arded to the military prosecutor's office of the United Group Alignment ("the UGA").
32. On 30 December 2002 the district prosecutor's office granted the second applicant victim status in criminal proceedings concerning the kidnapping of the Dolsayev brothers (case No. 61144).
33. On the same date the district prosecutor's office suspended the investigation in case No. 61144 owing to the failure to identify the culprits. On 16 January 2003 the district prosecutor's office informed the second applicant of the suspension of the investigation.
34. On 24 January 2003 the Chechnya prosecutor's office informed the second applicant that in spite of the suspension of the investigation in criminal case No. 61144, operational-search measures were being taken to solve the crime.
35. On 1 February 2003 the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20102 ("the unit military prosecutor's office") informed the second applicant that it did not have any information either about the involvement of military personnel, the police or the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the kidnapping of her relatives or about the whereabouts of the Dolsayev brothers.
36. On 3 March 2003 the Zavodskoy ROVD carried out an internal inquiry into the disappearance of Beslan Dolsayev. It was established that he had been kidnapped by "unidentified persons armed with machine guns and wearing camouflage uniform and masks". Beslan Dolsayev's service machine gun was declared lost and put on a missing list.
37. On 17 March 2003 the office of the Prosecutor General sent a report to the Commission of the Russian State Duma for Assistance in Political Settlement and Protection of Human Rights in Chechnya. The report provided data on disappearances in Chechnya and described investigative measures taken by the authorities to solve the kidnappings. The document referred to a specific group of disappearance cases, including the abduction of the Dolsayev brothers, in which the investigation had been opened and then suspended owing to the failure to identify the perpetrators. It noted that in all such cases the investigation had found no evidence implicating federal servicemen and that further steps were being taken to solve these crimes.
38. On 24 March 2003 the Prosecutor General's office forwarded a letter from a deputy of the Russian State Duma accompanying the second applicant's complaint to the Chechnya prosecutor's office.
39. On 4 April 2003 the first applicant requested the district prosecutor's office to inform him of the progress in the investigation into his sons' disappearance and to grant him victim status in the criminal case. On 11 April 2003 the district prosecutor's office replied that the investigation had been suspended on 30 December 2002.
40. On 21 April 2003 the Chechnya prosecutor's office informed the second applicant that the time-limit of the investigation in case No. 61144 had been extended until 20 May 2003 and that it was supervising the criminal proceedings.
41. On 25 April 2003 the district prosecutor's office informed the first applicant that it was not necessary to grant him victim status in the criminal case since his wife had already been granted such status.
42. On 8 May 2003 the Main Military Prosecutor's Office forwarded the first applicant's complaint to the military prosecutor's office of the UGA.
43. On 20 May 2003 the district prosecutor's office suspended the investigation owing to the failure to identify the perpetrators and informed the second applicant of this.
44. On 13 June 2003 the Chechnya Ministry of the Interior ("the Chechnya MVD") forwarded the first applicant's complaint to the ROVD.
45. On 30 June 2003 the district military commander informed the second applicant that he had no
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