plicant victim status and notified her accordingly.
22. On 8 October 2002 the district prosecutor's office suspended the investigation in case No. 59186 for failure to identify the perpetrators and informed the first applicant accordingly.
23. On 26 December 2002 the district prosecutor's office informed the Administration of the Chechen Republic and the first applicant that the investigation into Vakha Saydaliyev's kidnapping was pending and investigative measures were being taken to solve the crime.
24. On 13 February 2003 the South Federal Circuit Department of the Prosecutor General's Office forwarded the first applicant's complaint to the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic.
25. On 11 April 2003 the district prosecutor's office issued a certificate confirming that the investigation in case No. 59186 instituted in relation to Vakha Saydaliyev's kidnapping was pending before them and that investigative measures were being taken to establish his whereabouts.
26. On 16 April 2003 the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic forwarded the first applicant's complaint that her son had been apprehended by "people in military uniforms who had introduced themselves as servicemen of the FSB" to the district prosecutor's office and to the Department of the FSB for the Chechen Republic ("the FSB Department"). They requested that they be informed whether Vakha Saydaliyev had been apprehended by any law-enforcement agency and, if so, whether criminal proceedings against him had been initiated.
27. On 24 April 2003 the Department of the Interior of Shali District ("the ROVD") issued the first applicant with a certificate confirming that her son had "actually been taken away to an unknown destination on 16 April 2002 by military servicemen during the special operation [carried out] in the village of Serzhen-Yurt".
28. On 6 June 2003 the district prosecutor's office informed the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic and the first applicant that, despite the suspension of the investigation in case No. 59186, investigative measures were being taken to find Vakha Saydaliyev and the perpetrators.
29. On 19 June 2003 the Shali District Court of the Chechen Republic declared Vakha Saydaliyev missing at the second applicant's request.
30. On 28 October 2003 the first applicant requested the district prosecutor's office to inform her of progress in the investigation and to grant her victim status.
31. On 5 December 2003 the district prosecutor's office informed the first applicant that the investigation in case No. 59186 had been suspended, that she had been admitted to the proceedings as a victim and that investigative measures were being taken to establish Vakha Saydaliyev's whereabouts and to find the perpetrators.
32. On 29 January 2004 the ROVD informed the first applicant that the investigation into her son's kidnapping had been initiated on 6 August 2002 and that the search for him was under way.
33. On 6 April 2004 the military prosecutor's office of the United Group Alignment ("the UGA prosecutor's office") informed the first applicant that the unit prosecutor's office had carried out an inquiry into her son's kidnapping, which had established no evidence of the implication of military personnel in the crime, and advised her to send further queries to the district prosecutor's office.
34. On 6 May 2004 the first applicant complained about her son's disappearance to the UGA prosecutor's office. On 8 June 2004 the UGA prosecutor's office replied that the investigation in case No. 59186 was pending before the district prosecutor's office.
35. On 1 July 2004 the district prosecutor's office informed the first applicant that the investigation into Vakh
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