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A video footage of a kindergarten educator rudely treating a child has sparked outrage among social media users in Dagestan. The child is autistic; his parents filed a complaint with the police, the press secretary of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

On September 17, Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, expressed his agreement with a number of regional heads on the need for additional measures to support the military operation in Ukraine. Some social network users were sceptical about Melikov's statement, while others have approved it.

Rustam Aguev, the head of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), has called on his subordinates to send those who use firearms during wedding ceremonies to Ukraine. It follows from a video posted on the YouTube.

Chechnya's special role in sending volunteers to Ukraine is due to the fact that in the republic they get everything they need "without unnecessary bureaucracy and troubles," the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

Sochi investigators have initiated a criminal case against three policemen, who, according to the investigators' version, had illegally detained with the use of force a local resident suspected of using narcotic drugs.

Within the case of 13 deaths in October 2020 of COVID-19 patients due to absence of oxygen, Anna Kolenova, a deputy chief physician of the Rostov Hospital No. 20, is accused. She has been charged with negligence.

The heads of the Timashevsk and Labinsk Districts decided to cancel entertainment events and fireworks on the City Day because of the special military operation in Ukraine.

In the village of Kaluzhskaya in the Seversky District, 162 land plots have been provided into ownership to families with many children. However, the plots have no road and no connected communications. The district prosecutor's office has appealed to the court demanding from local authorities to eliminate the violations.

An investigator in the city of Kropotkin (Krasnodar Territory) has refused to initiate a criminal case into the death of Giorgi Kavelidze, a resident of the territory, whose relatives claim that he died after being beaten by law enforcers, the "Team against Torture"* has informed.

Amid Ramzan Kadyrov's reports about the next sending of special force fighters to Ukraine, a video has appeared in social networks of the oath recited by combatants from Chechnya, pledging to "wage gazavat (sacred war) in the name of Allah."

By means of his statements about the need for self-mobilization, Kadyrov is trying to try on the functions of the Minister of Defence and once again show his loyalty to Putin, but "he runs ahead of the locomotive," the experts, Dmitry Oreshkin and Alexei Malashenko, have suggested.

Governors should not react to the call of the head of Chechnya to send a thousand volunteers each to Ukraine, while Ramzan Kadyrov himself could set an example by sending his children and sons of Chechen high-ranking officials to the war zone. This was stated by social network users from Dagestan.

On demand of the prosecutor's office, a court in Moscow has arrested the office of the liquidated "International Memorial"*, which was legally donated to another organization, human rights defenders have reported, treating this as an attempt to raider capture of property.

Ramzan Kadyrov's laudatory words about Russian militaries' actions in Ukraine, which followed his criticism of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), are caused by his misunderstanding of the role of the head of Chechnya in the special operation, Alexei Malashenko believes.

Russia has ceased to be a party to the Convention on Human Rights in connection with its withdrawal from the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has announced.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya refused to grant the claim for payment of compensation for moral damage to relatives of policemen Aslanbek Kukaev and Roslanbek Damaev, who perished during the “mopping-up” operation in Grozny.

The case of Ivan Danilov, a Krasnodar resident, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has arrived in the court.

Andrei Fokin has held his hunger strike for three days in protest against his arrest during the elections, where he acted as a confidant of the candidate for the Lermontov city council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

Until the inquiry into the terror act committed at the Beslan school is completed, the building must be mothballed; this is the opinion of Emma Tagaeva from the "Voice of Beslan" and 380 victims who have signed the call not to create a museum at the venue of people's deaths.

The Cassation Court (CC) has found no violations in the case of Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years in prison for using violence against law enforcers at a rally in Moscow. The CC has upheld the verdict.