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The exact whereabouts and fate of Vagap Tutakov, a former deputy of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who was kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10, are still not established.

The number of the participants of the spontaneous meeting, held today in Ingushetia with a demand to release the two local residents kidnapped yesterday, is permanently increasing, and by 2 p.m. it has reached some 700-800 persons.

Today, Igor Tkachov, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, has stated that the burial of Rappani Khalilov and Nabi Nabiev, murdered in the course of a special operation, will take place without giving out the bodies to relatives.

At the process on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga that had provoked mass disorders, the advocates of Chechen defendants have again demanded to return the case back to the prosecutor's office.

Over 130 refugees from Borozdinovskaya village, who live in the "Nadezhda" (Hope) tent camp, have started their resettlement to the Kizlyar District Dagestan, where they had been allotted land estates for individual housing construction.

According to the statement of Vyacheslav Shanshin, head of the FSB Department for Dagestan, "liquidation of Rappani Khalilov was a logic end of a complex of operative actions accomplished under direction of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia."

In the course of an operation conducted in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Rustam Vichigov, an associate of Doku Umarov, one of the leaders of Chechen militants, was killed.

People from the editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta," where journalist Anna Politkovskaya had worked, have confirmed that Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, was detained on suspicion of being involved in Politkovskaya's murder.

In the Bieszczady mountain massif near the border with Ukraine, Polish frontier guards detained an illegal woman from Chechnya with a baby in her arms, and then found bodies of three Chechen girls not far from the mountain border.

Presentation of the newspaper named "The Chechen Human Rights Defender" was held in the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

Currently, only one suspect of participating in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train is in custody, and the remaining two - residents of St-Petersburg Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk - have been released by the Prosecutor's Office.

The Prosecutor's Office has not yet presented any official charges to any of the persons detained on suspicion in participation of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train on August 13.

According to special agencies, the person kidnapped on September 10 in Yandi-Kotar village of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya turned out to be Vagap Tutakov, former deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Ichkeria.

On September 10, the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic passed a verdict to Rizvan Gutsiev, a resident of the Sunzha District, who was detained in 2006 on charges of taking part in armed formations and an attack on employees of law enforcement bodies.

Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechnya's Minister of Interior, has stated that Musa Mutiev, the so-called "Emir of Grozny," who was killed today during a special operation in the city of Grozny, was a member of the subversive and terrorist group that had murdered several law enforcement officers and was preparing acts of terror against high-ranking officials.