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In roads of Chechnya, armed people carry out raids and inspect cars. The security measures have been strengthened after two attacks on law enforcers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has explained. During their raids, law enforcers should not wear civilian clothes, otherwise conflicts may occur, veterans-law enforcers have warned. Young people with the beards characteristic of Salafis are persecuted not only in Chechnya, said Alexei Malashenko, an Orientalist.

The "Grozny" TV Channel devoted a story to the exposure of a Chechen resident who complained about the insufficient assistance of the authorities to people with disabilities. A disabled person was forced to apologize not even for an appeal, but for a comment on the Internet, experts note.

The law enforcement bodies did not give out the body of Zelimkhan Musaev, killed while attacking policemen, to his family members and forbade holding a mourning ceremony to commemorate him, his relatives reported. The ban on memorial ceremonies is not practiced in other regions of Russia, note scientists engaged in oriental studies.

Only 18% of respondents consider falsification of drug possession cases to be rare incidents, the "Levada Centre" releases the results of its survey after criminal prosecutions of Moscow journalist Ivan Golunov and activists in Northern Caucasus.

The President and the Prime Minister of Georgia must apologize to President Vladimir Putin and all of Russia for the words of the journalist Giorgi Gabuniya pronounced on air of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader, has stated. He called for "imposing the toughest sanctions" on Georgia.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" found the statements by Lizan Isakova, a resident of Grozny, made on air of the Chechen TV that human rights defenders were involved in a fraud with the status of a disabled person, as "absurd." The woman's disability was defined and documented by officials, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has reminded.

During the week of July 1-7, 2019, at least two people perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there was no information about the wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

Two attacks on policemen were committed on behalf of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, in Chechnya within a week; therefore, it is beneficial for the authorities to explain the actions of one of the attackers by drug addiction. This is the opinion of the residents of Chechnya and Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Lizan Isakova, a resident of Grozny, and her son have been arrested within a fraud case with the status of a disabled person. Isakova had an official disability certificate; her case should lead to corrupt officials, lawyers assert.

The head of the region is not authorized to remove a post of federal forces, but the expediency of many checkpoints (known as KPP) in Northern Caucasus is questionable. This was stated by retired law enforcers after Ramzan Kadyrov's appeal to liquidate such KPP in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya.

The body of the policeman from Novokuznetsk, killed in an attack on a police checkpoint in Chechnya, will be buried tomorrow in his homeland, reports the Department for Kemerovo of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Investigators are engaged in questioning relatives and friends of the attacker, the Chechen MIA reports.

So far, the growth in the number of armed incidents in Kabardino-Balkaria does not mean a real militants' activation, but the conditions for the operation of the armed underground have not disappeared, but the work on militants' adaptation has been curtailed, analysts assert.