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| 15.04.200609:07 (GMT) | Chechen Republic Anti-terrorist Centre (the former Security Service of the Chechen President) will be undergoing new structural changes, Russian internet edition Chechen Society reports. The centre will soon become a special unit under the Interior Troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia. The Russian United Group of Troops (Forces) (UGT/F) in the North Caucasus, at least that part of it that belongs to the Interior Ministry of Russia, will soon be replenished by the addition of two new units. There are plans to create two motorised special battalions on the basis of the Anti-terrorist Centre (ATC). It has probably already been decided to call the new units “North” and “South” by analogy with the Main Intelligence Administration (GRU) special unit battalions “East” and “West”, which are part of the 42nd Division of the Ministry of Defence of Russia and made up of ethnic Chechens. The “North” special unit battalion of the Interior Troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia will be deployed in the valley area of the Republic in the Grozny region, whilst the “South” unit will be deployed correspondingly in the southern, mountainous Vedenskii region of the republic, which soldiers like to call Shamil Basaev’s “ancestral estate”. There will be 500-700 men in the units, which will be under the command of the military commandant’s office of the republic. Staff from the ATC are already actively preparing the necessary documents for the transition to their new capacity. Service in the battalions will be by contract, and the average wage for the rank and file will be from 15-18,000 roubles ($500 - 600) a month. This is several times higher than the money received by the ATCs today.
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