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14:00, 1 March 2013
In case of war with Iran Southern Caucasus will be drawn into conflict, experts assert
A possible warfare launched against Iran will throw the development of Southern Caucasus back for many years; the tension is already telling on the attractiveness of economic projects. This was stated by the participants of the video bridge "Moscow – Astana – Yerevan" that was held on February 25 in Moscow in the presence of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
13:00, 1 March 2013
Suren Gazaryan nominated to Netizen Prize
Suren Gazaryan from Krasnodar, a member of the Coordination Board of the Russian opposition and an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", has been nominated for the Netizen Prize.
Rally in Stepanakert in May 1988. Photo from the State Archive of Nagorno-Karabakh
12:00, 1 March 2013
Refugees from Sumgait insist that pogroms in 1988 were genocide
On February 28, Nogorno-Karabakh marked the anniversary of the tragedy in Sumgait. The eyewitnesses of those events believe that the pogroms should be adequately assessed by the world community, while Azerbaijan should compensate the material damage and moral harm suffered by the victims.
11:00, 1 March 2013
Abkhazia: opposition demands govt's resignation
On February 28, a number of Abkhazian oppositional organizations held a protest rally in Sukhumi against increasing tariffs on power, during which they also moved a demand to dismiss the government.
09:18, 1 March 2013
Oppositional candidates reject the totals of presidential election in Armenia
The Armenian oppositional forces believe that the presidential election was held with violations and were falsified. This was stated by the election offices of the ex-candidates, who took part in the 2013 presidential election.
Territory of temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza" in Karabulak, Ingushetia. Photo from http://sp-analytic.ru
09:00, 1 March 2013
Ingushetia: refugees from Chechnya fear TAC closure
Forced resettlers from the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) named "Promzhilbaza" and located in the city of Karabulak received information about the upcoming removal of their camp scheduled for March 1.
22:25, 28 February 2013
North Ossetia starts action "Let's save Olympic wrestling"
On February 28, the city of Vladikavkaz started collecting signatures in favour of preserving the styles of wrestling – free, Greco-Roman and women's – in the Olympic programme. This is one of the elements of the action "Let's save Olympic wrestling", which was a reaction to the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to exclude wrestling from the Olympic programme.
21:18, 28 February 2013
SC of Kabardino-Balkaria cancels compensations to 60 Chernobyl liquidators
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has cancelled compensations of moral harm to the last 60 remaining members of the group of former liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Earlier, they were paid their compensations under the rulings of the Nalchik City and Terek District Courts.
18:18, 28 February 2013
Stavropol Territory: court convicts on terror
Today, the Stavropol Territorial Court has finished announcing the verdict on the case of three locals accused of preparing and committing terror acts in Pyatigorsk and Stavropol. The terms of imprisonment requested by the accusation have been upheld.
18:00, 28 February 2013
Initiative group of referendum for election of president by parliament registered by Georgia's CEC
On February 26, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia registered an initiative group of three persons that had proposed to start collecting signatures in favour of election of the country's president by the parliament. For the incumbent president to appoint referendum, they need to collect 200,000 signatures within three months.
17:00, 28 February 2013
Raffi Ovannisyan calls to sack election falsifiers in Armenia
Raffi Ovannisyan, a former presidential candidate and the leader of the oppositional party named "Heritage", has announced continuation of his struggle and called to dismiss those guilty of falsifying the election outcomes.
14:00, 28 February 2013
Russia's SC postpones cassation on Pavlyuchenkov's verdict
Today, the judicial panel on criminal cases of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has failed for the second time to consider the cassation complaint lodged by the defence of the convict in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta". Because of Pavlyuchenkov's illness, the consideration was indefinitely postponed.
13:00, 28 February 2013
Administration of Stavropol bans picket for territory's leaving the NCFD
The administration of Stavropol has refused to coordinate an information picket applied for in the city centre by the unregistered nationalistic party "Novaya Sila" (New Force) for March 1 in the square near the central bus station.
Georgy Kanashvili. Photo by Edita Badasyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:00, 28 February 2013
Kanashvili: adaptation commissions help militants to return to peaceful life
In the opinion of Georgy Kanashvili, the executive director of the NGO "Caucasian Home – Centre of Cultural Relations", the adaptation commissions, which operate in the regions of Northern Caucasus, make an additional instrument for bringing militants back to peaceful life; however, the commissions are not enough.
11:00, 28 February 2013
In Sochi, witnesses are questioned in Maevskaya's murder case
In Sochi, the trial on the murder of the war veteran Antonina Maevskaya is interrogating the witnesses; five of them were questioned at the sessions on February 26 and 27.
06:00, 28 February 2013
Burdzhanadze presents information about dispersal of rally on May 26, 2011
Investigators of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia have questioned Nino Burdzhanadze, the ex-speaker of the parliament and the leader of the party "Democratic Movement – United Georgia" about the events of May 26, 2011. The interrogation lasted for six hours.
23:00, 27 February 2013
Prosecutor General’s started inspection of “North-Caucasian Resorts” company
Prosecutor Generals’ of Russia together with Rosfinnadzor, the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Federal Security Service started inspection of target use of budget funds in “North-Caucasian Resorts” limited company (NCR), the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent was told by an official of the supervisory office.
22:00, 27 February 2013
Mikhail Saakashvili declared his readiness to discuss amendments to the Constitution of Georgia
Today President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili commented on the ultimatum declared by Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili who demanded an unambiguous response to the initiative of the parliamentary majority of introducing amendments to the Constitution. According to Saakashvili, he is ready to discuss the amendments.
20:00, 27 February 2013
People injured during the act of terror in Domodedovo ask to call the officials who investigated the explosion to account
A request to start criminal proceedings against the officials investigating facts of violation of security standards during the act of terror in “Domodedovo” airport in January of 2011 was submitted to Committee of Inquiry of Russia. This was reported by “Trunov, Aivar and Partners” Bar whose members represented the interests of the people injured by the terrorist act.
19:00, 27 February 2013
The participants of a meeting in Makhachkala demanded resignation of Head of the Ministry of Interior Affairs and securing social protection
During a meeting in Makhachkala on February, 27, retirees of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Dagestan, disabled ex-employees of the Ministry and lost policemen’s relatives demanded to discharge Head of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in the republic Abdurashid Magomedov and carry out an inspection of the activities of officials who concluded a contract with the insurance company that became bankrupt.
News
The former head of the Karabudakhkent district has been accused of bribery.

More than 3,600 flood victims in Dagestan have received payments.

Magomed Kaitov's property is up for auction.

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.