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The Ukrainian police have detained members of a criminal grouping, one of the members thereof is suspected of organizing an assassination attempt on a Chechen native, Adam Osmaev, and the murder of his wife Amina Okueva in the fall of 2017.

Following their Chechen colleagues, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has posted a video with apologies of a resident of Khasavyurt for violating traffic rules, treating the imposed administrative fine as an insufficient educative measure.

Officials have named two new schools built in Gudermes and Shelkovskaya after the first president of Chechnya in order to win Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, local residents believe. In its turn, the Chechen Ministry of Education has noted these secondary schools have allowed eliminating three-shift attendance of classes in several other schools.

The threat to seize a car, and forcing drivers to clean streets is used nowhere in the world to improve road safety, Sergey Kanaev, the head of the "Russian Federation of Car Owners", has stated. In Chechnya, detained drivers often face violations of their rights, Ruslan Kutaev, a public activist, has noted.

The Chechen Ministry of Tourism has issued a memo on how to dress in the republic and communicate with local women.

Shelters for victims of domestic violence in the republics of Northern Caucasus help women who suffered from ill-treatment by their husbands or became pregnant without being married, as well as mothers with children, employees of crisis centres report. In Dagestan, about half of female victims of domestic violence return to their husbands, the human rights defenders report.

Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister of National Policy, recorded a video message in response to negative reviews in connection with being awarded with the "Glory and Honour" Third Degree Order of the Russian Orthodox Church. Social network users and residents of the republic found that the Djambulat Umarov's award from the Russian Orthodox Church contradicted the concepts of Islam.

Shamkhan Khamurzaev, who disappeared in Grozny, returned home, his mother reported. The woman retracted an earlier statement that her son was found in a law enforcement unit. Human rights defender Oleg Orlov doubts the new version voiced by the woman from Grozny.

The public criticism of religious views of Sufism followers in Chechnya, expressed by the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, is inappropriate, said Akhmet Yarlykapov, an Islamic scholar. In his turn, Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, believes that the polemic on religious topics will not cause significant damage to the blogger, but some people will get disappointed in him.

The scandal around the towers destroyed by vandals has triggered violent Internet discussions among residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia, whose relations had been strained after changing their mutual borders, an expert on the Caucasus has noted.

The act of blogger, Mukhamed Nosaev, who threw banknotes into a crowd of Volgograd residents, fails to meet the Chechen decency rules, residents of the republic pointed out.

The Prosecutor's Office (PO) of Saint Petersburg has conducted a series of checks of the "Matilda" movie by the film director, Alexei Uchitel, which in 2017 was opposed by authorities of the republics of Northern Caucasus, and found no violations of the law.

While criticizing a statement voiced by the Chechen Mufti concerning the immortality of Kunta-Khadji Kishiev, blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov raised questions of faith, which should not be a reason for discussions, some YouTube users noted.

One of the leaders of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) instructed his subordinates to seize cars from violators of the traffic regulations and send drivers to clean up the streets.