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Oyub Titiev in the courtroom. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the Caucasian Knot
15:02, 29 January 2019
Prosecutor takes time-out to respond to Titiev's defence
Today, the state prosecutor has asked to give him time to prepare a response to Oyub Titiev's advocates, who demanded to exclude the package with drugs from the list of proofs, which, according to investigators, was seized from rights defender's car.
Machine gun. Photo: Konstantin Chalabov https://sputnik.az/karabakh/20180527/415516093/pulemyotlar-dile-geldi.html
14:45, 29 January 2019
Azerbaijan reports shelling of five border villages
During the last 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani militaries were shelled for 20 times by Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.
Number crunching. Photo: David Goehring / Furiously Factoring, https://sputnik-georgia.ru/georgia/20190128/244083875/nikakix-vypusknyx-ekzamenov---novshestvo-v-shkolax-gruzii.htmlhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/2965625438/
14:35, 29 January 2019
Final exams for 11-graders cancelled in Georgia
In 2019, pupils of Form Eleven will have no final examinations; however, finals for 12-graders are still preserved in 2019. Fully, final exams in Georgian schools will be cancelled since 2020.
Law enforcers. Photo: press service of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee, http://nac.gov.ru/fotomaterialy@page=1.html#&gid=1&pid=8
11:19, 29 January 2019
Attack on law enforcers in Chechnya was the first this year
The attack on the mobile police post in the Sunzha District of Chechnya, as a result of which two law enforcers were wounded and one attacker killed, was the first armed incident in Chechnya in 2019 and the fifth since August 2018
Woman at the cemetery of those perished in the Karabakh conflict, Baku. Photo: REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
11:14, 29 January 2019
Ilham Aliev orders to allocate money to shehids' families after protests
One-time compensations will be paid additionally to families of 2725 Azerbaijani soldiers and policemen, who perished in the course of the Karabakh conflict. The country's authorities have made this decision after the protest action organized by family members of the servicemen who had been denied compensations.
Screenshot from video of bride abduction in Vladikavkaz, posted to YouTube by user b788888888. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpa__s81AM
11:01, 29 January 2019
Bride abduction in Vladikavkaz outrages social networks
Social network users have expressed their concern for the health of a young girl from Vladikavkaz, who was hit twice with her head against the asphalt during the bride abduction rite.
08:36, 29 January 2019
Chechen MIA reports attack on law enforcers' post
A resident of the Ingush village of Psedakh was killed after he attacked a mobile police post in the Sunzha District of Chechnya; two law enforcers were wounded, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.
Parents of Gasanguseinov brothers hold picket, September 2018. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the Caucasian Knot
08:29, 29 January 2019
Vasiliev's words about accidental death of Gasanguseinov brothers anger social networks
The Gasanguseinov brothers were not intentionally killed by law enforcers, but fell victim to a tragic mistake, the head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, believes. Such an assessment of the shepherds' death has caused a negative reaction in social networks.
Oyub Titiev (left) in the courtroom. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the Caucasian Knot
22:24, 28 January 2019
Court denies petition of Titiev's defence on repeated investigative experiment
The judge has rejected the defence's request for re-creating the circumstances of the inspection of Oyub Titiev's car anew. The advocate's petition to summon two experts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to the court was also rejected.
Residents of the village of Sagopshi. Screenshot from video by user Ruslan Albakov-Myarshkhy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtQQh92_mJ8
22:10, 28 January 2019
Attackers on DSP post in Nalchik buried in Ingush village
The four residents of Ingushetia, killed during the attack on the DPS (road-and-patrol service) post patrol in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, were buried in their native village of Sagopshi. Their relatives said they did not know anything about the reasons of the attack.
Ambulance. Photo: Elena Sineok / Yuga.ru
22:00, 28 January 2019
On January 21-27, 2019, five persons fell victim to armed conflict
During the week of January 21-27, 2019, at least five persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: four perished and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
18:40, 28 January 2019
Chechen law enforcers count 15 persons eager to join IS* militants
In 2018, none of residents of Chechnya joined the Syrian militants, although 15 people tried to do it, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported, stating the success of their actions to prevent extremism.
Talekh Bagirzade. Photo: press service of Radio Free Libero Liberty https://www.rferl.org/
18:30, 28 January 2019
"Muslim Unity" claims torture of its supporters in Azerbaijani jails
Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement (MUM), and others convicts under the "Nardaran case", are exposed to "unprecedented pressure" in prison, Mr Bagirzade's supporters announced on January 27. The Azerbaijani Penitentiary Service has denied this information.
Oyub Titiev. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the Caucasian Knot
18:14, 28 January 2019
Titiev's defence demands holding new investigative experiment
Investigators have incorrectly reproduced the circumstances, in which policemen had allegedly found narcotic drugs in the car of Oyub Titiev, a rights defender and the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", his advocate has stated today.
15:59, 28 January 2019
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 21-27, 2019
Start of the Chechen and Dagestani authorities' activities to clarify the borders; attack on policemen in Nalchik; closure of blogger Mekhman Guseinov's case in Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 21-27, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
Militants killed in Dagestan on January11 swear allegiance to the "Islamic State"* Screenshot from video by Operline Ru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBe61T5KfRA
13:44, 28 January 2019
Video of oath of attackers on Dagestan law enforcers to IS* leader posted
The video, in which three natives of Kaspiysk swear allegiance to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS, earlier, the ISIL), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, was found on them after the shootout at the DPS (road-and-patrol service) post, sources have reported.
Ammunition. Photo: © Sputnik / Yevgeny Biyatov https://az.sputniknews.ru/karabakh/20190113/418894002/Protivnik-zadeystvoval-pulemety-na-linii-fronta.html
13:35, 28 January 2019
Azerbaijan claims machine-gun shelling attacks in conflict zone
Within the last 24 hours, the armistice regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 24 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.
Reconnaissance scouts take part in military drills in mountains. Photo: press service of the Southern Military District of Russia
13:24, 28 January 2019
Over 3000 Russian militaries took part in exercises in Abkhazia
Abkhazia has hosted exercises of the personnel of the Russian military base. The servicemen have mastered reconnaissance of transport routes and ensuring the anti-aircraft and anti-sabotage defence.
10:48, 28 January 2019
In Pyatigorsk, police disrupt solo picket in support of LGBTs
In Pyatigorsk, law enforcers have detained Ekaterina Danko, a solo picketer in support of Chechen LGBT people.
Activist Olga Makarycheva holds banner with demand to release political prisoners, Volgograd, January 27, 2019. Photo by Tatiana Filimonova for the Caucasian Knot
10:39, 28 January 2019
Volgograd activists demand to release Anastasia Shevchenko
In Volgograd, nine activists have held solo pickets demanding to release the Rostov activist Anastasia Shevchenko and all Russian political prisoners.
News
Participants in the fighting in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense Press Service The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,000.

Relatives of prisoners in the Taganrog pretrial detention center fear for their health.

Detention center. Photo by Elena Sineok, Yuga.Ru. Natives of the Caucasus declared a hunger strike in a Taganrog pretrial detention center.

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.