The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |Free Chechnya Radio station | # # Issue 445 | | | 03.04.07 | |Free Chechnya Radio station | | |broadcasting live |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |03 April 2007 Military antiterrorism exercises begin in | |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|southern Russia | |Moscow time on a frequency of |Large-scale antiterrorism exercises have begun at ranges of | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |the North Caucasus Military District. The districts press | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|service said that the exercises involved aviation and air | |the long wave band. The |defense troops. The forces will practically drill tasks of | |programme is created with the |suppressing air space violations and helping planes with | |involvement of the Ministry for |hostages taken by terrorists, the press service said, Fighter | |culture and mass communication |aviation and air defense troops are to fulfil interception, | |of the Russian Federation. |forced landing or destruction of aircraft used for the | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts. The troops will| |listen.pls ] live |practice live fire on low-lying planes making complex | |broadcasting......) |maneuvers. Fighter aviation will drop bombs on ground training| | |targets simulating terrorist camps and bases. Units of an air | |International contacts |assault regiment will land in a token area of a base of | | |terrorists for a special operation to destroy them. The | |International Medical Corps |exercises, which will continue through April 14, engage about | |Works in Chechnya |8,000 servicemen. The commander of the North Caucasus Military| | |District, General Alexander Baranov, supervises the exercises.| |Various non-profit organizations|Itar-Tass | |from all over the world work in |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |Chechnya, rendering the republic|from Chechnya...) | |humanitarian aid. International | | |Medical Corps is among them. |03 April 2007 Engineers defuse powerful bomb near Chechen | |Lately the format of their work |village | |has slightly changed. |Engineers detected and defused a powerful bomb near the | |International Medical Corps |Chechen village of Urdyukhoi, Shatoi district, a spokesman | |(IMC) is a non-profit |told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. The bomb was based on a 122-mm | |humanitarian relief organization|artillery shell containing six kilograms of TNT, a home-made | |providing medical training and |detonator and a caseless transmitter, spokesman for the | |emergency health care worldwide.|Chechen Interior Ministry's operations headquarter Dmitry | |Volunteer doctors and nurses |Nikiforov said. Militants planted it on the side of a busy | |established it in 1984. In 2000 |road leading to the village. "The engineers from a military | |International Medical Corps came|commandant's office who arrived at the scene, blew it up. A | |to Ingushetia to work in camps |search is underway fro the persons who planned the act of | |for refugees. Mobile IMC teams |terror," Nikiforov said. | |rendered medical care and |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |visited the most populated |from Chechnya...) | |areas, where they always opened | | |first-air posts. As time went |02 April 2007 Two persons injured in roadside bomb explosion | |by, mobile IMC teams began |in North Caucasus | |building there laundries, public|Two persons have been injured after a self-made roadside bomb | |eating houses and laid water and|went off in Ingushetia in Russia's troubled North Caucasus | |gas pipes. Bureau of the |region, a source in the local law-enforcement bodies said | |European Commission for |Sunday. The explosion occurred in the evening of March 31 in | |Humanitarian Aid is the main |the center of Nazran, the former capital of Ingushetia, the | |financial donor of the |source said. A patrol police officer and an 11th form | |International Medical Corps. At |schoolboy were slightly injured in the explosion. Both of them| |present, the majority of the |were given medical aid, the source said. An investigation is | |former refuges have returned to |under way and a criminal case into the incident has been | |Chechnya. So, it is only natural|launched, the source said. RIA Novosti | |that International Medical Corps|[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |has moved to the republic too. |from Chechnya...) | |Its main current task is to work| | |out and implement 14 projects | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |for the rural and industrial | | |development of the 6 villages of| Russia - Chechnya | |the Achkhoi-Martan region. These| | |projects envisage an opening of | Chechen history | |agricultural mini-firms as well | | |as mini-plants producing brick |Chechens one the worlds most ancient people | |and various building materials. |[7489] | |To open them, a group of several| | |local families gets money from |Chechens (self-assumed name nokhchi ) are the world s most | |International Medical Corps. The|ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. | |practice has proved to be a |They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more | |great success in other countries|than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are | |of the world; that is why |very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they | |International Medical Corps has |form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, | |brought it to Chechnya as well. |territorial, economic and cultural links and language. | |Whats more, Bureau of the |Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus | |European Commission for |and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the | |Humanitarian Aid has already |Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) | |allocated money to implement the|ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various| |above-mentioned projects in the |aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was | |two other rural regions |formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements | |Groznensky in Chechnya and |of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence | |Khasaviyurtovsky in the |of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. | |neighboring republic of |The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing | |Dagestan. Then, International |struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies,| |Medical Corps plan to come to |in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new| |the main mountain regions of |attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages | |Chechnya to implement the |(4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend | |projects there as well. |themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle | |index.php?section=contactseng& |forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation| |lng=eng ] more ......) |for their statehood. | | |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Chechen cuisine |historyeng&row=4 ] (more ...) | | | | |Chechen cuisine | - | | | | |"The Chechens, like the rest of |## | |the highlanders, avoid extremes | | |in their eating and drinking |Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | |habits. What they usually eat is| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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. And it was not | | |until the late 19th century that| | |many vegetables grown in Europe | | |- tomatoes, cabbage, radish - | | |had found their way to the | | |kitchen gardens of mountainous | | |Chechnya. Chechen farming units | | |have, since times immemorial, | | |been self-sufficient, with only | | |spices and sweetmeats being | | |bought at the market. And, | | |although they have become | | |familiar with the cuisines of | | |many other ethnic communities, | | |the Chechen women cherish the | | |very special culinary traditions| | |of their own. 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