es stationed in Chechnya whether any special operations were conducted during the night of 23 October 2002 in Pogranichnaya Street and nearby streets in Grozny.
[The investigators] should ask all permanent and temporary district departments of the Chechnya Ministry of the Interior and the Chechnya Department of the Federal Security Service, the Regional Operational Headquarters, the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defence whether they conducted any special operations during the night of 23 October 2002 in Pogranichnaya Street in Grozny.
[The investigators] should obtain the registration log of the car and armoured vehicles which went through the checkpoints along the Staropromyslovskiy main road during the night of 23 October 2002 and carry out operational-searches to establish whether the unidentified killers belonged to federal structures..."
38. On 9 February 2004 the Chechnya prosecutor's office informed the first applicant that the investigation into her husband's murder was in progress and advised her to contact the district prosecutor's office in order to join the proceedings as a victim. A copy of the letter was sent to the SRJI.
39. On 6 March 2004 the district prosecutor's office suspended the investigation owing to a failure to establish the identity of the killers.
40. On 27 March 2004 the district prosecutor's office quashed the decision to suspend the investigation and reopened the proceedings. The decision stated, inter alia:
"It is necessary to take the following investigative actions:
- to grant one of the relatives [of Saidkhasan Dangayev] victim status in the criminal proceedings and to question him/her in that capacity;
- to question Mr A.E. as a witness;
- to examine the investigation files in criminal cases Nos. 54824 and 54098 and, if necessary, to join the investigation of these criminal cases [with the investigation into the murder of Saidkhasan Dangayev, criminal case No. 54093];
- to request responses to the investigators' requests for information and send reminders, if necessary;
- to question as witnesses persons whose preliminary accounts of the events were included in the investigation file;
- to send requests for information to all district and city prosecutors' offices in Chechnya..."
The applicants were informed of this decision on 26 April 2004.
41. On 27 May 2004 the district prosecutor's office suspended the investigation owing to a failure to establish the killers' identity. A letter informing the first applicant of this decision was sent to her address on the same date.
42. On 17 May 2005 the SRJI wrote to the district prosecutor's office reiterating their request of 24 October 2003 for information about the results of the ballistic expert evaluation and progress in the investigation.
43. On 29 September 2005 the SRJI wrote to the Chechnya prosecutor's office stating that no reply had been received to their request of 17 May 2005.
44. On 7 November 2005 the district prosecutor's office informed the first applicant that they had reopened the investigation that day.
45. On 8 November 2005 the district prosecutor's office informed the SRJI that pursuant to Article 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code they could not disclose any information concerning the investigation.
46. On 7 December 2005 the district prosecutor's office suspended the investigation owing to the failure to establish the killers' identity and informed the first applicant.
47. On 5 April 2007 the present application was communicated to the Russian Government and a copy of the investigation file into the death of the applicants' relative was requested.
48. On 13 June 2007 the district prosecutor's office quashed the decisi
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