A battle between rebels and security forces took place in Chechnya’s Urus-Martan district on May 6. Kavkazky Uzel on May 7 quoted a Chechen Interior Ministry source as saying of the incident: “Yesterday at around 1400 in a forest tract at the village of Komsomolskoe in Urus-Martan district servicemen from …

Kavkazan Haamash edition reported referring to the pro-Russian puppet website Grozny-Inform that surgeon Hasan Baiev, who now lives in the US, has come to visit the occupied Chechnya the other day.

The United States has accused Russia of aggravating the tensions with Georgia. The White House has made a statement that Russia’s actions in the situation around Abkhazia are provocative.