Cattle is driven along an autoroute.

Cattle is driven along an autoroute.

Police servicemen cordon off crowds during the inauguration ceremony of the Russian republic of Daghestan State Council Chairman.

Chief of the Russian Presidential Staff Alexander Voloshin takes part in the inauguration ceremony of the Russian republic of Daghestan State Council Chairman.

Chief of the Russian Presidential Staff Alexander Voloshin (left), Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko (centre), and head of the Chechen Republic provisional administration Ahmad Kadyrov (right) attend the inauguration ceremony of the Russian republic of Daghestan State Council Chairman.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko attends the inauguration ceremony of the Russian republic of Daghestan State Council Chairman.

A boy jumps into river.

A woman and her granddaughter pose for a photo in Assinovskoye Gorge.

Elderly people walk along a road in Assinovskoye Gorge.

A girl washes clothes in a mountain stream in Assinovskoye Gorge.

Local girl of a mountain hamlet of Assinovskoye Gorge poses for a photo by a police patrol-car.

Residents of the Assinovskoye Gorge chat away against the background of a mosque.

Residents of the hamlet of Olgetti wait for a bus at a local bus-stop.

Russian republic of Kabardino-Blakaria President Valery Kokov attends the inauguration ceremony of the republic of Dagestan State Council (Gossovet) Chairman Magomedali Magomedov. The inauguration was held in the Makhachkala Russian Theatre of Drama.

Russian republic of Kabardino-Blakaria President Valery Kokov attends the inauguration ceremony of the republic of Dagestan State Council (Gossovet) Chairman Magomedali Magomedov. The inauguration was held in the Makhachkala Russian Theatre of Drama.

Russian republic of Kabardino-Blakaria President Valery Kokov is interviewed in his office.

Russian republic of Kabardino-Blakaria President Valery Kokov is interviewed in the republic administration headquarters.

Russian republic of Kabardino-Blakaria President Valery Kokov is interviewed in the garden surrounding his own house.

President of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria Valery Kokov is interviewed in his office.

President of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria Valery Kokov is interviewed in his office.

President of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria Valery Kokov is interviewed in his office.

Workers of the El Pharmie pharmaceutical factory pack medecines.

Workers of the El Pharmie pharmaceutical factory pack medecines.

An elderly resident of the Assinovskoye Gorge walks along a mountain road.

Residents of a mountain hamlet in Assinovskoye Gorge.

President of the Russian republic of Ingushetiya Murat Zyazikov (left) visits the Assinovskoye Gorge.

A boy jupmes across a small stream in the Assinovskoye Gorge.

Residents of the Assinovskoye Gorge meet Russian republic of Ingushetiya President Murat Zyazikov.

Residents of the Assinovskoye Gorge look out of a local bus.

A resident woman of the Assinovskoye Gorge walks along a road.

A resident woman of the Assinovskoye Gorge walks along a road.

Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic Cabinet Stanislav Ilyasov is interviewed in his office.

The presidet of the Ingushetia republic Murat Zyazikov (centre) visited the Assinovsoe gorge.

The presidet of the Ingushetia republic Murat Zyazikov (centre) visited the Assinovsoe gorge.

Poet Rasul Gamzatov performs at the ceremony of sworning-in of the president of Dagestan.

Poet Rasul Gamzatov speaks at the inauguration (sworn-in) ceremony of the Dagestan president.

The Kabardino-Balkarian republic president Valery Kokov is interviewed in his cabinet.

The Kabardino-Balkarian republic president Valery Kokov with his grandchildren is interviewed near his house.

A horse feeds on the hillside.

Mayor of Grozny - capital of the Chechen Republic - Oleg Zhidkov is interveiwed at home.

Mayor of Grozny - capital of the Chechen Republic - Oleg Zhidkov is interveiwed at home.