MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) - Two militants have been detained in the neighboring Russian North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Daghestan, local police said on Friday.

The detained militant in Chechnya confessed that since June of 2008 he had been a member of a group whose leader was called Murtazaliyev.

Meanwhile, police in Daghestan detained a suspected militant, who has been a member of a group led by a man known as Magomedov. Police confiscated three homemade grenades from him.

Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common in the Russian republic of Daghestan, and in neighboring Chechnya, although the Kremlin has officially ended its military campaign to fight separatists and terrorists there.