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Residents of the Makhachkala dwelling settlement of Novy Khushet have been waiting for years to receive the land plots that had occurred in private ownership, locals have complained.

A new group of volunteers has left Chechnya for the combat zone after training at the Russian Special Forces' University, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced, treating volunteer units as "the main driving force" of the military operation in Ukraine.

The Chechen language is dying out; it must be made the main communication language in families, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Residents of Chechnya are fluent in Chechen; the demands of the head of the republic are excessive, users of the social network "VKontakte" have objected.

The spouses, Natalia Garyaeva and Vadim Motovilov, who are fighting against the garbage dump in the village of Poltavskaya, have filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against the policemen who tried to take them by force to court from the kindergarten.

A group of Volgograd residents have recorded a video appeal to President Vladimir Putin, in which they asked him to help so that their relatives, who had been sent to the military operation zone as part of the mobilization, were not sent to the frontline.

By calling on Chechen Sufis to form combat units on the principle of belonging to religious brotherhoods, Ramzan Kadyrov is looking for a new mobilization resource in Chechnya. However, the addressees of his call are ideologically not disposed to take part in hostilities, analysts believe.

The complaint against the verdict to Yana Antonova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), convicted of taking part in the activities of an undesirable organization, will be considered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Human rights defenders from Kabardino-Balkaria report that the police conducted searches at places of residence of some employees of the Kabardino-Balkarian Institute for Humanitarian Studies, and a campaign is being launched against them on social media.

French human rights organizations have urged the United Nations (UN) to influence the French authorities, who admit discrimination against natives from Chechnya and their deportation to Russia, where they face threats of torture, the "Memorial" Centre for Defence of Human Rights has informed.

Law enforcers had no right to forcibly take Irina Grigorieva, a Krasnodar activist, from home, as the judgement on her psychiatric examination is being appealed against in court, the woman's defence has pointed out.

In the torture case of prisoners in the Kalmyk colony, investigators have not yet found any evidence and suspects, despite the identification of the law enforcers who used torture.

The republic's authorities hinder the printing and distribution of the printed version of the Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" (Draft); thus, last week the outlet was not printed due to the printing house's refusal to print the weekly, the editorial board has stated.

When commenting on a film crew’s apology for a humorous video message allegedly recorded on behalf of armed members of rural jamaat, Dagestani comedians noted that jokes should not become a reason for threats and forced apologies, and the authorities should not interfere in the sphere of humour.

By extending sanctions on relatives of Suleiman Kerimov and Ramzan Kadyrov, the USA is assessing the dependence of these politicians on the Kremlin and their ability to influence Putin, Pavel Zolotaryov, a deputy director of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), believes.

The Security Service of Ukraine (known as the SBU) has put Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, on the wanted list as a person hiding from the preliminary investigation bodies.

A woman from Krasnodar torn down propaganda leaflets with the motto reading: “We don’t leave our people in trouble.” The police considered that the woman’s actions discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

Short-term “military-patriotic and spiritual-moral education” of teenagers from different regions in a children’s camp in Chechnya will have no effect and may even harm children, teacher Yevgeny Yamburg and human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina point out.

The fate of Rizvan Dadaev from Grozny, who had confessed to being homosexual and detained in Chechnya, has been unknown for more than three months; and investigators have not yet reacted to the application about his disappearance.

Nikita Chereshnev, a contract military serviceman from North Ossetia, was found guilty of leaving his unit without permission and refusing to perform the "special missions" in Ukraine.

The video clip, allegedly filmed on behalf of the armed members of the jamaat of the village of Salta, was a joke; and there is no need forcing people to apologize for it, the majority of commentators on the Telegram channel of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) believe.