 The crew of Rustavi 2 was arrested; the Georgian Minister of Health said that the correspondent Nana Lezhava, who had been kept for fives days in the Russian pre-trial detention centers, had been poisoned with dangerous psychotropic drugs (like Politkovskaya, Lezhava passed out after being given a cup of tea).The crew from another Georgian TV channel Mze was expelled from Beslan.Raf Shakirov, chief editor of the "Izvestia" newspaper, was forced to resign after criticism by the major shareholders of both style and content of the September 4, 2004 issue.