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A native of Chechnya who is now living in Moscow accuses Badrudi Yamadaev - brother of the commander of the "Vostok" battalion - of kidnapping and extortion.

Sulim Yamadaev was dropped from command of the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Ministry of Defence of Russia. This was stated today by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov at the meeting with representatives of law enforcement bodies in Grozny.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation is going to check up the legality of releasing from custody of two defendants in the criminal case on the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

The conflict around the "Vostok" (East) special-purpose battalion, which is commanded by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (the so-called "GRU"), continues to escalate. The investigation now possesses new information about possible involvement of special fighters in one more crime.

The parents of the students who came to Stavropol from Chechnya and Ingushetia to get their education are concerned with frequent murders "of Caucasus-origin nationals" committed in this city and want to take their children away.

Today, the Ulyanovsk Regional Court has upheld the decision of the City Court of Dimitrovgrad to reject to apply the early conditional release to former colonel Yuri Budanov who is serving his ten years' term for murdering Elza Kungaeva, a resident of Chechnya.

Leaders of human rights and other public organizations of Chechnya are concerned with slow rates of de-mining the territory. They also are dissatisfied with the intention of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies to finance mine clearing in Serbia and forget about mines in Chechnya.

The French city of Nancy (Department of Meurthe and Moselle) has hosted a protest rally against deportation of illegal migrants from Chechnya. About 150 persons took part in the event.

The court of Azerbaijan passed a decision to arrest Yusup Nagayev, a refugee from Chechnya, for two months, report Nagayev's relatives to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has passed a decision on the case of Khadizhat Kaplanova, a resident of Chechnya, obliging the Russian Federation to pay 72,000 euros to her as material compensation for loss of her relatives in Grozny.

The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs asserts that Yamadaev brothers' participation in kidnapping and subsequent murdering Yusup and Yunus Arsamakovs has been evidenced by a former fighter of the "Vostok" (East) special battalion.

The investigation made by Anton Vernitskiy, journalist of Channel One, in his film "Plan Kavkaz", shown on April 22 and dedicated to the attempts in early 1990s of external forces, including Baku and Ankara, to separate Chechnya from Russia, has caused bewilderment in Azerbaijan.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic is accusing Selim Bimurzaev, a militants' commander from the village of Eshilkhatoy, of shelling the representative of Chechen Ombudsman in the Vedeno District and murdering two girls.

The Chechnya's Department of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement has refuted the information that inmates of the Corrective Colony in Chernokozovo are on hunger strike.