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The attack on policemen in Kabardino-Balkaria. Photo: screenshot of the video by nalchik_24_7, https://www.instagram.com/p/BtBiQXOFn6O/
11:23, 25 January 2019
Attack on policemen in KBR is the third in four months
The attack on the DPS (road-and-patrol) post in Nalchik, in which four attackers were killed and a policeman heavily wounded, was the first armed incident this year in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the third one since October 2018.
Thorhild Sunna Evarsdottir. Photo https://moldova.europalibera.org/a/www.europalibera.org/a/29448907.html
08:45, 25 January 2019
PACE Rapporteur counts 130 political prisoners in Azerbaijan
Ms Thorhild Sunna Evarsdottir, the Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has presented a list of Azerbaijani political prisoners. She intends to visit Azerbaijan and listen to the position of country's authorities on each of the 130 cases.
A DPS inspector. Photo: https://o-gibdd.ru/gibdd-nalchik/
08:42, 25 January 2019
Three men killed in attack on policemen in Nalchik
A policeman was stabbed in an attack on a DPS (road-and-patrol service) post in Nalchik, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.
Hadji Murad at the background of the village of Khunzakh. A drawing by G. G. Gagarin, 1848. Photo https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хаджи-Мурат
23:51, 24 January 2019
Russian authorities promise to send Hadji Murad's skull to Dagestan
The administration of the Russian President has agreed that the Hadji Murad's skull should be transferred from the Museum of Saint Petersburg to Dagestan.
Manvel Grigoryan. Photo © Facebook/ Մանվել Գրիգորյան https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/society/20181225/16424760/ombudsmen-armenii-osudil-travlyu-v-otnoshenii-sudi-osvobodivshego-manvela-grigoryana.html
23:47, 24 January 2019
Defence demands to free former Armenian MP Grigoryan of embezzlement charge
The charge under the article on embezzlement filed against former Armenian MP Manvel Grigoryan does not correspond to the case materials, the defence states.
19:27, 24 January 2019
Investigators stop the murder case of eight Dagestanis in Chechnya
The criminal case about eight residents of Dagestan, killed in a shootout in the Gudermes District of Chechnya in October 2016, is closed. Relatives of the casualties demanded to investigate the case, but they stopped it anyway, the "Mediazona" reports quoting Andrei Sabinin, an Agora's lawyer.
19:16, 24 January 2019
Azerbaijani militaries sent to Afghanistan and Southern Sudan
A group of Azerbaijani military servicemen has been sent to Afghanistan to participate in the "Resolute Support" Mission. Two other officers have left for Southern Sudan as observers in the UN peacemaking mission, says the website of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.
The North Caucasus District Military Court. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the "Caucasian Knot"
14:25, 24 January 2019
Residents of Ingushetia, accused of terrorism, claim being tortured
Salamkhan Sampiev, Ruslan Esmurziev, Khusen Kitiev, Magomed Amatkhanov and Elbert Kharsiev, accused of preparing terrorist acts in Ingushetia and at the French Embassy in Moscow, have declared their innocence. According to their version, they gave confessions under torture.
A law enforcer. Ingushetia. Photo: REUTERS/Kazbek Basayev
14:22, 24 January 2019
Chechen MIA reports more killed militants in 2018
In Chechnya, in 2018, 21 alleged members of the armed underground were killed, whereas in 2017 the number was 18, the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported, thus confirming the data of the "Caucasian Knot" on the number of militants killed and suspected of involvement in the armed underground.
14:16, 24 January 2019
Residents of Gali District of Abkhazia protest against closure of border with Georgia
A rally against the border closure at the "Ingur" checkpoint took place near the administration building of the Gali District. Residents are unhappy with the time restrictions on crossing the border with Georgia, and they are concerned about the issue of obtaining Abkhaz passports.
13:09, 24 January 2019
Azerbaijani oppositionists tell about torture
Agil Magerramov, Ruslan Nasirli and Salekh Rustamov told at the trial, where the case of illegal financing of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) is considered, about torture and refused from their confessions. The Prosecutor's Office took no action to check their complaints of torture, the oppositionists' advocates have reported.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: REUTERS/Said Tsarnayev
13:03, 24 January 2019
Kadyrov reproaches Russian regions for making noise around gas debts
The decision of the court of Grozny that obliged to write off the gas debts does not mention the sum of 9 billion roubles, said the head of Chechnya. He explained the republic's debts by two military campaigns, worn-out networks and problems with consumers' accounting; he has also called on Russian regions to solve their problems with gas debts without mentioning Chechnya.
A silhouette of a man. Photo: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
10:40, 24 January 2019
“They will kill you anyway, be it family or strangers”: gay about life in Chechnya and flight from Russia
A homosexual from Chechnya, who left Russia after detention, told the "Caucasian Knot" how people with non-traditional sexual orientation live in the republic, and what the fate of his acquaintances from the LGBT community was after the start of mass raids on gays. According to the man, he managed to avoid torture, but his close friend was cruelly tortured by law enforcers, and his three familiar men were killed.
Nikol Pashinyan's (on the left) meeting with Ilham Aliev in Davos. January 22, 2019. © Photo / official site of the Prime minister of RA https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/politics/20190122/16897380/Besedovali-poltora-chasa-Pashinyan-rasskazal-o-vstreche-s-Alievym-v-Davose.html
01:34, 24 January 2019
Meeting with Aliev caused criticism of Pashinyan
The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has eloquently commented on his third meeting with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev. The society is insufficiently informed about his actions in the Karabakh settlement, the opposition asserts.
01:28, 24 January 2019
NATO announces large-scale exercises in Georgia
The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) is strengthening cooperation with Georgia in the Black Sea. The next exercises will be held in March with participation of military servicemen from 17 countries, the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, announced at his meeting with the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili.
The European Court of Human Rights. Photo: REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
23:40, 23 January 2019
ECtHR awards 1.6 million euros to relatives of those who went missing in Chechnya and Ingushetia
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has issued its judgments on 20 disappearances of residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia in 2002-2005 and obliged the Russian authorities to pay compensations to their relatives. The total amount of compensations exceeds 1.6 million euros, says the website of the project "Legal Initiative".
Bottled water at the office of the "Musavat" Party where the political prisoners held a hunger strike. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:36, 23 January 2019
Political prisoners stop hunger strike in Azerbaijan
The six oppositionists, who held a hunger strike in Azerbaijani colonies, demanding to release the blogger Mekhman Guseinov and other political prisoners, have stopped their protest. They explained this decision by the closure of the case against Guseinov and the public outcry, which they managed to achieve by their hunger strike.
Anastasia Shevchenko. Photo by Ella Vasilenko RFE/RL
23:31, 23 January 2019
AI treats case of activist Anastasia Shevchenko as "a dangerous precedent"
For the first time, Russian authorities have made use of the repressive law on "undesirable organizations" to prosecute the Rostov activist, Anastasia Shevchenko, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated. She faces up to six years in prison.
Mustafa Gadjibeili. Photo by the press service of the "Musavat" political party https://www.meydan.tv
19:36, 23 January 2019
Editor-in-chief of "Bastainfo" website refuses to plead guilty in court
The indictment in the case of Mustafa Gadjibeili, the editor-in-chief of the oppositional website "Bastainfo.com" has been announced at a session of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes. The advocate has treated the charges as unjustified.
Djambulat Umarov. Photo https://minnac-chr.ru/news/dzhambulat_umarov_kazhdyy_region_imeet_vozmozhnosti_chtoby_sporit_o_svoikh_dolgakh/
19:25, 23 January 2019
Chechen authorities explain Minister's words amid new public apologies
There are no plans to create rubrics for public apologies in Chechnya, authorities and television professionals have explained, noting that the words of Minister Djambulat Umarov were misinterpreted. This happened amid new plots with repentances.
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Chechen residents have submitted over 15,000 applications for flood-related payments.

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.