The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |Free Chechnya Radio station | # # Issue 442 | | | 23.03.07 | |Free Chechnya Radio station | | |broadcasting live |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |23 March 2007 Jury passes guilty verdict on Grozny-Moscow | |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|train blowup in 2005 | |Moscow time on a frequency of |A jury has passed a guilty verdict in the 2005 Grozny-Moscow | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |train blowup case, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|the courtroom Wednesday. On June 12, 2005, an improvised bomb | |the long wave band. The |equivalent to three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of TNT was set off | |programme is created with the |153 kilometers (95 miles) south of Moscow as a train en route | |involvement of the Ministry for |from Grozny, the capital of the North Caucasus republic of | |culture and mass communication |Chechnya, to Moscow passed by. Forty-two people required | |of the Russian Federation. |medical attention, and five of them, including a child, were | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |hospitalized. "The judges decided that the investigation has | |listen.pls ] live |proved the defendants' involvement in the crimes they are | |broadcasting......) |charged with," the court ruling said. The lawyer of a | | |defendant said 10 of the 12 jury members voted for a guilty | |Ethnic chechens beyond the |verdict. The defendants have been found guilty on all charges,| |border of Chechnya: culture ahd |including terrorism, but the judges decided they deserve | |life |leniency. The Moscow Region Court will discuss the verdict | | |April 2, and will pass a sentence after the prosecutor says | |Our target is to help |what punishment he believes adequate. The defendants - | |compatriots |Vladimir Vlasov, a businessman, and Mikhail Klevachev, a | | |construction company employee - were charged with terrorism | |The Chechen mission headed by |and attempting to kill two or more people on motives of race | |Saidamat Musaev has been |or religious hatred. They have not admitted their guilt. In | |successfully working in |December 2006, a Moscow Region court dismissed the jury in the| |Bashkortoastan for six years. |case of the train-derailing blast after it passed a not guilty| |According to S. Musaev, it is |verdict. "Nine of the jury voted for acquittal, and three for | |targeted at helping compatriots.|the guilty verdict," jurywoman Alexandra Salamatina said then.| |He has done much good work for |But the court dismissed the jury after the verdict was read, | |the benefit of Chechens. Among |upholding the prosecutor's contention that it was pressured. | |these are supply of humanitarian|The prosecutor said some on the jury spoke with lawyers before| |aid to Chechnya, school |the final court session, but jury members said in turn that | |textbooks and books for |prosecutors tried to find fault with them as a reason for | |libraries, clothes, footwear and|their dismissal. Salamatina said: "The court has already made | |medicine for orphanages and |a decision that the defendants are guilty, and if the next | |clinics and rendering help to |jury acquits them, they will be dismissed, too." She said | |residents of Chechnya, who |prosecutors' arguments are so vague that it is not necessary | |arrive the republic, in |to be a lawyer to understand that the case has been | |organizing their education, work|fabricated. After the acquittal, the Moscow Region Court | |and healthcare. The hospitals in|dismissed the jury and ordered repeat hearings. RIA Novosti | |Bashkortostan accepts about |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |60-70 residents of Chechnya a |from Chechnya...) | |month and treat them free-of | | |charge. Many young people from |23 March 2007 Militant leader killed in Daghestan special | |Chechnya study in universities |operation - police | |and institutes in the republic. |A militant leader was killed Friday in a special operation in | |Truly, they come across lots of |Daghestan in southern Russia, local police said. Rustam | |difficulties in the first two |Bashayev, 28, was on the federal wanted list for committing | |years and this is linked with |several acts of terrorism on the territory of Daghestan and | |poor knowledge. However, the |Chechnya. He was a close relative of Suleiman Elmurzayev, a | |higher educational |field commander of the so-called Chechen Central Front, and | |establishments do their best to |was responsible for the financing of militant groups in | |help these students to improve |various districts of Chechnya and Daghestan. Local authorities| |their knowledge, and experience |have not yet disclosed the details of the operation. RIA | |shows that students study well |Novosti | |in the senior courses. The |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |Chechen mission is also engaged |from Chechnya...) | |in promoting cultural ties with | | |Chechnya. The Chechen cultural |23 March 2007 Chechnya's Kadyrov against power separation | |festival has successfully ended |agreement with govt | |once again in Ufa recently. The |Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said Wednesday he is against | |visits of Friendship Train to |signing of an agreement on the separation of powers between | |the Russian regions in 2005 were|the central government and his North Caucasus republic. "The | |a breakthrough in Chechnyas |agreement is not necessary," Kadyrov said. "We propose to | |relations with the rest of |forget about this agreement. I am against its signing." Last | |Russia. Saidamat Musaev attaches|month, the Russian parliament's upper house rejected a similar| |great importance to economic |agreement between the central government and the Volga area | |cooperation since he considers |republic of Tatarstan. The agreement stipulated that the | |it paves the way for economic |federal government and Tatarstan's Cabinet negotiate a deal | |cooperation. In fact, economic |allowing Tatar authorities to have a greater say in decisions | |cooperation between Chechnya and|involving economic, environmental, cultural and other regional| |Bashkortostan develops |issues. The document also guaranteed that a leader of | |intensively largely owing to the|Tatarstan, whose candidacy is proposed by the Russian | |efforts by the President of |president, must speak the Tatar language in addition to | |Bashkortostan. |Russian. The republic would also have the right to issue | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |internal identification papers, with an insert in Tatar. RIA | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |Novosti | |csoceng&row=1 ] more ......) |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | | |from Chechnya...) | |Cultural events | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Permanent Book Fair and | | |Exhibition in Grozny | Russia - Chechnya | | | | |From now on the Groznensky | Chechen history | |Publishing House has its | | |permanent book fair and |Y.Z. Akhmadov and E.K. Khasmagomadov. History of Chechnya in | |exhibition in the capital of the|the 19-20th Centuries | |republic. According to Anzor |[7489] | |Matayev, director of the | | |publishing house, the basis of |The Pulse publishing house in Moscow published on the History | |the fair and exhibition is the |of Chechnya in the 19-20th Centuries. Its authors are renowned| |books published in the republic |scholars of history Y.Z. Akhmadov and E.K. Khasmagomadov. This| |since 2001. All in all, it |book represents a thematic continuation of research by Y. | |amounts to more than a hundred |Akhmadov The History of Chechnya from Ancient Times to the end| |publications. Each of them is on|of the 18th Century (Peace Be on Your House, 2001). We posted | |sale, besides now readers have |an abridged version of the book on our Web-site. | |an opportunity to subscribe to |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |any of the publications, |historyeng&row=7 ] (more ...) | |including The White Caucasus, a | | |novel in two volumes by Kanty | - | |Ibragimov, a famous Chechen | | |author. The novel will be |## | |released in the not too distant | | |future. At the opening ceremony |Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | |the Groznensky Publishing House | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |and the Ministry of Culture of | | |Chechnya signed an agreement. 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