Europe’s main human rights watchdog PACE plans to send its observers to Russia's North Caucasus regions in September. Russia's representative at PACE summer session Konstantin Kosachev joined RT with comments.

British entrepreneur Richard Branson is offering cosmic flights for $US 200,000. It is a lot cheaper than the $US 40m demanded by Russia’s Space Agency. Space expert Yuriy Karash  talked to RT about the future of tourism in this sector.

To solve the unemployment problem in the republic, the Chechen authorities intend to create around 90,000 new jobs within a year, said Zaur Tsetsaev from the administration of the Chechen president.

Military contractors are the main benefactors from the continuing US-led campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan, says RT military analyst Evgeny Khrushchev. He says only around 10 per cent of the allocated money is reaching people on the ground.