TBILISI. Oct 4 (Interfax-AVN) - The possibility of terrorist acts against Russian military bases in the South Caucasus is close to zero, Russian Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin said at a news conference in Yerevan on Thursday.
"Such things can happen where no one awaits them and no one is ready for them, but the possibility of terrorist acts is close to zero where professionals work," Kvashnin said.
The Russian troops group in the Trans Caucasus has no information on forthcoming terrorist acts against Russian servicemen rumoured to be prepared by Chechen rebels in Georgia's Pankisi gorge, a spokesman for the group headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"The group accomplishes its missions in regular mode," the group's press centre chief Colonel Alexander Lutskevich said.
According to him, the group is not involved in the Chechnya campaign.