Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev's abduction, to take measures with a view to establishing their whereabouts and those responsible, and to obtain more details about the identity of those missing. In a letter of 7 February 2008 the investigator in charge enquired of the Grozny military commander whether a curfew had been in place at the time of the abduction of the Yansuyev brothers.
52. According to the Government, information was, at some point, obtained that Mr M. had worked at the federal base in Khankala until he had been murdered in 2003.
53. On 4 March 2008 the investigation was suspended owing to the failure to establish those responsible. This decision was quashed as unlawful and unfounded and the proceedings were resumed on 14 April 2008. The relevant decision prescribed the investigator in charge to comply in full with the instructions of 25 January 2008.
54. On 8 March 2008 the district office of the interior reported in writing that the involvement of Mr M. in the abduction of the applicants' two relatives had not been established.
55. In a letter of 7 May 2008 the investigator in charge sent requests to the district office of the interior and to the military commander of the Chechen Republic similar to those sent in February 2008. The district office of the interior replied in a letter of 26 May 2008 that on 19 May 2008 they had already sent the materials obtained in reply to the investigator's earlier requests.
56. On 14 May 2008 the investigator in charge stayed the proceedings stating that it was impossible to establish the alleged perpetrators despite the measures taken. This decision was quashed as unlawful and unfounded and the proceedings were resumed on 25 June 2008. The relevant decisions ordered the investigator in charge to comply in full with the instructions of 25 January 2008.
57. On 25 July 2008 the investigator in charge sent a request to the Military Investigation Committee at the prosecutor's office of the United Group Alignment. The request described the incident of 13 February 2003 when the applicants' two relatives had been taken away and stated that "in the course of the preliminary investigation it has become necessary to obtain access to archive documents concerning the special operation on Ioanisiani Street in the Leninskiy District of Grozny of the Chechen Republic during which [the Yansuyev brothers]... were abducted." The request then listed the documents to which access was needed from the central archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence. It is unclear whether any reply was received to that request.
58. On the same date the investigation in case No. 20039 was adjourned. The first and seventh applicants were informed of that decision in a letter of the same date.
59. On 1 October 2008 the Federal Service of Execution of Punishments informed the investigating authorities that the Yansuyev brothers had not been delivered and were not listed among the detainees kept in the facilities of the said Service.
60. By a decision of 24 November 2008 the supervising prosecutor ordered the investigation to be reopened. The relevant decision stated that a number of essential steps had not been taken during the investigation and, in particular, that a number of witnesses had not been interviewed, the identity of two servicemen who might have been involved in the abduction had not been established and no replies had been received to the requests sent earlier. The first and seventh applicants were informed of that decision in a letter of 25 November 2008.
61. In written instructions of 24 November 2008 the investigator in charge was ordered to carry out a number of measures and, in particular, to check whether Mr M., servicemen of regiment No. 531 of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, serviceman named Vladimir or Mr Amirov Ruslan had been involved in the abduction of the applicants
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