On picture: Chechen murtadin   The Georgian side has requested UN help to establish the number of additional military units that were entered and positioned on Georgian territory. This was said by Temur Yakobashvili, the Georgian state miniser on re-integration.

Kavkazky Uzel reported on April 25 that inmates of the notorious Chechen correctional colony No. 2 in Chernokozovo had announced a hunger strike following a mass fight between inmates. While the Chechen department of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments (FSIN) denied that prisoners were on a hunger …

According to news sources in Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, one of murtad officers a member of “Ministry of Internal Affairs” gang was shot dead in the village of Ali-Yurt last Wednesday. Local puppet sources said that “the policeman died of negligence in handling of weapon”.

Russia’s armed forces chief warned Friday that Georgia and Ukraine’s desire to join NATO will force Russia to take military steps, Russian news agencies reported.

President Vladimir Putin hinted at last week’s NATO summit in Romania that Russia would work to break up Ukraine, should the former Soviet republic join the military alliance, Kommersant reported Monday. Putin “lost his temper” at the NATO-Russia Council in Bucharest during Friday’s discussions of Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, …

TEHRAN (FNA)- North Bengal tea Center will take initiatives to export tea grown in the gardens of north Bengal to Iran as well as Pakistan and Egypt.

TEHRAN (FNA)- US military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any attack on Iran, the Pentagon’s top officer said in remarks broadcast on Monday, adding that he would prefer to avoid a new regional war.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian oil official said on Sunday high oil prices might remain till the end of the year and were not the result of a shortage of crude in the market.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq said on Sunday it has no evidence that Iran was supplying militias engaged in fierce street fighting with security forces in Baghdad, and rejected US accusations against Tehran as mere “speculation”.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran said on Sunday that it has not been informed of any plan by Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Spain’s Repsol to withdraw from a $10 billion natural gas project in the Middle East country.