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Avaz Gasanov. Photo by Elshan Rustamov, http://1newsaz.com
19:23, 10 February 2015
This initiative was put forward by Azerbaijani political scientists, who believe that the current format of the OSCE Minsk Group is unable to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
16:48, 10 February 2015
Since the start of warfare in Syria, nine natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who fought for the militants, have been killed there, said a source from the Department for the KBR of the Russia's Federal Security Bureau (FSB).
Artak Khachatryan. Photo http://rus.azatutyun.am/content/article/26838612.html
16:44, 10 February 2015
Investigators have questioned the activist Artak Khachatryan, who suffered in an attack on him, as a victim, said the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia.
Khavazh Temirsultanov. Photo by Taisa Temirsultanova
14:50, 10 February 2015
The Adler District Court has granted the investigator's petition to extend the custody of the native of Chechnya Khavazh Temirsultanov, accused of robbing the pensioner Arthur Zadelnikov.
13:49, 10 February 2015
As stated by Sergey Fredinskiy, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia, officials of the Russian Prosecutor's Office may act as prosecutors in the trial on the murder of the Avetisyan family in the Armenian city of Gyumri.
06:52, 10 February 2015
The investigating authorities of Dagestan have launched a criminal investigation against a resident of the republic, suspected of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).
A truck of the Russian armed forces. Photo: http://mil.ru/images/military/military/2015/DSC_1170-900.jpg
04:15, 10 February 2015
The Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is holding, jointly with Ukrainian militaries, an inspection in one of the districts of the Rostov Region. The aim of the inspection is to identify the extent of military activities in a certain area defined by the Ukrainian party, the Russia's MoD reports.
02:59, 10 February 2015
Erdogan Boz, a Turkish citizen of Circassian origin, has asked the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of Kabardino-Balkaria to help him to restore his right to visit his historic homeland.
Magomed Mutsolgov. Photo: http://www.mashr.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE-%E2%84%96-2.jpg
23:20, 9 February 2015
Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr" and the head of the Republic's Public Oversight Commission (POC) has demanded from the public prosecutor of Ingushetia to check the information about the torture of the resident of Ingushetia Khadishat Albakova and other violations of her rights.
21:17, 9 February 2015
The arrested residents of Derbent Gamlet Kelbisov and Rustam Gabibov are kept in the temporary detention facility (IVS) of Vladikavkaz; for more than a month their advocates are not allowed to meet them, their relatives told rights defenders.
Collage by the "Caucasian Knot"
19:48, 9 February 2015
In 2014, the citation index of the "Caucasian Knot" more than doubled, which put the edition into the TOP-30 of most cited Russian Internet resources. According to its own data, the citation rate of the "Caucasian Knot" in 2014 was much higher.
19:22, 9 February 2015
The investigating authorities of Ingushetia have delivered to the court a criminal case of a 19-year-old local girl, accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and storage of firearms.
18:24, 9 February 2015
The court in Grozny, which is considering the lawsuit lodged by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against the Committee against Torture (CaT) and an athlete Murad Amriev, has obliged the MIA to clarify the claims; and the court also requested materials of the check of the complaint about torturing the athlete, said Galina Arapova, the head of the Centre for Defence of Media Rights.
Activists of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have held a training session in Tbilisi for local residents. February 8, 2015. Photo by Beslan Kmuzov for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:49, 9 February 2015
Activists of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have held a training session in Tbilisi for local residents, during which they told about the origins of the conflict of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and about the methods of settling such conflicts in the world.
09:00, 9 February 2015
Aggravation of situation in the area of the Karabakh and Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict; attack on advocate in Dagestan; arrest of current and former vice-governors in Krasnodar Territory; start of sending Ukrainian refugees from Rostov Region to other regions of Russia; detention of 11 former employees of Georgia's MIA on suspicion of resonant past murder; public utility accidents in Volgograd Region, which left residents without heat and power, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 2-8, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
Gldani Prison. Georgia. Photo: Alexander Imedashvili, NEWSGEORGIA
04:59, 9 February 2015
The office of the presidential envoy of South Ossetia for the issues of the post-conflict settlement has turned to the observation mission of the European Union in Georgia asking the observers to clarify the health status of its three citizens, who are holding hunger strike together with prisoners of Gldani Prison.
Seeing-off the recruits, December 2014, Ingushetia. Photo:  http://www.ingushetia.ru/photo/archives/021855.shtml
02:15, 9 February 2015
During the week from February 2 to February 8, 2015, no victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were registered. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
March in support of Gyumri residents. Inscription on a poster: "We are masters of our own country". Yerevan, January 26, 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
10:06, 8 February 2015
The need to change power in Armenia, including through early elections, was stated by the participants of the conference convened by Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party.
Policemen near the residence of the president of Armenia during  protests against the Law "On Turnover Tax", January 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
02:22, 8 February 2015
Artyom Khachatryan, Artak's brother, believes that Artak was beaten up because of his social and political activities, in particular, of his active participation in protests against the amendments to the Law "On Turnover Tax", said Artyom.
The car with the supporters of the "Pre-Parliament", who took part in the motor rally, was stopped by the persons in citizens' clothes. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
01:28, 8 February 2015
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has opened a criminal investigation into the beating of supporters of the "Pre-Parliament" in the Kashatag District of the NKR, having qualified the crime as hooliganism.
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.