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Islam Nukhanov, who was detained after posting a video about rich houses of Ramzan Kadyrov's subordinates, was arrested for three months. YouTube users have demanded to release him.

Almost 20 scientists and cultural figures of Chechnya signed an angry appeal to film director Alexander Sokurov. They find unreasonable his doubts that Ramzan Kadyrov, who participated in battles against the Russian federal troops, is worthy of the Hero of Russia title.

Film director Alexander Sokurov wrote on Facebook that he was saddened by a refusal of President Vladimir Putin to review the status of Hero of Russia, which was awarded to participants on both sides of the war in Chechnya, including Ramzan Kadyrov. Users of social networks found the Alexander Sokurov's statement risky.

Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechen Minister of Internal Affairs, invited the United States to include all Chechen policemen in the US sanctions list. The Chechen Minister's proposal demonstrates his allegiance to Ramzan Kadyrov, who is also under the US sanctions, local residents suggest. Instagram users ironically commented on the sanctions imposed by the US Department of State.

The use by the head of Chechnya of modern methods of self-promotion in social networks is assessed by experts as a claim for an increase of his political status. Ramzan Kadyrov's participation in humorous video clips is intended to show his progressiveness, Andrei Kozlov, a PR expert, has noted.

The first military campaign in Chechnya had been brewing since 1990, and was carried out without any account of expert estimates; launching a war machine in its worst form cost tens of thousands of human lives, analysts have concluded on the 25th anniversary of the advent of federal troops into Chechnya.

A quarter of a century ago, the entry of federal troops into Chechnya did not look like the start of a full-scale war, and people expected the conflict to end by agreement of the parties, say residents of the Chechen republic while recalling their deceased relatives and friends and destroyed houses.

In the Kurchaloi District, the police gathered drivers who committed offences and subjected them to a public condemnation with involvement of religious figures. The event was held amid the Ramzan Kadyrov's support for an initiative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to confiscate cars when a driver was repeatedly caught while driving a car in state of alcoholic intoxication.

On December 10, the Southern Military Court sentenced Yakub Ibragimov, a native of Chechnya, to 19 years of imprisonment in a penal colony. According to public prosecutors, the man was trained at a special centre of the "Islamic State".

People detained for theft apologized on the air of the "Grozny" TV Channel. Some Instagram users doubted the sincerity of remorse and tried to associate thefts with the problem of unemployment in Chechnya.

The authorities of the Russian Federation, who are generously allocating money to Chechnya, neither control the use thereof, nor the work of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund, economists have pointed out.

Vladimir Putin sees no discord in the facts that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the Pskov paratroopers, who died in the battle with Basaev's militants, have the title of Heroes of Russia at the same time.

By his own words about the "bloody man" Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, Russian President Vladimir Putin has completely rejected the version of involvement of Russian special services in the murder committed in Berlin, experts believe. Bloggers and journalists saw in Putin's words an attempt to justify the murder.