here and now №1 10/25/1999 (1999)

The Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Russia Mikhail Vanin speaks about the liquidation after 1994 of the customs bodies of Russia in Chechnya, the re-creation In Chechnya, customs structures after the normalization of the situation, their goals and tasks, suppression of smuggling, ensuring the prevention of the import of weapons, ammunition To Chechnya and suppressing drug trafficking, on the issue of the free trade zone discussed at the meeting of the Customs Five, on the timing of the re-establishment of customs bodies on the territory of Chechnya.