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A report on the awarding of “Akhmat” fighters for the detention of the suspects accused of committing the terror act at the Crocus City Hall looks like an attempt to artificially increase the importance of the Chechen military unit. That has been noted by military experts interviewed.

In Volgograd, a local TV channel has disclosed the names of people who brought flowers to the monument to the victims of political repressions in memory of Alexei Navalny, calling them potential “saboteurs.”

Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, has asked the court to pay attention to contradictions in witnesses' testimonies about the time of the incident in the cell. The judge refused to add his motion to the case files.

Officials cannot define behaviour norms for the Chechen society, since they are formed by the society itself; and the search for social network users, whose actions and statements contradict the Chechens' mentality, will lead to mass repressions with forced apologies, analysts are sure.

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.