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The claim for the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) has been submitted to the Moscow City Court; the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to liquidate the organization on a formal basis, Eva Merkacheva, a human rights defender, believes.

The checks conducted in the roads of Urus-Martan and nearby settlements by masked armed law enforcers are intended to intimidate local residents after the conflict involving a GIBDD (traffic police) inspector, locals believe.

Another group of volunteers left the Grozny airport for the special military operation zone in Ukraine.

A woman from Ufa complains that her former husband, an employee of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), regularly beat her and her two sons, one of whom was about a year old.

A court has fined a resident of Krasnodar by 30,000 roubles for an approving comment in the Telegram to the post about setting fire to a banner with the letter Z.

Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Minister of Information, has posted a video in social networks with female employees of law enforcement bodies. The video states that Chechen women are ready to support men in defending the interests of their homeland.

Policemen tried to hide the posters from passers-by and distracted the picketers, said Idris Yusupov, a journalist with the "Novoye Delo" outlet.

Armed law enforcers continue examining cars in the roads of the Urus-Martan District. The information about sending violators to the military operation zone is not true, the head of the district police has stated.

In Makhachkala, Dagestani journalists held solo pickets with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an editor of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik”, (Rough Draft), and historian Khadjimurad Donogo.

Some of the Germans who had lived near the Volga River, and who suffered from deportation during Stalin's time, after returning to Russia found their houses occupied and settled in other territories, the members of the German community in the village of Verkhniy Eruslan, Volgograd Region, have reported.

A court in Astrakhan has fined Sergey Bataev, a local resident, by 35,000 roubles for discrediting the Russian Army.

How the unrecognized republic lives through a gas and transport blockade; ongoing protests in defence of Saakashvili in Georgia; and Kadyrov's conflicts with the Urus-Martan and Batal-Khadji people, – read about these events in the review of the main events in the Caucasus during the week on from December 12-18, 2022, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) administration has announced that in the Tikhoretsky District, 62 persons were resettled from apartment buildings that are in the state of emergency.

Anastasia Khodosevich, a resident of the dwelling settlement of Rudnya, has complained that officials provided her, as an orphan, with an apartment with a broken roof and without hot water and heating.

The ninth package of sanctions of the European Union (EU) included 49 organizations and 141 individuals, including the daughters of the head of Chechnya, Aishat and Khadizhat Kadyrovas, and his cousin Turpal-Ali Ibragimov.

The representative of the prosecutor's office has demanded to take into account the opinion of the victim before adding to Zarema Musaeva's case files the expert's conclusions, which contradict the prosecution's version. The court agreed to interrogate the law enforcer, of attacking whom Musaeva is accused.

After a brawl of law enforcers in Urus-Martan, police raids, a search for eyewitnesses and threats to send local residents to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, authorities gathered the elders, urging them to educate the youth.

The Prikubansky District Court partially granted the claim filed by a mother of Stepan Tsymbal, deceased in the Voronezh Region, to recover compensation from the Russian Ministry of Defence.

In Sochi, a court has removed Krasnodar advocate Mikhail Benyash from participation in the case of dismissed fighters of the “Rosgvardiya” (National Guard of Russia), declaring that being recognized as a foreign agent, Mikhail Benyash does not have access to state secrets.

The appellate instance has overturned the sentence of the former policemen convicted of torturing Yulduz Kurashova in Khasavyurt, and sent the case back for a new trial.