The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Chechnya | News from Chechen Republic | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |"Chechen Radio | "Chechnya | # # Issue 448 | |Free.ru" Radio station | 13.04.07 | | | | |"Chechnya Free.ru" Radio station|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |broadcasting live | | | |13 April 2007 Local resident surrenders 14 kg of explosive to| |You can listen to Free Chechnya |police in Grozny | |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|A local resident of Chechnya has voluntarily surrendered more | |Moscow time on a frequency of |than 14 kilograms of explosives to police in Grozny, the law | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |enforcement bodies of Chechnya reported on Thursday. An | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|unemployed resident of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny came | |the long wave band. The |to police on the eve. He voluntarily surrendered 14.2 | |programme is created with the |kilograms of TNT, a law enforcer said. The man explained that | |involvement of the Ministry for |he had found the explosive at his country plot. Now law | |culture and mass communication |enforcers are engaged in investigating the incident. Itar-Tass| |of the Russian Federation. |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |from Chechnya...) | |listen.pls ] live | | |broadcasting......) |13 April 2007 Chechnya Has Opened its Football Major League | | |Championship | |Chechen traditions |At the end of March Chechnya opened its football championship | | |in the major league. This year the number of clubs taking part| |The Etiquette of Chechen |in it has increased from 16 to 18 because the winners of the | |Marriage Customs |first football league are now in the major one. Besides, | | |Neftyanik from Grozny and Kooperator (Staraya Sunzha) run into| |The traditional Chechen marriage|one to become a new football club Neftyanik-Kooperator and | |ceremony, like their other folk |surprise its fans with a victory in the very first football | |customs has always been in its |match game by defeating an experienced Terek club from | |secretive cohesion. It included |Tolstoi-Yurt with a score 7:1. The other most surprising | |sing-songs, dance, music, |result is 2 : 5 in the football match game between Gorny | |pantomime and narration, which |(Vedeno) and Marta (achkhoi-Martan). The first round turned | |altogether produced a whole |out to be rather unusual with 34 goals shot in the 8 football | |spectacle. The elements of the |match games. | |Chechen nuptial ceremony, |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |including horse-riding, bridal |from Chechnya...) | |introduction into the grooms | | |home, acquaintance with the |12 April 2007 Chechnya to switch to unicameral parliament | |bride, her movement to a river, |The Chechen parliament is to switch to a unicameral system, | |a visit of the future groom to |speaker of the lower house of the Chechen parliament Dukvakha | |the brides relatives and others |Abdurakhmanov told Interfax on Thursday. "I strongly believe | |represent the main features of |that the Chechen parliament should have only one house and | |the Chechen folk theatrics, |that we reduce the number of seats in it," Abdurakhmanov said.| |which manifest a mass |"The idea of rearranging the parliament into a unicameral body| |creativity, originality, |is supported by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov," he said. | |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 | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |expressions are well developed | | |in the images of a Chechen | Russia - Chechnya | |marriage. This is evident from | | |the very notion of the Chechen | Chechen history | |marriage known as lovzar which | | |means play. Nuptial ceremonies |Chechens one the worlds most ancient people | |among Chechens and Ingushis have|[7489] | |some differences. With Ingushis | | |it is considered a calamity that|Chechens (self-assumed name nokhchi ) are the world s most | |s girl gets married without the |ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. | |parents blessing, while Chechens|They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more | |see nothing wrong in that. |than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are | |Sometimes, her relatives go this|very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they | |way in order to avoid extra |form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, | |expenses involved in marriage |territorial, economic and cultural links and language. | |ceremonies. At the appointed |Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus | |time, a groom with friends would|and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the | |go to an appropriate place (the |Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) | |exit spot for the bride) and |ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various| |take away the girl and this is |aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was | |considered to be getting married|formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements | |(marie yakhar) or nuptials (zuda|of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence | |yalor). The bride is taken to |of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. | |the home of a friend, or |The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing | |brother-in-law or a grooms |struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies,| |relative (zuda yossar the brides|in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new| |sojourn) to settle certain |attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages | |formalities. It is necessary to |(4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend | |dispatch a man (stag vakhiitar) |themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab | |in order to inform her relatives|Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle | |about her voluntary decision to |forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation| |get married, reconciliation (tam|for their statehood. | |bar), redemption payment |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |(yoikhana or kyovlam) to the |historyeng&row=4 ] (more ...) | |girls relatives, preparation of | | |the bride for her nuptials | - | |(nuskal kechdar) when the | | |parents send her clothing, sow |## | |or buy whatever she needs. This | | |lasts for a week or sometimes |Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | |longer. And all this time the | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |marriage (lovzar)is being | | |prepared. A retinue (zamuoi) is | | |sent for the bride on the | | |marriage day, including the | | |grooms friends (nevzan nakyosk | | |or best men). On the way to the | | |bride and back the nuptial | | |procession throw up a | | |merry-making. They play | | |harmonica, fire guns and | | |previously Chechen equestrians | | |displayed their shooting | | |prowess, fencing and equestrian | | |skills. While on the way, the | | |brides relatives or her fellow | | |villagers can halt the | | |procession by a burka (shipskin | | |overcoat) or a rope strung | | |across the street and demand a | | |redemption fee. The fee is | | |demanded on the brides exit from| | |her parents home (Ney lazar | | |meaning to hold a door). The | | |bride is taken to the grooms | | |home and is placed fully dressed| | |in a nuptial costume in an | | |honorary spot in a room, usually| | |in the opposite corner from the | | |entry near a window covered in a| | |nuptial curtain (kirkhya). | | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |tradmareng&row=0 ] more ......) | | | | | |Chechen history | | | | | |The history of Russian-Chechen | | |relations | | | | | |The current conflict in Chechnya| | |is largely rooted in the history| | |of Russian-Chechen relations, | | |which include six stages. The | | |first stage The first stage, | | |which started in the middle of | | |the 16th century and lasted | | |until the end of the 17th | | |century, was marked by a | | |peaceful colonization of the | | |region. That period is | | |characterized by vassal-allied | | |forms of relations between | | |Moscow tsars and elders of | | |Chechen communities. Moscow was | | |trying to expand its influence | | |in the region by political and | | |economic means mainly. The | | |policy was a success and Chechen| | |communities voluntarily (by | | |signing agreements) announced | | |recognition of the supreme power| | |of the Moscow state. The second | | |stage The second stage, which | | |lasted almost throughout the | | |18th century, marks the | | |beginning of Russia's open | | |military expansion to the North | | |Caucasus. Under Peter I and then| | |Catherine II the doctrine of | | |colonizing the mountain areas | | |prevalent. 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