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Today, the jury of the Moscow City Court has acquitted two defendants accused of preparing an attempt on President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, thus finding the third figurant in the case to be guilty.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has denied the information about the pressure exerted on Anzor, Aslan Maskhadov's son, and his relatives with the aim to force him to return to Chechnya. Mr Kadyrov accused the yellow press of disseminating such news and has noted that "son is not responsible for his father."

The four residents of Ingushetia, whose bodies were detected on March 28 in the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, could be killed by militants from the grouping of field commander Timur Makhauri active in the region, as Chechen law enforcers assert.

Murder of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" (East) GRU's special battalion, is absolutely unfavourable for Ramzana Kadyrov, as political scientist Zaindi Choltaev thinks, since now President of Chechnya tries to position himself as a peacemaker, or a person capable to unite the whole nation.

At his meeting on Friday with Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB and head of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NATC), President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev asked him to consider the issue of lifting the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, which has lasted for more than nine years.

Yuri Budanov will be interrogated within the inquiry of the case related to kidnapping of residents of Chechnya in 2000. This was stated by Alexander Sorochkin, head of Military Department of the ICPO. However, all over again, Budanov should be found.

In Chechnya, arsons of houses of militants' relatives continue. Since summer of 2008, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has fixed 26 such cases. Human rights activists assert that arsons of houses are used as an instrument of pressure on relatives of those whose children are in the forest.

In the evening on March 24, in the Vedeno District of Chechnya, a group of armed persons kidnapped a militiaman. Today in the morning, his body was found.

At the meeting with relatives of participants of armed formations, held in the Vedeno District of Chechnya, Ruslan Alkhanov, Interior Minister, has stated that "he guarantees objective and impartial consideration of the problems of those militants who will come back."

Three law enforcers and a local resident were wounded in Grozny in an attempt of power agents to detain a suspected member of illegal armed formations (IAFs) yesterday, on March 19.