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Special services know Alikhan Saduyev, whose nickname is Dodi, as one of the organizers of a series of terror attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia, including the explosions at the buildings of the Chechen Government House and the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

The killed rebel has been identified. He turned out to be Akhmet Sambiyev, Shamil Basayev's closest associate and a successor of Arab Abu Kuteib Akhmet, reported the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

"Tatyana Znachkova's opinion doesn't reflect the position of all members of the union. It's her personal opinion," Natalia Shvol, a volunteer for the Union of Committees of Soldier's Mothers, stated today.

600 people with a serious form of tuberculosis have been revealed in Chechnya for 10 months of 2004.

Chairman of the Chechen State Council Taus Dzhabrailov thinks Wahhabis who take hostages are indifferent to the fate of their relatives, so the "counter-taking" of hostages will not lead to desirable results.

Aslan Usmayev, and Vakhit and Abubakar Abuyevs were captured by rebels from Akhmed Avdorkhanov's group, who assaulted the Alleroy village on the night of May 1.

Abductors, wearing camouflage uniforms and masks and moving in cars without number plates, enter local houses by force. And the Chechen Interior Ministry opens criminal cases in connection with the adductions.

Elections for the Chechen parliament will most likely be held in October 2005, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told a press conference in Grozny yesterday, November 4.

Medics believe that the grave ecological situation in Chechnya as well as stress situations in which residents of the republic regularly are contributes to the increase in the infant mortality, sickness rate, and birth of physically unhealthy children.

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, Musa Shanibov, the former chairman of the Confederation of Mountain Peoples, said that Abkhazia faced the most dangerous problem. And this problem is created by those who traditionally consider both the authorities and people their property.

On October 23, from 200 to 500 people, supposedly relatives of the Beslan tragedy victims, blocked off the federal route Kavkaz on the administrative border with Ingushetia.

The Chechen Interior Ministry has refused to give any comments on the matter, claiming that Chechen policemen have conducted no actions in the village of Noviye Atagi recently.