The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |Free Chechnya Radio station | # # Issue 447 | | | 10.04.07 | |Free Chechnya Radio station | | |broadcasting live |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |10 April 2007 Two guilty of 2005 train explosion given 18, 19| |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|years in prison | |Moscow time on a frequency of |The Moscow Region Court Monday sentenced two men found guilty | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train in 2005 to 18 and 19 | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|years in prison. 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 defendants - Vladimir Vlasov, a businessman,| |listen.pls ] live |and Mikhail Klevachev, a construction company employee - were | |broadcasting......) |charged with terrorism and attempting to kill two or more | | |people for reasons of race or religious hatred. They have not | |Chechen traditions |admitted their guilt. Last month, judges decided that the | | |investigation had proved the defendants' involvement in the | |The Etiquette of Chechen |crimes they were charged with, and 10 of the 12 jury members | |Marriage Customs |hearing the case voted for a guilty verdict. The defendants | | |were found guilty on all charges, including terrorism, but the| |The traditional Chechen marriage|judges decided they deserve leniency. On Monday, Vlasov was | |ceremony, like their other folk |given 18 years in prison and Klevachev 19 years, whereas the | |customs has always been in its |prosecution had demanded 20 and 22 years, respectively. In | |secretive cohesion. It included |December 2006, a Moscow Region court dismissed the jury in the| |sing-songs, dance, music, |case of the train-derailing blast after it reached a not | |pantomime and narration, which |guilty verdict. "Nine of the jury voted for acquittal, and | |altogether produced a whole |three for the guilty verdict," jurywoman Alexandra Salamatina | |spectacle. The elements of the |said then. But the court dismissed the jury after the verdict | |Chechen nuptial ceremony, |was read, upholding the prosecutor's contention that it was | |including horse-riding, bridal |pressured. The prosecutor said some on the jury spoke with | |introduction into the grooms |lawyers before the final court session, but jury members said | |home, acquaintance with the |in turn that prosecutors tried to find fault with them as a | |bride, her movement to a river, |reason for their dismissal. Salamatina said: "The court has | |a visit of the future groom to |already made a decision that the defendants are guilty, and if| |the brides relatives and others |the next jury acquits them, they will be dismissed, too." She | |represent the main features of |said prosecutors' arguments were so vague that it was not | |the Chechen folk theatrics, |necessary to be a lawyer to understand that the case had been | |which manifest a mass |fabricated. After the acquittal, the Moscow Region Court | |creativity, originality, |dismissed the jury and ordered a new trial. RIA Novosti | |multi-faceted national forms, |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |breadth, and depth of popular |from Chechnya...) | |fantasy. In general, the playful| | |element spectacle and facial |10 April 2007 Nearly 140 Chechen militants detained since | |expressions are well developed |January - ministry | |in the images of a Chechen |Russia's Interior Ministry said Tuesday its forces in Chechnya| |marriage. This is evident from |had detained nearly 140 militants and eliminated some two | |the very notion of the Chechen |dozen since the beginning of the year, a deputy commander of | |marriage known as lovzar which |the ministry's North Caucasus contingent said Tuesday. "The | |means play. Nuptial ceremonies |first three months of the year saw 138 militants detained and | |among Chechens and Ingushis have|21 others eliminated," Alexander German said in a posting on | |some differences. With Ingushis |the ministry's Web site. He also said 106 suspected militants | |it is considered a calamity that|had voluntarily turned themselves in over the period. Since | |s girl gets married without the |the start of 2007, the ministry has solved 1,251 crimes | |parents blessing, while Chechens|committed in the troubled republic - a 1.2-fold increase on | |see nothing wrong in that. |last year. "The number of solved crimes has increased in | |Sometimes, her relatives go this|almost all areas [of Chechnya] and on a whole range of crimes,| |way in order to avoid extra |including terrorist acts, killings, attempts on the life of | |expenses involved in marriage |police, robbery, theft, and embezzlement," he said. In the | |ceremonies. At the appointed |first quarter of the year, Russian interior forces in Chechnya| |time, a groom with friends would|seized 127 firearms, over 40,000 rounds of ammunition, 653 | |go to an appropriate place (the |mines and shells, 338 grenades, 19 homemade explosive devices,| |exit spot for the bride) and |and more than 100 kilograms of explosives, German said. | |take away the girl and this is |Speaking of economic crime, German said 590 such offenses have| |considered to be getting married|been uncovered and 130 suspects indicted since the beginning | |(marie yakhar) or nuptials (zuda|of the year. Pro-Kremlin Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, | |yalor). The bride is taken to |himself a one-time warlord, said in March that all illegal | |the home of a friend, or |armed groups operating in the republic would be eliminated | |brother-in-law or a grooms |within two months' time. Deputy Interior Minister Arkady | |relative (zuda yossar the brides|Yedelev told the official Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper in | |sojourn) to settle certain |February that 46 such groups, numbering around 450 members | |formalities. It is necessary to |overall, are thought to be still active in Chechnya. More than| |dispatch a man (stag vakhiitar) |600 militants in Chechnya and adjacent provinces reportedly | |in order to inform her relatives|surrendered their arms last year in response to a six-month | |about her voluntary decision to |amnesty declared by the Russian government July 15 for those | |get married, reconciliation (tam|not involved in any serious crimes. The amnesty followed the | |bar), redemption payment |killing by federal troops of Chechnya's warlord and number one| |(yoikhana or kyovlam) to the |terrorist, Shamil Basayev, who was behind the 2004 Beslan | |girls relatives, preparation of |school siege and other atrocities. RIA Novosti | |the bride for her nuptials |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |(nuskal kechdar) when the |from Chechnya...) | |parents send her clothing, sow | | |or buy whatever she needs. This |10 April 2007 Kadyrov nominates Odes Baisultanov for | |lasts for a week or sometimes |Chechnya's PM | |longer. And all this time the |Chechnya 's government will be headed by Odes Baisultanov. | |marriage (lovzar)is being |Baisultanov's nomination for prime minister was submitted on | |prepared. A retinue (zamuoi) is |Tuesday to the People's Assembly of the Chechen parliament, by| |sent for the bride on the |Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the government | |marriage day, including the |office and presidential chief of staff Abdulkakhir Izraiilov | |grooms friends (nevzan nakyosk |told Interfax. "The deputies are expected to debate the | |or best men). On the way to the |nomination shortly and then Kadyrov will sign a decree on | |bride and back the nuptial |Baisultanov's appointment to the post of prime minister," he | |procession throw up a |said. | |merry-making. They play |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |harmonica, fire guns and |from Chechnya...) | |previously Chechen equestrians | | |displayed their shooting | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |prowess, fencing and equestrian | | |skills. While on the way, the | Russia - Chechnya | |brides relatives or her fellow | | |villagers can halt the | Chechen history | |procession by a burka (shipskin | | |overcoat) or a rope strung |Chechens one the worlds most ancient people | |across the street and demand a |[7489] | |redemption fee. The fee is | | |demanded on the brides exit from|Chechens (self-assumed name nokhchi ) are the world s most | |her parents home (Ney lazar |ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. | |meaning to hold a door). The |They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more | |bride is taken to the grooms |than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are | |home and is placed fully dressed|very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they | |in a nuptial costume in an |form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, | |honorary spot in a room, usually|territorial, economic and cultural links and language. | |in the opposite corner from the |Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus | |entry near a window covered in a|and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the | |nuptial curtain (kirkhya). |Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various| |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was | |tradmareng&row=0 ] more ......) |formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements | | |of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence | |Chechen cuisine |of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. | | |The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing | |Chechen cuisine |struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies,| | |in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new| |"The Chechens, like the rest of |attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages | |the highlanders, avoid extremes |(4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend | |in their eating and drinking |themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab | |habits. What they usually eat is|Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle | |chureks or corn bread with |forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation| |mutton lard spread on it, and |for their statehood. | |wheat stew with lard in it; |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |water is their basic |historyeng&row=4 ] (more ...) | |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." |Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | |That was written about the | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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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