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Participants of protest rally against demolition of dilapidated houses, Derbent, January 28, 2017. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
08:51, 29 January 2017
In centre of Derbent, residents of dilapidated houses do not agree to move to outskirts
Tenants of dilapidated houses who do not agree to move from the centre of Derbent intend to appeal to the Prosecutor's Office and the court. The people claim that officials are going to move them illegally. Officials have promised to organize for protesters a meeting with the Dagestani Minister of Construction.
Grozny pupils and students gather for celebrations of Russian President’s Birthday. Photo by the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
07:58, 29 January 2017
Chechen Ministry of Education: wearing hijabs for schoolgirls is not mandatory
Chechen schoolgirls and female students are not required to wear hijabs; however, headscarves are a part of the uniform. This was announced by an official of the Chechen Ministry of Education.
04:51, 29 January 2017
In Baku, GPO questions "ReAl" member after his meeting with Iranian diplomats
On January 28, Azer Gasymly, a member of the Board of the movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), was summoned to the Investigating Department for Serious Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan. There, he was questioned during five hours. Azer Gasymly himself has treated the questioning as illegal and called it "execution of a political order."
22:16, 28 January 2017
Azerbaijan: new human rights structure set up in support of political prisoners
The Centre in Defence of Political Prisoners (CDPP) was established on January 27 on the basis of the working group earlier created by Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), the Public Alliance "Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners" and the Monitoring Centre of Political Prisoners.
The speech of Zagra Magomedova, a Deputy of the District Assembly, at the hearings in Makhachkala. January 27, 2017. Screenshot of a video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BPxLXKHlIk5/?taken-by=zagra.05
17:50, 28 January 2017
Emergency hearings on construction of museum in park held in Makhachkala after criticism of project
At the discussion of the construction of the museum complex "Russia – My Story" in the Lenin Komsomol Park in Makhachkala, Zagra Magomedova, a Deputy of the District Assembly, sharply criticized the project.
A rally of the Dagestani residents. January 2017. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
14:48, 28 January 2017
Residents of Derbent are against demolition of their houses
The yard of No. 4 in Lenin Street in Derbent hosted a rally of tenants of the houses, included into the programme of resettlement from emergency and dilapidated houses. The rally was about 100 persons strong.
Vaccination against poliomyelitis. Photo: http://www.7mednews.ru/medicina/page,4,2698-7-glavnyh-novostey-16-fevralya-2015.html
13:48, 28 January 2017
Chechnya sees increased refusals to vaccinate children
Users of the WhatsApp in Chechnya have spread a story of the nurse about serious complications in children after vaccination against poliomyelitis. Despite the refutation by the Republic's Ministry of Public Health, many parents continue refusing to vaccinate their children.
The Georgian-South Ossetian state border. Photo: Sputnik/Ada Baghian
11:26, 28 January 2017
Passes to frontier zone cancelled for citizens of South Ossetia
Citizens of South Ossetia have the right to stay close to the border with Georgia, having only a passport or a service ID on them.
10:33, 28 January 2017
Rights defenders call on to release "Nardaran case" convicts
The Azerbaijani National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) have condemned the authorities for the sentences to long prison terms passed to 18 figurants in the "Nardaran case", including the theologian Talekh Bagirzade and the oppositionist Fuad Gakhramanly
Ruslan Kutaev. Photo: RFE/RL
06:59, 28 January 2017
Ruslan Kutaev and his family are heroes of film on political prisoners screened in Moscow
The documentary "It's Getting Dark" tells the story of five families recognized as political prisoners by rights defenders. Among the heroes is the family of Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus, who was convicted after organizing, against the order of the head of Chechnya, a conference on the deportation of the Chechen people.
Еhe Lenin Komsomol Park. Makhachkala. Photo http://www.riadagestan.ru/
21:08, 27 January 2017
Makhachkala residents criticize museum in city park
The Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" has invited Makhachkala residents to an excursion in the Lenin Komsomol Park to draw their attention to the authorities' decision to build a museum there. Environmentalists and social network users agree that a wrong place was chosen for the museum.
School graduates near the gate of the Unified State Examination centre. Grozny, May 2015. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:07, 27 January 2017
Residents of Chechnya state no conflicts over school dress code
At educational institutions of Chechnya, schoolgirls and female students must wear headscarves, even if they are not Muslims; however, there were no conflicts around the issue, said the interviewed residents of the republic.
Passing the Unified State Examination. Grozny, May 2015. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:35, 27 January 2017
HRC stands for solving hijab issue at schools at regional level
The authorities of the regions, where wearing hijabs has long been practiced, should decide themselves whether to allow them in schools, said Evgeny Bobrov, the deputy chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC), in his comment on the dispute of Minister Olga Vasilieva with Ramzan Kadyrov.
The path leading to the yard of the Gumrak resident's house after the road reconstruction. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:05, 27 January 2017
Residents of Gumrak dissatisfied with road reconstruction project
Residents of the settlement of Gumrak, Volgograd Region, have stated that their remarks were disregarded in the new version of reconstruction of Lenin Street. The designer said that the current version is not final and can be changed.
Construction of the "Rostov-Arena" Stadium. Photo ttp://football-championship-2018.ru/2016/03/stroitelstvo_rostov_areny_518895.html
09:52, 27 January 2017
Developer of "Rostov-Arena" fined by 15.8 million roubles
The Moscow Arbitration Court has fined the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) "Sports Engineering" Company under the lawsuit lodged by the Ministry of Construction, Architecture and Territorial Development of the Rostov Region.
A view of the village of Surkhakhi. Photo by Adam Sagov - https://ru-ru.facebook.com/people/Adam-Sagov/100007324956235
04:30, 27 January 2017
Surkhakhi villager Magomed Aushev spent six days at large
Magomed Aushev, a resident of the Ingush village of Surkhakhi, suspected of involvement in blowing up the car of Ibragim Belkharoev, a religious figure, was released upon the expiry of his detention, but six days later, he was taken into custody again at investigators' request. This was reported by his advocate Batyr Akhilgov.
The lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova. Photo by Larisa Medzhidova
02:44, 27 January 2017
Sapiyat Magomedova claims 3.5 million roubles for her criminal prosecution
The Dagestani lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was accused of using violence against and insulting policemen, went to court claiming compensation for material damage and moral harm, suffered by her because of illegal prosecution. She also demanded to oblige the prosecutor to bring her an official apology on behalf of the state.
The administrative servants came to stop the power supply. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
00:49, 27 January 2017
Settlers in Adler suffer from power outage in cold weather
On January 26, the power supply of the "Neptune" boarding house in Adler, which accommodates the so-called "Olympic resettlers" and victims of natural calamities, was stopped. Under frost, the tenants of the boarding house, including five small children, could not cook food and warm themselves up.
A police car. Azerbaijan. Photo https://ru.sputnik.az/azerbaijan/20151020/402422024.html
00:33, 27 January 2017
Relatives of activist Akhsan Nuruzade in Baku report his disappearance
Since January 24, the family of Akhsan Nuruzade, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" cannot establish his whereabouts. Akhsan supported Talekh Bagirzade and other defendants in the "Nardaran case" and disappeared on the eve of the announcement of the court verdict.
A criminal case. Photo http://www.riadagestan.ru/
00:03, 27 January 2017
Prosecutor demands to extend arrest of figurants in "caliphate case"
The court session on the case of an attempt to create a caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has been postponed in order to allow the defence to prepare its objections to the petition of the public prosecutor, demanding to extend the defendants' custody.
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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.