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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.

Women from the Volgograd Region have stated that their husbands are being held in custody after they refused to take part in hostilities; they receive no medical care and adequate food.

Alexei Belyakov, a Sochi policeman, was found dead in his car five years ago. All these years, investigators would not look for the perpetrators, Alexei's mother asserts.

After his request for dismissal for family reasons, a contract serviceman from Ingushetia lost his payments but after his appeal to the court, the command abandoned their claims, human rights defenders report.

On the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Deportation of the Kalmyk people, the cities of Kalmykia hosted commemorative events. It is important to continue to keep the memory of the victims of deportation, users of the social media point out.

Ramzan Kadyrov has received the Medal “For Comradeship-in-Arms” of the National Guard of Russia, which is awarded for strengthening military cooperation, including with other countries.

Several dozen natives of Chechnya have stuck in Bosnia and Herzegovina due to the refusal of border guards to let them into Croatia. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the natives from Chechnya face the threat of deportation, human rights defenders assert.

The shootout in the suburbs of Nalchik, in which law enforcers killed two people, was preceded by a similar incident in the Prokhladnensky District in October 2022. Prior to this, there had been no armed incidents in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) for more than a year.

Rauf Arashukov, a former senator (a member of the Russia's Federation Council) from the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), and his father, Raul Arashukov, have been sentenced to life imprisonment.

For the second week in a row, pickets in support of the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, arouse increased attention of law enforcers; it is associated with the pressure on the "Chernovik" weekly, and aims to stop the actions, Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the weekly outlet has stated.

On December 26, a shootout took place in a forest on the outskirts of Nalchik, during which two previously convicted residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, suspected of plotting an explosion in a military registration and enlistment office, were killed, the media and Telegram channels reported with reference to sources in the law enforcement bodies.

In Makhachkala, a court found no offense in the actions of journalist Vladimir Sevrinovsky, who arrived in September to cover protests against mobilization.

Zaur Tatlok, a lawyer of the Krasnodar Bar Association, has accused law enforcer from Adygea of hindering his professional activities. According to his story, he came to the police station with his client, who had complained about torture, but he was forced to leave by threatening with administrative prosecution.

A resident of the Stavropol Territory, who has three children, has filed a lawsuit challenging the decision of the mobilization commission.

The authorities of Chechnya, which is subsidized from the Russian state budget, have allocated 13.5 million roubles for the manufacture of 43 orders named after Akhmat Kadyrov. The awards must be made of gold and adorned with diamonds, sapphires and rubies, the "Kavkaz Realii"* project has reported.

A court has fined Isa Abdulaev, a resident of Makhachkala, by 50,000 roubles, finding him guilty of beating up a police officer during an anti-mobilization protest.

A court obliged a policeman from Makhachkala to issue a written apology to lawyer Marat Ismailov, who was detained while passing by a solo picket held in support of journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

Vitaly Mozgalin from the Krasnodar Territory, a fighter of a special forces battalion of the Chief Intelligence Agency (known as GRU), who refused to participate in the special military operation in Ukraine, was demoted from a corporal.