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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.

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.