Sakalauskas was offered to head the planned pro-Moscow government, but he refused and returned to Mozambique.

In 2002 Grozny was struck by a truck bomb, which destroyed the seat of the pro-Moscow Chechen government, killing at least 83.

Though the pro-Moscow government in Chechnya said half of them had returned during the last six months, local camp officials and human rights groups disagree.

The crime statistics, ostensibly public information but never formally released, were provided by a person close to the pro-Moscow government who disagrees with the government's assertions.

It has been later moved and dismantled by Ramzan Kadyrov's pro-Moscow government, sparking much controversy.

Once arrested, he was said to be instantly released by the demand of Beslan Gantamirov, then the leading figure in the pro-Moscow government.

On Friday, an official of the pro-Moscow Chechen government condemned the pardon.

The following month, Putin appointed Akhmad Kadyrov interim head of the pro-Moscow government.

According to the pro-Moscow Chechen government, 4,825 people disappeared, without a trace, in the republic from 1994 to July 2008.

In 1992 the pro-Moscow government in Kabul collapsed, and the Mujahideen took power.