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15:00, 28 July 2012
Six injured residents of Krymsk brought to Moscow clinics
On July 27, four residents of Krymsk were delivered to Moscow for treatment because of exacerbation of their neurological and cardiac diseases after the flood in the Krasnodar Territory. Earlier, two women from Krymsk were also accepted by one of Moscow hospitals.
23:00, 27 July 2012
Azerbaijani soldier falls prisoner on contact line with Armenian Armed Forces
On July 26, at 6:00 a.m., in the north-eastern section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Firuz Farazov, born in 1992, an Azerbaijani soldier crossed the border and surrendered to the Armenian party, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. The Azerbaijani party has confirmed the capture of the soldier.
22:00, 27 July 2012
Sentencing on case of torture at Ingush MIA scheduled for August 17
Today, at the trial held in Ingushetia on the case of torture at the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs, the court granted several motions of the parties, followed by the debates.
21:00, 27 July 2012
Case on balloon explosion in Yerevan sent to court
The preliminary investigation into the explosion of balloons in the Republic Square in Yerevan on May 4 is over. The case was transferred to the court for trial, the spokesman of the Police of Armenia said.
20:00, 27 July 2012
Vice-consul of Azerbaijan meets Azeri poets arrested in Iran
On July 26, Nariman Orudjev, the vice-consul of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Tabriz, met Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, young poets and Azerbaijani citizens, arrested in Iran. This was the first meeting of the Azerbaijani consulate with the young writers from the time of their arrest – May 2 this year.
19:53, 27 July 2012
Imprisoned Ingush resident goes on third hunger strike in defence of his rights
Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his sentence in the Kamchatka Region, has gone on his third hunger strike demanding to stop the lawlessness, perpetrated by the colony staff, his mother Raishat Kokurkhoeva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
18:00, 27 July 2012
Armenian Azidis speak against increasing marriage age
The amendments to the Family Code proposed by the government of Armenia, according to which the official marriage in the country is allowed after 19 years of age regardless of gender, were negatively met by the Azidi community in Armenia.
16:00, 27 July 2012
In Makhachkala, suicide bomber Saidat Yusupova blows herself up
In the course of a special operation undertaken in the evening on July 26 in the village of Alburikent near Makhachkala, one of the women – Saidat Yusupova – blew herself up, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.
15:12, 27 July 2012
Mirzaev slapped Agafonov in the face, the defendant’s girl-friend declared at the trial
The case of Champion in Mixed Martial Arts Rasul Mirzaev after whose blow a nineteen-years-old Muscovite Ivan Agafonov perished is under consideration in Zamoskvotetsky court of Moscow today. The defendant’s girl-friend Alla Kosogorova who was present at the scene of the conflict in “Garage” club was interrogated in court. Physicians of the hospital where Agafonov was taken also evidenced in court.
14:00, 27 July 2012
Gurov, ex-figurant of Kuschevskaya massacre case appeals against sentence
Evgeny Gurov, who was sentenced in the Krasnodar Territory to 12 years of imprisonment and who had been initially detained on the massacre case in Kuschevskaya, but then charged with other offences, has appealed against the verdict, said the spokeswoman for the office of the Kuschevskaya District Court.
10:00, 27 July 2012
Athletes from the Caucasus at the Olympics in London are mostly represented in power and combat kinds of sport
The thirtieth Olympic Games start in London today. The capital of Great Britain has become the Olympic host for already the third time. Athletes from the Caucasus will also participate in the competitions, generally in power and combat kinds of sport: Greco-Roman style, freestyle wrestling, women’s style, judo, tae kwon do, boxing and weight lifting.
09:13, 27 July 2012
Magomed Sulaev’s relatives in Dagestan are afraid of a new abduction
Relatives of Magomed Sulaev, earlier released resident of Khasavyurt district, reported that on July, 26, a suspicious car with tinted window glasses, without vehicle identification numbers was staying near his house the whole day. They fear that Magomed might be kidnapped again.
09:00, 27 July 2012
An ex-policeman in Armenia who committed an attempt of self-immolation went on a hunger strike
On July, 26, Mkhitar Alumyan, ex-officer of the Armenian police who earlier committed an attempt of self-immolation in front of the President’s residence, went on a hunger strike near the police office demanding compensation for overtime in law enforcement bodies.
A bowl broken by protesters in SIZO of Nalchik. Photo provided by an eyewitness
23:00, 26 July 2012
Inmates of Nalchik SIZO hold protest action
On July 22, inmate of the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison) organized a mass protest action and rejected aluminium utensils, provide to them at the SIZO. According to the participants of the protest action, arrested persons, diagnosed with tuberculosis and prisoners, belonging to "lower caste", ate from their dishes.
Hayazn Union held a picket in front of the Government building, demanding to secure proper repatriation of Syrian-Armenians to the Homeland. July 19, 2012. Photo: Gayane Mkrtchyan/ArmeniaNow.com
22:00, 26 July 2012
Syrian Armenians offer to reduce the denize term in Armenia
Armenians of Syria hope for simplification of the procedure for entering their historical homeland and for reduction of the period for obtaining citizenship from the current six months to one or two months. This was stated by Tigran Gaboyan, a Syrian writer of Armenian descent, at today's press conference, held in Yerevan.
21:00, 26 July 2012
In Yerevan, defendant in case on exploded balloons put under recognizance not to leave
In Armenia, investigators filed charges in the case on balloons, exploded on May 4 at Republic Square in Yerevan, against Serob Bozoyan, a citizen of the country. The entrepreneur is accused of filling the balloons with explosive gas methane, and he is under recognizance not to leave. This was reported by the Police of Armenia.
20:00, 26 July 2012
Case on terror act at "Domodedovo" Airport brought to Moscow Regional Court
The case of four persons, accused of the organization of the terror act at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport was brought to the court. This was reported today by the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
18:00, 26 July 2012
Disappeared Dagestani resident found in Kaspiisk IVS
Nutsi Aliev, a 32-year-old resident of Kaspiisk, who was considered disappeared since July 24, was found at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of Kaspiisk; however, no one is allowed to visit him. This was reported today by Maryana, the wife of Nutsi Aliev.
Construction works in Konstitutsii Street are carried out without any anti-noise screens; Sochi, July 25, 2012. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:00, 26 July 2012
In Sochi, no noise-protection screens installed around Olympic construction, residents assert
The noise-protection screens around the Olympic construction in Sochi, which Vladimir Vasilenko, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "PRiSS" promised to install till July 26, have not been established yet. According to resident of the city, till present, no noise-protection screens are installed, despite the fact that the construction works are going on.
13:00, 26 July 2012
In Armenia, editor-in-chief of newspaper "Fourth Power" not afraid of blogger's lawsuit
Shoger Matevosyan, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Fourth Power" has stated that she is not afraid of the lawsuit, filed by blogger Tigran Kocharyan to court against her newspaper. Date of the court at the suit is still unknown.
News
A landslide destroyed a road in the Buinaksk district.

Flooding in Dagestan. April 2026. Photo: Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan Up to 1.5 million Dagestanis were affected by the flooding.

The search for two missing persons during the flooding is underway in the Derbent district.

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.