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A Qatari court has found two Russians guilty of masterminding the assassination of former Chechen separatist president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and sentenced them to life on Wednesday.

During militants' raid in Ingushetia, the bandits planned to deliver a missile strike on the new capital of this North Caucasian autonomy of Russia - the town of Magas.

At least ten out of thirty-six men detained in the Altievo refugee camp continued, as of June 28, to be kept in custody.

A military spokesman has put the overall number of guerilla casualties in armed clashes that followed rebel attacks in Ingushetia late on June 21 at more than 40, which significantly exceeds the figure announced by the media.

Dmitrii Berdnikov, a Russian, has been registered as a candidate for the office of president of Chechnya.

A leader of one of bands that mounted attacks on law enforcement offices in Ingushetia on June 22 has been killed in a special operation. A spokesman for the regional prosecutor?s office told Itar-Tass on Monday that Magomed Yevloyev resisted arrest with arms.

One Russian serviceman was killed and six wounded in a fight between a federal unit and rebels.

Ingush Deputy Prime Minister said they compared casualty lists of local administrations and the police and found that some names were on both lists.

The refugees were offered during interrogations to confess the assistance to the rebels who attacked Ingushetia on the night of June 21-22.

"It's beyond my capacity to help you. If you are threatened and are given two days, you should flee. I am also afraid of these people," Akhmed Tomov, a Migration Department official, said to the commandant of an IDP camp in the village of Altiyevo.

The head of the Moslem clergy of the village of Yandare, Imam Minkail, said: "If the authorities keep themselves aloof from the fight against ethnic strife, we, ordinary citizens, ordinary Moslems, will have to take it up ourselves."

Chief of the Department of the Federal Security Service in Ingushetia Sergey Koryakov refused to concretize what the arrestees were suspected of specifically - either of assisting rebels or taking part in clashes and other acts.

Ingush authorities do not give any comments on the situation. A spokesman for the deputy head of the Ingush government responsible for refugees and internally displaced persons has said they have no information on such facts at all.

If the republican authorities do not try to prevent any attempts to fan ethnic strife, the situation can lead to the most unexpected consequences, local human rights activists think.

All inhabitants of the refugee camp in the village of Altiyevo, including women and under age people, underwent an examination, which was accompanied by beatings and abuses.