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When commenting on a report about an expensive Moscow apartment owned by a spouse of Deputy Prime Minister of Kabardino-Balkaria Muaed Kunizhev, lawyers have pointed out that the information about expensive real estate properties of relatives should become a reason for checking an official for corruption.

Ramzan Kadyrov has well-established connections in the Middle East and could play an important role in involving the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to an exchange of prisoners of war (POWs) between Russia and Ukraine, political analysts believe.

Georgy Kolyan, a convict with disabilities, requested compensation of 900,000 roubles for the lack of medical care and violation of conditions of detention in a Stavropol penal colony. The Stavropol Territorial Court recognized the violations, but assessed moral damage at 50,000 roubles.

Two fighters of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) from Dagestan were found guilty by a Ukrainian court of torturing civilians in Zaporozhye and sentenced them in absentia to 12 years of freedom deprivation each.

After being wounded in Ukraine, Oleg Rybkin, a mobilized Dubovka resident, needs urgent surgery and examination, but the command of his military unit is protracting with the decision, Irina Rybkina, Oleg's wife, has complained.

Daniil Vodolagin, a Volgograd university student, was wrongfully accused of spreading fake news about the Russian Army, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has announced and demanded that the criminal case be closed.

By the outcomes of 2023, Dagestan got into the rating of the "7x7"* outlet of the Russian regions whose residents most often expressed their protest to authorities through organized and spontaneous actions.

In Chechnya, the law enforcement bodies threatened relatives of two persons with the use of violence, demanding to stop criticising the republic’s authorities, activists reported.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a court found a local resident guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and imposed a fine on him.

The court has fined a female resident of the Akhtubinsky District, after treating her comment in a social network criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine as discredited Russian militaries.

Shamsail Saraliev, a Russian State Duma member from Chechnya, has announced that 75 Russian military personnel have been returned from the Ukrainian captivity without exchange and 173 other prisoners of war have been returned through exchange. The military personnel have been returned from the Ukrainian captivity through the mediation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Russian Ministry of Defence reports.

Khasanbek Turchaev, a native of Chechnya, who is serving his sentence in the case on participating in the war in Syria on the militants’ side, has been deprived of his French citizenship.

If a person who has committed a crime against public safety or law enforcers is hiding, law enforcers must punish one of his relatives, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, explaining this by Chechen traditions.

Six people have served their arrests; three others were fined and one was sentenced to compulsory labour for their calls posted in the WhatsApp* to go out to a rally in support of the detained rioters at Makhachkala Airport.

Pavel Chaichenko, who served in the Volgograd Region, was sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a penal colony for transferring to the commanders a part of the bribes from two military men who asked not to be sent to the special military operation zone in Ukraine.

Refugees from Palestine are provided with accommodation, food, their documents are being processed, and charitable organizations provide clothing upon request from those who arrived to the republic from the Gaza Strip, state activists from the organizations helping refugees.

The training at the Russian Special Forces University included only two lessons on shooting and a theoretical lecture on arranging ambushes. After that, volunteers were loaded onto a plane and sent to the special military operation zone, states the diary of Rasul Taspenov from Kazan, who in the autumn of 2022 went to fight in Ukraine as a fighter of the “Akhmat” special forces military unit.

During the week from December 25 to December 31, 2023, three persons were wounded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus – an alleged militant and two civilians. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Mass New Year celebrations in Derbent, like the holiday itself, were inappropriate amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, some commentators have stated in the local public.

The Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk has rejected the lawsuit lodged by Mark Chub, who tried to obtain the alternative civilian service (ACS), referring to his religious beliefs.