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Law enforcers have planted drugs, grenades and weapons on Asker Shortanov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who returned from the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, where he was a fighter of the "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC), said his advocate.

Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, who refused to take part in hostilities due to his health problems, walks on crutches, said Mikhail Benyash*, a lawyer. He has noted that the command of Alexei's military unit is dissatisfied with the publicity of his case and is putting pressure on Abramov.

The authorities’ response to protests in Ingushetia, after which elders and activists were convicted of extremism, has become one of the first signs of an increase in repressive practices across the country, human rights defenders note.

The likelihood that the convicted Ingush oppositionists will be released on the conditional early relief (CER) is quite small, their advocates believe.

A court in Rostov-on-Don has ordered the medical unit of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) to pay 300,000 roubles to Natalia Baksheeva, a resident of Krasnodar, who had claimed compensation for her husband's death in a prison hospital.

The administration of the penal colony did not hand over to advocate the letters from Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia, in which he wrote about his state of health and the lack of medical care, advocate Irina Biryukova stated.

Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev again visited Seda Suleimanova and reported that she was in a good mood. Meanwhile, in the video that Mansur Soltaev posted on his Telegram channel, Seda Suleimanova simply escorts him to the gate of her parents’ house, with the music in the video.

After Tatiana Solomina, an advocate, provided legal help to a Chechen resident who fled domestic violence, she and her son began receiving threats.

Chechen ministries force their employees to put "Likes" and comments to ministries' publications. Some of state servants have left hundreds of "Likes" under official publications, the "Baza" project has reported.

By a Vladimir Putin's decree, Aishat Kadyrova, the Chechen Minister of Culture, has been awarded the medal of the Order "For Merits to Fatherland". This was announced by Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Minister of Press, in his Telegram channel.

After the arrest of the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, his family was sure that it was some misunderstanding; but now, four years later, he is still under arrest, his wife, Dana Sakieva, has stated. According to her story, she has no hope for an acquittal, but she believes that her husband will receive a minimum prison term.

In Volgograd, a court has suspended proceedings in a case against a policeman accused of beating a 14-year-old teenager. The court’s decision has been explained by the impossibility of the policeman’s participation in the trial.

The police received a complaint about an attack on a native of Northern Caucasus, who was walking with her children on a playground. The woman was seriously injured and reported insults on religious and national grounds.

Mourning events dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the terror act in Beslan ended in North Ossetia. People who came to the school No. 1 in Beslan lit candles, carried flowers in memory of the dead, brought bottles of water, opened them and left them in a school gym.

Mourning in Beslan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, fire in Gelendzhik, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, impeachment proceedings against Zurabishvili, 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 August 28-September 3, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The sale volumes of antidepressants have increased in Dagestan, Chechnya, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. Residents of these republics have become more nervous about the pandemic; and people have also become more anxious amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, a psychologist believes.

Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, who received an order from the command of his military unit in Dagestan to return to the special military operation zone (SMO) in Ukraine, has refused to take part in hostilities. He explained this by his state of health caused by a grave backbone disease.

The investigation of the criminal case on the terror act committed in Beslan has not yet been completed, activists of the "Beslan Mothers" have stated on the 19th anniversary of the school seizure. They called for speeding up the investigation and announced an appeal to the court to lift the ban on criminal prosecution of the members of the hostage rescue operative headquarters.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia has entered Mairbek Vachagaev*, a Chechen historian and journalist, into the register of foreign agents.

Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, who was mobilized despite his backbone hernia, has received a travel certificate from the command of his military unit in Dagestan to return to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, his wife has informed.