here and now №1 17.04.2000 (2000)

Guest of the program: Valery Manilov, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel General.

Main topics and issues discussed in the studio: 1. The stage of conducting a special operation has begun.

How is this different from what was before? 2. Today we can state that the system of gang formations in Chechnya has been eliminated.

Gradual reduction of the military contingent. 3. About the peculiarities of the transition from a combined arms unit to a special one. 4. About the number of the joint forces, that it is 80 thousand people. 5. How will civilians feel the end of the combined arms operation. 6. About the groups of Basayev and Khatab and scattered groups of militants. 7. About the resignation of B. Gantamirov. 8. About the number of militants "

squeezed out"

into Georgia. 9. About strengthening the borders with Georgia.