In January 2022, police officers from Chechnya — acting, according to the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov, in coordination with local colleagues — took Zarema Musayeva, the wife of retired Chechen Supreme Court judge Saydi Yangulbayev, from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny for questioning. The incident attracted widespread attention and became one of the best-known episodes of Chechen law-enforcement practices crossing into Nizhny Novgorod territory.[1]
Chechnya, the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria — the primary site for the restoration of constitutional order in Russia.