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15:05, 3 June 2013
Picket against animal abuse in circuses held in Volgograd
A picket under the motto "For Russian circus without cruelty" that was held on the embankment of Volgograd brought together about forty protesters. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt from Tatiana Ryabinova, the organizer of the picket and coordinator of the "Vita" Centre in Defence of Animals' Rights, that the picket of 30 people had been agreed with the authorities.
15:00, 3 June 2013
Court of Stavropol schedules next session on Bestuzhy's case for June 5
On Monday, the Oktiabrsky District Court of Stavropol continued the preliminary hearing on the case of Igor Bestuzhy, the former head of the city administration. It was held behind closed doors; and the court retired to the jury room until June 5.
14:51, 3 June 2013
Families of retired militaries fear eviction in Nakhichevan
In the city of Nakhichevan, authorities are forcibly evicting nine families of retired militaries and veterans of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from their apartments, the residents of the military township are complaining. "In 1987, we received a warrant for the apartment. Now, the authorities of Nakhichevan have brought the police here and demand to quickly abandon the flat," a veteran Abdullah Orudjov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
14:33, 3 June 2013
Residents of Krasnodar go to picket demanding to build a kindergarten
In the micro-district Yubileiny of Krasnodar, about 20 young parents took part in a picket with a demand to the local authorities to solve the problem of shortage of places in kindergartens of their micro-district. The picket was dated to the International Children's Day.
14:28, 3 June 2013
Azerbaijan: arrested theologian Talekh Bagirzade placed in dungeon, his lawyer asserts
The theologian Talekh Bagirzade, who is kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison), located in the Baku suburb of Kyurdakhany, was put into a dungeon for five days. It happened on May 28 and was associated with the detainee's open appeal, addressed to leaders of foreign states and urging them to be "objective in assessing the situation in Azerbaijan," a Bagirzade's advocate said.
14:15, 3 June 2013
Ibragim Todashev's father leaves for USA for his son's body
The father of Ibragim Todashev, who was killed during interrogation by FBI agents, received a USA visa, said Kheda Saratova, an activist of the Information Centre "Objective". On June 1, he flew to the USA to take the body of his son.
14:02, 3 June 2013
Azerbaijan: protesters against the ban on hijabs in schools convicted in Baku
On Monday, the Nariman District Court in Baku sentenced six believers, who were arrested for taking part in the action against the ban on hijabs in schools, to the terms ranging from one year and nine months to six years in prison. Advocates of the convicted disagreed with the verdict and said that they would appeal against it.
13:45, 3 June 2013
Defenders of landing stage beaten in Volgograd Region
On June 1, at about 2:30 a.m., the tent camp at the landing stage in the Volgograd Region was attacked by unidentified persons, who arrived in cars, beat the defenders of the building and burned down the camp.
13:26, 3 June 2013
3000 people gathered in support of Soltan Semyonov in Karachaevsk
On June 1, the city of Karachaevsk hosted a rally in support of its mayor Soltan Semyonov. Initially, an event to mark the Children's Day had been planned in the square in front of the city administration; however, it turned into a spontaneous rally in support of the mayor.
10:47, 3 June 2013
Ingush authorities and graduates refute reports on violent searches before USE in Troitskaya
The government of Ingushetia, the school staff and school graduates refute the information disseminated in social networks that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ingushetia Musa Chiliev personally searched graduates, in order to find cribs, prior to the Unified State Examination (USE) in the village of Troitskaya.
00:57, 3 June 2013
Speaker of Makhachkala City Assembly states the Mayor is innocent; head of trade union of entrepreneurs believes Amirov's arrest was correct
In the opinion of Magomed Magomedrasulov, the chairman of the Makhachkala City Assembly, the Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov is not guilty of the incriminated crimes. Amirov was detained on June 1 on suspicion of organizing a murder of an employee of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan.
22:50, 31 May 2013
Socially vulnerable Tbilisi residents demand housing
On May 30, in front of the Mayoralty of Tbilisi, vulnerable citizens held their protest, demanding to solve their housing problems. In response, a Mayoralty official said that the state has no money to fix the problem immediately.
The ANK protest in front of the Hotel "Marriott". Yerevan, May 31, 2013. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:40, 31 May 2013
Zurabyan: international community has no interest in human rights in Armenia
As stated by Levon Zurabyan, the head of the parliamentary faction of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), during a protest action in Yerevan, the international community is more interested in Armenia's geopolitical problems, rather than in the democratic situation in the country, while the activities of "foreign missionaries" cannot be considered satisfactory.
22:30, 31 May 2013
Alagir hosts rally against construction of cement plant
About three hundred residents of North Ossetia have staged a rally against the construction of a cement plant in Alagir. The protesters adopted a resolution that demands to cancel all the legal acts, allowing the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) to build the plant.
22:20, 31 May 2013
Ilgar Mamedov, leader of "ReAl", placed in dungeon in Azerbaijan
On May 30, Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" ("ReAl"), who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), was placed into a dungeon, said advocate Khalid Bagirov. According to his story, the defence was not informed about it.
22:10, 31 May 2013
President of Georgia is suspected of spending budget for cosmetic procedures
The Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is suspected of paying - from the state budget for his rejuvenation injections of Botox - a total of 11,400 US dollars - and bought a picture worth about 6000 pounds sterling; this data from the expense reports of the State Security Special Service SSSS was presented by Irina Imerlishvili, an MP from the ruling coalition "Georgian Dream".
Nikolai Yarst. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 31 May 2013
Yarst: charges of illegal drug possession in Sochi has to do with my professional activities
As stated by Nikolai Yarst, a journalist and a freelance reporter of the "Public Television of Russia" (PTR), his criminal prosecution initiated by the UVD (Interior Department) of Sochi and the charges of illegal possession and transportation of drugs are the result of his professional activities. He also stressed that the drugs had been planted on him.
From left to right: Aina Abdulkadyrova and Layuza Gaidarbekova. Photo from 05.mvd.ru
21:00, 31 May 2013
Dagestani police are still searching for two missing Buynaksk students
The whereabouts of the two female students of the Buynaksk Teachers' College, who disappeared on May 17, is still unknown. A criminal case on their disappearance is not yet instituted, as the law enforcement bodies have no information that the girl had been abducted or detained, said the MIA of Dagestan.
Aslan Ismajlov. Photo: Azadliq Radiosu (RFE/RL), azadliq.org
20:00, 31 May 2013
Ismajlov: Deputy Interior Ministry promised to punish investigators who threatened me
Vilayat Eivazov, the deputy head of the MIA of Azerbaijan, met the lawyer Aslan Ismajlov, who had reported threats and physical pressure from investigators. He promised to study the situation and punish those guilty, the lawyer himself said today. In the opinion of Orkhan Mansurzade from the press service of the MIA, none of the investigators had ever beaten Ismajlov; he just wants to attract attention.
19:00, 31 May 2013
Azerbaijan: ex-GPP complains of threats
Ali Omarov, the former General Public Prosecutor (GPP) of Azerbaijan, has stated today that he had received threats from a man, who introduced himself as a police officer. His statement will be investigated by law enforcement bodies, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.
News
Afgan Sadygov with his new ID. Screenshot from Sevinj Sadygova's page, April 25, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1503949298000556&set=a.106173941111439 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia). Afgan Sadygov encountered obstacles in obtaining a passport

Payments to veterans have been increased in Azerbaijan.

Gasimly called her persecution politically motivated

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.