row=1 ] more ... |difficult for a pursuit," he said. Yedelev said that one | |...) |police officer was killed and four wounded in the effort. The | | |militants belong to the so-called southeastern front led by | |Famous Chechens |Khairulla Elmurzayev. Interfax | | |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |Zaindi Mutalibov (1922-1978) |from Chechnya...) | | | | |Zaindi Mutalibov was born on the| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |15th of January 1922 in the | | |village of Khattuni in the | Russia - Chechnya | |Vedensky district of | | |Checheno-Ingushetia in a peasant| Chechen history | |family. He spent his childhood, | | |finished the school in his |Y.Z. Akhmadov and E.K. Khasmagomadov. History of Chechnya in | |native village and dreamt of |the 19-20th Centuries | |becoming a teacher. But WW II |[7489] | |disturbed all the plans, and | | |Zaindi went to the front as a |The Pulse publishing house in Moscow published on the History | |volunteer. He fought in the |of Chechnya in the 19-20th Centuries. Its authors are renowned| |255th Checheno-Ingush cavalry |scholars of history Y.Z. Akhmadov and E.K. Khasmagomadov. This| |regiment at the Southern, |book represents a thematic continuation of research by Y. | |Stalingrad and Southwestern |Akhmadov The History of Chechnya from Ancient Times to the end| |fronts. He started to serve as |of the 18th Century (Peace Be on Your House, 2001). We posted | |an ordinary soldier and ended |an abridged version of the book on our Web-site. | |the war as the chief of staff of|[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |a cavalry division. He was |historyeng&row=7 ] (more ...) | |awarded 7 government awards, | | |including the Red Star. During | - | |the war Z. Mutalibov wrote many | | |poems. ([ http:// |## | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng§ion=newineng&row=1 ]|Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | |more...) | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | | | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [ 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=e@mail http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com