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January 07, 2024 23:58

• Analysts treat Kadyrov's statement about POWs as his personal initiative

  Ramzan Kadyrov's proposal to lift sanctions in exchange for the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) was his personal initiative, not of the Kremlin, which is also confirmed by the attempt of the head of Chechnya to explain his words, analysts have pointed out, emphasizing that decisions about POWs are made in Moscow.

January 07, 2024 23:38

• Kadyrov declares offer to exchange Ukrainian POWs for lifting sanctions as trolling

  The proposal of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to release 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs), if sanctions against his relatives are lifted, was criticized by a number of pro-government Russian bloggers. Kadyrov has treated this offer as "fat trolling" against American authorities.

January 07, 2024 23:23

• Bakaev, native of Chechnya, fined for criticizing Kadyrov's men

  A court in Chechnya has fined Ali Bakaev, a native of the republic living in Ukraine, in absentia, finding him guilty of inciting hatred against Kadyrov's supporters. Russian law enforcers plan to repeatedly seek his extradition to Russia, Bakaev himself has suggested.

January 07, 2024 23:05

• Ingush authorities report reconciliation of feudist families

  After requests from theologians and authorities, six families in Ingushetia abandoned their declared blood feud.

January 07, 2024 20:04

• Kadyrov's order to kill relatives deepens fear atmosphere in Chechnya

  Chechen authorities have long used intimidation of opponents' families in the fight against them, but Kadyrov's recent order to kill relatives of crime suspects could lead to real murders that will not be restrained by the practice of blood feud, human rights defenders have stated.

January 07, 2024 18:38

• Kadyrov offers to release Ukrainian POWs in exchange for lifting sanctions

  The head of Chechnya has stated that he is ready to release 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) if the sanctions introduced against his relatives, as well as his horses and aircrafts, are lifted.

January 07, 2024 18:13

• Analysts argue about relevance of anti-corruption checks in Northern Caucasus

  When commenting on a report about an expensive Moscow apartment owned by a spouse of Deputy Prime Minister of Kabardino-Balkaria Muaed Kunizhev, lawyers have pointed out that the information about expensive real estate properties of relatives should become a reason for checking an official for corruption.

January 06, 2024 16:17

• Political analysts assess Kadyrov’s role in exchange of prisoners

  Ramzan Kadyrov has well-established connections in the Middle East and could play an important role in involving the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to an exchange of prisoners of war (POWs) between Russia and Ukraine, political analysts believe.

January 05, 2024 23:13

• Court obliges Stavropol penal colony to pay compensation to prisoner

  Georgy Kolyan, a convict with disabilities, requested compensation of 900,000 roubles for the lack of medical care and violation of conditions of detention in a Stavropol penal colony. The Stavropol Territorial Court recognized the violations, but assessed moral damage at 50,000 roubles.

January 05, 2024 19:09

• Ukrainian court sentences two "Rosgvardiya" fighters from Dagestan

  Two fighters of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) from Dagestan were found guilty by a Ukrainian court of torturing civilians in Zaporozhye and sentenced them in absentia to 12 years of freedom deprivation each.

January 05, 2024 19:02

• Wife of mobilized man from Volgograd Region demands to speed up his after-wound treatment

  After being wounded in Ukraine, Oleg Rybkin, a mobilized Dubovka resident, needs urgent surgery and examination, but the command of his military unit is protracting with the decision, Irina Rybkina, Oleg's wife, has complained.

January 05, 2024 18:11

• Volgograd student Vodolagin declared political prisoner

  Daniil Vodolagin, a Volgograd university student, was wrongfully accused of spreading fake news about the Russian Army, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has announced and demanded that the criminal case be closed.

January 05, 2024 18:05

• Dagestan is among five Russia's most protest regions

  By the outcomes of 2023, Dagestan got into the rating of the "7x7"* outlet of the Russian regions whose residents most often expressed their protest to authorities through organized and spontaneous actions.

January 04, 2024 23:59

• Kadyrov’s critics complain about pressure on their relatives from law enforcers

  In Chechnya, the law enforcement bodies threatened relatives of two persons with the use of violence, demanding to stop criticising the republic’s authorities, activists reported.

January 04, 2024 23:37

• Kuban resident fined under article on discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  In the Krasnodar Territory, a court found a local resident guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and imposed a fine on him.

January 04, 2024 23:08

• Comment in social network turns into fine for Astrakhan woman

  The court has fined a female resident of the Akhtubinsky District, after treating her comment in a social network criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine as discredited Russian militaries.

January 04, 2024 20:40

• Chechen MP announces return of 248 military personnel from Ukrainian captivity

  Shamsail Saraliev, a Russian State Duma member from Chechnya, has announced that 75 Russian military personnel have been returned from the Ukrainian captivity without exchange and 173 other prisoners of war have been returned through exchange. The military personnel have been returned from the Ukrainian captivity through the mediation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Russian Ministry of Defence reports.

January 04, 2024 18:48

• France revokes citizenship of refugee from Chechnya

  Khasanbek Turchaev, a native of Chechnya, who is serving his sentence in the case on participating in the war in Syria on the militants’ side, has been deprived of his French citizenship.

January 03, 2024 22:22

• Kadyrov orders to kill relatives of hiding criminals

  If a person who has committed a crime against public safety or law enforcers is hiding, law enforcers must punish one of his relatives, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, explaining this by Chechen traditions.

January 03, 2024 20:48

• Dagestan: at least 10 persons prosecuted for calls for protests

  Six people have served their arrests; three others were fined and one was sentenced to compulsory labour for their calls posted in the WhatsApp* to go out to a rally in support of the detained rioters at Makhachkala Airport.