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Right after the report on rebel attacks in Ingushetia, the decision was made to reinforce posts on the administrative border with Ingushetia.

They are afraid that clashes in the streets of the republic can start again after dark.

According to the Ingush Emergencies Ministry, there are victims both among officers of republican security agencies and among civilians.

On June 21 at 10:45 the Ingush towns Nazran, Karabulak and Sleptsovsk were attacked by groups of armed fighters. The beginning of the raid coincided with the time for night namaz and continued till 3 a.m., the time of pre-dawn prayer.

The mutilated body of Husein Duzhuyev, a resident of the village of Nagornoye, Chechnya's Grozny district, was found on June 20 in the vicinity of the village of Pervomayskaya situated in the same district.

According to media reports, 30 policemen were killed only in the attack on the Nazran district police department.

During the meeting, participants discussed what measures could be taken under the Russian legislation to protest against criminal actions of federal and Chechen security agencies, which practice abductions, torture and extrajudicial executions under the pretext of fighting against criminality.

Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov is expected to submit his application for registration as a candidate for the post of Chechen president to the republican election commission today.

Ruslan Gelayev's relatives have made several requests to give them the body, but they were denied. Investigators explained the denial by saying that Gelayev was not an ordinary bandit but a terrorist, and "under the federal law on combating terrorism, the terrorists' bodies are not given to their relatives."

Having been given evidence that 25 out of 28 detained people were really free, the women decided to wait until the release of the other three people.

In the course of a special operation, gunmen in masks detained a 30-year-old resident of the village of Tangi-Chu and took him away in an unknown direction.

The women demanded that the Chechen authorities should return abducted relatives to them or inform them of their whereabouts.

Director of the Center for Legal Assistance to Migrants Alovsat Aliyev subjected the work of the UNHCR office in Azerbaijan to criticism.

The fight with the use of firearms and grenade launchers lasted for about forty minutes.

Some Russian NGOs have submitted proposals for a political settlement in Chechnya to the Administration of the Russian president and some COE officials.