Berezovskii is thought to have been instrumental in the publication of the July Novaya gazeta article accusing Korzhakov and the former sports committee chairman, Shamil Tarpishchev, of corruption and involvement in organized crime. In an interview with Komsomolskaya pravda, Gusinskii said he did not believe the allegations, noting that Berezovskii had himself survived an attempt on his life. The Duma invited Security Council Secretary Aleksandr Lebed to explain his position on NATO expansion at its 11 October session, NTV reported. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party faction initiated the invitation because it wants Lebed to be firmer in opposing NATO expansion. A VTsIOM poll conducted in September for Segodnya asked voters to name politicians they trust, Reuters reported on 10 October.
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It is only taken. The two discussed paying the military's debt to local energy companies, supplying housing to servicemen and retirees, and closer cooperation with the local government. Kommersant-Daily reported on 9 October that Rodionov has now cast his lot with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and left his erstwhile patron Aleksandr Lebed. Chechen field commander Salman Raduev, who led the hostage-taking attack on Kizlyar in January 1996, intends to run for mayor in Gudermes, the second largest town in Chechnya, NTV and Ekho Moskvy reported on 9 October. Acting President Zelimkhan Yandarbiev plans to hold local elections across the republic within two months of 20 October, when the Russian troop withdrawal from Chechnya is scheduled to finish.