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On January 13, at a rally of residents of the village of Tsotsi-Yurt, relatives of the detained suspected militants publicly repented for the actions of young people. It was decided not to evict the relatives from the village, but the villagers were warned that in the future militants' families will be sent out from the territory of the republic, the participants of the rally have reported.

The information about the fact that Madina Shakhbieva, an alleged member of a group of militants, wounded during a special operation in Grozny, was taken away from hospital, shot dead and buried, has been confirmed by a reliable source, said the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has for the sixth time refused to initiate a case on inaction of policemen, who failed on time to respond to the call from Grozny, where the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders was destroyed. This refusal of the ICRF has been already appealed against, said the activists of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" (CPT).

On January 12, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov appointed new leaders of the plain Shelkovsky District and the mountainous Nozhai-Yurt Districts of Chechnya. On January 11, Ramzan Kadyrov appointed new head in the Gudermes and Kurchaloi Districts, two major municipalities of the Chechen Republic.

The search for the suspected militant, who managed to escape after the armed clash with power agents, continues. The special operation is conducted in forests and villages of the Shali and Kurchaloi Districts and in the city of Argun, said a law enforcement source.

In the study at the trial of Boris Nemtsov's murder of details of phone calls of Eskerkhanov, his advocate insisted that the defendant had nothing to do with the phone, with the use of which, according to investigators, the slain politician was shadowed.

In 2016, Russia stepped up the persecution against dissidents and tightened the control over freedom of expression and assembly. In Northern Caucasus, Salafi communities, human rights defenders and journalists found themselves under severe pressure of the authorities. This was declared by the report prepared by the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW).

As stated by the head of the Chechen MIA, in the shootout with power agents that broke out in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt on January 11, the following residents of Chechnya were killed: Umar Ozdiev, Raibek Idrisov, Alikhan Kupchiev and Uzum-Khadji Madaev.

The court dealing with Boris Nemtsov's murder case has announced its decision about the video record, which the Dadaev's defence had treated as evidence of his alibi. The Court found that this record cannot be regarded as admissible evidence.

One of those, killed on January 11 by power agents in the Kurchaloi District, in 2004, was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for participating in an illegal armed formation (IAF), said a Chechen law enforcement source.

The Chechen village of Tsotsi-Yurt, where on January 11 five persons were killed in a shootout, saw no such incidents for the last 15 years. The previous major incident took place there in February 2002, when an armoured vehicle with militaries was blown up in the vicinity of the village.

In the course of an armed clash in the outskirts of the village of Tsotsi-Yurt, four militants and one law enforcer were killed, the head of Chechnya has stated. A source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya has added that one militant managed to escape in the forest.

On January 10, at a sitting in Kurchaloi, the republic's head Ramzan Kadyrov presented Ali Abdulaev, the new head of the administration of the Kurchaloi District. Kadyrov also reported the detention in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt of the Kurchaloi District of young people, who were preparing a series of grave crimes.

The inquiry into the case of a probable customer of the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov continues. It is possible that the crime had several customers, said Igor Krasnov, the Deputy Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Several young people, who were preparing a series of crimes, were detained in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt; a family member of Isa Muskiev, one of the militant leaders, killed in 2006, is among the detainees. Muskiev's relatives prepared "bloodshed," said Kadyrov.