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Chechen law enforcement agencies claim the detainees, a 28-year-old and a 22-year-old men, have already made a confession. But the interior ministry has flatly refused to impart names of the alleged murderers of Akhmat Kadyrov.

As reported by inhabitants of the temporary accommodation center Rassvet, migration service officials told them the camp would be closed beginning from June 10.

The overwhelming majority of Chechen refugees who have settled in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge are reluctant to return to Chechnya because they fear for their safety.

Many people in the republic hold Ramzan Kadyrov openly declared that families and relatives of the Chechens fighting in the mountains would be destroyed.

Lawyer Adam Edilov and doctor Sultan Aiskhanov filed their applications with the Chechen election commission on June 9 asking to register them as candidates for the Chechen presidency.

Organizers of the action explain that the people were forced to take such a step by mass arbitrary detentions of Chechens on the basis of nationality which security agencies of the town of Samara practice.

Abducted Said Seriyev is a disabled man of the first group. He lost both arms in a landmine explosion while stacking hay last year.

Marat Zaynalabidov was external manager at the Electroapparat defense company situated in Rostov Region.

"There are no grounds to announce that a large terrorist attack was prevented in the center of Grozny or that rebels tried to blow up the Gosstroy building," the Interior Ministry's duty officer said.

The man most likely died from cruel torture. His body had many knife wounds, his fingers and toes were cut off, and his both arms were broken.

Tukhan Elsayev, a 42-year-old resident of Chechnya, is accused of complicity in the March 1999 kidnapping of Gennady Shpigun, the Russian Interior Ministry's envoy in Chechnya.

As of June 8, only 3-4 tents remained in the last of the largest tent camps for Chechen refugees Satsita situated in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district.

Both the men had reportedly been abducted by unknown people in military uniforms and masks near the central market of Grozny the day before.

The composition created with the help of Ryazan photo artists will become mobile. This exhibition is expected to be staged in Moscow in the near future.

The Russian delegation is expected to visit the Pankissi Gorge on Tuesday, June 8, to meet with Chechen refugees, the number of whom comes to three thousand people, according to official Georgian data.