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Teenagers from different country regions, including from Southern Russia, are massively receiving offers in instant messengers from unknown persons to commit terror acts, Ekaterina Mizulina, the director of the Safe Internet League, has reported.

After the terror act at the Crocus City Hall, in Northern Caucasus, there is a risk of intensification of militants of the IS*, although no terror acts on civilians have not been observed there since 2018. This was noted by Sergey Goncharov, a veteran of special services, and Andrei Koshkin, a military expert.

Cities of the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) have hosted actions in memory of the victims of the terror act at the Crocus City Hall, involving thousands of people.

More people perished in the terror act at the Crocus City Hall than in the one committed in 2002 at the Dubrovka Theatre Centre; it follows from the official data on the death toll.

Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin has stopped his hunger strike, reports a spokesperson for the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Leninsk.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensations to a Magas protester in March 2019, and to seven activists from the Krasnodar Territory.

Villages of discord, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, mourning in the Caucasus for those killed in Moscow, NATO Secretary General’s visit to Southern Caucasus, 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 March 18-24, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Statements about the responsibility of the “ISIS-Khorasan”* for the terror act committed at the Crocus City Hall in the Moscow Region seem to be proved by the FSB report released two weeks before the above-mentioned terror act concerning the prevention of an attack on a Moscow synagogue that was being prepared by militants of the same armed grouping.

Vladimir Atamanchuk, a Sochi activist, has sent an application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in which he accused the head of the Lazarevskoye ROVD (District Interior Division), who had ordered to detain him, of exceeding his official duties.

In Makhachkala, a court closed a criminal case instituted against local resident Gadjimurad Gadjimuradov, accused of kidnapping his acquaintance.

In his comment on the terror act committed at the Crocus City Hall, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has accused false patriots and Western special agencies of trying to incite national hatred.

Residents of cities in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) are bringing flowers to spontaneous memorials setup in memory of those who perished in the terror act committed at the Crocus City Hall. Authorities of Chechnya and Ingushetia did not report laying flowers in memory of the terror act victims.

In cities of all the regions of the Southern Federal District (SFD), spontaneous memorials have been set up for the victims of the terror act in Krasnogorsk, local officials have reported.

After the terror act near Moscow, where over 130 people perished, the authorities of the republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have reported improved security measures, as well as cancellation of all mass events.

Since 1999, up to the events at the Crocus City Hall, there were five terror acts in the Moscow region, in which more than 40 people perished.

The court ruling to arrest Mukhammed Djambulatov, a resident of Dagestan, for 11 days for refusing to undergo medical examination, has been appealed against; he was detained while laying flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny. Djambulatov has stated that he had left Dagestan because he fears law enforcers' persecution.

The Novorossiysk Garrison Military Court sentenced Vladimir Polulyakhov, who had signed a three-month contract, to five years of imprisonment for failing to appear at his military unit after treatment in a hospital.

At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured as a result of the terror act at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow Region, where armed people shot concertgoers. The authorities in at least four regions of Southern Russia announced the cancellation of public events and increased security measures.

The military court in Rostov-on-Don is preparing to consider the case against Krasnodar resident Vladimir Yarotsky, who was convicted of desecrating symbols of military glory and is now accused of calling for terrorism.

Alyona Agafonova, a blogger, arrested in Volgograd and accused of desecrating the symbol of military glory because of her video filmed near the monument "The Motherland is Calling!", has asked the court to consider her case by a special procedure.