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Tukhan Elsayev, a 42-year-old resident of Chechnya, is accused of complicity in the March 1999 kidnapping of Gennady Shpigun, the Russian Interior Ministry's envoy in Chechnya.

Unknown people in masks abducted two Georgian engineering specialists, Avtandil Biblaya and Abessalom Dzhabua, near the village of Rechkhi in the Gali district of Abkhazia in the morning of June 8.

Both the men had reportedly been abducted by unknown people in military uniforms and masks near the central market of Grozny the day before.

Three terrorists, Akhmed Ismailov, Yusup Yunusov, and Valid Suleymanov, were sentenced to life imprisonment. They all were charged with a number of grave crimes, terrorism, murder and illegal use of arms.

A high-capacity explosive device mounted at the roadside went off when a column of federal forces, which consisted of one Ural truck and three armored vehicles, was passing by.

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic adjourned the pronouncement of the sentence to three residents of the republic who are accused of the terrorist attack on the Government House on December 27, 2002.

When gunmen in camouflage uniform arrived at the village, they continued to drink up alcoholic drinks cursing loudly. When a local woman rebuked them, one of the men fired several shot in her direction.

Criminals moved in three UAZ cars without number plates. They wore military uniforms.

The Russian authorities claimed earlier that the release of the head of the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) mission had become possible due to a special operation conducted by the Interior Ministry jointly with the Federal Security Service.

The armored personnel carrier (APC) moving at the head of a military convoy of four cars and five APCs with Russian soldiers was blown up and then fired from automatic rifles.

The simple denial of the convict's request to continue education violated 8 international documents obligatory for Azerbaijan.

Khanchukayev, Magomedov, Isayev, Aliyev, and Kushtanashvili were among 13 Chechens detained in August 2002 while crossing the Georgian-Russian border.

A high-ranking official at the Chechen interior ministry has cast doubt on the information that Elikhanov an Udayev, rebels killed in Grozny, were organizers of the May 9 terrorist act at the Dinamo stadium in the Chechen capital.

"Investigators have every reason to suppose he is the man who was a committer of the May 9 terrorist act at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny, which left 7 people, including Chechen president Akhmat Hajji Kadyrov, dead," a source at the Chechen prosecutor's office said.

One of the killed militants was identified as Said-Emin Elikhanov, 24, who led a militant group, another as Taus Udayev, 26, emir of the Wahhabi jamaat (society) of Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.