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The attack on Elena Milashina and the lawyer Alexander Nemov was the latest in a series of attacks on journalists and threats addressed by Chechen authorities to media professionals.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has promised to look into the attack on journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov. At the same time, Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Press Minister, said that "the style of Western intelligence services" can be traced in the attack.

The attack on the journalist Elena Milashina and the advocate Alexander Nemov has to do with Milashina's publications in which she wrote about human rights violations in Chechnya, human rights defenders have noted.

On the way from an airport to Grozny, a driver of a taxi, in which journalist Elena Milashina and advocate Alexander Nemov were traveling, was forced to stop by unidentified persons. Then the strangers tied Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov up, beat them, and put guns to their heads, Elena Milashina reported.

Unidentified armed men have kicked Alexander Nemov, a lawyer, and Elena Milashina, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", who had arrived in Chechnya to cover the trial of Zarema Musaeva.

A court in Grozny has sentenced Zarema Musaeva to 5.5 years of freedom deprivation after finding her guilty of assaulting a policeman.

Rostov-on-Don after the revolt, Eid al-Adha, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, natural disasters in the Caucasus, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, 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 June 26-July 2, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Magomed Abubakarov, a citizen of the United Kingdom, who had been kept by Chechen law enforcers for several weeks, has been released.

The intellectual work of assembling the "Akhmat-1" satellite, the launch of which Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, was not carried out in Chechnya, while the parts thereof were bought in China, Vitaly Egorov, an astronautics promoter, has pointed out in a conversation with the Insider*.

The police should report the whereabouts of Selima Ismailova, who escaped from domestic violence, who was taken away from a Moscow airport by Chechen law enforcers, authors of a petition claim. They demand from the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs to take the case under his personal control and transfer the investigation into the case to Moscow.

The engagement of the Chechen "Akhmat" units to suppress the rebellion launched by Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of the "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC), has shown the Kremlin's special attitude towards Kadyrov people, human rights defenders have noted.

“Wagner” PMC in Rostov-on-Don, Kadyrov’s reaction to Prigozhin’s march, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, release of Gvaramiya in Georgia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh,, 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 June 19-25, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The reason for the armed rebellion launched by Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC) was in his personal ambitions and the resentment due to his failed business deals, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.