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Khas-Magomed Kadyrov (left) at the meeting of Chechen MIA. Photo: press service of Chechen State TV Company 'Grozny', https://grozny.tv/news.php?id=22781
14:25, 21 December 2017
Authorities explain appointment of Kadyrov as chief of Grozny police
Junior Lieutenant Khas-Magomed Kadyrov, appointed in November the chief of the Grozny Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), "put an end to the drug business in Chechnya" when he headed the Drugs Control Department. This has been stated today by Zhambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister for National Policy.
13:48, 21 December 2017
US journalists denied access to Kuban parliament
Today, delegates of the Legislative Assembly for the Krasnodar Territory have unanimously voted to ban journalists of US editions recognized as foreign agents from attending sessions of the Krasnodar Legislative Assembly.
Solo picket in defence of Igor Stenin. Photo by Elena Grebenyuk for the Caucasian Knot.
12:47, 21 December 2017
Court re-dismisses Igor Stenin's appeal
Today, after the General Prosecutor's Office request, the Court of the Astrakhan Region has once again considered the complaints filed by advocates of activist Igor Stenin. The verdict to the activist has been upheld. The court hearing has taken place against the background of a picket in defence of Igor Stenin.
11:35, 21 December 2017
ICRF refutes information about IED at place of special operation in Stavropol
On December 20, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reported the information about an explosive device found in an apartment of a suspected killed in the Stavropol special operation is false.
Meeting Dagestani girl from Iraq in the airport. Still picture of video report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=145&v=eBAAg00Y7PM
08:35, 21 December 2017
Three-year-old Dagestani girl returned from Middle East
On December 20, the child found in Iraq, whose parents had perished, was brought to Grozny and handed over to her relatives.
Message about arrest of Victor Chirikov. Screenshot of Alexei Avanesyan’s FB page.
06:50, 21 December 2017
Victor Chirikov goes on hunger strike at IVS
Victor Chirikov, a Krasnodar activist, was detained at his home in the village of Poltavskaya on December 19. A court in Krasnodar found him guilty of non-obeying policemen and arrested him for five days. At the temporary detention facility (known as IVS), he went on a hunger strike.
Ruslan Kutaev, December 20, 2017. Screeshot of video posted by 'Dozhd' TV Channel.
03:46, 21 December 2017
Ruslan Kutaev: I will return to Russian politics
Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, who has liberated from colony in Chechnya, said he was not afraid of persecutions and intended to get back into Russian political life after the expiry of the term of his administrative supervision.
At the place of special operation in Stavropol. Photo: press service of the National Antiterrorist Committee, http://nac.gov.ru/kontrterroristicheskie-operacii/v-stavropole-v-hode-kontrterroristicheskoy.html#
00:17, 21 December 2017
Journalists see links of CTOs in Stavropol and Zelenchukskaya
The murder of the man who triggered an explosion in Stavropol, reports on explosion threats in the city and the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Karachay-Cherkessia are linked, said Vasily Balditsyn, the Chairman of the Union of Journalists of the Stavropol Territory.
Alexei Tyurin holds solo picket at the FSB building in Astrakhan, December 20, 2017. Photo by Elena Grebenyuk for the Caucasian Knot.
22:36, 20 December 2017
Astrakhan activists hold pickets on FSB Day
In front of the FSB building in Astrakhan, activists have held two solo pickets demanding to stop politically motivated persecutions and respect the Constitution's article on the freedom of assembly.
Ramzan Kadyrov (left). Photo: Juerg Vollmer https://ru.wikipedia.org
20:47, 20 December 2017
USA put Kadyrov on sanctions list
The US Department of the Treasury has put Ramzan Kadyrov on the "Magnitsky" sanctions list, calling him responsible for extrajudicial executions, torture and other human rights violations in Chechnya.
Khadija Ismayilova. Photo: Abbas Atilay (RFE/RL)
17:55, 20 December 2017
Journalist Khadija Ismayilova banished from premiere performance in Baku
Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova reported she had to leave the Baku theatre building after the threats to cancel the performance if she stayed among spectators.
17:26, 20 December 2017
Prosecutor's Office asks to close mosque in Chontaul
In Dagestan, the Prosecutor's Office has claimed that extremist books are being kept in a mosque building in the Chontaul village and filed a lawsuit to court with a request to close the mosque.
15:46, 20 December 2017
Law enforcers detain alcohol buyers, Grozny residents report
In the morning on December 17, in Grozny, law enforcers detained at a supermarket exit two men who had just bought several bottles of beer and vodka and took them away to the city. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Murad, who witnessed an incident.
13:26, 20 December 2017
Chechen law enforcers: missing schoolboy not involved in terrorist activities
A teenager is wanted as a disappeared person, and the information about his involvement in preparation of terror acts was published by mistake, the law enforcement bodies explained to the schoolboy's relatives.
Ruslan Kutaev. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the Caucasian Knot.
11:57, 20 December 2017
Political prisoner Ruslan Kutaev released from Chechen penal colony
Today, Ruslan Kutaev, the chair of the Assembly of the Peoples of the Caucasus, has been released from a penal colony in Chechnya. This has been reported by one of the convict's relatives.
11:04, 20 December 2017
IED found after CTO in Stavropol
An improvised explosive device (IED) has been found in an apartment rented by a suspect killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Stavropol.
Sasha Koulaeva (FIDH). Photo: Guillaume Buck, http://spring96.org/ru/news/71907
09:30, 20 December 2017
Rights defenders: France starts extraditing natives of Caucasus without trials
In 2017, France has dramatically changed its attitude towards people from Chechnya requesting political refuge. Sasha Koulaeva, the head of Eastern Europe-Central Asia Desk at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), reported about 10 people from Chechnya who face extradition only for suspicion of being involved in radical groupings.
Harlem Désir (right) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov. Photo: http://www.mfa.gov.az/news/878/4116
06:13, 20 December 2017
OSCE Representative on Media Freedom calls on Baku to stop harassing journalists
Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Media Freedom, has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to reconsider the verdict to Aziz Orudjev, the executive director of the "Kanal-13" TV Channel.
Grenades at the window. Photo from website pixabay.com
05:41, 20 December 2017
One person killed in CTO after explosion in a high-rise building in Stavropol
Tonight, the tenants of the apartment building in the south-western area of Stavropol were evacuated after an explosion that occurred in one of the apartments.
Screenshot of blablacar.ru home page.
00:39, 20 December 2017
Lawyer treats judgement to block the BlaBlaCar as erroneous
On December 19, the Krasnodar Territorial Court cancelled the judgement of the Timashevsk District Court, which found the information about joint travels posted on the website of the BlaBlaCar service to be prohibited.
News
The number of killed fighters from the southern regions of Russia in Ukraine has exceeded 9600.

Ivan Gel. Screenshot from his TG channel dated 16.05.26. https://t.me/glava_ilov_admin/5302 The head of the district in the Volgograd region resigned after a guilty verdict.

A soldier from the Volgograd region killed in combat.

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.