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The information about Shamil Basayev's alleged death is being checked now, a Chechen police source told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

Chechen law enforcement agencies are investigating an abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's closest relatives. Abductors have not been found, the whereabouts of the abducted people and their further destiny are not known.

On January 31, Russian mass media spread information about the death of Shamil Basayev referring to representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Azerbaijan.

Relatives of Muslim Attayev, leader of the extremist jamaat (group) Yarmuk killed in Nalchik, have filed an application with the Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office to give them the bodies of his two children that are allegedly hided by instructions of the republican interior minister, some sources say.

Officers of the Chechen presidential security service, not Russian soldiers were killed when cars were blown up near the village of Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has declared admissible an application lodged by an internally displaced person (IDP) from Chechnya living on the territory of Stavropol Region.

The trial against Sergey Lapin (better known under the nickname of Kadet), who is suspected of kidnapping Zelimkhan Murdalov in 2004, is underway.

Chechen authorities and law enforcers deny their involvement in the happening, and Maskhadov's relatives (as well as many people in Chechnya) are convinced that the abduction was organized by officers of the Chechen presidential security service.

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) expresses its deep concern for the fate and whereabouts of Makhmut Magomadov who was detained by a group of camouflaged gunmen in Grozny on 20 January.

In the time of Aslan Maskhadov, Magomed Magomadov headed a group of investigators in the Chechen prosecutor's office engaged in investigations of cases connected with kidnappings.

Russian soldiers purposefully extrude people from mountainous districts of Chechnya.

Today, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have addressed an open letter to President Putin on the kidnappings of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives by Chechen enforcement agencies.

Vladimir Suvorov and Zezag Usmanova, the defense of Zara Murtazaliyeva - a resident of Chechnya convicted by the Moscow City Court on January 17, are extremely dissatisfied with the court decision. The court sentenced the 22-year-old student from Chechnya to 9 years' imprisonment.

Rebels under the command of Rasul Makasharipov have been killing policemen, judges and prosecutors in Dagestan since 2002. The number of their victims has already reached 30 people.

Chechen law enforcers are checking information about the happening and searching for the people who went away in a car together with Said Husein Deniyev, said an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry.