MOSCOW, June 4 (RIA Novosti) - Interpol...

According to Dubai police, the former commander of the Vostok Battalion in Chechnya was gunned down near his apartment in the United Arabic capital on March 28. Relatives, including his brother Isa, say he survived the shooting and is in hospital. Russian authorities in the Emirates have not received official documents on his death.

"In regard to the Yamadayev case... we still do not have any active cooperation from our colleagues in the United Arab Emirates," Timur Lakhonin told reporters in Moscow.

"They have put warrants out for the arrest of seven people," he said.

There has been "no concrete information or other details" on whether those wanted are in the Emirates, or what their role was in the killing. "We still have no information on this," he said.

Lakhonin noted serious problems between Arab states and Russia in regard to exchanging information on police affairs, saying that when Russian authorities do receive answers to requests, it is usually

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