“Around 11:30 p.m., several armed men driving a Zhiguli car stopped at the Atashka cafe on the Khasavyurt-Babayurt road and opened fire with automatic weapons on the visitors and service personnel who were there. As a result, two local residents were injured and hospitalized, one of whom later died in the hospital,” a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.

As ITAR-TASS was informed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, today at 13.10 Moscow time, two employees of the administrative security operational regiment were injured in an explosion in a cafe in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Sunzhensky district of the republic. They were taken to the hospital. A fire broke out in the cafe, which has now been contained. The cause of the explosion has not yet been established. An investigation team is working on the spot.

Three-time Olympic champion Buvaysar Saitiev has been appointed deputy presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, Alexander Khloponin, for youth policy. “Saitiev helps gifted children, talents who do not have financial opportunities to break through, his soul is rooting for everyone,” Buvaysar’s close friend Muslim told lifenews. According to a friend, a champion, quoted by the publication, “he knows how to help the development of wrestling in the country.

The President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the scenario and the course of the exercises held on May 25-27 in Moscow at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to suppress mass interethnic unrest, the “main characters” of which were Chechens, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes today.