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For more than 22 years, law enforcement bodies cannot establish who killed about 60 local residents.

Spartak Buzoev and Alan Bigaev has been released on conditional early relief (CER). This is reported by the human rights project “Axioma” on its Telegram channel.

The authorities have confirmed the information about at least 900 residents of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine since the beginning of the special military operation, including 570 natives of the North-Caucasian Federal District and 330 natives of the South Federal District.

The authorities of Chechnya have disregarded the remarks of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) for a long time; the problems with human rights highlighted therein have been created artificially, Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, has stated.

A court in Kislovodsk has fined a local woman by 30,000 roubles, finding her post in the social network criticizing the actions of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as discredited the Russian Army.

The five-storey house in Sochi, where three people died after a balcony collapsed, has long been in need of repairs, but tenants' appeals to authorities have yielded no results, locals assert.

Ramzan Kadyrov's involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian exchange prisoner of war (POWs) looks like an action coordinated with the Kremlin; and the head of Chechnya is using his role for self-promotion, intended not only for the Chechen audience, analysts assert.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Northern Caucasus plans to purchase 3000 mobile fences for mass events, and the initial price of the tender is 13.2 million roubles.

In Croatia, the police detained at least 15 natives of Chechnya who arrived from Russia and subjected them to violence with the demand to refuse asylum requests. This was reported on Telegram channel of the Chechen human rights association “Vayfond”, based in Sweden.

After complaints made by the head of the centre for patriotic education, who has treated the performers' works as immoral and propaganda of Western values, law enforcers in Volgograd have broke up a concert of rap singers.

Three years ago, the Russian Constitutional Court (CC) recognized the rights of the people born in families of repressed nations from different regions, including Southern Russia, the right to return home and receive housing.

The head of Chechnya has expressed satisfaction with the return of 107 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) from Ukraine to their homeland and said that new lists had been drawn up for further exchanges.

Two unfinished houses in the Makhachkala residential complex are already partially occupied, but the apartments are not heated in winter, and other owners cannot move into their apartments they had bought, where there is no electricity and water, residents have complained.

The appointment of Apti Alaudinov, a former secretary of the Chechen Security Council, to a post in the militia of the LPR (Lugansk People's Republic) has become an element of Ramzan Kadyrov's strategy aimed at expanding his sphere of influence by means of a loyal person.

The lawsuit concerning mobilization lodged by Alexei Abramov, a resident of Goryachiy Klyuch, who was diagnosed with multiple spinal injuries, against the military commissariat, has been accepted for consideration, Mikhail Benyash*, an advocate, has informed.

All the songs of the singer Jony of Azerbaijani origin that he performed in Grozny had been censored, Elina Murtazova, assistant to the Minister of Culture of Chechnya, has stated.

Amina Gerikhanova, a native of Chechnya, who was put on the wanted list by Russia as a participant in hostilities in Syria, has received refugee status in Romania. This was reported by the Swedish-based "Vayfond" human rights association.

The UN Human Rights Committee pointed to human rights violations in Northern Caucasus and highlighted cases of persecution of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, brothers from Chechnya, who were sentenced to imprisonment for aiding and abetting a militant, as well as the suppression of protests against mobilization in Russia.

The four sisters from Dagestan who fled domestic violence are safe in Georgia, but the threat of persecution by their relatives has not ended; the girls need psychological help, human rights defenders believe.

The sitting of the Russian-Iranian intergovernmental commission in Grozny will give impetus to trade and economic relations of Northern Caucasus with Iran, Radjab Safarov is sure. This may be followed by Iran's cultural and religious influence on the republics of Northern Caucasus, Akhmet Yarlykapov believes.