Aslan Maskhadov calls on the terrorists who have taken hostages in Moscow to be reasonable and "warns against hasty steps," Aslan Maskhadov's special representative at the talks with Russia, Akhmed Zakayev, told Ekho Moskvy radio station. He said that he was in touch with Aslan Maskhadov. "He is very worried about you and those you are holding back," Akhmed Zakayev said, addressing the terrorists. In addition, "he thanks you for your humanism towards children," Zakayev added.

The Russian Press Ministry considers the cover of the Friday issue of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which is an organ of the Russian government, to be unethical, First Deputy Minister Mikhail Seslavinsky told reporters. "Photograph published on the front page of the Rossiyskaya newspapers, "offends not only the memory and dignity of the deceased hostage, but is also immoral in relation to the people who are now in the hall and their relatives," he said.

According to retired colonel Vitaly Koloskov, the withdrawal of the current grouping of Russian troops will take, according to the most optimistic estimates, at least six months. This is if all personnel, military equipment, ammunition, and the entire rear infrastructure are sent to the place of deployment in Russia. It is possible to meet a shorter deadline, but only if we are talking not about organized redeployment, but about flight. The calculation here is easy.

The Chechen cultural center that operated unofficially in the capital of Azerbaijan and called itself a "representation of Ichkeria" has been closed. This is reported by Interfax.

Representatives of the North Caucasian diasporas in St. Petersburg condemn the hostage-taking in Moscow. This is stated in the statement of the representative office of Dagestan in the northern capital, distributed on Friday in St. Petersburg. Its authors urge not to associate terrorists with religious affiliation and ethnicity.

NTV Free from the Theater Center on Dubrovka hostages of the ambulance are delivered to the following clinics: Sklifosofsky Research Institute; 7th, 53rd, 1st, 15th city hospital; 1st, 9th, 13th, 20th children's city hospital. This is reported by Interfax. The head of the blood transfusion department of the 15th city clinical hospital, Irina Logvinenko, on the air of the Echo Moskvy radio station, asked Muscovites with a request to donate blood for the affected hostages.

On Saturday, the special envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for the observance of the rights and freedoms of citizens in the Chechen Republic, Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, addressed Russian entrepreneurs of Chechen nationality. He suggested creating a fund to help the families of those killed in the terrorist attack in Moscow, NTV reports. This initiative was supported by everyone I contacted.

NTV The deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not exclude the prohibitions of direct media broadcasts from the scene of the HPZ recreation center, where there are about 700 hostages. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia intends to prohibit direct broadcasts of the media from the scene from the capture of hostages. This was stated today by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir Vasiliev on the air of the Russia channel.

The leaders of the EU member states have officially approved a compromise agreement with Russia on Kaliningrad. As they hope in the EU, Russia will approve these proposals in November at the EU summit. The compromise involves the introduction from July 2003 of special transit visas for residents of Kaliningrad, reports BBC News. Visas will give them the opportunity to cross the territory of Lithuania when entering Russia. They will be easier to obtain than regular visas.

Classes are canceled in all schools in Moscow on Saturday, October 26. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press secretary of the Moscow Education Committee Alexander Gavrilov. According to him, due to the current situation in the city, lessons in educational institutions working on a 6-day schedule will not be held. At the same time, Gavrilov stressed that all Moscow schools are under heavy guard.

Kovalev http://old.echo.msk.ru/abr/photos/koval2.jpg State Duma deputy Sergei Kovalev believes that "the haste of the operation (to free hostages in Moscow. - Ed.) Was determined by the fact that the requirements of the world in Chechnya were too strong," MK -News reports. Kovalev emphasized that there were not enough enough information about what happened, but there may be quite a lot of lies in the fact that they report, perhaps.

German Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, in a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, condemned the hostage-taking in Moscow by terrorists and expressed full support for the efforts undertaken by the Russian authorities to free the hostages, among whom are German citizens. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, posted on the Internet on Friday.

Representatives of the international humanitarian organization "Doctors Without Borders" are ready to stay in Moscow until the situation with the hostage-taking is resolved. This was stated on Friday evening at a press conference in Moscow by the president of this international organization, Dr. Morten Rostrap. "We'll be here for as long as it takes," he said. He said that he arrived in Moscow late the evening before.

NTV Four hostages were freed from the building of the theater center on Dubrovka. These are three women and a man, reports ORT. In total, 19 hostages were released in Friday. Of these, 8 children. All four hostages liberated by terrorists from the Palace of GPP are citizens of Azerbaijan, the representative of the operational headquarters Alekandr Machevsky said, RBC reports. Their name is Aliyev T., Gadzhiev E., Galseva Z. Kasimov M.

A Beech light plane carrying eight people crashed in Minnesota on Friday. The plane crashed near the city of Everett. According to Reuters, US Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone, who owned the plane, died as a result of the crash. This was announced by a representative of Wellstone's headquarters.