By Sergey Buntman

Radio Echo of Moscow, on the program “We’re looking for the exit”

SERGEY BUNTMAN: Good evening, this is Sergey Buntman on the microphone and today “we’re looking for the exit”. How and in what way can one negotiate with terrorists and with terrorist organizations that take hostages? Our reason for discussing this is the possible agreement on exchanging the Israeli corporal, Gelad Shalit, for 450 Palestinian prisoners. This is an absolute trade – they are paying with these prisoners through middlemen from Egypt, and there’s a chance that in six months Gelad Shalit will be returned. Today we’re going to discuss, of course, much more than just the Israeli situation, and our guests are Anatoly Yermolin, Member of Parliament and former chief of a combat operational unit of ‘Vimpel’. (Trans note: ‘Vimpel’ and ‘Alfa’ are FSB’s special weapons units similar to the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team.)

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By Lenta.ru

Lenta.ru remembers famous people who died in 2006

October 7th, Anna Politkovskaya, journalist.

48 year-old Politkovskaya was famous as a journalist and human rights advocate who wrote material on Chechnya for ‘Novaya Gazeta’. In these, she accused the military of various crimes, including the murder of peaceful residents of Chechnya.

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The written version of the report by the Parliamentary commission investigating the causes and circumstances of the terrorist attack that took place on September 1–3, 2004 in Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania, runs over 240 pages. Its attachments are easily twice that. In order to ensure that every senator receives a copy of the report, they would have to use about 60 cases of Xerox paper, which would hardly be a realistic assignment to complete in a half hour. In this regard, the Federation Council, followed by the Central Election Commission, made a great breakthrough in the world of paperless technology: it was decided that the report it would only be published on the Federation Council’s official website, which took place only a few hours after hearings adjourned.

Their report: http://www.council.gov.ru/lawmaking/dokladparlkom/index.html

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Last weekend ‘Nord-Ost’ representatives and Marina Litvinovich were in Nizhny Novgorod. During this time they held two meetings with residents of the city.

Nizhny Novgorod became the city kicking off the travel ‘Nord-Ost’ organization and Marina Litvinovich through Russia. According to our guests, they want to tell people about what went on four years ago at Dubrovka and Beslan.

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