MOSCOW, February 28 (AVN) - A group of State Duma deputies, which was sent by parliament to the autonomous republics of Dagestan and Chechnya, and units of Moscow and Leningrad military districts, has completed its work in the North Caucasus, Major-General Nikolay Bezborodov, deputy chairman of the State Duma defence committee, told the Military News Agency.
The deputies were surveying the conditions of service and social security of servicemen taking part in the anti-guerrilla operation in Chechnya, Bezborodov said..
The deputy chairman viewed the group's work as effective. According to him, the deputies attended several meetings with personnel and the command, including Army General Viktor Kasantsev, the commander of the unified federal group. They visited detachments stationed in Makhachkala, Buinaksk, Khankala, Mozdok, Gudermes, and met with commandant's officers.
The main task of their work is to form a complex of legislative initiatives, which would eventually ensure social security of the servicemen, who served or will serve in Chechnya and other regions of the North Caucasus.
Now the delegates will work in the Moscow and Leningrad military districts. First of all in those detachments, whose personnel was used in the anti-guerrilla operation.