The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Chechnya | News from Chechen Republic | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| |"Chechen Radio | "Chechnya | # # Issue 454 | |Free.ru" Radio station | 02.05.07 | | | | |"Chechnya Free.ru" Radio station|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |broadcasting live | | | |02 May 2007 Pipeline repaired, gas reaches Dagestan's | |You can listen to Free Chechnya |Khasavyurt - ministry | |Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM|Gas supplies resumed to Khasavyurt, Dagestan, at 8:30 a.m., | |Moscow time on a frequency of |Moscow time, on Monday, the Emergency Situations Ministry's | |594 kHz on the medium wave band |southern regional center told Interfax. "The local gas | |and on a frequency of 171 kHz on|pipeline was repaired on Sunday evening, but gas reached | |the long wave band. The |households on Monday morning," the center said. Earlier | |programme is created with the |reports said that a gas pipeline, running to Khasavyurt and | |involvement of the Ministry for |four populated areas near Khasavyurt, broke down at about 1 | |culture and mass communication |a.m., Moscow time, on Sunday. The district affected has a | |of the Russian Federation. |population of 100,000. Preliminary reports indicate that an | |([ http://212.69.114.20:8000/ |explosive device went off nearby, damaging the pipeline, | |listen.pls ] live |Kavkazregiongaz distributor company earlier informed Interfax.| |broadcasting......) |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | | |from Chechnya...) | |Cultural figures | | | |02 May 2007 DNA studies will be needed to identify several | |Balkan Anzorova (1923-1996) |Chechnya helicopter crash victims | | |The bodies of the servicemen who died in a helicopter crash in| |Balkan Anzorova was never |Shatoi district of Chechnya have been brought to a forensic | |pampered by the attention of |laboratory, the military prosecutor's office in the North | |literary researchers, critics |Caucasus told Interfax on Sunday. "The bodies of 18 servicemen| |and readers. She was rarely |were flown to an army laboratory. The identification of some | |published and seldom translated |of the bodies will require DNA studies. Relatives will have to| |into Russian. Therefore she |contribute biological materials for the purpose," a spokesman | |remained almost unknown to an |said. "The final conclusions about the cases for the crash may| |average reader. Balkan Anzorova |be made within a month's time," he added. "Investigative | |was born in 1923 in the village |operations at the crash scene continue and involve | |of Urus-Martan where her parents|representatives of the Air Force headquarters, experts as well| |were exiled from Doikur village |as military investigators. They have to study big quantities | |as kulaks (well-off farmers). |of materials, including helicopter fragments," he said. | |After finishing middle school in|Eyewitnesses are being interviewed, he added. "The helicopter | |1937 she started out on her own |was not flying alone. The crash was witnessed from other | |career as a teacher at crash |aerial vehicles. There were also people on the ground in the | |courses to eliminate illiteracy.|crash area," the spokesman said without identifying who those | |Later she worked as a leader of |people had been. "There were quite many eyewitnesses," he | |young Communists (pioneers), a |said. "All the documents related to the flight mission, | |club director and a librarian in|weather conditions and the technical state of the helicopter | |her native village. But the |available in Khankala are being studied," he said. "We are | |final two years before the |trying to find out what the weather was like in the landing | |general deportation of Chechens,|area and whether the standard of crew training permitted it to| |Balkan worked as a chairperson |perform its mission in those circumstances," the spokesman | |of an enterprise, incorporating |said. The Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed on Friday in south | |sewing, trading and other small |Chechnya killing 18 servicemen. | |consumer businesses. While still|[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |a school student, B. Anzorova |from Chechnya...) | |became interested in Chechen | | |folklore and poetry. She learned|02 May 2007 Chechen Presidents First Decree | |and recorded folk tales, songs |As Ramzan Kadyrov promised on his inauguration day, the first | |and legends and endowed with a |decree he would sign after taking the presidential office | |good voice and playing well the |would be the concept of the Republics state national policy. | |Russian accordion, she performed|Movsur Ibragimov, the minister of national policy, the media | |them at various amateur parties.|and information, whose ministry conceptualized the decree, | |Subsequently she began composing|believes this is by no means accidental. For all the troubles | |her first verses on current |afflicting Chechnya previously stemmed from inadequate | |issues. Early on her talent and |national policy or even the lack of it. The new Chechen | |hard work earned her popular |President believes that it is vitally important to put proper | |recognition. At the age of 16, |emphasis on the relationships among various peoples and | |for her great accomplishments in|nationalities inhabiting Chechnya and numbering nearly forty. | |the dissemination of popular |The President is focused on making the national policy pursued| |arts, B. Anzorova was awarded |in the Republic recognized by each resident, Chechens, | |the order of the Sign of Honor |Russians, Kalmyks, Jews, Tartars, Nogais, Ingush, Armenian, | |and in 1940 she was accepted as |who should all feel at home in Chechnya. The concept endorsed | |a member of the USSR Writers |by the President presents a system of views and principles on | |Union. Her first verses were |the activities of state authority in the Chechen Republic in | |published in a collection of |the field of national relations. It encompasses a broad range | |Chechen and Ingush poets called |of various issues and directions. It is incorrect to assume, | |Our Songs. She continued |the minister noted, that the concept merely deals with the | |composing verses while being in |issues of inter-ethnic relations. The relations directly | |exile without a hope that they |affect the living conditions of all nationalities and peoples | |would ever be published and her |inhabiting the Republic. Therefore it is necessary first and | |songs ever performed. But when |foremost to ensure proper living conditions for Chechen | |Alma-Ata radio in Kazakhstan |residents, provide proper education, conditions for cultural | |began broadcasting in Chechen, |development, health and environmental protection, scientific | |B. Anzorova commenced singing on|development and more. All of these are laid down in the | |it herself. |concept. The concept pays special attention to ensuring | |([ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |peaceful and tolerant conditions of life in Chechnya, return | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |of ethnic Russians to the Republic. The concept makes it clear| |fculteng&row=1 ] more ......) |that both the residents and authorities of the Republic are | | |vitally interested in its implementation. M. Ibragimov | |Chechen history |believes that if Chechnya is inhabited by native Chechens, we | | |would not be able to develop as fast as other entities of the | |The history of Russian-Chechen |Russian Federation can. As before in Chechnya there are | |relations |certain spheres of industry, science which Chechens themselves| | |wouldnt want to enter and these jobs were filled mostly by the| |The current conflict in Chechnya|Russian speaking population of the Republic. We are interested| |is largely rooted in the history|to live and work together. Movsur Ibragimov recalled in this | |of Russian-Chechen relations, |connection that he himself had been taught by Russian | |which include six stages. The |teachers. They taught him the Russian language, history, | |first stage The first stage, |culture and all that was necessary for a decent person to | |which started in the middle of |live. And now know the culture of Russian and other | |the 16th century and lasted |nationalities who inhabit Chechnya, he feels comfortable in | |until the end of the 17th |communicating with them. On the other hand, being ignorant of | |century, was marked by a |the culture of neighbor people, it is hard to reach mutual | |peaceful colonization of the |understanding with them, the minister believes. Of course, the| |region. That period is |return to Chechnya of those who currently reside outside the | |characterized by vassal-allied |Republic is linked with the solution of complex problems, such| |forms of relations between |as employment and housing. Today, destroyed houses in Grozny | |Moscow tsars and elders of |as in most other parts of Chechnya are shrouded in scaffolding| |Chechen communities. Moscow was |works. The goal set by the President to speed up the | |trying to expand its influence |reconstruction of housing is being successfully implemented | |in the region by political and |and this opens wide opportunities for solving the housing | |economic means mainly. The |problem for those who return to the Republic. And as the | |policy was a success and Chechen|Republics economy is picking up, new jobs are becoming | |communities voluntarily (by |available. According to M. Ibragimov, each ministry and agency| |signing agreements) announced |in the Republic have begun developing their own specific | |recognition of the supreme power|programs to implement the concept of national policy. | |of the Moscow state. The second |Subsequently, by agreement with the presidential office, the | |stage The second stage, which |ministry of national policy, media and information will | |lasted almost throughout the |collate them all together and submit to the government of | |18th century, marks the |Chechnya. The year end will be the deadline for this effort so| |beginning of Russia's open |as to be able to allocate in the 2008 budget the funding | |military expansion to the North |necessary for the implementation of programs of the Chechen | |Caucasus. Under Peter I and then|Republics national policy. | |Catherine II the doctrine of |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] (more News | |colonizing the mountain areas |from Chechnya...) | |prevalent. ([ http:// | | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng§ion=historyeng&row= | | |11 ] more...) | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | Russia - Chechnya | | | | | | Chechen history | | | | | |Chechens one the worlds most ancient people | | |[7489] | | | | | |Chechens (self-assumed name " nokhchi" ) are the world" s most| | |ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. | | |They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more | | |than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are | | |very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they | | |form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, | | |territorial, economic and cultural links and language. | | |Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus | | |and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the | | |Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) | | |ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various| | |aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was | | |formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements | | |of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence | | |of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. | | |The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing | | |struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies,| | |in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new| | |attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages | | |(4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend | | |themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab | | |Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle | | |forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation| | |for their statehood. | | |[ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |historyeng&row=4 ] (more ...) | | | | | | - | | | | | |## | | | | | |Copyright [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng ] | | | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [ http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=projectrus&lng|[mail][ mailto:info@chechnyafree.ru ] [mailto] | | =eng ] [about] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=news.media.chechnyafree&email=e@mail http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com