The leader of Chechnya has announced that a device on his finger that became the subject of attention and was captured on video from a meeting with Vladimir Putin, is a prayer counter and has no medical purpose. Ramzan Kadyrov has called himself “healthy and full of strength.”

Ramzan Kadyrov’s daughter Khutmat Kadyrova, like her two sisters, has taken a high position in Chechnya: she has been appointed curator of the republic’s healthcare system.

In less than 24 hours, the petition demanding to release Idris Arsamikov, a resident of Chechnya, gained 567 signatures. After Arsamikov's kidnapping, advocates fail to contact him.

Nikolai Dorofeev, a resident of the Volgograd Region, tried to challenge his mobilization in court. The draft commission and the military commissariat refused to take into account his statement about the damage to the lower leg he had received in a road accident, after which some metal structure was installed on his leg.

The Volgograd Garrison Military Court has begun to considering the claim of Andrei Davydenko, who was mobilized to the zone of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. He demands that his conscription be recognized as illegal, since he had a reservation at the enterprise where he worked.

The Urupsky District Court of Karachay-Cherkessia is considering a case against Jehovah’s Witnesses* Irina Perefilieva and Svetlana Gergokova, charged under extremist articles.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has called on the military servicemen involved in the Russian special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine not to complain about their problems in social networks, but to solve them on their own.

The trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" outlet, Abubakar Rizvanov, the head of the "Ansar" Charity Fund, and Kemal Tambiev, an activist, has been protracted due to the absence of examination results of Gadjiev's articles, which was again requested by the prosecution.

The journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov have held two solo pickets in Makhachkala demanding to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, one of the editors of the "Chernovik" weekly outlet.

At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov reported about the growth of economic indicators in Chechnya, the implementation of national projects, and the reduction of unemployment.

Activist Pavel Ulibegov was released after being arrested for failure to obey law enforcers at a solo picket. Pacifist actions help residents of Kabardino-Balkaria to reconsider their attitude towards the special military operation, human rights defender Valery Khatazhukov points out.

Persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, public activity of Ramzan Kadyrov, unrest in Georgia, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of march 6-12, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

More than half a year after Magomed Atimagomedov, a prisoner from Dagestan, testified, his defence managed to initiate another criminal case on his torture against Baatar Bakanov and Arman Sagipov, employees of the colony in Kalmykia known as IK-2.

After serving his sentence in the form of forced labour, Konstantin Zavalin, an Astrakhan activist, was not given his work record book; and this prevents him from reinstatement at work. A lawyer asserts that the work record book should be given out to the convict after his release.

A court in Novorossiysk has denied Askhabali Alibekov's request to consider his case under special procedure that provides for punishment mitigation. His advocate believes that this was because the blogger's refusal to testify.

Alan Gagloev, the president of South Ossetia, has decorated Aishat Kadyrova, the Chechen Minister of Culture, with the Order of Friendship for her great contribution to the development of the Chechen-South-Ossetian relations, Ramzan Kadyrov has boasted.

An advocate, who defends Bagaudin Gaitukiev, a doctor, has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia against the investigator's decision to add terrorist charges to the case. The investigator's version contradicts the witness' testimony and the defendant's alibi, the advocate has pointed out.

Two women-residents of the city of Tyrnyauz (the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR)) have sent a complaint to the presidential envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) about the searches conducted in their apartments.