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Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister of Press and Information of Chechnya, has publicly reprimanded a local resident named Aslan for reposting unreliable information about the mass deaths of soldiers of the "Sever-Akhmat" regiment near Artyomovsk. Aslan announced his readiness to apologize on television.

Chechen investigators have combined the attack cases on the journalist, Elena Milashina, and the advocate, Alexander Nemov, into one case and significantly expanded the list of articles, by adding, among other things, interfering in the victims' professional activities.

A foreign passport was not issued for a young woman from Chechnya due to the requirement of the anti-terrorist commission not to issue foreign passports to persons under the age of 30 without the presence of their older relatives, the Chechen police informed a lawyer of the young woman.

The condition of Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, who continues his hunger strike in a deportation centre in Switzerland with the demand not to be deported to Russia, has deteriorated sharply, but he has not succeeded in seeking hospitalization, report members of the “European Peace House” human rights organization.

More than 28,000 participants in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine were sent there from Chechnya, including 13,000 volunteers, Ramzan Kadyrov has informed in his Telegram channel. According to his story, 7000 of them are now on the frontline.

Imam Valid Kuruev, who disappeared in Chechnya in May this year, has been sent as part of a law enforcers' detachment for taking part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, sources have informed.

Singer Zelimkhan Bakaev was in the field of view of the Chechen law enforcement bodies due to suspicions of homosexuality, and when the information was confirmed, he was killed, the “SK SOS Crisis Group”* reported. Human rights defenders note that the campaign to hunt for gays was initiated by Ramzan Kadyrov, while under his father’s ruling, homosexuals were not persecuted in Chechnya.

The authorities' and clergymen's efforts in Chechnya to reconcile the blood feudists can be assessed as positive, but the reconciliation should not be forced, analysts have noted.

The provocative law enforcers' actions in the Moscow Region, which demonstrated disrespect for Islam, and the absence of response to demands to bring the participants and organizers of raids in mosques to justice, have caused understandable indignation among Muslims. This was stated by officials of the Muftiates of North Ossetia and Adygea.

Chechen agenda, Ingush activists’ case, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, military aircraft crash in Yeysk, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, persecution of the opposition in Azerbaijan, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 17-23, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The practice of public repentance for misdeeds existed earlier in the Chechen society and is provided for by the Muslim law, Islamic experts Alexander Arutyunov and Igor Alekseev point out. Chechen traditions do not provide for compulsion to make public apologies to the authorities, Oyub Titiev, a human rights defender from Chechnya, argues.