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For the third week in a row, law enforcers have disrupted the solo pickets in support of the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, although the protests are held in compliance with all the legal requirements.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) began checking the actions of the policemen who hit a participant of a protest rally against the mobilization in Makhachkala, lawyer Arsen Magomedov said after the Ministry of Internal Affairs had found no violations in the actions of the policemen.

In Stavropol, a court has refused to consider a complaint filed by a local resident who disputes the draft to the army within the military mobilization due to the fact that he has two dependent children, one of whom is sick. Despite the above, the man has been mobilized and sent to the air assault regiment.

Law enforcers have beaten up a native of Chechnya who had arrived in Croatia. Complaints also arrive from other people from this camp, human rights defenders have informed, demanding from the Croatian Prosecutor's Office to punish those responsible.

In Makhachkala, policemen have detained Magomed Magomedov, a journalist, who was holding a solo picket in support of his arrested colleague, and Abdulmumin Gadjiev's mother.

At a gathering in Kayakent, relatives of the perished Magomed-Ali Sultanov demanded from investigators to find and punish all those involved in committing the crime.

Single women are unable to raise their son as real males, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Instagram* users have found this statement to be overly categorical; some responded by suggesting that Kadyrov stop sending men from Chechnya to Ukraine.

Amid the military operation in Ukraine, authorities of most regions of Southern Russia have banned mass celebrations on the occasion of the New Year, with the exception of festive events for children. Mayors of several cities have also changed the format of New Year celebrations.

After his interview about the involvement of FSB agents in terror acts, relatives of the wife of Emran Navruzbekov, a former operative agent, and his mother's relatives were detained in Dagestan. Navruzbekov asked law enforcers not to touch his relatives.

The reason for initiating a criminal case against Arslan Mirzaev, a blogger from Dagestan, on discrediting Russian militaries, was in his publications criticizing the Kremlin's policy in Ukraine, the blogger himself has suggested.

In his interview, Emran Navruzbekov, an operative agent of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), who has asked for political asylum in Europe, stated that FSB agents were involved in terror acts and staged special operations committed and conducted in Dagestan.

A court recognized as “actually fictitious” the events by which the police in Astrakhan explained the detention of Yuri Shevtsov and Galina Shevtsova for two days.

About 20 natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia arrived through Turkey to Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply later for political asylum in Croatia, but they were deported from the Sarajevo airport to Istanbul.

On December 26, 2022, Khasan Ibragimov, Ramzan Kadyrov's official representative in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, was detained in Simferopol on suspicion of beating a young man who stood up for a girl in a restaurant.

The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the outcomes of the annual contest named after the deceased journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev.

All the participants from Chechnya in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, including law enforcers, have gone there voluntarily, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

Four men took part in beating up a restaurant visitor in Simferopol despite attempts to stop the brawl, says the video of the incident with Chechen law enforcers.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has emphasized that he has the right to run for president in Russia, but he will never do that.

The “Team Against Torture”* received responses to 37 out of 68 letters with a study on torture in Northern Caucasus sent to representatives of the authorities and the law enforcement bodies.

Any resident of the Urus-Martan District, regardless of activity type, will be punished for participating in any mass meeting, the head of the district police has announced.