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Friends carry the body, covered by a white blanket, of the assassinated pro-Kremlin Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov during his funeral in the village of Tsentoroy, 10 May 2004, where Kadyrov's family is based. Some 3,000 people marched through the main street of this village under a scorching sun chanting traditional prayers and paying their respects to a man in whom the Kremlin put its trust. Kadyrov died 09 May in a bomb blast that ripped through a packed stadium amid a gala concert commemorating Russia's annual Victory Day over Nazi Germany in WWII. AFP PHOTO / MAXIM MARMUR