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13:00, 16 November 2012
Boxers from Dagestan and Azerbaijan disqualified for brawl at students' world championship in Baku
These days, the Sports Palace in Baku is housing the World Boxing Championship among students. The fight in the ring between a Russian Shigabuddin Aliev from Dagestan and an Azerbaijani boxer Teymur Mamedov ended in a scandal; they both were disqualified for a brawl.
11:00, 16 November 2012
Villagers of Georgian Samtatskaro demand to open Georgian-Azerbaijani bridge
Residents of the village of Samtatskaro, Dedoplistskaroy District of Georgia, located on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border, held an action demanding to open the bridge that connects the two countries.
08:14, 16 November 2012
Georgia's Ministry of Culture has no plans to change the status of Museum of Soviet Occupation
The Ministry of Culture and Protection of Monuments of Georgia has stated that will not revise the status or the name of the Museum of Soviet Occupation.
A march of students, organized by the Students' Union of the ARF in Yerevan, November 15, 2012. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:00, 15 November 2012
In Armenia, about 300 students march in defence of their rights
Today, Yerevan hosted a march of students, organized by the Students' Union of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) Dashnaktsutyun "Nikol Agbalyan". About 300 protesters demand from the government to revise tuition fees and provide social benefits.
22:00, 15 November 2012
Case of Pavlyuchenkov accused of killing Anna Politkovskaya sent to court
The case initiated against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a former employee of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, who is accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been transferred to the court, the Russia's GPO (General Prosecutor's Office) reports.
21:00, 15 November 2012
Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria holds picket in Moscow in support of Syrian Circassians
Today, another solo picket was held in front of the building of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a demand to the authorities of the Russian Federation to organize an emergency evacuation of Syrian Circassians to their historic homeland.
19:00, 15 November 2012
Tsapok's lawyer insists on new psychiatric examination of his client
The defence of Sergey Tsapok, the alleged leader of the gang that committed the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, intends to seek for a repeated psychological-psychiatric examination of the defendant, said Igor Skripka, Tsapok's advocate.
18:00, 15 November 2012
Prosecutor demands to re-qualify Mirzaev's accusation and release him
Today, during the parties' debate, the prosecutor has asked to re-qualify the charge in the case of the athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after whose punch a Moscow student Ivan Agafonov had died, to a softer one – "causing death by negligence", sentence the defendant to two years of freedom restraint and release him from custody.
17:00, 15 November 2012
Armenia: defence of oppositionists accused of hooliganism prepare complaint to Cassation
The advocates of the young activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) will appeal to the Court of Cassation to challenge the verdict of the Appeals Court, said Vage Grigoryan, the advocate of Tigran Arakelyan, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for hooliganism. ANC supporters believe that the accused oppositionists can become political prisoners.
16:00, 15 November 2012
MFA: 103 Syrian repatriates returned to Abkhazia
As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia, the republic has received 103 immigrants from Syria. The head of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab has ordered to pay a monthly allowance of 10,000 roubles (Russian rouble is the Abkhazian money) to each unemployed adult family member of repatriates and 3000 rouble per minor.
15:00, 15 November 2012
Turkey offers to create transport corridor across North Ossetia
The Turkish authorities propose to open a transport corridor in North Ossetia to promote trade relations with regions of Russia and countries of Central Asia, as well as to start a bus service between the countries. This was stated on November 13 by Bulent Ugur Ecevit, the head of the delegation of the Ministry of Economy and Association of Exporters of the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey, at opening of the Russian-Turkish Business Forum in Vladikavkaz.
14:00, 15 November 2012
In Georgia, heavily sick prisoner goes on hunger strike
On November 13, Dato Golidzhashvili, a heavily sick inmate of Prison No. 15 in Georgia, went on hunger strike in protest against refusal of his CER (conditional early relief).
13:00, 15 November 2012
Former "Telasi" employees go on hunger strike in Georgia
On November 14, in Tbilisi, three fired employees of the electricity company "Telasi" – Giorgi Lomidze, Zura Meladze and Lasha Kvachadze – went on hunger strike. They hold their protest near the office of the company, where they set up a tent and where dismissed employees gather.
12:00, 15 November 2012
Armenian citizen convicted of espionage in favour of Azerbaijan stops hunger strike
Ashot Chtrkyan, a prisoner at the "Nubarashen", has stopped his hunger strike, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.
23:00, 14 November 2012
Sochi: rights defenders try to establish whereabouts of detained citizens of Uzbekistan
Human rights activists in Sochi are busy to figure out the location of five detained citizens of Uzbekistan, who are criminally prosecuted after the mass brawl on November 5.
22:00, 14 November 2012
Solo picketer in Moscow urges Russia's MFA to help Syrian Circassians
Today, a solo picket was held at the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with an appeal to Russian authorities to organize urgent evacuation of Circassian compatriots from Syria struck by military conflict to their historical homeland, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
21:00, 14 November 2012
ICRC completes projects to improve water supply in South Ossetia
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to complete the water-supply projects in villages of South Ossetian by the end of this year.
20:00, 14 November 2012
Gannushkina: acquittal of Nazir Guliev is illegal
As stated today by Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", at a press conference in Moscow, the acquitting verdict passed to Nazir Guliev, a former employee of the Ingush MIA, is illegitimate. According to her version, Guliev should have not been acquitted and released from liability.
19:00, 14 November 2012
Burnt-down house in Makhachkala is unfit for living, fire victims assert
The tenants of the two-storey house in Makhachkala, where a fire broke out on November 13, complain that they have nowhere to live.
18:00, 14 November 2012
Victim of house collapse in Yerevan is in ordinary ward now
Today, Volodya Matevosyan, who suffered from the collapse of an unfinished building in central Yerevan, was transferred from the intensive care unit to a regular ward, said Gagik Manukyan, Director for urgent health care of the Medical Centre "Grigor Lusavorich".
News
In March 2026, one person was killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and southern Russia.

Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

Muftis of the North Caucasus republics have announced the start dates for Ramadan.

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.