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16:38, 29 September 2014
Vremenny residents reject power agents' offer to leave their houses
A local woman told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that law enforcers offered the residents of the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, to leave their settlement. According to her story, residents refused to do it, fearing for their property.
Law enforcers’ car in Vremenny. Photo made by residents of the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, September 24, 2014.
16:16, 29 September 2014
HRC "Memorial": power agents would not let rights defenders into blocked Vremenny
On September 26, representatives of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and Human Rights Watch (HRW) tried to visit the settlement of Vremenny to see what was happening there in terms of human rights, but the power agents at the checkpoint at the crossroads leading to Vremenny and the village of Gimry village refused to let rights defenders to move farther, says the HRC's release received today by the "Caucasian Knot".
13:16, 29 September 2014
PACE to hold side-event on "Unprecedented Repressions in Azerbaijan"
The PACE fall session opened on September 29 in Strasbourg is to hold so-called "side-event" titled "Unprecedented Repressions in Azerbaijan". This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Khadidja Ismailova, an Azerbaijani investigative journalist, who is to take part in the forthcoming discussions.
11:40, 29 September 2014
On September 22-28, three persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus
During the week of September 22-28, 2014, at least two persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. One person was wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources. The death toll includes one suspected member of the armed underground and one civilian, both of them in Dagestan.
Fence of the Central District Hospital in Minvody. Photo: http://minvody-crb.org.ru/
10:14, 29 September 2014
Minvody residents demand to investigate beating up of hospital patient
On September 28, the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody) hosted a protest action, during which the protestors demanded to conduct a fair investigation into the fact of beating of a man at the Central District Hospital of the city. The protestors were informed by the local deputy police chief that two-thirds of the total number of the fighters had been detained.
09:00, 29 September 2014
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 22-28
Hurricane in Southern Russia, flooding hundreds of houses of local residents and killing several people; inauguration of new President of Abkhazia; conviction of key witness in one of cases against dismissed Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 22-28, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
Picketer. Photo: http://savekhoper.ru/?p=4114
23:45, 28 September 2014
Southern Russia protests against mining nickel near Khopyor River
Today, the cities of the South Federal District (SFD) and the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Federation have held actions of nationwide solidarity for the preservation of the Central Black Earth Economic Region and against the decision on mining of nickel in the Khopyor River area.
Bus "Makhachkala-Moscow". Photo: http://taxi-geba.ru
09:35, 28 September 2014
Murmansk resident reports to police about spending 18 years in slavery in Dagestan
On September 26, in the Volgograd Region, policemen removed a 43-year-old man without any ID from the bus route "Makhachkala-Moscow". The detainee claims that he spent the past 18 years in slavery in Dagestan, where his passport was taken away from him. After the man gave his explanations to law enforcers, they released him, and he went to Moscow by hitchhiking. This was reported by the volunteer organization "Alternative".
Darya Polyudova. Photo: https://twitter.com/zk_rf/statuses/510019443540652032
06:48, 28 September 2014
"Rosfinmonitoring" puts three Krasnodar activists on terrorists and extremists list
The "Rosfinmonitoring" (the Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring) has included Krasnodar oppositionists Darya Polyudova, Vyacheslav Martynov and Pyotr Lyubchenkov, who intended to hold a protest action against the Russia's policy towards Ukraine, in the official list of terrorists and extremists.
Excavator at the high-rise building construction site, residential area of Park and Constitution Streets, Sochi, September 2014. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
05:49, 28 September 2014
Sochi residents claim violation of their rights builders of high-rise structure
On September 27, about 50 residents of buildings located in Park and Constitution Streets in Sochi held one more gathering with the demand to stop the construction of high-rise buildings in their residential area.
Participants of the rally in support of Ukraine. Volgograd, September 27, 2014. Photo by Tatiana Filimonova for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
03:11, 28 September 2014
In Volgograd, 250 people rally in support of Ukrainians
On September 27, in Volgograd, a mourning action in memory of the dead residents of Donbas was held in front of the reserve museum "Stalingrad Battle". Participants of the mourning event called "Donetsk: innocent victims" demanded to conduct an international investigation into the killings of civilians in Ukraine, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
20:42, 27 September 2014
Situation in Ukraine acquires traits of Southern Caucasus conflicts, experts believe
The participants of the hearings held in Yerevan "Possible Impact of Ukrainian Crisis on Southern Caucasus" stated that the development in Ukraine acquire traits of conflicts in Southern Caucasus.
19:15, 27 September 2014
CTO regime introduced at border of Kazbek and Gumbet Districts of Dagestan
In Dagestan, on Saturday, the legal regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) was introduced in connection with searches of suspected militants at the junction of the Gumbet and Kazbek Districts, said the Operative Headquarters of the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) in Dagestan.
Georgian Military Road. At the place of a mudslide. September 2014. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
17:06, 27 September 2014
MfE forces in Northern Caucasus are at high alert because of threat of heavy rains and mudslides
The units of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) are brought to the high alert state, because of the risk of showers and mudslides in Northern Caucasus, said the MfE.
15:41, 27 September 2014
KBR's SC finds Biaslan Djaboev's belonging to militants unproved
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has found Biaslan Djaboev, who was killed in February 2012, innocent under the incriminated article of "participation in illegal armed formation (IAF)". Under all other indictment points brought against Djaboev, he was found guilty killed, said the advocate Tatiana Psomiadi.
10:41, 27 September 2014
Relatives of kidnapped Kizilyurt resident cannot find him for the second day
As of Saturday morning, the whereabouts of Sakhratula Magomedov, a resident of Kizilyurt, who was kidnapped in the evening on September 25, has not been established, said Aisha Selimkhanova, an employee of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).
Participants of the meeting to commemorate victims and survivors of industrial disasters and nuclear catastrophes. Nalchik, April 2014. Photo: Union "Chernobyl" of Russia, http://souzchernobyl.ru/index.php/2/2909.html
09:13, 27 September 2014
ECtHR starts communication with Russian authorities on case of "Chernobyl" liquidator
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has sent a request to Russian authorities concerning the case of a participant of the liquidation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident from the KBR.
Meeting of the opposition. Baku, October 5, 2013. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
06:38, 27 September 2014
Obama's criticism of Azerbaijan may be followed by sanctions, civil society activists suppose
The criticism of Azerbaijani authorities, voiced out by President Barack Obama in connection with obstacles to NGOs' activities may tell positively on solution of existing problems, NGO activists hope. At the same time, the official Baku has rejected the criticism from Washington.
Meeting of the residents of the micro-district KSM in Sochi. September 26, 2014. Photo by Yelena Dzaganiya
03:29, 27 September 2014
Sochi residents oppose build-up of river bank
On September 24-26, residents of the micro-district KSM in Sochi held three rallies, attended by some 200 people, who spoke against the build-up of the water-protection zone on the left bank of the Sochi River.
20:07, 26 September 2014
Kizilyurt hosts protest demanding to establish whereabouts of kidnapped local
Relatives of Sakhratulla Magomedov, who assert that he was kidnapped on September 25 by unidentified persons, have gathered at the Inter-District OVD (Interior Division) in the city of Kizilyurt.
News
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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.

Mine explosion. Photo: https://ru.apa.az/proisshestvie/sotrudnik-anama-podorvalsya-na-mine-v-agdame-548449 The tractor driver detonated a mine in the Khojavend district.

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.