On January 17, Grozny TV broadcast an evening news story featuring the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov speaking at a meeting with officials from the Chechen Republic Ministry of Internal Affairs and the republican department of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops.
In the morning of January 9, 2018 members of Human Rights Center Memorial’s office in Grozny (Chechen Republic) came to the office, except the head of it, Oyub Titiev.
Ziyavdin Dapaev and the brothers Sukhrab and Artur Kaltuev have been sentenced to terms in prison for taking part in group readings of works by the Turkish theologian Said Nursi.
One and half months after the events, information about the armed clashes which took place in September 2008 in Ashgabat is still contradictory and incomplete.