81.   Private channels do not pose a problem to his authority.

82.   Residents of the building stressed in interviews with the private Antenna television channel that the embassy was not guarded.

83.   The four private channels competed ferociously to get sect representatives on to their programmes.

84.   The Kremlin has already complained about television coverage of events in Chechnya by threatening two weeks ago to withdraw the license of the private NTV channel.