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On February 23, local Chechens and residents of nearby villages of Chechnya visited a mourning event in the village of Yaryk-Su in the Novolak District of Dagestan. They have confirmed their intention to pay tribute to the memory of the deportation victims on the historical date, rather than on the date set up by the authorities of Chechnya.

The deportation of Chechen and Ingush people was a part of the national policy of Stalinism, states Ingush historian Angela Matieva. People from neighbouring regions were resettled to houses of the repressed people, and thus the ground for future conflicts was built, notes Russian historian Sergey Arutyunov.

The ban on entry to Latvia has also been introduced for a number of law enforcement officials and subordinates of the Chechen leader.

In Istanbul, members of the Chechen Diaspora have arranged an evening to pay tribute to the memory of the people who fell victim to the deportation of Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia. The audience was showed footage from the film "Ordered to Forget", banned for screening in Russia.

Today marks the 74th anniversary of the deportation of Chechen and Ingush people to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Chechnya holds no official events to mark the anniversary; however, residents of the republic say that they pay tribute to their deceased relatives, despite the authorities' ban.

On February 23, the village of Yaryk-Su in the Novolak District of Dagestan marks a day of mourning. On February 19, 1989, a monument to the victims of the Stalin's repression was built in the village. Every year, residents of the Chechen villages bordering with Dagestan come to Yaryk-Su, since the day of mourning is banned in Chechnya.

A murder of an entrepreneur by a Chechen law enforcer cannot be attributed to traditional blood feud, but now relatives of an entrepreneur can themselves take the path of revenge, say natives of Chechnya. The concept of blood feud continues to exist in Northern Caucasus amid assurances from the Chechen authorities about reconciliation of blood enemies, notes Akhmet Yarlykapov, a researcher of the Caucasus.

Activist Barakh Chemurziev and rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov have stated that the authorities of Ingushetia are to cancel celebrating the Defender of the Fatherland Day on the day of mourning for the victims of Ingush deportation on February 23.

The secret status of archival materials on deportation allows now, 74 years later, to distort the number of victims and strengthen the myths about mass treason and desertion of Ingushes, historians and publicists have lamented on the eve of February 23, the day of mourning for the victims of deportation in Ingushetia.

Ziyad Sabsabi, the Chechen Senator at the Russia's Federation Council, who is in charge of returning Russian citizens from the Middle East, reports that the Iraqi central women's prison keeps 36 women and more than 65 children from Russia, as well as about 15 children from Azerbaijan, whose fate is of no concern of this country's authorities.

Persecutions of religious minorities and dispersals of oppositional rallies throughout Russia, illegal detentions and torture in Northern Caucasus, and in Chechnya – also harassment of gays, have been mentioned in the report of the Amnesty International (AI) on the observance of human rights in the world.

The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has denied the fact of public calls to reprise the journalists of the "Novaya Gazeta", who wrote about persecutions of gays in Chechnya, rights defenders have stated.

Ziyad Sabsabi, a Chechen member at the Russia's Federation Council, has brought a Dagestan boy, whose parents had perished in Iraq, from a Baghdad orphanage home. Akhmed Abdulaev, the boy's grandfather had urged the authorities to help to return his two grandsons, but the younger one was not found.

Military exercises with the use of 50 units of military equipment, including multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), took place at military training grounds in the Shatoi and Shali Districts of Chechnya.

Akhmed Abdulaev, a resident of Dagestan, used social networks to disseminate his request to help return home his grandson after the death of his parents: a daughter of Akhmed Abdulaev and her husband. The boy was found in Iraq.