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Logos of the international human rights organizations "Human Rights Watch" (HRW), "Amnesty International" (AI) and "Front Line Defenders" (FLD). Collage by the "Caucasian Knot"
13:38, 18 December 2014
International rights defenders urge Putin to investigate attacks on their colleagues
Representatives of the international human rights organizations "Human Rights Watch" (HRW), "Amnesty International" (AI) and "Front Line Defenders" (FLD), in their open letter have called on the Russian President Vladimir Putin to investigate the attacks on rights defenders and condemn the practice of collective punishments.
Thousand rouble bills. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/files/5497.JPG
12:12, 18 December 2014
Residents of Grozny massively cash out money from their bank accounts
In the past two days, residents of Chechnya have been massively withdrawing funds from their bank accounts. The reason was in the rumours circulating among people about the upcoming freezing of accounts and credit cards due to a sharp depreciation of the rouble. Bankers think that the panic is unjustified.
EEAS condemned the intention of the head of Chechnya to punish militants' families. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot"
08:41, 18 December 2014
EU criticizes intention of Chechen leader to persecute militants' families
The European External Action Service (EEAS), which is a part of the European Union (EU), has issued a statement calling on the authorities of Chechnya to give a balanced response to the surge of tension in the region and condemned the intention of Ramzan Kadyrov to expel militants' families out of the republic.
Material evidence in a home-made explosives laboratory. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/files/8270.jpg
07:48, 18 December 2014
Court dealing with case of Imangazali Magomedov in Dagestan rejects several defence's motions
The court that running the trial of Imangazali Magomedov, a resident of the village of Shaumyan, who is accused of aiding militants and illegal possession of firearms and drugs, has rejected the earlier motions of the defence, including the one demanding to study the three criminal cases, where the same witnesses had been questioned as in the present case.
Power agents during the special operation. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/files/7757.jpg
07:32, 18 December 2014
Two militants killed in the Baksan District of the KBR
As reported by a law enforcement source from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the village of Dygulybgey, Baksan District of the KBR, power agents shot dead three militants. The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was lifted at 9:45 a.m. Moscow time.
Mardiros Demerchyan. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:00, 17 December 2014
Sochi court finds builder Demerchyan guilty of false denunciation
The Adler District Court of Sochi has handed down a guilty verdict to the builder Mardiros Demerchyan and appointed a punishment of 300 hours of mandatory public work.
Nadezhda Tsapok in the courtroom. Photo: Gennady Anosov / Yugopolis
20:16, 17 December 2014
Court finds Nadezhda Tsapok guilty of land fraud
The Kuschevsky District Court in the Krasnodar Territory has found Nadezhda Tsapok, the former head and founder of the company "Artex-Agro", guilty of large-scale fraud of embezzling 770 hectares of land.
The building where the office of the Joint Mobile Group of the Committee against Torture (CaT) is located, after the fire. Grozny, December 154, 2014. Photo by Akhmed Aldebirov for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:44, 17 December 2014
MfE: the basic version of fire in rights defenders' office in Grozny is arson
As reported by the spokesman of the Chechen Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), the versions of a fire from a short circuit in the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in no longer considered – the main version of the reason of the fire is arson.
Murad Amriev. Photo: Interregional Non-governmental Organization “Committee Against Torture” http://www.pytkam.net/press-centr.novosti/4124
14:40, 17 December 2014
Court session on suit of Chechen MIA against Amriev who stated torture by police postponed till December 25
The consideration of the claim lodged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic against the athlete Murad Amriev, who stated that he had been kidnapped and tortured at the police of Grozny, has been postponed till December 25.
The building of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Photo by Nina Tumanova for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:05, 17 December 2014
Hassan Zakayev, native of Chechnya, suspected of aiding organizers of Dubrovka terror act in Moscow
Hassan Zakayev, who is now in custody in Moscow on suspicion of involvement in the capture of the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre on October 23, 2002, is suspected of aiding the militants who carried out the above act.
The building of the Russia's Supreme Court. Photo: http://www.vsrf.ru/galleria/images/7/2.jpg
12:15, 17 December 2014
Court session on MoJ's lawsuit on liquidation of "Memorial" postponed at request of rights defenders
The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has rescheduled for January 28 the consideration of the lawsuit filed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with a demand to liquidate the public organization named "The Russian Historical, Educational and Human Rights Society 'Memorial'".
Grozny. Chechnya. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
10:25, 17 December 2014
In Chechnya, case of Khasan Edilkhanov accused of involvement in war in Syria sent to court
The criminal case initiated against a local resident Khasan Edilkhanov, a suspect of involvement in the war in Syria for the militants, who was detained at Moscow airport, has been delivered ton the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya.
Stele at the entrance to the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Photo: Eldar Rasulo, http://odnoselchane.ru/images/photogallery/cache/wm_IMG_5788.jpg
06:35, 17 December 2014
Power agents' actions did not interfere with work of authorities, Khasavyurt administration asserts
The administration of Khasavyurt continues working normally. The confiscation of documents undertaken by power agents did not prevent the officials to perform their duties and receive citizens, officials, said the staff of the Mayoralty. There were no conflicts, said the officials of the administration of the Khasavyurt District.
Khadija Ismayilova is awarded for "The Courage in Journalism". New York, October 24, 2012. Photo: RFE/RL, http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/26735895.html
05:15, 17 December 2014
AI announces journalist Khadija Ismayilova to be "prisoner of conscience"
The human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) said that the journalist Khadija Ismayilova was arrested in Azerbaijan for political reasons and recognized her as a "prisoner of conscience".
A poster at the funeral march dedicated to the murdered journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev. Makhachkala, July 9, 2013. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent Patimat Makhmudova
01:55, 17 December 2014
In Moscow, participants of Journalists' Memorial Day paid tribute to Akhmednabiyev and Kuashev
Moscow has hosted the Memorial Day of Journalists who perished while performing their professional duties; and its participants commemorated their colleagues assassinated in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria.
Passport of a Russian Federation citizen. Photo by Nina Tumanova for the "Caucasian Knot"
01:16, 17 December 2014
Special agents fix data of picketers in Moscow in defence of Chechen rights defenders
A series of solo pickets in support of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders and the Committee against Torture (CaT) in Chechnya was held on December 16 in Moscow without detentions; however, agents of the FSO (Russia's Federal Security Service) and FSB fixed the personal data of the activists who took part in the action.
Arthur Sakunts at the protest action in support of the prisoners after the clashes with the police on November 5. Yerevan, November 5, 2013. Photo by Armine Martorosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:54, 16 December 2014
In Armenia, rights defenders state prisons are overcrowded
Armenian rights defenders name overcrowded prisons, poor quality of medical care in them and problems with conditional early relief (CER) among main problems of the country's penitentiary system.
22:58, 16 December 2014
Broadcasting of radio "Echo Moskvy-Makhachkala" resumed in Dagestan
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 11, at the demand of the Russian "Roskomnadzor", the radio "Echo Moskvy-Makhachkala" was suspended. As stated by the spokesman of the "Roskomnadzor", the broadcasting was suspended, because the transmitter was broadcasting not from the place, which is specified in the permit for using radio frequencies.
22:20, 16 December 2014
Experts doubt about reduced tension in Dagestan after murder of Murad Zalitinov
In the opinion of Mairbek Agaev and Milrad Fatullaev, the heads of the weekly "Chernovik" and the newspaper "Nastoyascheye Vremya", respectively, the murder Murad Zalitinov will not have a noticeable effect on the situation in the Dagestan armed underground and will not reduce the level of tension in the republic.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: http://www.grozny-inform.ru/main.mhtml?Part=8&PubID=56441
21:24, 16 December 2014
Chechen leader rejects social payments to militants' relatives
Social packages will be no longer paid out to militants' relatives, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, again pointing out that his republic will enforce the collective responsibility of families for actions of militants.
News
Acting head of Dagestan Fyodor Shchukin and a criminal case. Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Commentators doubted the prospects of Shchukin's fight against corruption.

Heat pipeline. Photo by the press service of the administration of Krasnodar. The authorities' report on the readiness of housing and communal services for winter has caused skepticism among the residents of Dagestan.

The serviceman was convicted in Nalchik for being absent from his unit.

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.