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TV1 Review
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Compiled by Luba Schwartzman (luba_sch@hotmail.com)
Research Analyst, Center for Defense Information, Moscow office
HEADLINES,
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
- The first funerals of the hostages who died during the storm of the theater were held in Moscow.
- 245 former hostages remain in Moscow's hospitals. The condition of 16 people is still described by doctors as critical. Several of the hostages have checked back into hospitals after being released.
- A British family that was among the hostages has returned to Moscow safely.
- Investigators continue to work in the building of the Dubrovka theater where the hostages were held. Russian security service officers continue searching for those connected with the terrorist act. Several dozen suspects have been detained.
- Moscow traffic police officers stopped a truck with Chechen license plate on the Shchelkov Highway. Ingredients for making explosives were discovered in the truck. The passengers -- three men and 12 women -- were detained.
- Representatives of the media met in Moscow to discuss the work of the press in connection with the hostage crisis. Presidential Aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky appealed to the journalists to follow the professional code of contact in emergency situations.
- Russian Labor Minister Aleksandr Pochinok announced that the families of the hostages that were killed will receive compensations totaling 100,000 rubles. Additionally, the presidential administration has reserved 140 spots in government sanatoriums and resorts for the hostages.
- A passenger bus was attacked in Grozny's Leninsky Region. Unidentified camouflaged men walked into the bus and opened fire, wounding the driver and the ticket collector.
- Russia's national security and additional security measures were discussed at a meeting of Russia's top military leaders, chaired by President Putin.
- Russian parliamentarians will review a package of drafts on national security in the near future.
- Right-wing deputies in the State Duma have proposed the formation of a special parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances around the storm of the theater and the release of the hostages.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Yabloko Chairman Vladimir Yavlinsky to discuss the tragic events in Moscow. Yavlinsky was one of the first people to attempt to negotiate with the terrorists.
- An investigation concerning the crash of the Mi-8 military helicopter is underway at the Khankala military base.
- The trial of Chechen field commander Said-Magomed "Titanik" Chupalaev has been resumed in Pyatigorstk.
- Doctors are worried about the health of Patriarch of All Russia Alexii II, who was hospitalized after a hypertensive crisis. Patriarch Alexii II has been flown from a clinic in Astrakhan to Moscow.
- Special security measures are being taken in Stavropol Krai
- The first results of the investigation of the Soiuz-V missile carrier at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome are in. According to Rosaviakosmos General Director Yuri Koptev, a foreign object entered the engine of the missile.
- In the Maritime Region work is underway 24 hours a day to liquidate the consequences of a powerful snow cyclone.
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