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In his talk with Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, Ramzan Kadyrov threatened to confiscate and burn down the cars of those who have shown disrespect for policemen, and send them to compulsory work. Kadyrov makes such statements out of the feeling of impunity, but some of his subordinates perceive them as a guide to action, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The official COVID-19 death statistics fails to explain the dramatic increase in mortality in Russia, says the "Mediazona" study released on November 23. The authors have put Chechnya and North Ossetia in the top ten Russian regions notable for the least transparent statistics of coronavirus deaths.

Russian singers Timati, GeeGun, and Egor Kreed have promised to present a Rolls-Royce car to one of those users who will follow some Instagram accounts, including accounts of five members of the Ramzan Kadyrov's family.

In Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, the portion of low-income families with children is higher than in other regions of Russia, and the republics of Northern Caucasus also registered higher number of disabled children.

At a court hearing in a case on the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, German policemen said that they almost missed the defendant during the detention. The court has not yet begun to consider evidence of the alleged involvement of the Russian authorities in the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, explains Ekkehard Maass, the chairman of the German-Caucasian Society.

Successful examples of promoting national heroes are based on copying foreign experience; and the influence of American pop culture in Chechnya will remain strong despite Ramzan Kadyrov's demand to replace Marvel heroes for "real heroes," Orientalists have suggested.

After September 6, there was no news from Salman Tepsurkaev, the kidnapped Chechen native, his wife Elizaveta asserts. In their turn, human rights defenders believe that the absence of new videos clips on behalf of Tepsurkaev and any news about him speaks in favour of the version of his murder.

In Kurchaloi, the spokesman for the children's centre called inappropriate the replacement of images of US comic book characters with photographs of Ramzan Kadyrov and "real heroes." At the same time, in a conversation with Akhmed Dudaev, Chechen Minister of Information, the spokesman for the children's centre said that he did not refuse to comply with the Chechen leader's instructions.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint filed by human rights defenders in the interests of Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, kidnapped in Gelendjik. It has become record fast, the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) has noted.