Until now, there is no information about where the Radio Liberty correspondent is Andrei Babitsky, who, according to the Russian authorities, was handed over to the unnamed Chechen commanders in exchange for two Russian prisoners of war yesterday. Today, Russian television channels showed a film on which the exchange is captured.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The exchange of our colleagues Andrei Babitsky for two prisoners of war in Chechnya raises many questions. It is alleged that it was carried out as part of the work of the prisoner of prisoners of war under the President of Russia. However, the head of the department of this public commission, that is, the head of its apparatus Konstantin Golumbkovsky said that he learned about events from the media, and could only confirm the fact of exchange.

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Andrey Trukhan, Moscow: The press secretary of the Office of the General Prosecutor's Office in the North Caucasus, Sergei Prokopov, confirmed in a telephone conversation the fact of the exchange of Andrei Babitsky for Russian military personnel, without particular confidence that one of the administrations were probably present during the exchange, and previously participated in an inquiry. The answer to the question - who exactly, did not give Prokopov.

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Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The transfer of our colleague Andrei Babitsky shown on all television channels in exchange for two prisoners of war is unknown to anyone, it is not known when and where the produced, causes serious concerns. I now know that the acting President Vladimir Putin knows everything about what was done with Andrei and could give personal good for this exchange. But publicly no one recognizes this. All around.

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Vladimir Dolin, Achkhoy-Martan: Today we continued to search for Radio correspondent Freedom Andrei Babitsky. But to penetrate into Chechnya from Ingushetia was not so simple. The federal highway "Caucasus" is once again closed. Taxi drivers who work on the Caucasus 1 post were left without work. Only military vehicles come from Chechnya and to Chechnya. On one of the KamAZs returning from Chechnya, a “load 200” sign is attached to the windshield.

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About Andrei Babitsky, his friend, an employee of Novaya Gazeta, Major Vyacheslav Izmailov says. Presenter of the program "Liberty Live" Peter Weil: Every day we get a large number of calls from colleagues-journalists, concerned about the fate of Andrei Babitsky. Major Vyacheslav Izmailov, an employee of Novaya Gazeta, was engaged in the rescue of prisoners for several years, and he knows Andrei Babitsky well. Says Vyacheslav Izmailov: Vyacheslav Izmailov: I know Andrei Babitsky since 1995-1996.

Oleg Kusov, Chechnya, Achkhoy-Martan district: Today, hostilities are on the territory of the Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts, that is, in those territories that the military themselves call them liberated from the enemy. Arriving in the Achkhoy-Martan district center, we were stopped on the edge of the village of Russian military, despite the fact that two days ago we freely overcome posts on the Caucasus highway in the village of Achkha-Martan and Urus-Martan.

Comment by the legal observer Radio Liberty Leo Roitman. Presenter of the program "Liberty Live" Peter Weil: Today, all the main Russian television channels showed a film of the program of Andrei Babitsky to the Chechen side: this was called. A number of questions arise here: for example, usually on a video of this kind below there is a strip, which indicates the date and time - in this case this was not. That is, when this happened, we do not know.