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23:50, 14 July 2020
Chechen blogger Zelimkhan Zelimkhanov apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov, State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov, and Moscow blogger Svyatoslav Kovalenko for an incident with beating of the latter. The authorities of Chechnya have promised that Zelimkhan Zelimkhanov "will be severely punished."
15:32, 14 July 2020
Father's control, even over an adult son, is consistent with behavioural norms in the Chechen society, while parents' apologies are not treated as shame, experts have noted in their comments to the law enforcers' conversation with young violators of traffic rules and their parents.
10:57, 14 July 2020
The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has upheld the lawsuit of the Prosecutor's Office to ban the work of the "Ingush Committee of National Unity" (ICNU), comprised of the leaders of the last year's protest against the border agreement with Chechnya. This was reported on the Facebook by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
10:51, 14 July 2020
During the week of July 6-12, 2020, there were no reports of those killed and wounded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the analysis made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on information from open sources.
10:47, 14 July 2020
Svyatoslav Kovalenko, a Moscow blogger, said that he had been beaten up after a conflict with a Chechen blogger, who became famous for his forced apologies. Chechen authorities will help to punish those responsible, Ramzan Kadyrov's assistant has promised.
10:14, 14 July 2020
The instructions of the Mufti of Chechnya, Salakh Mezhiev, to hold modest weddings are only advisory in nature, Orientalists and political analysts believe.
15:09, 13 July 2020
Statistics of the coronavirus infection spread in the Caucasus and impact of the pandemic on the everyday life of people living in the countries of Southern Caucasus and southern regions of Russia; armed clash on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia; public outcry around the murder in Vienna of a blogger criticizing Ramzan Kadyrov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 6-12, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
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14:54, 13 July 2020
The residents of Chechnya-cigarette-smokers should be attracted to public works, a local police officer has announced. By comparing smokers to drug addicts and terrorists, he threatened them with public rebukes and forced cleaning of mosques.
10:56, 12 July 2020
The fathers of the young men, caught by Chechen law enforcers for violating traffic rules, have stated to the camera that they felt disgraced by the behaviour of their sons. Law enforcers should have not humiliated the fathers, Instagram users and local residents have noted.
18:56, 11 July 2020
It is recommended to invite minimum of guests to the wedding; while a wedding cortege should not consist of more than two cars, Salakh Mezhiev, the Mufti of Chechnya, has announced. His statement looks illogic amid the authorities' lift of ban on weddings, Instagram users believe.
17:32, 11 July 2020
This summer, the tourist season in Chechnya has not been opened; only local residents spend their vacations in the republic's resorts, because under the coronavirus epidemic the borders of Chechnya are closed for foreign tourists, the resort workers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.
21:58, 10 July 2020
In France, the police detained five more participants of clashes between members of the Chechen and Maghrib Diasporas in Dijon. Two detainees are charged with using violence.
19:27, 10 July 2020
A young man who introduced himself as a brother of Minkail Malizaev, a blogger living in Europe and criticizing the Chechen authorities, recorded a video message with apologizes for the blogger.
13:26, 10 July 2020
On July 9, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) treated the assumptions that the leadership of Chechnya had to do with the murder of Mamikhan Umarov in Vienna as insinuations that impede an objective inquiry into the murder.
08:49, 10 July 2020
Western special services have organized the killings of bloggers Mamikhan Umarov and Imran Aliev in order to impose responsibility for these crimes on the Chechen leadership, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.