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23:00, 18 February 2013
Evkurov expressed readiness to go on working as Head of Ingushetia
Head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is going to continue his work implementing his plans of social and economic development of the republic outlined earlier, he said in an exclusive interview to the “Caucasian Knot”.
22:00, 18 February 2013
Members of power ministries are carrying out a special operation searching for gunmen in the South of Chechnya
A special operation on search of leaders of the gunmen is going on in the high mountain Vedeno district of Chechen Republic, a source in power-wielding structures of the republic reported. According to him, law enforcement officers do not rule out that leader of the “Caucasus Emirate” Dokku Umarov might be hiding himself there.
21:00, 18 February 2013
Campaign headquarters of the presidential election in Armenia reported violations during voting
“Nasledie” (“Heritage”) party whose Chairman Raffi Ovanissyan, one of the candidates for presidency of Armenia, reports violations during voting, Press Secretary of “Nasledie” party Ovsep Khurshudyan informed.
20:00, 18 February 2013
Law enforcement officers in Dagestan are investigating the circumstances of an explosion in a store in the settlement of Babayurt
In the evening of February, 15, unidentified persons activated an explosive device in the settlement of Babayurt, Babayurt district of Dagestan. There were no victims or injured people.
19:00, 18 February 2013
Committee of Inquiry: the main version of the murder of visitors of a cafe in Makhachkala is hostile relations
The policeman knew the men he shot down in the cafe in Makhachkala, a source in law enforcement bodies of the town reported. The main version of the murder is a quarrel that emerged from hostile relations, Committee of Inquiry of Russia in Dagestan informed.
18:00, 18 February 2013
The court in Moscow requested a translation of the judgement of ECtHR on "Nord-Ost" case from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
Today Lefortovsky district court of Moscow decided to submit a request to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to provide a translation of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights on the case of the storm of the theatre centre in Dubrovka street.
17:00, 18 February 2013
Ahmed Bilalov asked the Olympic Committee of Russia to dismiss him from the office of Vice President
Today Ahmed Bilalov submitted a statement asking to dismiss him from the office of Vice President of the Olympic Committee of Russia (OCR) of his own free will, a source in sports circles reported.
16:00, 18 February 2013
Temerkhanov’s attorney appealed against the resolution of dismissal of the jury on the case of Budanov’s murder
Today defence of the defendant on the case of murder of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov appealed against the resolution of judge of Moscow city court Andrey Korotkov of dismissal of the jury, Yusup Temerkhanov’s attorney Murad Musaev reported.
15:00, 18 February 2013
Four men killed in a special operation near the settlement of Michurino, Dagestan, identified
Four out of six supposed gunmen killed on February, 14, in a special operation near the settlement of Michurino, Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, were identified. All of them were members of “Khasavyurt group”, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent was told in the Investigative Department of Dagestan today.
14:44, 18 February 2013
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 11-17
Self-explosion of suicide bomber in Khasavyurt and subsequent special operations in Dagestan; putting Givi Targamadze, a Georgian MP, on the Russia's wanted list; verdict to policemen accused of torturing a detainee in the Stavropol Territory; dissolution of jurymen in Budanov's murder case; deprivation of Shirshov, Russia's State Duma Deputy from the Krasnodar Territory, of his deputy's immunity; announcement in Azerbaijan of a reward for an ear of the writer Ailisli, who wrote a novel about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict; mass poisoning in South Ossetia, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 11-17, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
14:00, 18 February 2013
CEC: 60,05% of the electorate voted at the presidential election of Armenia
According to the final data of CEC of Armenia, turnout of voters at the presidential election made 60,05%.
23:00, 16 February 2013
Picketers in Vladikavkaz: authorities render no help in fighting against "Electrozink"
Today in Vladikavkaz, another picket against the operation of the OJSC "Electrozink" was held. According to the organizers and participants of the action, no action against violations in the work of the factory is taken.
22:00, 16 February 2013
In Tbilisi, defrauded housing investors demand to give them the housing they paid for
An action of protest with a demand to pay attention to the housing shareholders who were deceived by construction companies was held in Tbilisi.
21:00, 16 February 2013
Power agents: person killed in Dagestan identified as Arsen Kuramagomedov
The person shot dead today in a shoot-out with the police in Dagestan has been initially identified as Arsen Kuramagomedov, the leader of a terrorist grouping, said a source from law enforcement bodies.
20:00, 16 February 2013
In Dagestan, unidentified persons shoot dead Kizlyar resident
A 27-year-old resident of Kizlyar was killed by unidentified persons in Groznenskaya Street.
19:00, 16 February 2013
Two suspected militants detained in Stavropol
In Stavropol, two young men have been detained, who are suspected of involvement in the murder of a policeman in Karachay-Cherkessia.
18:00, 16 February 2013
Azerbaijani Parliament tightens financial control over NGOs
On February 15, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan adopted amendments to some legislative acts of the country, which are aimed at tightening the financial control over the activities of civil society institutions.
17:00, 16 February 2013
Tina Sean, Deputy Secretary General of the PA OSCE, comes to Yerevan
On February 15, Tina Sean, Deputy Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) arrived in Armenia with an observation mission.
16:00, 16 February 2013
EU urges Azerbaijani authorities to stop persecuting oppositionists and journalists
The European Union made a second statement within the last week in connection with the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan.
14:00, 16 February 2013
Makhachkala: supposed militants' helper surrenders to law enforcers
As reported by the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), in Makhachkala, the woman- cohabiter of the suspected militant Nabi Nabiev, who was killed in a special operation, has surrendered to power agents and is evidencing.
News
One person was injured in a shootout in Ingushetia.

Domestic violence. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in Photoshop. Human rights activists have recorded a surge in requests for assistance in the North Caucasus.

The arrest of 29 defendants in the case against the brother of the head of Ingushetia has been extended.

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.