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Alibek Delimkhanov, the commander of the 141st motorized regiment of internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs deployed in Chechnya, has been promoted to a new position.

The motions lodged by Ali Taziev, including the appointment of an interpreter, and the provision of time for getting acquainted with his case files, have been rejected today by the North-Caucasian Military District Court.

Reports about forcing a 17-year-old girl to marry the boss of the Nozhai-Yurt ROVD (District Interior Division) caused resonance in Chechnya. Authorities have refuted violations of her rights, but locals claim that officials' arbitrariness in such situations is widespread in the republic.

In Chechnya, the Day of memory and mourning for victims of deportation was transferred from February 23 to May 10 because of the mourning for former President Akhmat Kadyrov. This opinion has been expressed by residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The parade in Grozny was watched by militaries, policemen and a handful of officials, while ordinary citizens were not allowed to come and watch the event, residents of Grozny report.

Natives of the Caucasus were active participants of the Great Patriotic War, while the myths of their mass desertion and collaboration with fascists are intended to justify the repressions against Caucasian nations, peoples, the historians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

In the evening on May 8, reinforced military and police posts were deployed in the central streets of Grozny in connection with the upcoming military parade.

As reported by locals, in Grozny, power agents carried out the so-called "passport checks" on the eve of the Victory Day celebrations.

Grozny residents note a significant accumulation of military equipment and power agents in the centre of the Chechen capital, which caused blocking of streets in the morning on May 7.

A Magistrate Judge has stopped the criminal case opened against the director of the state farm "Avturinsky" in the Shali District of Chechnya, who had been accused of non-payment of salaries to his employees for 18 months. The Prosecutor's Office has challenged the decision of the judge.

Today, the lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov, who represents the interests of the family of Djambulat Dadaev, has turned to the Chief Investigating Department (CID) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) demanding to acquaint him with the materials of the criminal case, which was initiated on the special operation conducted in Grozny, but then cancelled by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the ICRF.

The defence of relatives of Djambulat Dadaev, who was killed by agents of Stavropol police in Grozny, intends to seek the opening of a criminal case against the operative agents, who performed the special operation in the capital of Chechnya, said the lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov.