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The businessman from Chechnya Bulat Chagaev, who had bought the Swiss Football Club "Xamax", has sued the local teacher of literature, who expressed doubt about the origin of the businessman's money.

As reported by the spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Chechnya, the leader of the North-Caucasian underground Dokku Umarov was wounded during the pursuit of his group in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia in March 2011, and is probably now in the territory of Turkey.

A North-Ossetian lawyer was sentenced on charges of attempting to steal more than 4 million roubles from his client.

Igor Anosov, ex-federal judge of Voroshilov district court of Rostov-on-Don, is accused of taking a bribe. Public prosecutor's office of Rostov region has validated the indictment.

North-Caucasian district military court sentenced a reserve colonel of Federal Security Service convicted for kidnapping to 10 years of imprisonment.

Georgian solicitors are starting a hunger strike in front of the Parliament of the country. The goal of the action is protection of their professional rights. The notification was submitted to Mayor's office on May, 11, and the hunger strike will start on May, 17.

The oppositional Georgian Labour party of Adzharia protests against possible opening of a nudist beach in Adzharia declaring its awareness of the respective plans of the authorities. The authorities of Adzharia state that the question has been discussed but deny the fact of having taken the decision.

A presentation of a road safety campaign "Temperance at the wheel!" passed off on May, 11, in Tbilisi. It was initiated by the first lady of the country Sandra Roelofs.

Georgy Borovikov and Dmitry Demushkin, leaders of nationalists, were detained tonight in Manege Square in Moscow, where, according to law enforcers, a non-sanctioned action was planned.

The US Senate will consider the situation with the presence of Russian troops in the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which were deployed there on the basis of Russia's bilateral agreements with these republics. This was stated by Temur Yakobashvili, Georgia's Ambassador to the United States.

The former assistant of the Mayor of the city of Azov, suspected of a large-scaled fraud, has been put on the search list.

On May 11, three servicemen were wounded by two explosions in the forest area in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, a source from law enforcement bodies reported.

Erosi Kitsmarishvili, co-chairman of the Georgian Party, gave low estimates to the protest actions held in Kakheti. According to Giya Khelashvili, head of the regional branch of the Party, the low activity of people in participating in them was due the fact that local authorities intimidate people and do not allow them to go out to rallies. However, according to sociologist Gocha Tshvitigshvili, the radical opposition in Georgia is currently not very popular.

On May 10, the Taganka City Court of Moscow held a session on the case of the blogger Alexei Dudko. Three witnesses - law enforcers, including Ildar Tikarev, who commanded the search in Dudko's flat about a year ago - were questioned. According to Abu Gaitaev, the blogger's advocate, the circumstances of the search are hushed up by law enforcers.

Sergey Skobelev, Acting Mayor of Novoshakhtinsk, has been fined by 120,000 roubles for a series of illegal, according to prosecutors, payments made to himself and his subordinates. The verdict was appealed against.

In the course of the five-sided meeting within the Mechanism for Prevention and Reaction to Incidents (MPRI) Abkhazia often does not agree even with those arrangements, "which can be achieved without any political consequences," while the problem with the Ossetian delegation is that "they more promise than fulfil," believes Shota Utiashvili, head of the Georgian delegation at these meetings.

The today's announcement by the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha (Azerbaijan) of the sentence to oppositionist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, accused of evading his regular military service, has failed, because the defendant's advocates have boycotted the session.

Several activists of the Party of People's Freedom ("PARNAS") were detained in Rostov-on-Don on May, 11. They were delivered to the Department of Interior Affairs of Lenin district in Tekuchev street where protocols of administrative infractions were drawn up concerning them.

The car of Chief of regional Department of Education Labazan Magomedaliev was exploded in Untsukul district of Dagestan. There are no victims, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported.

On May, 9, a civil action "St. George ribbon" in Adygeia which had been going on since April, 26, within the framework of realization of republican target program "Youth of Adygeia" planned for 2009-2011 was accomplished, the Republican Committee of Youth Affairs reported.