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In the period from 2010 to 2015, a total of 6074 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; more than half of them – in Dagestan. The runner-up by the count of killed and wounded persons is Chechnya; the third place is occupied by Ingushetia.

The decision to pay out compensations in the amount of 369,000 euros was issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in two cases, concerning disappearance and death of six natives of Chechnya in 2000-2002.

Any irony about the incident with Mikhail Kasyanov is inappropriate; and nobody will be prosecuted for the attack, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, has treated the attack on Mikhail Kasyanov, the Chairman of the PARNAS Party, committed in downtown Moscow, as molestation.

The critical statements of the head of Chechnya about the non-systemic opposition as traitors caused negative reaction in 59% of the Russians polled by the "Levada Centre". The number of Russian citizens, in whom Kadyrov evokes positive emotions, has declined over the last year from 35% to 17%, says the report of the Centre.

The Moscow police have launched an inquiry into the attack on Mikhail Kasyanov, Chairman of the PARNAS Party, within the administrative legislation. He himself treats the attack on him with the threats received from the head of Chechnya.

When preparing the report "Threat to National Security" about Ramzan Kadyrov, information from open sources, including materials of the "Caucasian Knot", was analyzed; but the report will also present new data, said the author of the report Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician.

In the rear of the "Islamic State" (IS), not the Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) are operating, but just "self-organized groups of young people," who "risk their lives and suffer losses," representatives of the republic's leadership have admitted.

In Chechnya, people are afraid of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was stated by Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the "People's Freedom Party" (PARNAS), who visited Grozny while working on the report about the leader of Chechnya. According to Ilya Yashin, the study is addressed to the Russian public, and there are people in Chechnya, who will disseminate the report in the territory of the republic.

According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the reports of the kidnapping of a young man in the Leninsky District of Grozny on February 5 have not been confirmed, as well as the posts in social networks about the disappearance of seven persons.

Ramzan Kadyrov's statement that Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) is at war in Syria should be treated with scepticism, said Reserve Colonel Victor Murakhovskiy and Andrei Koshkin, a military political analyst. If Kadyrov is telling the truth, then he has actually "exposed" his spetsnaz to the fighters of the "Islamic State" (IS), said Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.

In the territory of Syria, in the rear of the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), fighters of the Chechen special forces are operating, said the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, adding that the Chechen fighters had been trained at the centre of special forces near the village of Tsentoroi.

Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the People's Freedom Party (known as "Parnas") has arrived in the Chechen capital, where he is collecting materials for a report about the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov. The provisional title of the report is "Threat to National Security"; the end of the work is scheduled for February 23.