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A rally against the extradition of Chechen refugees took place in front of the Croatian Embassy in Vienna. About 500-700 refugees from Chechnya cross the Bosnian-Croatian border every week, and the flow has grown amid fears of continued mobilization, the human rights organization “Vayfond” reports.

During the week from December 25, 2022, to January 1, 2023, at least two persons perished during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; and there were no reports about wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

Law enforcers have beaten up a native of Chechnya who had arrived in Croatia. Complaints also arrive from other people from this camp, human rights defenders have informed, demanding from the Croatian Prosecutor's Office to punish those responsible.

Single women are unable to raise their son as real males, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Instagram* users have found this statement to be overly categorical; some responded by suggesting that Kadyrov stop sending men from Chechnya to Ukraine.

Amid the military operation in Ukraine, authorities of most regions of Southern Russia have banned mass celebrations on the occasion of the New Year, with the exception of festive events for children. Mayors of several cities have also changed the format of New Year celebrations.

About 20 natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia arrived through Turkey to Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply later for political asylum in Croatia, but they were deported from the Sarajevo airport to Istanbul.

On December 26, 2022, Khasan Ibragimov, Ramzan Kadyrov's official representative in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, was detained in Simferopol on suspicion of beating a young man who stood up for a girl in a restaurant.

The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the outcomes of the annual contest named after the deceased journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev.

All the participants from Chechnya in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, including law enforcers, have gone there voluntarily, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

Four men took part in beating up a restaurant visitor in Simferopol despite attempts to stop the brawl, says the video of the incident with Chechen law enforcers.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has emphasized that he has the right to run for president in Russia, but he will never do that.

The “Team Against Torture”* received responses to 37 out of 68 letters with a study on torture in Northern Caucasus sent to representatives of the authorities and the law enforcement bodies.

Any resident of the Urus-Martan District, regardless of activity type, will be punished for participating in any mass meeting, the head of the district police has announced.

Ramzan Kadyrov has received the Medal “For Comradeship-in-Arms” of the National Guard of Russia, which is awarded for strengthening military cooperation, including with other countries.

Several dozen natives of Chechnya have stuck in Bosnia and Herzegovina due to the refusal of border guards to let them into Croatia. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the natives from Chechnya face the threat of deportation, human rights defenders assert.