here and now 04/17/2000 (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 the special operation has begun.

How is this different from what it was before?

2. Today we can state that the system of banditry in Chechnya has been eliminated.

Gradual reduction of the military contingent.

3. About the features of the transition from a combined-arms unit to a special one.

4. About the number of OGV, that it is 80 thousand people.

5. How civilians will feel the end of the combined-arms operation.

6. About the Basayev and Khatab groups and scattered militant groups.

7. On the resignation of B. Gantamirov.

8. On the number of militants "squeezed out" to Georgia.

9. About strengthening the borders with Georgia.