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Ramzan Kadyrov's involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian exchange prisoner of war (POWs) looks like an action coordinated with the Kremlin; and the head of Chechnya is using his role for self-promotion, intended not only for the Chechen audience, analysts assert.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Northern Caucasus plans to purchase 3000 mobile fences for mass events, and the initial price of the tender is 13.2 million roubles.

In Croatia, the police detained at least 15 natives of Chechnya who arrived from Russia and subjected them to violence with the demand to refuse asylum requests. This was reported on Telegram channel of the Chechen human rights association “Vayfond”, based in Sweden.

After complaints made by the head of the centre for patriotic education, who has treated the performers' works as immoral and propaganda of Western values, law enforcers in Volgograd have broke up a concert of rap singers.

Three years ago, the Russian Constitutional Court (CC) recognized the rights of the people born in families of repressed nations from different regions, including Southern Russia, the right to return home and receive housing.

The head of Chechnya has expressed satisfaction with the return of 107 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) from Ukraine to their homeland and said that new lists had been drawn up for further exchanges.

Two unfinished houses in the Makhachkala residential complex are already partially occupied, but the apartments are not heated in winter, and other owners cannot move into their apartments they had bought, where there is no electricity and water, residents have complained.

The appointment of Apti Alaudinov, a former secretary of the Chechen Security Council, to a post in the militia of the LPR (Lugansk People's Republic) has become an element of Ramzan Kadyrov's strategy aimed at expanding his sphere of influence by means of a loyal person.

The lawsuit concerning mobilization lodged by Alexei Abramov, a resident of Goryachiy Klyuch, who was diagnosed with multiple spinal injuries, against the military commissariat, has been accepted for consideration, Mikhail Benyash*, an advocate, has informed.

All the songs of the singer Jony of Azerbaijani origin that he performed in Grozny had been censored, Elina Murtazova, assistant to the Minister of Culture of Chechnya, has stated.

Amina Gerikhanova, a native of Chechnya, who was put on the wanted list by Russia as a participant in hostilities in Syria, has received refugee status in Romania. This was reported by the Swedish-based "Vayfond" human rights association.

The UN Human Rights Committee pointed to human rights violations in Northern Caucasus and highlighted cases of persecution of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, brothers from Chechnya, who were sentenced to imprisonment for aiding and abetting a militant, as well as the suppression of protests against mobilization in Russia.

The four sisters from Dagestan who fled domestic violence are safe in Georgia, but the threat of persecution by their relatives has not ended; the girls need psychological help, human rights defenders believe.

The sitting of the Russian-Iranian intergovernmental commission in Grozny will give impetus to trade and economic relations of Northern Caucasus with Iran, Radjab Safarov is sure. This may be followed by Iran's cultural and religious influence on the republics of Northern Caucasus, Akhmet Yarlykapov believes.

Service evaders should be severely fined and then sent to the frontline, and not allowed to "sit out in a cell," Ramzan Kadyrov has stated in his comment on the legislation amendments offered by MPs.

The fact that after searches and arrests in Ingushetia, the leader of Chechnya called members of the Belkharoev family his close friends reminded of Ramzan Kadyrov’s close contacts with followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji during the establishment of borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia, as well as the attempts of the leader of Chechnya to intercede for Sagid Murtazaliev, who had been put on the wanted list in Dagestan.

The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has sent a complaint to the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against the law enforcer, who had hit a protester in Makhachkala. The law enforcers should be punished publicly, and residents should react to unreasonably harsh detentions, Arsen Magomedov, a lawyer, has stated.

Law enforcers have fabricated a criminal case against Murad Mirzakhanov from Makhachkala and tortured him, but his relatives' complaints yield no results, Murad's mother has stated, and his defence has pointed to gross errors in the criminal case.

The participants of the mourning rallies held in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have laid flowers at the memorials to the Karachays' deportation victims.

The head of Chechnya has stood up for the Belkharoev family, several members of which were arrested in Ingushetia. Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that the term "'Batalkhadjin terrorist community" is absurd, and the Belkharoevs will always be his close friends.