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On May 12, lawyers of the "Legal Initiative" Project sent a request to the Investigating Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) asking to check the treatment and diagnostic centre in Magas, whose doctors performed, in June 2019, a crippling surgery on a 9-year-old girl, says the statement posted on the website of the "Legal Initiative".

A video showing a Chechen resident hiding from the police gathered compassionate comments on Instagram. Users who left their comments under the video called filming and publishing of such videos to be unacceptable.

On May 12, Vakhid Usmaev, Secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya, was appointed the deputy chairman of the Chechen government. This is the third fellow villager of Ramzan Kadyrov, who was appointed to a high post from early February.

The Instagram account used by Ramzan Kadyrov was deleted in connection with the fact that the leader of Chechnya was included in the US sanctions list, reports the spokesperson for the Instagram owner. In addition to the Ramzan Kadyrov's unofficial account, Instagram pages of his associates are also unavailable.

Residents of Chechnya complain to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the impossibility to get through phones of the "hotline" of the operational headquarters, engaged in solving all issues related to current restrictions imposed because of the spread of the coronavirus infection.

Despite the fact that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced, since May 12, a relaxation of the restriction regime introduced due to coronavirus, Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has stated that so far there have been no changes in the self-isolation regime. Instagram users criticized the decision not to lift restrictions and reminded Daudov about Kadyrov's words.

In Chechnya, on the Day of Mourning and Sorrow of the Peoples of the Republic, subordinates of the leader of Chechnya visited his father's grave without wearing protective masks and without respecting social distancing. This can be concluded from the report broadcasted by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen TV and Radio Company). In Chechnya, top-ranking officials do not comply with their own regulations, for violation of which ordinary people are punished, local residents note.

By 10:45 a.m. Moscow time, in Northern Caucasus, 391 new cases of the coronavirus infection were registered within 24 hours, including 119 in Dagestan, the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) reports. Dagestan still leads in the total number of coronavirus-infected people in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

The number of videos confirming human rights violations in Chechnya is growing, and that fact irritates the authorities, suggests Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Expert Council of the Carnegie Moscow Centre. Such videos are a form of public protest, Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov believes.

The Chechen authorities have reported on the distribution of monetary help to poor families organized by the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation. However, the residents of the republic interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have claimed that the recipients of the targeted help are often not those who really need it.

A video appeal of law enforcers from the Gudermes District about the need of self-isolation is unconvincing, because they had not lost their salaries and the ability to feed their families, commentators on the Instagram and residents of Chechnya have pointed out.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced the opening, on May 11, of minor enterprises engaged in the sphere of services. However, local businessmen have suggested that under self-isolation, their work will be unprofitable. Once the motor traffic is very limited, receiving permits to reopen servicing stations is senseless, Instagram users have pointed out.

The demand of Magomed Daudov, Speaker of Chechen Parliament, to prosecute men for violating the quarantine by their relatives is against the laws, but is fully consistent with Adats (customary law of certain Muslim nations), analysts believe.