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Blogger Erik Kituashvili, Adam Delimkhanov. Photo: MaxSvet http://wikireality.ru/wiki; press service of the Russian State Duma
18:12, 24 December 2019
Chechen MP forces extortionists to apologize to blogger Davidych
Blogger Erik Kituashvili, who complained of extortionists who called themselves "Kadyrov's people," announced a solution to the problem after meeting with Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma member from Chechnya, on December 23.
War in Syria. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
18:05, 24 December 2019
Makhachkala native sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for helping Syrian militants
In Rostov-on-Don, the military court found a native of Makhachkala guilty of transferring money to his nephew, who fought in Syria on the side of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
17:57, 24 December 2019
Ramzan Kadyrov ceases to deny information about conspiracy
In response to a question about the conspiracy, the leader of Chechnya said that he had stopped some negotiations between officials. Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned Ibragim Temirbaev, the former Mayor of Argun, as his detractor.
Forced migrants at a building of the Ministry of Refugees, Labour, Health, and Social Affairs of Georgia. Photo by Beslan Kmuzov for the "Caucasian Knot"
17:49, 24 December 2019
Refugees occupy ministry building in Georgia
Since September, internally displaced persons (IDPs), or forced migrants, have been conducting a protest rally at a building of the Ministry of Refugees, Labour, Health, and Social Affairs of Georgia, where they have arranged a sleeping corner for themselves. The protestors claim that the money allocated by the state for rented housing is not enough.
Ramzan Kadyrov at a press conference held on December 23. Screenshot of the TV report by the Vesti https://yandex.ru/turbo?text=https%3A%2F%2Fgrozny.tv%2Fnews.php%3Fid%3D35589
17:38, 24 December 2019
Kadyrov approves murder of Khangoshvili
At a press conference held on December 23, Ramzan Kadyrov declared the authorities of Russia and Chechnya were not involved in the killing of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin. Following President Vladimir Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov also called Zelimkhan Khangoshvili a terrorist.
Zamid Chalaev. Photo: screenshot of the video https://vk.com/video279938622_456242094
11:34, 24 December 2019
Social network users criticize words of commander of Kadyrov regiment about "traitors"
Ironic comments were made by social network users to the video with the speech by Zamid Chalaev, the commander of the Akhmat Kadyrov patrol-and-post service (PPS) regiment in Chechnya; while local residents report about the escalation of anxiety atmosphere in the republic.
The Red Mosque in Astrakhan. Photo: Ludushka, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21359926
11:27, 24 December 2019
Law enforcers raid Astrakhan mosque
On December 23, law enforcers were on duty during prayer at the Red Mosque in Astrakhan, and also conducted house-to-house raids in the district where Muslims live. Such law enforcers' raid was not the first one in the city.
The police detains an activist at a protest action. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
08:52, 24 December 2019
PFPA treats arrest of its activist in Azerbaijan as political
On December 22, Kenan Azizli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested for ten days on charges of disobedience to the police. The PFPA believes that he is prosecuted on the basis of trumped-up charges for political reasons.
08:48, 24 December 2019
Prosecution mitigates charges against Chechen law enforcers accused of kidnapping Khasavyurt resident
Two Chechen law enforcers accused of kidnapping Alexei Kardashov, a resident of the city of Khasavyurt, were transferred from SIZO (pre-trial prison) under house arrest; and the charge itself has been eased, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has reported. Israeli activists link the slip in the investigation with the interest of Chechen authorities.
A sign indicating the direction towards a polling station in Baku. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:37, 23 December 2019
Observers report violations at elections in Azerbaijan
Ballot papers throws-in, "carousels", removal of observers from polling stations and other irregularities have been fixed at the municipal elections in Azerbaijan by the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Education (CEM&DE). Analysts pointed to the absence of an acute rivalry among candidates.
An action in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev in Makhachkala. November 2019. Photo by Ilyas Kapiev for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:33, 23 December 2019
Journalists urge ICRF head to take up Gadjiev's case
Colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev have timed their action demanding to objectively investigate the case of the arrested journalist of the "Chernovik" weekly to the visit of Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to Dagestan.
Yegor Lesnykh in the courtroom. Photo by the HRC "Memorial" https://memohrc.org/ru/defendants/lesnyh-egor-sergeevich
21:25, 23 December 2019
HRC "Memorial" puts Yegor Lesnykh on the list of political prisoners
Over the past two months, nine more persons have been added to the list of Russian political prisoners, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has declared. The updated list includes Yegor Lesnykh, a native of the city of Volzhsky, convicted under the "Moscow case".
Penal Code. © Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
21:19, 23 December 2019
Resident of Dagestan fined for keeping IS flag
The court has fined a resident of the Rutul District of Dagestan, at whose home law enforcers found a flag of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by he court, the FSB has informed.
Law enforcers near the building of the Russian FSB in Bolshaya Lubyanka Street. Screenshot of the video by "Komsomolskaya Pravda" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LrLWcR_K8U&feature=emb_logo
16:48, 23 December 2019
Lubyanka attack reminds of attacks in Caucasus
A man who attacked a FSB building in Moscow could have been taken alive, but he was killed, like it often happens during special operations in the Caucasus, notes Caucasus expert Alexei Malashenko. The attack occurred against the backdrop of a speech by President Vladimir Putin, and that recalled the events of 2014, when militants attacked Grozny on the day of the Russian President's address to the Federal Assembly.
Ammunition. Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:41, 23 December 2019
Azerbaijan claims sniper shelling attacks in conflict zone
The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone and in villages on the border with Armenia were shelled 23 times within 24 hours, including from sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.
12:37, 23 December 2019
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 16-22, 2019
President Putin's answers to questions on the problems of the southern regions of Russia; sentence to a Georgian doctor in South Ossetia; trials in cases against Ingush activists in the Stavropol Territory; attack on a son of the first president of Georgia in Tbilisi; opening of a monument to Stalin in Volgograd, and request of the Georgian Communists to restore the monument to the Soviet leader in Gori, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 16-22, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
11:32, 23 December 2019
"Spiegel" reveals details of transferring data on Khangoshvili to Germany
Back in 2012, an official of the Russia's FSB handed information about the wanted Zelimkhan Khangoshvili over to German law enforcement bodies, "Der Spiegel" writes.
Gori. Photo: Andrzej Wójtowicz https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гори
11:29, 23 December 2019
Georgian Communists demand to return Stalin's monument to Gori
On Stalin's birthday, members of the Georgian Communist Party and their supporters held a rally in his homeland, the city of Gori, demanding t0 reinstall hat the monument to the former Soviet leader, which was dismantled nine years ago.
Screenshot of the video by the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs posted on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B6VkOSGq_35/
11:27, 23 December 2019
Instagram users outraged at video with rape victim in Dagestan
The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted on the Instagram a video depicting a testimony of the minor, of raping whom Musa Aliev, a resident of Mutsalaul, who has reported torture, is suspected. Users have criticized the MIA for posting the video with a child.
Picketer in Rostov-on-Don, December 20, 2019. Screenshot of the page posted on the Facebook by the community "Case of the Rostov boys", https://www.facebook.com/SvobodaYanVlad/photos/pcb.142075747211194/142069583878477/?type=3&theate
11:36, 22 December 2019
Rostov-on-Don townspeople hold action in support of political prisoners
On December 20, solo pickets were held in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don, demanding to release political prisoners. In Rostov-on-Don, protesters went out to their action with posters in support of activists Vladislav Mordasov, Yan Sidorov, and Anastasia Shevchenko.
News
Alexey Belikov. Photo from the Mozdok District Administration's Telegram channel https://t.me/MozdokRaionAMS/7888 A fighter from North Ossetia was killed in Ukraine.

A soldier was convicted in Nalchik for failing to report to his unit.

An anti-corruption lawsuit against Ruslan Tsalikov has been filed in court.

LEGAL TEXTS
The illustration was created by the Caucasian Knot using AI The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

The “Caucasian Knot" publishes the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was initialed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on August 8, 2025, through the mediation of US President Donald Trump. The meeting of Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan took place on August 8 in Washington. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and Aliyev also signed a joint declaration. In addition to the agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump signed a number of separate memoranda with Aliyev and Pashinyan....

Personalities
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo courtesy of press service of HRC 'Memorial', http://memohrc.org/ Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

Magomed Daudov. Photo: screenshot of the video http://video.agaclip.com/w=atDtPvLYH9o Magomed Daudov

Magomed "Lord" Daudov is a former Chechen militant who was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia", the chairman of the Chechen parliament under Ramzan Kadyrov.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video posted by Abu-Saddam Shishani [LIVE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIR3s7AB0Uw Tumso Abdurakhmanov

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is a blogger from Chechnya. After a conflict with Ramzan Kadyrov's relative, he left the republic and went first to Georgia, and then to Poland, where he is trying to get political asylum.