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Polling station in Armenia. Photo: © Sputnik/ Armenuhi Mkhoyan, https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/russia/20180111/10120041/armeniya-pomozhet-zhivushchim-v-gruzii-grazhdanam-rf-progolosovat-na-vyborah-prezidenta.html
13:11, 12 March 2018
Armenian CEC announces victory of Republican Party at local elections
Today, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Armenia has published the preliminary data on the elections to local self-administration bodies, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with reference to the official CEC's website.
Military exercises involving tanks and aviation units in Azerbaijan. Photo: press service of Azerbaijani MoD.
11:55, 12 March 2018
Azerbaijan starts military exercises involving tanks and aviation units
Today, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported that up to 25,000 people, armoured vehicles, aviation and rocket-artillery units were involved in the military exercises. Meanwhile, the place of the military exercises has not been specified.
South Ossetian-Georgian border. Photo: © Sputnik / Natalia Airiyan, https://sputnik-ossetia.ru/South_Ossetia/20180214/5824484.html
11:02, 12 March 2018
Levan Kutashvili and Iosif Pavliashvili return to Georgia
Levan Kutashvili and Iosif Pavliashvili, detained together with Archil Tatunashvili in South Ossetia, returned to the territory of Georgia on March 11. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported that the men's bodies did not bear any signs of torture.
09:05, 12 March 2018
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 5-11
Explosion of gas in a Krasnodar high-rise building; 74th anniversary of deportation of the Balkar people; crash of a border service helicopter in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 5-11, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
Forbes magazine. Photo: https://pixabay.com/ru/форбс-журнал-чтение-бизнес-разжечь-924140/
08:00, 12 March 2018
Four Dagestani natives are on the list of richest people in the world
In 2017, according to the Forbes, the list of the richest people in the world included the natives of Dagestan Leonid Mikhelson, Suleiman Kerimov, Gavriil Yushvaev and Ziyavudin Magomedov.
Activists with banners in Krasnodar. Collage. Photo: Alexander Timofeev, Free Media, https://freemedia.io/2018/03/3billboard
06:57, 12 March 2018
Krasnodar police detain activists with posters in "Three Billboards" style
Activists have held a picket in the central street of Krasnodar with election campaigning posters styled as banners from the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".
Law enforcers conduct special operation in Ingushetia mountains. Photo: NAC press service, http://nac.gov.ru
05:27, 12 March 2018
On March 5-11, there were no victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus
During the week of March 5-11, 2018, there were no casualties or wounded persons in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
Mairbek Taisumov. Screenshot from video " Mairbek Taisumov: Interview on the eve of UFC Berlin" posted by user Isa Bax www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhffPoUipyQ
12:16, 11 March 2018
Chechen fighter withdrawn from fight in USA because of visa problems
Mairbek Taisumov, a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, was removed from a fight with American Evan Dunham in New York because of problems with obtaining an American visa.
Opposition rally in Freedom Square in Yerevan. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the Caucasian Knot
05:22, 11 March 2018
Armenian political analysts are sceptical about opposition's potentials
The opposition of Armenia is unlikely to achieve mass protests, because the society is apathetic and disappointed in politics, Armenian experts told the "Caucasian Knot" in their comments on the protest rally held in Yerevan.
Bags of the Volgograd Regional CEC. Photo: press service of the Volgograd Regional CEC, ikvo.ru
02:10, 11 March 2018
Volgograd activist complains about flat-to-flat visits on election eve
Boris Pylin, the Chairman of the NGO "Union of Volgograd Region's Locals", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on March 9 he sent a complaint to Ella Pamfilova, the Chair of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) demanding to cancel the decision of the Volgograd Regional CEC to undertake flat-to-flat propaganda visits ahead of presidential elections in Russia scheduled for March 18.
01:12, 11 March 2018
About 600 cartridges found in water canal of Azerbaijani village
A message that unexploded ammunition was found in the Upper-Karabakh water canal in the territory of Yukhary Salambeili village was received by the Crisis Management Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) on March 10.
Seaside in Batumi. Photo by Yulia Kasheta for the Caucasian Knot.
00:13, 11 March 2018
Dead baby found in Batumi
The body of a newborn child was found on the beach of the resort city of Batumi. Law enforcement bodies have launched an inquiry into the murder case.
A participant of the opposition rally in Baku on March 10, 2018. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:08, 10 March 2018
Baku protesters demand free elections
As reported by the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), some 10,000 people took part in the rally against the presidential election in Azerbaijan. The protesters have stated that the authorities had initiated early election in order to make them non-alternative.
The participants of the opposition rally in Yerevan demanded reforms. March 10, 2018. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:30, 10 March 2018
Armenian opposition demands to remove President Serzh Sargsyan from power
About 300 people gathered at a rally in Yerevan demanding to remove Serzh Sargsyan from power and release political prisoners.
At a presentation of the project "Fathers and Daughters" in Makhachkala. March 9, 2018. Photo by Rasul Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:30, 10 March 2018
Animation project organizers cover fathers-daughters relations in Caucasus
On March 9, at a presentation in Makhachkala, organizers of the project "Fathers and Daughters", designed to break a stereotype about an authoritarian power of a head of a Caucasian family, admitted that the project had also revealed problems in family relations.
The participants of the rally holding photos of the political prisoners. Baku, March 10, 2018. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:08, 10 March 2018
Opposition holds rally to protest against presidential election in Azerbaijan
In Baku, the action under the slogan: "No robbery, stop the monarchy!" has been arranged by the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) and the "Musavat" Party. This is the first joint rally arranged by those opposition forces since 2013.
A soldier of the Defence Army. Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Defence for Nagorno-Karabakh http://www.nkrmil.am/news/view/2101
15:39, 10 March 2018
Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of 220 cases of shelling per week
In the period from March 4 to 10, the Azerbaijani armed forces more than 2500 times shelled the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.
03:46, 10 March 2018
Georgia affected by hurricane
Residents of Georgia are affected by a hurricane. The strong wind damaged roofs of dozens of houses and fell down trees. Besides, rivers left their banks and damaged roads and flooded houses.
Screenshot of the home page of the Internet resource "Prison Library" https://prisonlib.wordpress.com
02:51, 10 March 2018
In Azerbaijan, rights defenders launch educational resource for prisoners
An electronic library with legal acts, teaching aids, fiction and scientific books will provide prisoners with knowledge about their rights and the opportunity to get engaged in self-education. This was reported by rights defenders who presented the project of the Internet resource "Prison Library" in Baku.
The European Parliament in Strasbourg. Screenshot of a video on the website of the European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/en/20150201PVL00010/Organisation
01:49, 10 March 2018
Rights defenders criticize MEPs' refusal to observe Azerbaijani election
The European Parliament (EP) refused to observe the presidential election in Azerbaijan. Rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" associate the refusal of MEPs with their fear to spoil relations with Baku on the eve of signing of a new partnership agreement and to provoke its turn towards Moscow.
News
Protesters outside the Georgian parliament. Screenshot from Publika photo from April 19, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1736237834442426&set=pcb.1736237931109083 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia). Protests in central Tbilisi continue for the 508th day in a row.

Protesters at the Georgian Chancellery. Photo screenshot by Publika. Animal rights activists demand humane treatment for stray animals in Georgia.

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.

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.