The military operation of the Russian troops on the territory of Chechnya continues. This morning, Russian tanks fired in the environs of the village of Bamut. The shelling was led from the territory of Ingushetia and lasted about 40 minutes. Valery Manilov, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said that Russian troops entered Chechnya in three separate sections of the border.

Savik Shuster: "Face to face. The leader answers reporters." The weekly program of the Moscow editorial office of Radio Liberty. In our Moscow studio, Igor Malashenko, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Media-Most Holding Company. The questions will be asked by Celestine Bowelin, the correspondent in Moscow of New York Times and Konstantin Egert), the observer of the Russian BBC service. - Igor Evgenievich, on Saturday, the second of October, you turned forty -five years old.

Igor Malashenko Leading Savik Schuster Savik Shuster: "Face to face. The leader answers reporters." The weekly program of the Moscow editorial office of Radio Liberty. In our Moscow studio, Igor Malashenko, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Media-Most Holding Company. The questions will be asked by Celestine Bowelin, the correspondent in Moscow of New York Times and Konstantin Egert), the observer of the Russian BBC service.