According to the Investigatory Department (ID) for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, in the first half-year of 2009, three facts of kidnapping were registered in the territory of the republic. Investigation of them continues.

"In early April of 2009, in the city of Malgobek, a group of armed persons in camouflage kidnapped Gapur Tankiev, 23, a local resident. Various versions of this kidnapping are studied, including kidnapping with the aim to get ransom," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the ID for Ingushetia of the ICPO.

Another kidnapping took place in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, where in late April this year unidentified armed persons in camouflage kidnapped Ismail Khamkhoev, 38, right from his own house.

"Along with other versions, we check possible Khamkhoev's kidnapping on vengeance motives," said a source ...

Dozens of persons were eyewitnesses of the kidnapping of a young woman committed on June 8 by workers of unidentified power agencies near the bus station of the "Berkat" shopping in Grozny. They were shocked by the manner the "special operation" was conducted. They treat the actions of power agents as inadequate.

"I still can't recover from the shock that I then experienced. With my friend I was about to take a fixed-route taxi No. 12, when the whole thing began. All of a sudden, militaries and persons in civilian clothes started running from all directions; they grasped a young woman; and everyone of them tried to hit or kick her, crying wildly that she should be assassinated," Khava, a woman from Grozny, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"The crowd of men in uniform and without, with arms in hand, set at ...