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"The fact that large forces engaged in the operation in Dagestan have not succeeded in uncovering and destroying the militants for almost two weeks points that they are dealing with the people who are perfectly at home in the area and are supported by locals," Abubakar Makhmudov, an officer of Chechen law-enforcement agencies, holds.

A police department was fired at in the Chechen village of Petropavlovskaya. Two police officers were killed as a result.

The Serzhen-Yurt village administration rendered much help to set Ayub Bedigov free.

One of the banners belonged to the so-called Abkhazian Battalion, which took part in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict under the command of Shamil Basayev. The other banner belonged to the so-called Central Front of the Ichkerian Armed Forces.

The military use the tactics of contactless elimination of the extremists. The latter are under ceaseless artillery and mortar gunfire and air strikes.

The model presented by sculptor Alan Karnayev was chosen to be the best one. This model represents a man and a sweet - a killed soldier and his immortal sole.

A large group of separatists was routed in Chechnya. Turkish, Algerian and German citizens were among its members. 17 separatists were killed as a result of a short combat.

When being stopped by police officers at the town exit, the kidnappers showed regional operations headquarters passes.

On December 11, there was a skirmish in a many-storied building on Ordjonikidze Street in Malgobek. An accidental passer-by, Bekkhan B. Kartoyev, 1953, was killed as a result.

Russian servicemen abducted Khavazhi Shamayev, a 33-year-old resident of the Samashki village, and took him away from his own house in the direction of the district center of Achkhoy-Martan.

The released man had severe injuries and several fractured ribs, which is evidence that he had been subjected to savage beatings for all that time.

Having searched the house and not having found the man they needed, the gunmen savagely beat the 80-year-old woman.

A landmine was activated in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny when a file of OMON (special tasks police platoon) officers was passing by.

Some aspects of the influence of the armed conflict in Chechnya on Russia's home policy - and what's to be done about that? (Report abstract).