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Since the start of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, a total of 29,000 fighters have been sent to the SMO zone from Chechnya, including 13,000 volunteers, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced.

In Chechnya, law enforcers have detained a brother of Saidi Yangulbaev, a former Russian federal judge, and three of his nephews and sent them to the special military operation (SMO) zone, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, has informed.

A comment posted in the Telegram became the reason for drawing up an administrative protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Daniil Rogachov, a resident of Volgograd.

The “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project recognized as a political prisoner Alexander Somryakov, a resident of Krasnodar, who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony for his posts about the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine.

Marina Sotskova, a Russian-speaking resident of the Grozny village of Vozrozhdeniye, filmed a video in which she expressed her concern that hazardous waste would be dumped into a local river through a pipe that was being laid from the airport.

Explosions in the Black Sea, tragedy in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, persecution of opposition in Azerbaijan, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 31-August 6, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Doctors have diagnosed traumas to activist Roman Taganov, who was hospitalized in the city of Maykop after being beaten up there. The attacker demanded to stop placing his posts in the social network.

In Kazakhstan, in the village of Malaya Saran, unknown vandals have destroyed the memorial sign dedicated to Akhmat Kadyrov, the father of the current Chechen leader and the first president of the republic. Offensive inscriptions appeared on another monument in the village.

A native of Chechnya, Ali Bataev, was taken to a medical centre in Zurich on the 52nd day of his hunger strike, after which he was returned to the deportation centre, the "European Peace House" reports.

The prosecution has asked for a conditional imprisonment of four years for Irina Perefilyeva, a Jehovah's Witness* from the village of Mednogorsky. The prosecutor has stated that such a punishment is asked given the absence of aggravating circumstances, the human rights project "OVD-Info"** has reported.

The idea to ban religious marriages without presenting by newlyweds of certificates about the absence of drug addiction and HIV infection is relevant for Ingushetia, local residents and activists have pointed out.

The investigator has unreasonably refused to provide advocates with the materials of the death case of a four-year-old girl from the city of Malgobek, the advocates assert and ask the court to cancel this refusal.

The condition of Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, became critical amid a 51-day hunger strike in a deportation centre in Switzerland, the “European House of Peace” organization claims.

Journalist Elena Milashina associates an attack she and advocate Alexander Nemov suffered in Grozny with a case of missing Chechen policeman Yasin Khalidov. The attackers were interested in the information that Yasin Khalidov had managed to pass on to human rights defenders before his detention, Elena Milashina believes.

Zagir Yakubov, a native of the Stavropol Territory, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison as a participant in the attack of Shamil Basaev's and Khattab's grouping on Dagestan in 1999, has committed suicide.

The medical commission has found Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, mobilized with spinal hernias, as partially fit for military service. His wife has stated that he is being prepared for sending to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

After complaints from the Chechens living in the village of Kemsi-Yurt and Mansur Soltaev's talks with local authorities, it was decided to build a kindergarten and a medical facility in the village, as well as to construct a road from Khasavyurt.

The illegal circulation of the weapons originating from the special military operation (SMO) zone is widespread among all fighters; sometimes entire units can be involved therein, analysts have pointed out in their comments on the case of the shooting of a "Wagner" fighter at law enforcers in the Rostov Region.

The reason for an accusation report against advocate Kaloi Akhilgov was his comments in the media, recognized as foreign agents. An author of the accusation report suggested that Kaloi Akhilgov and his colleagues refuse to speak in the media.

In Krasnodar, a court of cassation cancelled the verdict to Mikhail Selitsky, who was sentenced to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital in a case on vandalism motivated by political hostility. The court sent the case for retrial. That was reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project with reference to advocate Rustam Mukhamadeev.