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Vladimir Putin’s personal meeting with 17-year-old son of Ramzan Kadyrov once again highlighted the special status of the leader of Chechnya among Russian governors, and it looks like a signal that power in Chechnya will be inherited, human rights defenders point out.

In Adygea, a court recognized as a fake a video about the Russian army, the link to which was posted in a messenger by Igor Korotkov. The activist was fined 800,000 roubles.

Persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, public activity of Ramzan Kadyrov, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, discussions in Georgia and the health state of Mikhail Saakashvili, official data on the natives of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 27-March 5, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Rizabek Kubashev, an Astrakhan resident, was found guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

A Sochi resident was detained in connection with his pacifist comments, after which law enforcers accused him of disobeying the policeman's lawful demands, and by a court decision, he was arrested.

Ten million roubles that the Kadyrov Fund has promised to distribute among 100 newlywed couples should be better spent to help the needy people in Chechnya, Instagram* users have noted. Some of them have linked the Fund's action with the marriage of Ramzan Kadyrov's son.

The court of appeal in Chechnya has upheld the refusal to satisfy the lawsuit of Bahumesedo Khamidova, who asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to award the order to her son, a policeman, who perished in 2002.

The President of Russia had a personal meeting with Akhmat Kadyrov, a son of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, and congratulated him on his upcoming marriage, the father has boasted.

A criminal case has been opened against employees of the "Memorial" Society under the article on rehabilitation of Nazism, law enforcement sources have reported. There was no notification about the case; and investigators failed to voice out the claims, human rights defenders from the "Memorial" have informed.

The Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala has fined Zaur Radjabov, a local resident, by 30,000 roubles, recognizing that his posts in the Instagram* social network had discredited Russian militaries.

The advocates for Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov have completed the presentation of evidence, but Tambiev is demanding that the protocol of his first interrogation be excluded from the case files, while Rizvanov is seeking to summon new witnesses to the trial.

The decision to introduce the martial law is made by the president, Dmitry Peskov, President Putin's press secretary, has recalled in his comment on the proposal of the head of Chechnya to tighten the regime in some Russian regions after the attack committed in the Bryansk Region.

A spouse of a participant in the special military operation appealed to the Volgograd Garrison Military Court, demanding that her husband be dismissed from service and provided with psychiatric treatment. Military doctors who examined the contract soldier declared him fit for service, while civilian doctors insist that he needs medical treatment.

A court in Paris has satisfied the complaint of a native of Chechnya against the decision of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to deport him to Russia, admitting that the man was in danger of being tortured in Russia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided that Denis Nochevka had been illegally kept after being detained at a rally against the pension reform held in Krasnodar; and his trial was not impartial.

Relatives of the attackers should be called to account for the armed incident in the Bryansk Region and, despite the presence of civilian facilities nearby, "bomb down all the sites" that may be associated with the preparation of the terror act, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

A video of law enforcers chastising a group of residents of the Urus-Martan District for drinking alcohol in public places and driving while intoxicated has been posted in social media.

Natalia Bushueva was taken to a police department after a solo protest action held near the monument to St. Catherine the Great Martyr in Krasnodar.

During the two Chechen military campaigns, extrajudicial executions took place throughout Grozny, so the remains found on the outskirts of the city might belong to the victims of those executions, human rights defenders Oleg Orlov and Alexander Cherkasov suggested.

Khava Akhmadova, the head of the Chechen State Drama Theatre, has treated the statement of film director Alexander Sokurov about the cultural interests of residents of Northern Caucasus as a reason for his apology.