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Despite deterioration of her health state, Zarema Musaeva refused to be transferred to a hospital for fear of contracting the coronavirus, her advocate said. According to the defender, Zarema Musaeva is being kept in a separate cell of the Grozny SIZO (pre-trial prison) under the supervision of doctors.

Two residents of the village of Engel-Yurt have turned to a healer in Kabardino-Balkaria with a request to improve their family life, after which they were detained in Chechnya by law enforcers; and they were publicly reprimanded by Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine.

Every two weeks, Russian authorities must send a report on the health condition of Zarema Musaeva to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the Court has decided.

Law enforcement bodies should react to the incident of the Moscow deputy Alexander Zakuskin with the elderly Chechen woman Yusupkhadjieva and resolve the case according to the law so that the situation does not turn into an interethnic conflict, the Caucasian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out, stressing that traditional response mechanisms to Zakuskin's actions have been engaged in the absence of timely reaction by the police.

Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has issued a new statement on Ukraine and significantly softened the tone of his statements in comparison with his previous words about the need to “take back Ukraine,” to which the Kremlin reacted.

Alexander Zakuskin should leave his post of the head of the council of delegates for the Meschansky District of Moscow because of his conflict with native of Chechnya Salima Yusupkhadjieva, says Yuri Reinhimmel, a delegate of the district council. He sent his colleagues a relevant draft decision.

In the rating of the Russian regions in terms of quality of life, the Krasnodar Territory took the fifth place, and Karachay-Cherkessia became the 84th.

The Internet has posted a video by Alexander Zakuskin, the head of the council of deputies of the Meschansky District of Moscow, in which he apologizes to an elderly Chechen woman, Salima Yusupkhadjieva, for the conflict that occurred near the mosque. Because of the received death threats, the deputy was forced to change his residence and wrote an application to the police.

The number of signatures to the online petition for the resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov increased by more than 5500 in almost two days and has reached 210,000, while the number of posts on the Instagram with the hashtag #YapekhotinetsKadyrova (I'm Kadyrov's infantry soldier) as part of the flash mob in support of Kadyrov increased by 45 over the same period.

Adam Delimkhanov, an advisor to the head of Chechnya, and Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, have criticized Alexander Zakuskin, a Moscow deputy, for the latter's conflict with an elderly Chechen woman; however, they had reacted completely differently to the kidnapping of Zarema Musaeva by Chechen law enforcers, Instagram users and readers of the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

Alexander Zakuskin, a Moscow deputy, has admitted, in his conversation with Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP from Chechnya, that he "overdid it" during the incident with an elderly Chechen woman and announced his apology. Delimkhanov, in response to Zakuskin's words about the threats, said that they would not end until the issue was resolved.

Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information of Chechnya, has treated the statement about the impending assassination attempt on Vladimir Osechkin as absurd. In his turn, Osechkin thanked the Chechens, who had informed him about the prepared attempt, and invited Adam Delimkhanov to personally discuss the claims against the work of human rights defenders.