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Krasny (Red) Bridge, Azerbaijan is over there. Photo by David Pipia, JAMnews
21:50, 4 April 2018
JAMnews: Georgia in no hurry to demine border with Azerbaijan
The HALO Trust expects permission from Georgia to clear mines in a seven-kilometre section of its border, where, according to the organization, the mines were laid by Azerbaijani soldiers during the war with Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan puts pressure on Georgia and prevents demining, experts believe.
Stray dogs. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
17:05, 4 April 2018
Pack of dogs attacks a child in Kabardino-Balkaria
On April 2, a three-year-old boy from Baksan was attacked by a pack of stray dogs, one of the townspeople has reported.
Advocate Pyotr Zaikin (on the right) and Oyub Titiev in the court room. Grozny, April 4, 2018. Photo by the press service of the HRC "Memorial"
15:37, 4 April 2018
Court stops proceeding complaint of Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev
Today, the court in Grozny agreed not to consider the complaint against investigators' actions after the investigator cancelled his previous refusal to initiate a case on the marijuana planted on Titiev. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
A police officer. Photo: Denis Yakovlev / Yugopolis
14:25, 4 April 2018
Policeman in Dagestan tells about torture after detention
A court in Khasavyurt has acquitted the policeman Imambek Taisonov, accused of abuse of power and extortion, admitting that investigators failed to check the policeman's complaints about torture. Taisonov himself confirmed that he had been tortured and demanded to confess to committing a crime.
After the explosion in the Burger King Cafe in Yerevan. Photo Sputnik / Asatur Yesayants https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/incidents/20180403/11234762/vzryv-v-erevane-burger-king-okazhet-materialnuyu-pomoshch-ranennym.html
12:26, 4 April 2018
Russian teenagers wounded in Armenia discharged from hospital
The Russians, hospitalized after the explosion in the Burger King Cafe in Yerevan, have left for their homeland. This was reported by the Yerevan St Gregory the Illuminator Medical Centre.
A military police battalion from Ingushetia. Photo http://www.ingushetia.ru/news/v_ingushetii_vstretili_vernuvshiysya_iz_sirii_batalon_voennoy_politsii/
10:25, 4 April 2018
Battalion of military police returns from Syria to Ingushetia
On April 3, Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov awarded fighter of a military police battalion who returned from the Middle East.
Cleaning works in the streets of Grozny. April 2016. Photo by Ibragim Estamirov http://www.grozny-inform.ru
04:09, 4 April 2018
In Chechnya, schoolchildren and students forced to clean streets for free
Chechnya has announced the month of voluntary cleaning works on Saturdays (subbotniks) starting from March. Organizations and institutions are obliged at their own expense to clean and put in order the territories assigned to them. Those people who refuse to participate in subbotniks will face big problems, residents of Grozny report.
A poster with an invitation for the Jewish community in Sochi. Photo courtesy of Marina Kryukova, a representative of the Jewish Family Center
23:12, 3 April 2018
Volgograd: Jews celebrate Pesach at background of anti-Semitic attacks
In Volgograd, at the Jewish community centre, about 80 people celebrated the beginning of Pesach, one of the main holidays for the Jews. The authorities of Volgograd ignore the anti-Semitic attacks of local political and public figures, claim members of the Jewish community interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
On the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: REUTERS/Staff
20:48, 3 April 2018
ECtHR accepts complaint lodged by relatives of killed Armenian soldiers
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg court has sent questions to Azerbaijani authorities concerning battles near the border village of Chinari, where one Azerbaijani and three Armenian soldiers perished.
A rescuer. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
19:48, 3 April 2018
Two Stavropol shopping centres may be closed after terrible Kemerovo fire
The prosecutor's office found violations of fire safety regulations in two Stavropol shopping centres – "Cosmos" and "Moscow" – and demanded to close them until the violations are eliminated.
Grozny, Chechnya. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
16:47, 3 April 2018
Activists report evacuation of 114 gay men from Chechnya within a year
Since April 2017, a total of 114 persons suspected of non-traditional sexual orientation have left Chechnya with the help of the "Russian LGBT Network". 92 of them are already outside of Russia, said Igor Kochetkov, the chairman of the network.
Automatic weapons. Photo © Sputnik / Konstantin Chalabov https://sputnik.az/karabakh/20170404/409638506/azerbaycanli-herbci-ermeni-zabitlerini-mehv-edib.html
09:40, 3 April 2018
Azerbaijan states machine-gun shelling of seven villages
During the last 24 hours, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone for 95 times by using, among other weapons, heavy machine guns. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.
Hadrut, Nagorno-Karabakh. The Smerch system shell holes © Sputnik/ Asatur Yesayants https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/columnists/20180402/11219983/krichashchaya-tishina-aprelskoj-vojny-v-karabahe-chto-bylo-za-liniej-fronta.html
06:23, 3 April 2018
In Baku, military experts claim risk of resumption of war in Karabakh conflict zone
There is still a risk of the resumption of the war in the Karabakh conflict zone. This opinion has been voiced by military experts in Azerbaijan interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Residents of the front-line villages refuse to leave their houses, despite the fear and shelling.
A protest gesture. Photo © Sputnik / Alexander Imedashvili
05:48, 3 April 2018
Rights defenders treat murder of a young woman on road in Khasavyurt as "typical"
In Dagestan, the situation with violence against women hardly differs from the situation in Russia as a whole, reported Svetlana Anokhina and Irina Kosterina, when commenting on a murder of a young woman in Khasavyurt. According to investigators' version, the murder was committed out of jealousy.
Youth organizations visiting the grave of the killed soldier Rudik Movsesyan. Stepanakert. April 2, 2018. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
01:34, 3 April 2018
Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh honour memory of victims of "April war"
In Nagorno-Karabakh, local residents laid flowers on the graves of the victims of the 2016 "April War" to pay tribute to their memory. In the Tumi village of the Hadrut District, a cross stone was installed in honour of killed officer Suren Melkumyan.
An ambulance car in Armenia. Photo © Sputnik/ Asatur Yesayants https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/incidents/20180101/10030255/neschastnyj-sluchaj-v-novogodnyuyu-noch-v-armenii-postradali-malenkie-deti.html
22:28, 2 April 2018
Children suffered from explosion in Burger King cafe in Yerevan
An explosion of an oxygen cylinder occurred in the Burger King Cafe located in the centre of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
Oyub Titiev in the court room. Photo by the press service of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial"
20:51, 2 April 2018
Defence of Oyub Titiev, Chechen rights defender, appeals against refusal to open a case on drugs planted on him
On April 4, the Staropromyslovsky District Court of Grozny will consider the complaint of the advocate against investigators' repeated refusal to initiate a case on the application lodged by Oyub Titiev, a rights defender, about the marijuana that was planted on him.
Magomed Magomedov. Photo: REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
15:44, 2 April 2018
Russian authorities reject political nature in case against Magomedov brothers
The arrests of Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov, suspected of embezzlement, is not a "one-time action," but the result of tight control of the budget money. This has been announced by presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Collage of the infographics prepared by the "Caucasian Knot"
14:38, 2 April 2018
In Karabakh conflict zone, number of deaths increases during second year of truce
According to the official information, during the two-year truce announced after the "four-day war" in Nagorno-Karabakh, 81 people were killed during shelling in the conflict zone.
09:10, 2 April 2018
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 26-April 1
Actions in Southern Russia in memory of victims in Kemerovo; arrest of Dagestani businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov; blowing up in Nagorno-Karabakh of combat engineers from The HALO Trust; Geneva Discussions on Transcaucasia; attack in Makhachkala on a staff member of the HRC "Memorial" Dagestani office; guilty verdict for defendants involved in beating of a Rostov journalist, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 26-April 1, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
News
Protest march in Tbilisi. Screenshot of the photo "Mautskebeli" from April 18, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1622268069898640&set=pcb.1622282206563893 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia). Protesters in Georgia demanded treatment for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The court upheld the sentence of 11 protesters in Tbilisi.

A protest outside the Georgian Ministry of Education preceded a rally on Rustaveli Avenue.

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.