The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Chechnya | News from Chechen Republic | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |"Chechen Radio | "Chechnya | # # Issue 449 | |Free.ru" Radio station | 17.04.07 | | | | |"Chechnya Free.ru" Radio station|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |broadcasting live | | | |17 April 2007 Blood-Donor Center in Grozny Doubles its Blood | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |Donation Target | |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|Last years results show that Groznys blood donation program | |Moscow time on a frequency of |exceeded its original target two-fold. It handled 10,000 | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |donors instead of the expected 5,000 thus fully ensuring | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|Chechnyas medical facilities with all necessary blood | |the long wave band. The |components. And this years results are expected to be even | |programme is created with the |higher by comparison with the year before, since four more | |involvement of the Ministry for |subsidiaries of the center are planned to open in other | |culture and mass communication |regions of the Republic. Last years blood output exceeds that | |of the Russian Federation. |of several years ago several-fold. In 2006 the centers blood | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |bank collected 5,267 liters of conserved blood and 4,214 | |listen.pls ] live |liters of non-conserved blood, which is 3 to 4 times higher | |broadcasting......) |than in the past. All blood donated, in keeping with an order | | |of Russias Health Ministry, must be processed for its various | |Chechen culture |components, since pure and untreated blood is banned from | | |distribution at medical facilities. Generally, the storage of | |The Etiquette of Chechen |blood when treated with various preservatives, lasts from 21 | |Marriage Customs |to 31 days. Blood plasma, however, in deep freeze of about 40 | | |degrees Celcius can be conserved for up to 12 months. In these| |The traditional Chechen marriage|conditions there should be no shortage of any blood components| |ceremony, like their other folk |for use by medical establishments in Chechnya in emergency | |customs has always been in its |situations. But theres a blood type that is known as type 0, | |secretive cohesion. It included |Rhesus factor negative, which is rare among donors: | |sing-songs, dance, music, |approximately 10 donors out of a hundred have it. All donors | |pantomime and narration, which |with this rare genotype are put on an emergency list in | |altogether produced a whole |Chechnya. Thus, if theres urgent need at a medical facility, | |spectacle. The elements of the |the donor station will handle the case as an emergency and | |Chechen nuptial ceremony, |rare blood-type donors will always come to the rescue of | |including horse-riding, bridal |patients who happen to be in trouble. | |introduction into the grooms |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |home, acquaintance with the |from Chechnya...) | |bride, her movement to a river, | | |a visit of the future groom to |16 April 2007 First vice-premier Medvedev praises positive | |the brides relatives and others |changes in Chechnya | |represent the main features of |First Vice-premier Dmitry Medvedev believes the situation in | |the Chechen folk theatrics, |Chechnya has changed for the better. "It is obvious everything| |which manifest a mass |has been changing for the better, and I can see that myself," | |creativity, originality, |Medvedev declared at a meeting with students of Chechen State | |multi-faceted national forms, |University on Monday. "Naturally there is much work to do yet,| |breadth, and depth of popular |but if no work is done there will be no headway," Medvedev | |fantasy. In general, the playful|said. University Rector Anzor Muzayev said that the university| |element spectacle and facial |resumed its work in April, 2000. Today, there are 803 teachers| |expressions are well developed |on staff of the university that has 72 chairs. The overall | |in the images of a Chechen |number of students, including students from the | |marriage. This is evident from |extra-curriculum departments, is 15,000. The University has | |the very notion of the Chechen |more than 2,000 graduates annually. Dmitry Medvedev talked to | |marriage known as lovzar which |students from the university medical department and asked them| |means play. Nuptial ceremonies |if they liked studying there. "There is a shortage of doctors,| |among Chechens and Ingushis have|and therapeutists, in particular, he said. "Such specialties | |some differences. With Ingushis |are a deficit," he added. "Just wait, in a couple of years we | |it is considered a calamity that|shall graduate," a student said in reply. Chechen President | |s girl gets married without the |Ramzan Kadyrov, who is accompanying Dmitry Medvedev on the | |parents blessing, while Chechens|visit, said that the regional authorities were step-by-step | |see nothing wrong in that. |restoring the social sector and peaceful life in Chechnya. | |Sometimes, her relatives go this|After the visit to the University Medvedev went to Argun to | |way in order to avoid extra |visit a secondary school there. Itar-Tass | |expenses involved in marriage |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |ceremonies. At the appointed |from Chechnya...) | |time, a groom with friends would| | |go to an appropriate place (the |16 April 2007 Three defendants in Chechnya murder case | |exit spot for the bride) and |ordered into custody | |take away the girl and this is |Three defendants in a long-running case on the alleged murder | |considered to be getting married|of six civilians by Russian army officers in Chechnya have | |(marie yakhar) or nuptials (zuda|been put on a wanted list after they failed to appear in | |yalor). The bride is taken to |court. Captain Eduard Ulman and three other servicemen have | |the home of a friend, or |been accused of attacking a vehicle and killing its driver and| |brother-in-law or a grooms |passengers during a reconnaissance raid in the troubled North | |relative (zuda yossar the brides|Caucasus republic in January 2002. The judge ordered Ulman, | |sojourn) to settle certain |Voyevodin, and Kalagansky into custody after they failed to | |formalities. It is necessary to |show up in court. Their defense lawyer said he had been unable| |dispatch a man (stag vakhiitar) |to get in touch with them. The judge did not impose a | |in order to inform her relatives|restraining order on the fourth defendant, Alexei Perelevsky, | |about her voluntary decision to |who appeared in court. The court adjourned till May 24. The | |get married, reconciliation (tam|defendants earlier admitted involvement, but denied the | |bar), redemption payment |charges against them. North Caucasus Military Court juries | |(yoikhana or kyovlam) to the |twice acquitted Ulman, Perelevsky, Lieutenant Alexander | |girls relatives, preparation of |Kalagansky and Warrant Officer Vladimir Voyevodin on charges | |the bride for her nuptials |of murder and abuse of office. But the Supreme Court upheld an| |(nuskal kechdar) when the |appeal filed by prosecutors and backed by lawyers acting for | |parents send her clothing, sow |the victims, and ruled that a professional non-jury court | |or buy whatever she needs. This |should hear the case. The Constitutional Court ruled last year| |lasts for a week or sometimes |that serious crimes committed in Chechnya could be tried | |longer. And all this time the |without a jury. The ruling came following an inquiry made by | |marriage (lovzar)is being |then-Chechen President Alu Alkhanov concerning the legality of| |prepared. A retinue (zamuoi) is |several articles in the laws on military courts that he said | |sent for the bride on the |gave the military rights not enjoyed by ordinary citizens. RIA| |marriage day, including the |Novosti | |grooms friends (nevzan nakyosk |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |or best men). On the way to the |from Chechnya...) | |bride and back the nuptial | | |procession throw up a | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |merry-making. They play | | |harmonica, fire guns and | Russia - Chechnya | |previously Chechen equestrians | | |displayed their shooting | Chechen history | |prowess, fencing and equestrian | | |skills. While on the way, the |Chechens one the worlds most ancient people | |brides relatives or her fellow |[7489] | |villagers can halt the | | |procession by a burka (shipskin |Chechens (self-assumed name " nokhchi" ) are the world" s most| |overcoat) or a rope strung |ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. | |across the street and demand a |They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more | |redemption fee. The fee is |than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are | |demanded on the brides exit from|very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they | |her parents home (Ney lazar |form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, | |meaning to hold a door). The |territorial, economic and cultural links and language. | |bride is taken to the grooms |Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus | |home and is placed fully dressed|and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the | |in a nuptial costume in an |Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) | |honorary spot in a room, usually|ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various| |in the opposite corner from the |aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was | |entry near a window covered in a|formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements | |nuptial curtain (kirkhya). |of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing | |tradmareng&row=0 ] more ......) |struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies,| | |in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new| |Chechen history |attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages | | |(4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend | |The history of Russian-Chechen |themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab | |relations |Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle | | |forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation| |The current conflict in Chechnya|for their statehood. | |is largely rooted in the history|[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |of Russian-Chechen relations, |historyeng&row=4 ] (more ...) | |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 |Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | |peaceful colonization of the | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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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