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The Volgograd Garrison Military Court did not grant a claim filed by Dmitry Denisov, who was mobilized with chronic diseases. His defender intends to request a military medical examination.

Batyr Boromangnaev, a Kalmyk activist, flew from Kazakhstan to Mongolia, where he planned to apply for political asylum, but the border guards did not let him out of the airport. Boromangnaev said that law enforcers threatened him with deportation to Russia.

Ten international and Russian human rights organizations have called on Russian authorities to release Idris Arsamikov, who was detained in Moscow and taken to Chechnya.

Two families that were involved in blood feud because of the death of a resident of the Gordali village were reconciled with the participation of the Muftiate and employees of the special commission to resolve conflicts based on blood feuds.

In Makhachkala, the journalists, Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov, have held solo pickets demanding to stop the criminal prosecution of their colleague, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, and release political prisoners.

In Stavropol Territory, the military court sentenced Marat Batdyev to a disciplinary arrest for 20 days, finding him guilty of evading being sent to the special military operation in Ukraine.

Persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, public activity of Ramzan Kadyrov, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, return of Tumso Abdurakhmanov, 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 20-26, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Alexander, a resident of Volgograd, has complained that after graduating from the orphanage, through the fault of the school administration, he found himself without a registration, and that authorities for a long time failed to provide him with housing due to him by the law.

A court in Makhachkala has imposed a fine of 30,000 roubles on Zaur Radjabov, a local resident, finding his pacifist posts in social networks to be discrediting Russian militaries.

After their complaints to the military prosecutor, three mobilized persons in the Volgograd Region managed to delay their transfer to the training ground; they were allowed to complete their examination by the military medical commission.

A court in Volgograd has fined Alexander Moskovchenko, a local resident, finding that the phrases pronounced by him in support of Ukraine had discredited the Russian Army.

In Krasnodar, law enforcers have detained Alipat Sultanbegova, who, on the anniversary of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, laid flowers at the monument to the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.

The Grozny Garrison Military Court has obliged the commander of the military unit to consider the report lodged by Zelimkhan Ayubov, on the payment of compensation for the wound he received in Ukraine, but the unit's commend has challenged the ruling. The Southern District Military Court has upheld the first-instance judgement.

Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the "Akhmat" special unit, has been discharged from a Moscow hospital where he was treated after an attempt to poison him.

Ramzan Kadyrov is now the Hero of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudaev, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Press, has announced. This title is awarded by the head of Chechnya, as follows from the decree signed by Kadyrov.

Messages posted in public group chats can become a reason for criminal prosecution under a fake article about the Russian Army, although one's personal correspondence should not become the basis for such cases; however, such cases are known.

During the year of hostilities in Ukraine, at least 845 residents of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) perished there, while during eleven years of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, the power bloc lost 480 employees.

A teenager from Volgograd, sentenced to compulsory medical treatment in a case on terrorism, left Russia together with his mother. He is put on the wanted list.

The Group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on LGBT Rights has called on the Chechen authorities to release Idris Arsamikov, who was detained in Moscow and taken to his homeland.

In Paris and Vienna, members of the Chechen Diaspora have held rallies on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechens and Ingushes (collectively also treated as Vainakhs).