Bounty on Chechen rebels

Russia has offered $10m (70 mill.kr) for information leading to the arrest of Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.

Security services want any information that could help to “neutralise” the two following the Beslan school siege.

The threats came as Beslan residents prepared to bury more of the 335 people killed in the bloody end to the siege.


Russia confirmed it would step up its fight against rebel bases.

The two rebel leaders attracting offers of rewards from the Federal Security Bureau have been wanted by Russian authorities for years in connection with various attacks in Russia.