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19:30, 24 April 2020
An initial test for coronavirus of Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, proved to be positive, but it was decided to hide the fact, Ramzan Kadyrov said, adding that the repeated Daudov's test was negative.
11:48, 24 April 2020
Officials and law enforcers have followed the example of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who shaved his head bald in response to requests of republic's residents to open barbershops closed as a coronavirus quarantine measure.
21:01, 23 April 2020
In Chechnya, participants of a domestic conflict apologized for posting a video of their dispute on the Internet. Instagram users found their behaviour reckless and unethical.
16:21, 22 April 2020
Help to those in need is welcomed in Islam; there are even special taxes aimed to raise funds to support the poor, Islamic scholars have noted in their comments to the criticism expressed by Chechen authorities concerning the woman who raised money for her daughter's treatment.
11:27, 22 April 2020
Advocates of Khumaid Khaidaev, a native of Chechnya, have demanded from the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to check the information that Khumaid was brutally tortured after the inmates' riots in the Irkutsk Region. Khaidaev, convicted in 2008, was preparing for release from colony and could not be the organizer of the riots, his brother has suggested.
22:32, 21 April 2020
Nine Russian and international human rights organizations asked the Rapporteur on human rights in Northern Caucasus to register threats voiced by the leader of Chechnya against Elena Milashina, a journalist of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".
22:25, 21 April 2020
Soldiers entered the Nadterechny District of Chechnya, set up camps near several villages, and arranged checkpoints, local residents reported. The Southern Federal District (SFD) claims that no additional forces were introduced into the republic.
22:06, 21 April 2020
By April 21, the regions of Southern Russia registered 49 deceased patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Of them, at least seven died within last 24 hours. Dagestan, where 11 people have died since the beginning of the epidemic, continues to show the highest death toll among the regions of Southern Russia.
12:38, 21 April 2020
The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has demanded to ensure state protection of the journalist, Elena Milashina, and initiate a criminal case against the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. The rights defenders' appeal was signed by over a hundred people.
12:00, 21 April 2020
During the week of April 13-19, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, one person was killed; no information about the wounded ones was received. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.
11:40, 21 April 2020
Residents of Chechnya, except for close relatives of the deceased, should not attend funerals and commemorations during the pandemic, said the Mufti, Salakh Mezhiev. The Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have explained the Mufti's words by a desire to reduce the number of funeral participants.
11:38, 21 April 2020
The official's participation in the report criticizing a resident of Chechnya for raising money for treating her child indicates the intention of regional authorities to monopolize charity activities, human rights defenders assert. Requests to help a sick child always find sympathy among Chechens.
15:12, 20 April 2020
Increase in the number of coronavirus-infected people in Southern Russia and in the countries of Southern Caucasus; celebration of Easter by Orthodox believers amid the spread of the coronavirus infection; second round of the presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh; attack on law enforcers in Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 13-19, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
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14:30, 20 April 2020
Residents of Chechnya are so scared by authorities and law enforcers that they are afraid to inform doctors about COVID-19 symptoms, the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper writes. The information from the letter from Kadyrov's press secretary to the editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta" should lead to a check for coronavirus in the Chechen hospital, the journalist, Elena Milashina, has emphasized.
14:28, 20 April 2020
The increase in the number of coronavirus cases has to do not only with the infection spread, but also with the growing number of tests, experts have explained. The doubts of residents of Chechnya about the quarantine efficiency are caused primarily by the position of the authorities, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, believes.