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Judges of the Chechen Supreme Court (SC) can use self-withdrawal as a trick to avoid participating in the trial of Zarema Musaeva; and in case of self-withdrawal of the entire court composition, the territorial jurisdiction of the case can be changed, the lawyers believe.

Dmitry Gorbovtsov, a Judge of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, has self-withdrawn from considering the case of Zarema Musaeva, referring to close relations with her husband, a former federal judge, Saidi Yangulbaev.

During the week of April 11-17, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The author of the video clip about high gas prices in Chechnya will be searched for and forced to apologize, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are sure.

Amid the human rights defenders’ reports about beatings of natives of Northern Caucasus in prison, the Department for the Ulyanovsk Region of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) stated that the prisoners’ hunger strike was preceded by a mass protest against searches in cells.

About a hundred inmates kept in the prison located in the city of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region of Russia) have gone on a hunger strike in protest against beatings and humiliation of prisoners-natives of Northern Caucasus, human rights defenders have reported.

When commenting on a complaint of a driver from Chechnya, economists have noted that gas prices at gas stations in Chechnya are higher than in Dagestan because of the underdevelopment of infrastructure and the specifics of gas supplies to the republic.

Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, it became known about the deaths of at least 142 natives of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and 58 residents of the Southern Federal District (SFD); these data were obtained as a result of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on the officially confirmed information.

The authorities of France expelled Chechen natives to Russia at the slightest suspicion, and the mass deportation was stopped only with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, says Pascal Chaudot, the head of the “Chechen Committee” in France.

A court in Krasnodar has raised the preferential category for the parents of the militaries who perished during the first Chechen war, giving them the right to receive increased payments; the court has also ruled to pay them the underpayment for previous years.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov got the Lieutenant General shoulder marks. The solemn ceremony took place in Grozny.

The opinion of Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, about the departure of public figures from Russia because of the special military operation in Ukraine, the sharp reaction thereto of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the exchange of remarks about patriotism indicate confrontation in Russia's top political circles, political analysts believe.

By handing documents from the migration case of Daud Muradov, who died after being deported to Russia, over to Russia, French authorities doomed him to torture and endangered other people, rights defenders and journalists in Chechnya, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has stated.

Documentaries, the screening of which is cancelled due to the disruption of the “Artdocfest” film festival, are now available online to viewers who have bought tickets to a Moscow cinema, an organizer announces. The list includes three films about residents of Northern Caucasus.