GROZNY, January 29 (RIA Novosti) - Three militants have been detained in separate operations in central Chechnya, local Interior Ministry said Sunday.
One of the militants allegedly participated in 1999 in the abduction of an aide to a Russian parliament member and two reporters from a TV station in Samara, a regional center in southern Russia.
Two other militants have been detained in the Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya and in the Chechen capital, Grozny. They are suspected of terrorist attacks on federal forces and killing at least one Russian soldier.