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In the course of an armed clash with a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF) in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, a senior militia officer was lost and six more were wounded. This was reported by the Headquarters of the United Army Grouping in Northern Caucasus.

Ingushetia has not entered any strict rules at the public level with the start of the sacred Moslem month of Ramadan.

The bodies of supposed members of the armed underground, who were killed in Grozny on August 8, were not given out to relatives but buried in anonymous tombs without observance of Moslem rites.

Till the end of the sacred month of Ramadan the leadership of the Chechen Republic has reduced the working day. The respective decree was signed by Odes Baisultanov, Chairman of the Government of Chechnya, who is temporarily acting has as President of the republic, while Ramzan Kadyrov is on vacations.

The Gagarin Court of Moscow has found the Chechens Magomed Gorchkhanov and Zarema Dataeva guilty of kidnapping Maxim, son of Mikhail Stavskiy, deputy boss of the "Rosneft".

After May 15, 2009, when the first terrorist-suicide bomber blew himself up in Chechnya after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, Northern Caucasus saw 25 terror acts against civilians committed in crowded places. As a result, at least 11 peaceful residents were lost and 159 more were wounded. From the start of 2010, 23 explosions were triggered and one terror act was committed by a suicide bomber.

On August 17, five persons were detained in the city of Grozny as suspects of helping the members of the armed underground, liquidated on August 8 in the Chechen capital. Another suspect was detained by operative agents in the Sunzha District of Chechnya.

The investigation has established the main suspect in the case about the explosion in central Pyatigorsk. As reported by local law enforcement bodies, this is Alexander Kim, 42, a native of Chechnya.

In the course of the check conducted at the Chechen State University, employees of the local prosecutor's office revealed facts of using faked certificates on secondary education by entrants to the University. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a source in local law enforcement bodies.

After May 15, 2009, when a suicide bomber blew himself up for the first time after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, as of today, under estimates of the "Caucasian Knot", the regions of Northern Caucasus saw 22 terror acts committed by suicide bombers. As a result of these explosions, 92 persons perished in total, and 414 more were wounded.

The broad-scale subbotnik (citizens' volunteer work) started in mid-June and aimed to clean streets of the capital of Chechnya of rubbish and household wastes is not over yet. Some of the sectors, into which Grozny was split, failed to cope with the task to improve and clean the territory, although initially ten days were allocated for cleaning the city streets. The protraction of the event causes residents' bewilderment.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya has sentenced Albert Saaev, who cracked official websites of the authorities of several republics of Northern Caucasus, to 2.5 years of high security colony for complicity to militants.

A number of local experts believe that the statement of some field commanders about exit away from subordination to Dokku Umarov is a symptom of serious contradictions within the armed underground and an abrupt drop of the authority of the Amir of the Caucasus, as Umarov calls himself.

Dokku Umarov takes responsibility for terror acts despite the split in "Imarat Kavkaz"; Russia deploys "S-300" antiaircraft complexes in Abkhazia; kidnappings are incessant in Northern Caucasus, - look these and other events in the review of the week of August 9-15, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the sacred Moslem month of Ramadan, all the public catering objects will be closed in the territory of the Chechen Republic. Not all the residents support this decision.