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On February 27, in Moscow, according to the organization "White Counter", more than 24,000 people came to a rally-march in memory of Boris Nemtsov. The police have reported that the rally was attended by 7500 people.

The commemoration action of Boris Nemtsov, held in his hometown, was supervised by law enforcers and officials from the Mayoralty. The action ended without incident.

The rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov gathered three thousand people in Saint Petersburg, said the organizers. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported two thousand participants.

The slogan "Kadyrov is Russia's disgrace" was announced at the Moscow commemoration rally of Boris Nemtsov. The participants expressed their dissatisfaction with investigators' failure to question the head of Chechnya in the case of Nemtsov's murder.

During 2015, in Northern Caucasus, serious violations of human rights still occurred, and human rights defenders, who reported on events in the region, faced harassment. This was reported by the international organization "Amnesty International" (AI) in its report released on February 24.

In the territory of a military unit in the village of Borzoi, a fight involved several dozen people. This was reported by an official from of the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya. Till present, there are no official data on victims.

The Chechen authorities have not abandoned the idea of the "spiritual-moral certification" of young people. However, because of the public resonance, they implement it under the guise of questioning. This was reported by residents of Chechnya. According to them, Chechen young people are actually forced to denounce themselves.

At the memorial evening, devoted to the 72nd anniversary of deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples to Kazakhstan and Central Asia, a lecture was presented about the fates and works of poets, including Khevsur poet Gabriel Djabushanuri and Ingush poet Djemaldin Yandiev.

Lawyers of the Inter-Regional Public Organization "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" (CPT) have sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a complaint against unlawful physical violence against Zaur Dadaev, a figurant in Boris Nemtsov's murder case.

The advocates of Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), a student of the Moscow State University (MSU), accused of an attempt to join the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organizations, banned in Russia, ask the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to consider the complaint in the priority order.

The calls of the opposition to dismiss Ramzan Kadyrov increase the likelihood that the Kremlin will leave him in the post of the head of Chechnya, the political analysts Alexei Makarkin and Mikhail Remizov believe. The probability of Kadyrov's resignation is extremely low, said the Forbes journalist Orkhan Jemal.

The question concerning the further term of Ramzan Kadyrov at the post of the leader of the Chechen Republic is premature, since his current term of office has not expired yet. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov, the press spokesman for the President of Russia.

On February 23, actions, dedicated to anniversary of deportation of Chechens and Ingushes in 1944, were held in Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, Antwerp and Kiev. The events, organized by Chechen Diasporas, were also held in the capital of Jordan, and in Georgia – in Tbilisi and Pankisi Gorge.