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19:08, 30 July 2014
Azerbaijan GPO bans rights activist Rasul Djafarov to go abroad and arrests his bank accounts
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has ruled to prohibit Rasul Djafarov, a well-known civil society activist and coordinator of the campaign "Art for Democracy", from leaving the country. His bank accounts were arrested.
The building of the Krasnoarmeisky District Court of the Volgograd Region. Photo: http://krasn.vol.sudrf.ru/
17:55, 30 July 2014
Volgograd Region: court finds that website "Kavkaz News" is extremist
The Krasnoarmeisky District Court of the Volgograd Region has concluded that the website "Kavkaz News" posts extremist materials.
Makhachkala, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. The consideration on the merits of the terror act, which killed the religious leader Said Afandi al-Chirkawi. July 30, 2014. Photo by Aida Magomedova for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:45, 30 July 2014
Trial on terror act in Sheikh Chirkey's house postponed till September 5
The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has postponed until September 5 the consideration on the merits of the terror act, which killed the religious leader Said Afandi al-Chirkawi and six other persons. The break is needed for to one of the defendants to get acquainted with the indictment.
Nadezhda Tsapok. Photo http://fedpress.ru/news/society/news_crime/1384514365-peresmotr-dela-nadezhdy-tsapok-nichego-ne-izmenil-ei-vnov-dali-tri-goda
15:37, 30 July 2014
Consideration of Nadezhda Tsapok's case resumed in Krasnodar Territory
The Kuschevsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has resumed the hearing of the criminal case against Nadezhda Tsapok, accused of a fraud; she is the mother of Sergey Tsapok, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment and recently died in Krasnodar SIZO.
The building of the Moscow City Court. Photo: http://mgka18.ru/uslugi/grazhdanskie-dela/
14:51, 30 July 2014
MCC finds four members of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" guilty in case of putsch planning
The Moscow City Court has found the guilt of four Caucasian natives to be completely proven. The defendants are members of the organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami", which is banned in Russia, and they were accused of plotting an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in the Russian Federation.
Said Afandi al-Chirkawi. Photo: site of Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, http://saidafandi.ru/index.php/biography
13:21, 30 July 2014
Dagestan starts trial on terror act in house of Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi
The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has started the trial in the case of the terror act, which killed religious leader Said Afandi al-Chirkawi and six other persons. The prisoners' dock contains four residents of Dagestan.
13:13, 30 July 2014
In Azerbaijan, prosecutors detain IPD Director Leyla Yunus
On Wednesday morning, human rights activist Leyla Yunus was detained near her house in Baku. She was delivered to the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office.
Border checkpoint "Donetsk" in the Rostov Region at the Russian-Ukrainian border. Photo by the press service of the South Customs Service, http://customs.ru/
10:27, 30 July 2014
Rostov Region: border checkpoints "Gukovo" and "Donetsk" are first observation objects for OSCE mission
In the Rostov Region, OSCE observers have announced the beginning of their work at border checkpoints "Gukovo" and "Donetsk". In the coming days, new observers are to join the OSCE mission. This was announced by Paul Picard, the chief of the OSCE mission.
Дaw enforcer. Photo: http://www.apiural.ru/news/incidents/105479/
09:22, 30 July 2014
In Dagestan, local residents report on new Imam in mosque of Maidanskoe village
About 200 law enforcers still stay in the village of Maidanskoe of the Untsukul District of Dagestan. This was reported by local residents. However, according to them, the presence of law enforcers does not affect their lives at the moment.
Tbilisi, Nor-Echmiadzin Church. Photo: Serouij, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grounds_of_the_Ejmiatsin_Armenian_Church,_Tbilisi. JPG, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
22:14, 29 July 2014
Conflict in Armenian Church in Tbilisi not to spoil Armenian-Georgian relations, experts hope
The attack on the believers of the Armenian Echmiadzin Church committed on July 19 in Tbilisi, will not affect the inter-state and inter-church relations of Armenia and Georgia, said participants of the videoconference held with participation of Georgian and Armenian experts.
19:03, 29 July 2014
Batyr Pukhaev is on the 14th day of his hunger strike in Tskhinvali IVS
The South-Ossetian businessman Batyr Pukhaev, who went on a hunger strike on July 16 at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of Tskhinvali, is still rejecting nutrition and hospitalization, said the head of the IVS Otar Margiev.
Consequences of a road accident. Photo from the archive of the Main Internal Affairs Department of the Rostov Region, http://61.mvd.ru/
16:18, 29 July 2014
Rostov Region: two persons killed in road accident involving policeman
A Rostov policeman became a figurant of a road accident with two casualties, as reported by the Investigating Department (ID) of the ICRF for the Rostov Region.
Protest action of the believers against ban on wearing hijabs at school. Baku, October 5, 2012. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
15:57, 29 July 2014
US DoS indicates restrictions of citizens' religious rights in Azerbaijan
Despite the religious freedom guaranteed by the Azerbaijani Constitution, in legislation and practice the citizens' religious rights, especially of members of certain religious minorities, are restricted in the country.
14:20, 29 July 2014
Investigators uphold initiation of criminal case against "Stop Electrozink" activist in Vladikavkaz
The actions of a police investigator, who opened a criminal case against Anatoly Kolkhidov, an activists of the environmental movement "Stop Electrozink", has no violations – the absence of falsifications in Kolkhidov's case was confirmed by the courts, state the investigatory bodies of North Ossetia.
Customs post at the Russian-Ukrainian border. Photo: site of the South Customs Service http://yutu.customs.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25265:2014-07-29-04-53-50&catid=4:news&Itemid=78
12:54, 29 July 2014
Three Russian-Ukraine border checkpoints stop working in Rostov Region
Three Russian border checkpoints in the Rostov Region – the "Novoshakhtinsk", "Kuibyshevo" and "Gukovo" – remained closed on Tuesday, because of non-operation of their neighbouring Ukrainian counterparts, said Ryan Farukshin, the spokesman of the Russia's Southern Customs Department.
Soldier at the checkpoint. Photo http://big-rostov.ru/?p=9767
07:32, 29 July 2014
FSB: Ukraine hands over eight wounded servicemen for transit across Russian territory
On July 28, the Russian checkpoint "Kuibyshevo" located on the border of Russia's Rostov Region and Ukraine's Donetsk Region, received eight Ukrainian wounded servicemen. They were delivered to the Russian party for transporting through the humanitarian corridor back to Ukraine.
Festive prayers in connection with the end of the holy month of Ramadan held in the central mosque of Nazran on July 28, 2014. Photo by Adam Merzhoev, http://ingushetia.ru/
06:09, 29 July 2014
Residents of Northern Caucasus celebrate Eid ul-Fitr
Residents of the subjects of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Uraza Bayram), which marks the end of the fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
23:54, 28 July 2014
NSDC announced death of four border guards because of shelling from Rostov Region
As reported today by Andrei Lysenko, the spokesman of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, during the shelling of the border checkpoint "Dolzhansky" in the Luhansk Region from the territory of the Rostov Region, four Ukrainian border guards were killed and two more wounded. Two more employees of the State Border Service of Ukraine were wounded by the shelling from the territory adjacent to the checkpoint "Krasnaya Talovka".
Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo: http://www.svoboga.org/content/article/481838.html
23:40, 28 July 2014
Georgia's GPO accuses Mikhail Saakashvili of excess of power
Today, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has announced about the presentation of charges of excess of power and dignity humiliation to the former President Mikhail Saakashvili; the latter has treated the charges as political.
21:12, 28 July 2014
Stavropol Territory: former investigator sentenced to one year of freedom deprivation for arbitrariness
Andrei Rybasov, a former investigator of the Investigating Department for Kalmykia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has been sentenced in the Stavropol Territory to one year in a colony-settlement. He was found guilty of arbitrariness, the ICRF has reported today.
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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.