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Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to five years in prison for using violence against law enforcers, has been placed into the dungeon (punishment cell) for the second time within a month.

The commission for the harmonization of family relations created by the authorities of Chechnya helps to reduce the number of divorces, the republic’s Muftiate announces. In Chechnya, the problem of preserving families was previously solved thanks to the traditions of reconciling spouses without the participation of officials, an NGO activist notes.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk obliged single father Stepan Kosolapov to pay a fine of 40,000 roubles for holding a pacifist picket in front of the city administration.

During the week from February 6 to February 12, 2023, at least four people perished during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there were no reports about any wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Zarema Musaeva's health condition has deteriorated at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where she is not receiving the necessary medical treatment, her advocate has stated.

The sentence to Daud Davydov, the head of the Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison), and his subordinates rendered within the case of extortion and torture is unique for Dagestan and will contribute to the observance of prisoners' rights, journalists have noted.

Journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov held solo pickets in Makhachkala with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft).

At least 150 Circassians were killed as a result of the earthquake in Turkey, reported the head of the “Circassian Congress”.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has upheld the denial of compensation to Surupasha Khakiev, a resident of the Novolaksky District, for his house confiscated during the Stalinist deportation of the Akkin Chechens.

The command of the military was right by dismissing Zaur Kaimov, a contract soldier, for refusing to go on a service trip, a court in Grozny has ruled.

Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the "Akhmat" special unit, and two adjutants have been hospitalized in a Moscow clinic after their contact with an envelope soaked in a poisonous substance, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has stated.

A mother of a large family from the Takhtamukai District of the Republic of Adygea has complained to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) that authorities would not improve her living conditions.

Akhmed Dudaev, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Press, has held a talk about religion with Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs), during which he showed them footage of a gay pride parade in Kiev and explained that the goal of Russia's special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine is to counter the "Western ideology" and "non-traditional values."

Petrovsky Khutor, where a counterterrorist operation took place, is no different in terms of its ethnic composition, and local residents are mainly engaged in agriculture, analysts emphasize. According to them, the counterterrorist operation in Petrovsky Khutor went unnoticed by most residents of the Stavropol Territory.

Ramzan Kadyrov has reacted sharply to the video of a conversation with the Chechens-prisoner of war (POWs), because this video has received resonance in the Internet, Aider Rustemov, a Ukrainian Mufti, believes. He has noted that he is not afraid of threats, although he understands the reality thereof.

In Volgograd, a court fined local resident Yuri Goryushkin 30,000 roubles after recognizing that his comments on the social media had discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

In Chechnya, family reunification takes place under pressure and is often traumatic for those who decide to divorce, said Saida Sirazhudinova, the president of the Centre for Studying Global Contemporary Issues and Regional Problems "Caucasus. World. Development", and Aida Mirmaksumova, a co-founder of the "Fathers and Daughters" project.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation should resume a check on the complaint filed by natives of Dagestan Murad and Firuddin Ragimov about torture, the fact of which was recognized by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the “Team Against Torture”* reports.

In Chechnya and Kuban, people arrested on administrative cases are often accused of grave crimes. After a series of arrests, law enforcers institute cases under articles on terrorism, the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta Europe” reports.

In Krasnodar, a police officer has become a suspect in the case of the death of Ilya Afrosin, who complained of torture after detention, human rights defenders have informed.