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The deaths of the people detained after a special operation conducted in October proved that the Chechen authorities continue repressions against families of suspected members of the armed underground, Igor Kalyapin believes. Svetlana Gannushkina suggests that extrajudicial killings of militants' relatives are pushing people on the path of radicalization.

A resident of the dwelling settlement of Tarki has died in hospital after being stabbed during a people's gathering to discuss the murder of an activist on Tarki-Tau Mount, a Dagestani law enforcement source has informed.

A people's gathering demanding to evict the alleged drug dealer, due to which an activist, Vali Abduragimov, was killed earlier, has turned into a mass brawl in the dwelling settlement of Tarki that is a part of Makhachkala. Social networks have messages about casualties and wounded people; however, this information has not been officially confirmed.

The information about the detention in Grozny of a 14-year-old orphan girl from Dagestan, who at this age was already one of the wives of an adult man, has alarmed social network users. The Children's Ombudsperson must check how the girl's rights are respected, commentators assert.

Today, an advocate of North-Ossetian blogger Malika Djikaeva, sentenced to imprisonment for drug possession, has reported that an appeal against the verdict was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The mother of the sentenced blogger got information about the pressure on her daughter at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

After a report about the murder of Vali Abduragimov, who tried to resist drug trafficking, some social network users have noted that law enforcers, and not activists, are to fight against drug dealers.

The bodies of the owner of the house, in which alleged militants were killed on October 13, 2020, in Grozny, his pregnant wife and brother, were handed over to their relatives about a month after their detention, the "Novaya Gazeta" writes.

The Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) expressed the condolences to relatives of Chechen policeman Magomed Djabrailov, who was killed in Grozny. It was also noted that the incident was being used to stir up ethnic hatred. The above statement was made after the threats voiced by Chechen MP Magomed Khanbiev against Sarazhdin Sultygov, a member of the Ingush teip.

A widow of Vladimir Tskaev, who died after an interrogation at the Vladikavkaz ROVD (District Interior Division), wait for an apology from the President of South Ossetia for his statement about a mother of a Vladikavkaz citizen. Anatoly Bibilov compared the stories of Vladimir Tskaev and Inal Djabiev and condemned the behaviour of the latter's mother.

Relatives of the Timurziev brothers should have immediately express their condolences to the family of the deceased policeman, and not voice their doubts out in the video message, some Instagram users believe. Other commentators treat families' reconciliation as a must, since relatives should not respond for actions of members of their teips (family clans).

An MP from the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party has offered to extend the mass amnesty that is being prepared in Georgia on those convicted for domestic violence. In their turn, human rights defenders believe that the amnesty for this category of convicts may create a dangerous precedent for the society and encourage the commission of such crimes.

Seven activists have held a series of solo pickets demanding the release of the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, accused of financing terrorism. From January 10 on, the law obliges activists to change their usual format of actions.

The law enforcers named in the journalistic investigation into the poisoning of the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, had visited Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan when the human rights defender, Timur Kuashev, and the activist of the "Sadval" movement, Ruslan Magomedragimov, died there, as follows from the materials published by Khristo Grozev, a Bellingcat's journalist.

Relatives of the deceased policeman, Magomed Djabrailov, have no reason to declare a blood feud, since both attackers were killed, Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, has stated. The teip of the surviving policeman has announced only a quarrel, which cannot be treated as a blood feud, Zaurbek Sadakhanov, a lawyer, has noted.