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In Gudermes, a court found Bekkhan Abdurashidov and Aslan Dukaev, former fighters of the National Guard of Russia, guilty of illegally detaining Alexei Kardashov, a resident of Dagestan, who disappeared after the detention. Each of the law enforcers was sentenced to 3.5 years of suspended imprisonment, and human rights defenders consider the above sentence to be too lenient.

During the week of December 7-13, 2020, during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, seven persons suffered: one was killed and six were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

Another Ramzan Kadyrov's daughter has received a high post. Khadizhat Kadyrova has been appointed to head the Grozny City Department of Preschool Education.

An attack on law enforcers in Karachay-Cherkessia was preceded by a female suicide bomber attack on a checkpoint in Chechnya in November 2018.

Ramzan Kadyrov has treated the new sanctions imposed by the USA and United Kingdom in connection with human rights violations in Chechnya as absurd, and assured that these restrictions would not affect the situation in Chechnya.

British authorities have imposed sanctions on Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, two high-ranking officials of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the "Terek" special forces unit, whom London considers to be involved in the persecution of the LGBT community.

The US authorities have included five individuals and six legal entities associated with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, into the Magnitsky list, namely, Vakhit Usmaev, the deputy chairman of the Chechen government, the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation and two sports clubs named "Akhmat".

The French police detained five Chechen natives from among acquaintances of Abdullakh Anzorov, who beheaded teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a source reported.

Kadyrov disowned Anzorov after the latter had murdered the French teacher, but then allowed to bury him into the family cemetery in Chechnya, trying to please the moods of some Muslims, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Wearing a niqab, which was sharply criticized by the Mufti of Chechnya, is undesirable in Russia because it attracts attention and contributes to Islamophobia, the Moscow Imams interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Today, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for the President of Russia, has commented on a report prepared and broadcasted by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company), in which the murderer of a French teacher appeared as a God-fearing young man. The Russian President's press secretary has said that state-run TV channels highlight different points of view, but it is not acceptable to justify the crime committed by Abdullah Anzorov.