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On August 6, the administration of the colony in the Krasnodar Territory (also called Kuban by the name of the main river) released Ismail Isaev, a native of Chechnya, from the dungeon (punishment cell, also known as ShIZO), but on the same day he was again placed there.

During the week from August 1 to August 7, 2022, there were no reports of any casualties or wounded persons in the 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 open sources.

Another group of volunteers has flown from Grozny Airport to the military special operation zone, the head of Chechnya has reported.

The Gudermes City Court of Chechnya has sentenced two local residents to two years and eight months in colony each for their intention to leave for Syria and participate in an illegal armed formation (IAF) there.

Vladimir Putin has noted Chechnya's high achievements in socioeconomic sphere, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has informed. However, as reported by the "Chechenstat" (Republic's Statistics Committee), the unemployment rate in Chechnya in June 2022 was 11%.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he was included into the delegation that accompanied the Russian president at talks with the Turkish president in Sochi on August 5. The Turkish party offered Kadyrov to make a working trip to Turkey, to which he agreed.

A video clip with obscene comments, in which a resident of Chechnya is walking along a Moscow beach with weapons, was followed by the author's apology to the hero of his clip. The Muscovite has admitted that he was "guilty" about the Chechen people and promised that this would not happen again.

The Department for Chechnya of the Ministry of Justice has succeeded in pressure on the local bar association to withdraw the status of three of its former members working in Crimea. The disqualified lawyers associated the decision with political persecution and plan to appeal against it, human rights defenders report.

On August 3, Apti Alaudinov, the Secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya, who in March headed a group of volunteers sent from Chechnya to Ukraine, received the stars of the Hero of Russia and the Hero of the LPR (Lugansk People's Republic).

Forcing to convert to Islam or deciding to convert to Islam for money would be the height of cynicism, the Caucasian scholars interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out, not ruling out the fact that volunteers themselves have decided to convert to Islam in Chechnya before departing to Ukraine. In their opinion, such volunteers' initiative has stressed the Chechnya's special role in training fighters for the special military operation.

The socio-economic development of Chechnya, which receives multibillion-rouble subsidies, does not look like a serios reason for awarding Ramzan Kadyrov with an order, political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin points out. With that award, the Kremlin encouraged Ramzan Kadyrov for supporting the special military operation in Ukraine, suggests Ruslan Kutaev, a Caucasian expert.

A representative of the Chechen authorities in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra has assured that there are no plans to send Arthur Ilyaskhanov, a native of Dagestan, to Chechnya for the insulting statements voiced by him on behalf of Chechens.

The YouTube video hosting has blocked one of the parody videos that ridiculed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, blogger Max KomikazdZe reports. The deleted video was the first part of a series of several videos starring Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya.