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Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special-purpose battalion under the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who was attempted on on March 28 in Dubai, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, insist that he is alive. The city police insist that he is dead and are ready to give his body out to relatives.

Today, the jury of the Moscow City Court has acquitted two defendants accused of preparing an attempt on President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, thus finding the third figurant in the case to be guilty.

The four residents of Ingushetia, whose bodies were detected on March 28 in the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, could be killed by militants from the grouping of field commander Timur Makhauri active in the region, as Chechen law enforcers assert.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime has been introduced in six dwelling settlements of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. The reason was in the information about a prepared series of terror acts, as the FSB reports.

Murder of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" (East) GRU's special battalion, is absolutely unfavourable for Ramzana Kadyrov, as political scientist Zaindi Choltaev thinks, since now President of Chechnya tries to position himself as a peacemaker, or a person capable to unite the whole nation.

Isa Khamkhoev, head of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Ingushetia, has stated that attacks on shops and stores selling alcohol are caused by religious feelings of his co-believers. However, he urged them to fight alcohol abuse by means of prayers, not weapons.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia has reported that five killed local residents were found near Arshty and Bamut villages, Sunzha District, located near the administrative border with Chechnya.

On March 26, state organizations and establishments of Ingushetia, administration heads of cities, districts and settlements received a written instruction to dismiss chief accountants and deputy heads of respective organizations, and also of division heads.

The militants liquidated in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya had planned a terror act to be committed by a woman-suicide bomber, as reported on March 27 by Dmitri Sedletskiy, official spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia.

The Public Chamber of Russia has approved the list of public observers to be in charge of public control over places of detention according to the Law of the Russian Federation of June 10, 2008, "On Public Control over Ensuring Human Rights in Places of Detention and on Assistance to Inmates".

Military inspectors suspect the commander of the brigade deployed in Vladikavkaz of using labour of ten soldiers at his private household.

The State Office of Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has recognized about 3500 persons to be victims of the armed conflict with Georgia in August 2008. This was stated by Taimuraz Khugaev, General Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia, at the international seminar, held in Essentuki on March 24-26, on the problems of fighting crime, law enforcement activities and development of criminal and criminal-procedural legislation.

The eyewitnesses assert the skirmish in the capital of Dagestan on March 20, as a result of which four persons were lost and three wounded, was launched by law enforcers. Earlier it was reported that the fire on the patrol car was opened by passengers of a "Zhiguli" car, who were named militants in official statements.