The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Chechnya | News from Chechen Republic | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |"Chechen Radio | "Chechnya | # # Issue 450 | |Free.ru" Radio station | 19.04.07 | | | | |"Chechnya Free.ru" Radio station|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |broadcasting live | | | |19 April 2007 A schoolboy from the Nadterechny district wins | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |childrens poster competition | |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|A republican childrens poster competition has been held in | |Moscow time on a frequency of |Chechnya. It was timed to the World Tuberculosis Day. | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |Said-Khamzat Elmurzayev, an 8th grade pupil of the | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|comprehensive school 1 in the Nadterechny district of | |the long wave band. The |Chechnya, has become the winner of the contest. According to | |programme is created with the |the schools head teacher, Said-Akhmed Khasimikov, children | |involvement of the Ministry for |have always been taught basic sanitary requirements. Pupils | |culture and mass communication |are always glad to draw posters dedicated to tuberculosis and | |of the Russian Federation. |other dangerous diseases. A hospital is located not far from | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |school, so doctors often meet with children and read different| |listen.pls ] live |lectures. Senior pupils take these problems seriously and want| |broadcasting......) |to know more about AIDS and drugs to be able to protect | | |themselves. Many pupils participated in childrens poster | |Chechen culture |competition. The jury said a poster How to appreciate health | | |was made professionally. And now the whole school is proud of | |The Etiquette of Chechen |Said-Khamzat Elmurzayev. Said is a great-grandson of Arbi | |Marriage Customs |Mamakayev, whose name was given to the first school in the | | |Nadterechny district. The boys grandfather, Eduard Mamakayev | |The traditional Chechen marriage|now works as the chairman of the Union of Writers of Chechnya,| |ceremony, like their other folk |and his grandmother is a deputy school manager. Said | |customs has always been in its |Khasimikov recollects that Eduard Mamakayev was his teacher | |secretive cohesion. It included |and could draw very well. His daughter, the boys mother, also | |sing-songs, dance, music, |likes to draw and helps to decorate the school. So | |pantomime and narration, which |Said-Khamzat is successfully keeping his familys tradition. | |altogether produced a whole |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |spectacle. The elements of the |from Chechnya...) | |Chechen nuptial ceremony, | | |including horse-riding, bridal |19 April 2007 Six police from Karelia get injuries in attack | |introduction into the grooms |in Grozny | |home, acquaintance with the |According to specified data, six police from Karelia got | |bride, her movement to a river, |injuries as result of a shooting at a block post in Grozny. As| |a visit of the future groom to |Itar-Tass learnt at the Chechen Prosecutors Office, the | |the brides relatives and others |shooting occurred at about 21:00 on Wednesday. Unidentified | |represent the main features of |people opened fire at police who were on duty in | |the Chechen folk theatrics, |Industrialnaya Street in Groznys Zavadsky district from the | |which manifest a mass |territory of the former radio plant. Six police got injuries | |creativity, originality, |and were taken to the hospital Severny. At present an | |multi-faceted national forms, |investigation team is working at the site of the incident, a | |breadth, and depth of popular |representative of the Prosecutors Office said. Now the persons| |fantasy. In general, the playful|who made the attack are being established. | |element spectacle and facial |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |expressions are well developed |from Chechnya...) | |in the images of a Chechen | | |marriage. This is evident from |18 April 2007 Court cancels not-guilty verdict in house blast| |the very notion of the Chechen |case | |marriage known as lovzar which |The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled a verdict of | |means play. Nuptial ceremonies |Dagestans Supreme Court in the case of Magomed Salikhov, who | |among Chechens and Ingushis have|was found not guilty of having blown up a residential house in| |some differences. With Ingushis |the city of Buinaksk in September 1999. The case was returned | |it is considered a calamity that|for a new investigation. Dagestans Supreme Court acquitted | |s girl gets married without the |Salikhov following a not-built verdict of the jury in January | |parents blessing, while Chechens|2006. Itar-Tass | |see nothing wrong in that. |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |Sometimes, her relatives go this|from Chechnya...) | |way in order to avoid extra | | |expenses involved in marriage | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |ceremonies. At the appointed | | |time, a groom with friends would|18 April 2007 Dagestan police lose 1 in killed, 2 injured in | |go to an appropriate place (the |skirmish | |exit spot for the bride) and |One policeman was killed and two were wounded in an operation | |take away the girl and this is |to destroy a group of gunmen in the Karabudakhkent district of| |considered to be getting married|Dagestan on Wednesday. The chief physician of the hospital in | |(marie yakhar) or nuptials (zuda|the settlement of Karabudakhkent told ITAR-TASS that the body | |yalor). The bride is taken to |of the policeman was in the hospital and the two injured men | |the home of a friend, or |were taken to Makhachkala for treatment. The Dagestan Interior| |brother-in-law or a grooms |Ministry as yet has not issued any information about | |relative (zuda yossar the brides|casualties. Police said earlier in the day that five-ten | |sojourn) to settle certain |gunmen were hiding in the woodland near the village of Gubden.| |formalities. It is necessary to |Some of the gunmen are on the wanted list for terrorist | |dispatch a man (stag vakhiitar) |crimes. Security forces are continuing a comb-out of terrain. | |in order to inform her relatives|Itar-Tass | |about her voluntary decision to |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |get married, reconciliation (tam|from Chechnya...) | |bar), redemption payment | | |(yoikhana or kyovlam) to the | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |girls relatives, preparation of | | |the bride for her nuptials | Russia - Chechnya | |(nuskal kechdar) when the | | |parents send her clothing, sow | Chechen history | |or buy whatever she needs. This | | |lasts for a week or sometimes |Chechens one the worlds most ancient people | |longer. And all this time the |[7489] | |marriage (lovzar)is being | | |prepared. A retinue (zamuoi) is |Chechens (self-assumed name " nokhchi" ) are the world" s most| |sent for the bride on the |ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. | |marriage day, including the |They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more | |grooms friends (nevzan nakyosk |than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are | |or best men). On the way to the |very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they | |bride and back the nuptial |form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, | |procession throw up a |territorial, economic and cultural links and language. | |merry-making. They play |Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus | |harmonica, fire guns and |and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the | |previously Chechen equestrians |Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) | |displayed their shooting |ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various| |prowess, fencing and equestrian |aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was | |skills. |formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. | |tradmareng&row=0 ] more ......) |The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing | | |struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies,| |Chechen history |in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new| | |attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages | |The history of Russian-Chechen |(4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend | |relations |themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab | | |Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle | |The current conflict in Chechnya|forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation| |is largely rooted in the history|for their statehood. | |of Russian-Chechen relations, |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |which include six stages. The |historyeng&row=4 ] (more ...) | |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 | Copyright Igor Ivanov | |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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