MOSCOW. Nov 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 630 people have been missing since the beginning of the first Chechnya campaign in December 1994, Major General Nikolai Bezborodov, deputy chairman of the defense committee in the State Duma lower house of Russian parliament, said on Monday.
"The commission for prisoners of war, internees and missing people under the Russian president in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and Defense Ministry has established the fate of 3,340 servicemen, policemen and civilian specialists who went missing in Chechnya in 1994-1999," Bezborodov, who is also a member of the commission, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"At present 2,077 out of 3,340 mission persons have been released, and the search for the remaining 358 people is underway," he stressed.
"Another 1,028 people were added to the search list from the beginning of the antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus on August 1, 1999 to the end of October this year, and 749 of them have already been established and deleted from the list," Bezborodov added.