Amir of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Umarov told in a statement for the mass media that the case of the former FM of CRI Akhmed Zakayev handed for investigation to the Muhabarat (Security Service) of the Caucasus Emirate.

Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili held an emergency meeting of his security council Monday after the government charged that Russian helicopters had attacked a disputed gorge under Tbilisi’s control.

A Russian man held captive for 15 years in Georgia, where he was allegedly used as a slave, was handed over to Russia by Abkhazian security services. Vladimir Obidin, 68, was detained March 6 in a village after he crossed the border between Georgia and its breakaway republic of Abkhazia. …