Over 80 civilians have gone missing in Chechnya in 2004, Dmitry Grushkin of the Russian human rights center Memorial told Interfax on Friday. \"According to our information, 194 people have been abducted in Chechnya in 2004. Of them 97 have been freed, 15 found dead, and 82 were reported missing,\" Grushkin said. Memorial has information that 141 Chechens have been killed in the republic this year. \"Of them 67 people are civilians, 32 Chechen law enforcement officers, 4 Chechen administration officials, and 14 were possibly members of illegal armed units. The bodies of another 24 people have not yet been identified,\" he said. Meanwhile, Chechen law enforcement officials have said that investigations are conducted into all abductions in Chechnya. \"Measures are taken to investigate each abduction, no matter if one or ten people were abducted,\" Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov earlier said. \"We have confronted the problem with abductions, and the toughest possible measures are taken through regional headquarters, the Interior Ministry, and the republic\'s leadership to oppose this,\" Alkhanov said. He also said the number of abductions is decreasing in Chechnya. \"In fact, the number of abductions in Chechnya is now one-third or one- quarter of what it was in previous years,\" he said. (Interfax)