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TV1 Review
www.1tv.ru
Compiled by Luba Schwartzman (luba_sch@hotmail.com)
Research Analyst, Center for Defense Information, Moscow office
HEADLINES,
Thursday, October 31, 2002
- An arms cache with weapons and explosives was discovered in a mosque in the Chechen settlement of Achkhoi-Martan.
- The State Duma accepted a law in the third reading allowing people between 14 and 16 to get married.
- The Security Council met to discuss the fight against terrorism. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Security Council Chairman Vladimir Rushailo have called for more effective cooperation of the Commonwealth of Independent States nations in the fight against terrorism.
- A press conference was held at the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the terrorist act in Moscow.
- Over 500 of the former hostages have been released from Moscow hospitals. No one remains "missing in action."
- The Russian government has decided to pay 100,000 rubles to each of the families of the victims of the terrorist act in Moscow.
- Moscow police officers continue working in a heightened-security regime.
- A bus that brought the fighters to the Dubrovka Theater has been detained. Nine residents from the North Caucasus region were on the bus, which had Daghestani license plates.
- About 40 people suspected of aiding and abetting the terrorists have been detained in Moscow.
- Presidential Aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky declared that the capture of hostages in Moscow was timed to coincide with the Worldwide Chechen Congress in Denmark.
- Sergei Yastrzhembsky also declared that there is no one left in Chechnya to negotiate with.
- The Russian-European Union Summit has been moved from Denmark, and will be held in Brussels on 11 November.
- The Russian General Prosecutor's Office will send additional materials on the Zakaev case to Danish authorities.
- Evidence showing Maskhadov's connection to the organization of the seizure of hostages in Moscow has been published.
- Many nations have changed their attitude towards the activity of organizations helping Chechen separatists. Four Islamic organization in Great Britain have been outlawed in connection with terrorist activity.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexii II in the hospital. Aleksii II was hospitalized after a hypertensive crisis.
- Taganrog Mayor Sergei Shilo was shot as he was entering his home. He died two and a half hours later at the hospital. The main version of the investigators is that this was a contract murder.
- The State Duma Committee for Economic Policy has suggested returning to the second reading a law limiting the advertisement of beer on television. Currently the laws are so strict that they do not even allow the airing of a sports match is the arena has beer advertisements.
- State Deputy Aleksandr Fedulov declared that the Communist Party violates the RF law on political parties.
- Georgia has postponed the extradition of 8 Chechen fighters who were detained while crossing the border with Russia.
- Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Putin on the progress of restoration work in Southern Russia. Prime Minister Kasyanov has criticized the restoration work.
- President Putin held a working meeting with Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi.
- Russia demanded from Qatar the extradition of former Chechen separatists leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiev.
- The Russian government has approved an agreement with the US on the reduction of strategic offensive potentials.
- The trial of six terrorists continues in Pyatigorsk
- A fighter from Shamil Basaev's group has been detained in Moscow.
- The Parliament of Kazakhstan has ratified an agreement with Russia on the division of the Caspian Sea basin.
- About 60 bombs carried by a truck leaving a Volgograd factory have been neutralized.
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