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Suleiman Kerimov. Photo: Hlebushek https://ru.wikipedia.org
17:46, 14 December 2017
The Bell reports failure of Kerimov's multi-million investment
Suleiman Kerimov, a Senator from Dagestan, has unsuccessfully invested up to 200 million US dollars into the Snapchat messenger, the Bell Company reports citing top managers of investment funds and businessman's acquaintances.
Big annual press conference of Vladimir Putin. December 14, 2017. Photo by the press service of the Russian President http://kremlin.ru
15:41, 14 December 2017
Putin offers to send Caucasians to Syria
Natives of Northern Caucasus would arouse confidence in residents of Syria, both as Russian militaries, and as Sunnis, Vladimir Putin suggested at his press conference.
A killed wolf. Photo http://mprdag.ru/index.php/novosti/3482-na-territoriyakh-neskolkikh-rajonov-respubliki-proveden-otstrel-volkov
10:33, 14 December 2017
Dagestan starts mass wolf shooting
In the Tarumovka, Kizlyar and Lak Districts of Dagestan, shooting of wolves is underway after mass complaints of farmers.
A woman dancing in a hijab. Photo: screenshot of the video by the user tut.dagestan.ru https://www.instagram.com/p/BciGPVIH593/?taken-by=tut.dagestan.ru
09:41, 14 December 2017
Dagestani social network users condemn a video with young woman dancing in hijab
The publication of a video with a young woman dancing in a hijab has provoked sharp critical posts of social network users.
A special operation to detain militants from Kabardino-Balkaria in Saint Petersburg. Photo: screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsKHG3JRbso
09:00, 14 December 2017
A Petersburg woman to get 50,000 roubles after operation against Caucasian militants
In Saint Petersburg, the court has awarded a local woman with compensation for damage in the amount of 50,000 roubles. Her apartment was damaged during a special operation to detain militants from Kabardino-Balkaria. The plaintiff asked to pay her 325,967 roubles.
The building of the XIXth century in the village Tyak of the Gudrut Region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
04:43, 14 December 2017
NKR authorities report growth of foreign tourists
The number of foreign tourists who have visited the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) in 2017 went up by 40% against 2016, making over 20,000.
Yekaterina Skulkina's private profile on Instagram. Photo: screenshot of the website
00:56, 14 December 2017
Scandal with Comedy Woman reveals trend for youth's copying Kadyrov's style of baiting
The practice of public apologies that has spread in Russia has nothing to do with Caucasian and Islamic traditions, rights defenders Tatiana Lokshina and Vadim Mukhanov have stated. According to their version, young people of the Caucasus are using it because of the Chechen authorities' impunity for humiliating residents of the region.
At the site of the murder of Pavel Ardzinba. December 13, 2017. Screenshot of the video by the user David Zhvania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ICpnCDI3E
19:39, 13 December 2017
Businessman Pavel Ardzinba shot dead in Abkhazia
Pavel Ardzinba, suspected of an assassination attempt on the former Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab, was killed assassinated in the Sukhumi-Psou Highway. His acquaintance Dmitry Khagba was shot dead together with him, the Abkhaz Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.
The police at the site of the crime. Tbilisi, December 13, 2017. Photo © Sputnik / Levan Avlabreli
18:51, 13 December 2017
A man wounded in centre of Tbilisi
The man was hospitalized after a shootout in the centre of the capital of Georgia.
A player of the FC "Akhmat" Grozny. Photo by the press service of the FC "Akhmat" http://fc-akhmat.ru/page/9198
18:05, 13 December 2017
"Akhmat" FC fined for supporting football players through loudspeakers
The Grozny "Akhmat" FC has been fined for use of loudspeakers during a football match between its team and the team of the "Zenith" FC, reported Arthur Grigoryanets, the chairman of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union.
Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo © Sputnik / STRINGER https://sputnik-georgia.ru/world_politics/20171211/238519135/Saakashvili-vyshel-na-svobodu-po-resheniju-suda.html
17:06, 13 December 2017
Saakashvili refuses to participate in trials in Georgia
Mikhail Saakashvili has stated he will not take part in the trials against him in Georgia and rejected his advocates, David Kakoishvili, one of them, said today.
Household gas. Photo: Yuri Grechko / Yugopolis
16:22, 13 December 2017
In Chechnya, five persons injured in gas explosion
In Chechnya, two women and three children were hospitalized after a gas explosion which occurred in a private house in the Gudermes District.
The special operation in Stavropol. December 9, 2017. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/
16:10, 13 December 2017
Stavropol residents treat special operation held in their city as exceptional
The special operation was held in a quiet area near the city centre and became a surprise, reported interviewed experts and residents of Stavropol. City residents noted that the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime did not provoked them to fear.
A meeting of the Armenian Parliament. Photo © Sputnik/ Asatur Yesayants
14:47, 13 December 2017
Law to struggle family violence adopted in Armenia
At a meeting of the Armenian Parliament, 75 out of 95 MPs voted for adoption of the law to struggle family violence.
Vladislav Ryazantsev near the court, October 12, 2017. Photo by Valery Lyugaev for the "Caucasian Knot"
02:45, 13 December 2017
A defendants' friend explains attack on Ryazantsev by his work for "Caucasian Knot"
At trial, a friend of defendants has confirmed that one of the reasons for the attack on Vladislav Ryazantsev in Rostov-on-Don was in his activities as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent where critical publications about "Russian nationalists" were posted. According to the testimony of the witness, the beating of the journalist was planned.
A meeting with the militants' relatives in Grozny airport. Photo: screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/BbcngYfHsgk/?taken-by=kadyrov_95
00:33, 13 December 2017
A Dagestani woman reports about her second child left in Syria
Victoria Budaikhanova, a native of Dagestan, detained after her return to Russia with a child, has left her second child in Syria .This was reported by her advocate Sapiyat Magomedova.
The actresses from the "Comedy Woman" with a singer Timur Rodriguez. Photo: screenshot of a photo posted on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcj_G-KgK9h/?taken-by=comedywoman_
00:13, 13 December 2017
Scandal with "TNT" TV Channel let practice of public apologies beyond Chechnya
Producers of the "Comedy Woman" show hurried up to bring apologies for a joke about an Ingush woman from escort service, and the blocking for the office of the "TNT" TV Channel with a demand to apologize proves that the Kremlin lost the monopoly on violence, claimed Russian journalists and rights defenders.
22:23, 12 December 2017
Relatives report torture of Dagestani resident in Krasnodar
In Krasnodar, law enforcers have kidnapped Mikail Mataev, a resident of Khasavyurt, forced him to slander himself, and then arrested him for 15 days, his father Abdulvagab Mataev has reported.
The internally displaced Azerbaijani residents from Karabakh. 1993. Photo: Oleg Litvin https://ru.wikipedia.org
18:09, 12 December 2017
Six Azerbaijani IDPs to get compensation from Armenia
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision to pay 73,649 US dollars to the complainants in the case "Chyragov and Others vs. Armenia", who lost their housing during the Karabakh conflict.
Jerusalem. Israel. Photo © Sputnik / Igor Mikhalev
17:27, 12 December 2017
Azerbaijan calmly accepts Trump's statement about Jerusalem
The absence of mass protests in Azerbaijan after the US has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is connected with the policy of Baku, forced to manoeuvre between the Muslim world and the arms supply partnership. This opinion was expressed by political analysts and journalists questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".
News
Protesters on Rustaveli Avenue supported the demands of parents of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Pro-European protests in Tbilisi have continued for 509 consecutive days.

Parents of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy complained about a ban on setting up tents in Tbilisi.

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.