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Navaginskaya street dug over again in Sochi. August 3, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:04, 3 August 2013
Sochi residents complain about poor quality of repair of roads and pavements
Sochi residents express their outrage with the poor quality of repairs of roads, pavements and house-adjoining territories. In particular, in the Tsentralny District, the streets named after Gorky, Voikov, Pervimaiskaya, Sebastopol, Titov, Tuapse, Dagomys, Kubanskaya, Theatrical and Ordzhonikidze, and Kurortny Avenue remained unrepaired.
Ales Bialiatski at the Сourt, November, 2011. Photo: svabora.org (RFE/RL)
19:00, 3 August 2013
August 4 marks two years after arrest of Ales Bialiatski
On August 4, a number of European cities will hold actions in support of Ales Bialiatski, the head of the human rights centre "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), who was sentenced in Belarus.
North Ossetia, Vladikavkaz, July 6, 2013. Picket against the operation of "Electrozink". Photo by Emma Marzoyeva for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:10, 3 August 2013
In North Ossetia, picket against "Electrozink" was supported by 15 persons
Up to 15 people have come today to picket against the operation of the metallurgical factory of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Electrozink" in Vladikavkaz, said German Revazov, the organizer of the action and an activist of the movement "Stop 'Electrozink'!" and the environmental organization "Novoe Vremya".
International Arts Symposium "Alanika". North Ossetia, Vladikavkaz, August 22, 2012. Photo: http://mkrso-a.ru/
13:09, 3 August 2013
North Ossetia hosts international arts symposium "Alanika"
The Seventh International Arts Symposium "Alanika" was launched on August 1 in Vladikavkaz. During the event artistic workers Italy, Turkey, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Croatia, Great Britain, Georgia and Azerbaijan will implemented their projects in the field of contemporary arts.
04:11, 3 August 2013
Additional check of Demerchyan's beating undertaken in Sochi
On August 2, in Sochi, investigators resumed checking the information that the builder Mardiros Demerchyan had been beaten by policemen. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Artyom Semenets, an investigator from the Adler Division of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
03:36, 3 August 2013
In Moscow, the Bar "Musaev and Partners" will render legal aid to detainees in Matveevsky Marketplace
Musa Pliev, a lawyer from the Bar "Musaev and Partners", has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on August 1 an agreement was signed on provision of legal aid by the Bar to the persons detained during the anti-crime cleansing of the Matveevsky Marketplace.
23:23, 2 August 2013
Journalist Sardar Alibeili arrested for disorderly conduct in Azerbaijan
Today, by decision of the Khatai District Court of Baku, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "P.S. Nota" and the on-line edition "www.psnota.com" Sardar Alibeili was arrested for 2 months for hooliganism.
Electric power supply workers installing new transformer unit. Soci, Tsentralny neighbourhood, June 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
21:59, 2 August 2013
Sochi residents claim losses due to power outage
Residents of the city of Sochi have complained that due to power outage for almost 24 hours in the neighbourhood "Gagarinsky" they suffered material losses because of spoiled foodstuffs, medicines and broken electrical appliances.
21:58, 2 August 2013
Sitting on demolition of would-be mosque in Stavropol rescheduled for August 8
Today, the Court of Arbitration of the Stavropol Territory has held a session on the combined process dealing with the construction in process in Kulakov Avenue, where earlier employees of the city administration saw signs of a mosque. The trial was adjourned until July 8.
21:15, 2 August 2013
In KBR, former pilot seeks reinstatement in MIA detachment
In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Andrei Gonibov, a former helicopter pilot-navigator from the special-purpose aviation detachment of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), is seeking reinstatement at work and claims that he was dismissed on trumped-up reasons.
20:52, 2 August 2013
Armenia: leaflets spread calling to impeach two Yerevan transport officials
Today, at public transport stops, activists of the initiative group "We'll pay 100 drams!" were handing out leaflets calling to dismiss the head of the transport department of Yerevan Genrik Navasardyan and the director of "Yerevantrans" Misak Ambartsumyan.
20:10, 2 August 2013
Yerevan hosts rally in support of convicted ANC activists
An action in support of the four oppositional activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), convicted of disorderly conduct and resistance to the police, was held today in Yerevan. The participants demanded a fair consideration of their cases by the Court of Appeal (CoA).
17:55, 2 August 2013
Russia's SC softens sentence to two defendants on charges of mass rioting in Sagra
The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has reduced the sentence to two defendants on charges of riots in the village of Sagra, Sverdlovsk Region, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. Artyom Rabadanov and Shota Katamadze were released in the courtroom.
Bacho Akhalaya at the hearing of the case at Tbilisi City Court on July 27, 2013. Photo: Salome Chkheidze, http://www.humanrights.ge/
07:54, 2 August 2013
Lawyer: prosecution has no chances at Georgia's CoA on Bacho Akhalaya's case
The Prosecutor's Office will fail to win the case at the Court of Appeal (CoA), if disputes the verdict of acquittal, passed in the case of Bacho Akhalaya, the former Minister of Interior and the former Minister of Defence of Georgia, said his advocate Malkhaz Velidjanashvili.
03:42, 2 August 2013
Investigators refuse to open criminal case on the death of the convict for blowing up "Neva-Express" Train
The Investigating Division for Yekaterinburg of the ICRF has dismissed the application of relatives of Tarkhan Kartoev who asked to open a criminal case on the fact of his violent death during his stay in quarantine of Colony No. 2 in Yekaterinburg, said the lawyer Tatiana Okushko.
01:10, 2 August 2013
Woman from Ingushetia states persecution of her sons by police in North Ossetia
Law enforcers of North Ossetia have detained the 23-year-old resident of Ingushetia Igor Podgorny in order to put pressure on earlier detained his elder brother Arthur, said their mother Valentina Podgornaya.
22:34, 1 August 2013
In Georgia, suspect of pawnshop robbery released on bail
Tsotne Mamulashvili, a painter and a former expert of the NATO Information Centre, involved in the case of the pawnshop robbery in Tbilisi, has been released by the court on bail of 15,000 laris (about 9000 US dollars) for his health reasons. This was reported by the lawyer David Dadiani.
21:47, 1 August 2013
Home arrest of journalist Yarst in Sochi extended by court ruling
Today, a Sochi court chaired by Judge Nikolai Vaschenko has considered a motion lodged by investigator Karina Matveeva who asked to extend journalist Yarst's home arrest by a month. The motion was granted, but the journalist's defence intends to appeal against the ruling.
21:18, 1 August 2013
Yerevan: at trial of Nersisyan ecologists confirm use of electric shock
At a court session, ecologists Mariam Sukhudyan and Gevorg Safaryan have spoken in support of their colleague Egiya Nersisyan, accused of defamation and libel in respect of the Canadian company "Dino Gold Mining".
Policemen put obstacles in the way of the participants of sit-in strike trying to set up a tent at the spot of the protest action. Yerevan, July 31, 2013. Photo: © PanARMENIAN Photo/Hrant Khachatryan
19:50, 1 August 2013
Yerevan police releases detained activist Kiviryan
Argishti Kiviryan, an activist of the movement against increase of public transport fares, who was detained today in Yerevan, is back at large, after drawing up a protocol on non-fulfilment of a policeman's demand.
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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.