On January 19, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision in the case of the death of Chechen-Kist Temirlan Machalikashvili during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge in 2017. The court declared the investigation into the case ineffective and awarded his family 25 thousand euros in compensation.

On January 17, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four residents of Ingushetia who were found guilty of participating in the international terrorist organization “Islamic State” and of planning to blow up the buildings of police units in the city of Sunzha. Three of the convicts were minors at the time of the crime.