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On May 15, a local herder reportedly found the mutilated body of a man near the village of Shami-Yurt, Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district.

"Abductors demanded that the boys indicate who is a rebel in their village and asked other questions. They beat the teenagers and threatened to kill them. The boys are still in state of shock," a Chechen police officer said.

Lev Ponomariov, leader of the Movement for Human Rights, has applied to a court of law questioning the legality of the Moscow government's banning a meeting scheduled for February 23 this year.

A news conference devoted to the court verdict in the so-called Ulman case tried to give it a valuation. The verdict left servicemen accused of killing six civilians in Chechnya unpunished.

The young men simply don't see prospects of peaceful life, it means workplaces for them haven't been created," Salambek Maigov said.

A special operations detachment of the Russian Defense Ministry was ambushed by Chechen guerrillas in the Vedeno district during an operation to arrest Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev.

Servicemen driving on an UAZ truck were ambushed in the Urus-Martan district. Rebels blasted the vehicle and opened fire on the servicemen.

Mus Hajji Baskhaev, a local resident, was set free together with the boys.

"The world community must state with all due responsibility that the Chechen people will be eliminated within the next ten years if there will be no external interference," said Mart Helme.

When moving to the new place, the refugees were promised that all arrears of foodstuff by the Russian Emergencies Ministry would be given to them and they would be rendered assistance in settling problems they had in getting compensations and some other ones.

Shamil Basayev's statement reads that the terrorist act at the Dinamo stadium was committed within the framework of the so called Retribution operation.

The houses usually consist of 3 or 4 rooms. The authorities buy it from local residents mainly in the villages of Barsuki, Pliyevo, Ordzhonikidzevskaya, and in the town of Karabulak.

The bodies reportedly had signs of cruel torture and numerous gunshot wounds. All the men were finished off by shots in the head.

Just two versions are considered to be the key ones in President Kadyrov's case. There is a third one though that says it was Russia's military that killed him.

Local residents have been staging a mass meeting in the village of Dyshni-Vedeno, Chechnya's Vedeno district, for several days. The action was caused by the abduction of 3 youths by officers of security agencies which occurred in the morning of May 13.