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Armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, public activity of Ramzan Kadyrov, 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 April 10-16, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Timur Tangiev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison, has complained of pressure from the colony administration for refusal to obey to unreasonable, as he believes, instructions.

A court in Croatia has denied international protection to five natives of Chechnya, arguing that they may be Islamic extremists.

Four people were killed and two more were detained during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Malgobek District, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, the head of Ingushetia, has announced.

Chechen experts, jointly with the FSB and the Moscow Mayoralty, are establishing the author of the video about the burning of the Koran near the White Lake, Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, emphasizing his personal participation in this check.

The prices for a number of imported foodstuffs are rising on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, despite the statements of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who compared the entrepreneurs, who had inflated prices, with drug dealers, local residents have stated.

Human rights organizations have sent a report to the UN on the deteriorating of the human rights situation in Northern Caucasus and described cases of persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya and Dagestan.

The police reported about the detention of a Moscow advocate in a case on a threat of violence to a public officer during a court session. Timur Idalov, representing the interests of the Belkharoev family in the case on the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”), was detained, and a search was conducted in the Timur Idalov’s house.

The statement of Ramzan Kadyrov concerning connections of a detainee in Chechnya with Ingush militants is not enough to consider a person a member of the armed underground, human rights defender point out.

The special operation in the village of Gvardeiskoye was held two weeks after the armed incident in Gudermes, where two men were shot dead.

Suleiman Lorsanov, Chechen Minister for Public Health, has called on opponents of polio vaccination to come out on TV with evidence that vaccinations are harmful to children’s health.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has informed that his daughter, Eset Kadyrova, a second-form pupil, won the All-Russian contest "Language Is Nation's Soul".

During the week of April 3-9, 2023, at least four people perished and eight others were wounded during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Max KomikadZe, a blogger who starred with Ramzan Kadyrov in a series of parody video clips about Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, has told the police about the received threats.

The murder committed by law enforcers of more than a hundred civilians in the Chechen village of Samashki back in 1995, has not been investigated for 28 years; and the perpetrators have not been punished, the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence has pointed out.