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22:19, 21 July 2012
MfE declares restoration of life support infrastructure in Krymsk; volunteers disagree
All the life support systems in the city of Krymsk, affected by flood, operate in the normal mode, Colonel-General Yuri Kovalyov, Director of the Department for Regional Policy of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), said on July 21. Volunteers disagree with the statement.
21:49, 21 July 2012
Panjikidze: arrest of "Georgian Dream" activists after Karaleti incident is illegal
Representatives of the coalition of the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili "Georgian Dream" have sent a request to the inter-branch commission for monitoring the elections to recheck the case of the activists of the coalition, who had been sentenced to 15 days in jail on charges of involvement in the riots that burst out in the village of Karaleti.
21:10, 21 July 2012
Khasavyurt ROVD releases earlier missing resident of Dagestan
Magomed Sulaev, a resident of Dagestan, who was detained on July 20 and whose relatives said that he had been kidnapped by unidentified persons, was found at the Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) and released. Mr Sulaev told his advocate that Anvar Guseinov, who was detained together with him, was severely beaten.
20:23, 21 July 2012
Rights defenders refuse to obey to new law on NCOs
Two leading Russian human rights organizations – the "Memorial" and "For Human Rights" – are not going to refuse from foreign grants, despite the law that assumes the status of "a foreign agent" for non-commercial organizations (NCOs) funded from abroad. Human rights defenders also plan to challenge this law at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
20:01, 21 July 2012
NAC: leader of "Kizilyurt" grouping killed in Makhachkala
Two militants have been liquidated in a special operation in Dagestan. One of them is Temirbek Temirbekov, the leader of the so-called "Kizilyurt" grouping, law enforcers report.
19:46, 21 July 2012
Suspected militant shot dead in KBR during special operation
Today, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the course of operative-search actions, law enforcers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB Department for the KBR have liquidated an alleged militant.
19:11, 21 July 2012
Sochi: CJSC "PRiSS" plans to install noise-protection screens around Olympic construction
With the aim to reduce noise during construction of a sewer, conducted in Sochi by the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "PRiSS", noise-protection screens will be installed, Vladimir Vasilenko, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Company said on July 20 during a meeting with Sochi residents.
18:00, 21 July 2012
Armenians from Syria expect help in employment and accommodation from Armenian authorities
It is desirable that the Armenian government could help the Syrian Armenians, who have arrived in Armenia, to solve the problems of housing and employment, Tigran Gaboyan, a Syrian writer of Armenian origin, said on July 20 at a press conference.
23:00, 20 July 2012
In Dagestan, relatives of kidnapped persons intend to hold large-scale protest action
Relatives of two local residents kidnapped today from the mosque in the village of Bairam, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, announced their plans to hold a protest actions if the young men were not released by the morning of July 21.
22:00, 20 July 2012
Court fines defender of trees in Astrakhan Kremlin
The Magistrate Court of the Kirov District of Astrakhan has fined Alexander Kirpichenko, a participant of the action for preservation of greenery in the city Kremlin, by 20,000 roubles.
22:00, 20 July 2012
KBR: local resident blames power agents for illegal detention and torture
Anzor Utov, 21, a resident of the village of Kishpek, Baksan District, has stated his illegal detention, beating and use of torture against him by law enforcers. He asserts that policemen had planted pistol cartridges into his pocket and forced him to declare that he tried to shoot at them from the pistol he had allegedly received from an earlier killed member of the armed underground.
19:00, 20 July 2012
Three citizens of Georgia pardoned in South Ossetia
President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov has signed a pardon of three Georgian citizens who had been kept in Tskhinvali prison. Shota Makharashvili, Georgy Mairamidze and Otar Djovakhi were set free.
18:00, 20 July 2012
Bodies of dead Alpinists from Ukraine found in Georgia
The rescuers of emergency situations service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia retrieved dead bodies of Ukrainian Alpinists who perished on July, 17, while descending from Ushba mountain.
15:00, 20 July 2012
Astrakhan court repeatedly finds 10 traffic police inspectors guilty of bribery
The Astrakhan Regional Court has repeatedly convicted ten officers of the Traffic Police (known as GIBDD) of the Regional Interior, who figured in the case of systematic bribe-taking and sentenced them to imprisonment for 3.5-8 years, the Regional Prosecutor's Office has reported today.
Farewell to Waliullah Yakupov in the yard of Apanaev Mosque, Kazan, July 20, 2012. Photo by Sergey Yelagin, "Business-Online", e-edition of Tatarstan: www.business-gazeta.ru
10:00, 20 July 2012
Mosques of Southern Russia start Ramadan with prayers for assassinated Deputy Mufti of Tatarstan
On July 19, with the sunset, the sacred month of Ramadan started. The first day of fasting began today, on July 20. It will last approximately until August 19. In many mosques in Southern Russia after the prayer "Taraweeh" (a desirable night namaz, executed during Ramadan), Muslims commended a prayer for the murdered Deputy Mufti of Tatarstan Waliullah Yakupov.
Presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh, July 19, 2012; voting at polling station No. 8 in Stepanakert. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
09:00, 20 July 2012
CEC of Nagorno-Karabakh: 66,70% electors voted for Bako Saakyan at the presidential election
Central Election Committee (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports preliminary results of voting at the presidential election on July, 19, according to which as of 8:00, 66,70%, or 47 085 electors voted for the incumbent president Bako Saakyan.
Action demanding to help in repatriation of Syrian Armenians organized by the youth union "Ayazn"; Yerevan, July 19, 2012. Still from video footage by the "Hetq.am"
05:00, 20 July 2012
An action with a demand to organize repatriation of the Syrian Armenians passed off in front of the Government of Armenia
On July, 19, "Aiazn" youth union held an action in Yerevan demanding from the Government to organize the process of repatriation of the Syrian Armenians duly.
04:00, 20 July 2012
Committee of Inquiry: residents of Novorossiysk state that there was no warning of disaster
The authorities of Novorossiysk assure that the townsmen were warned of possible natural disaster in proper time. Meanwhile, the residents of injured districts of Novorossiysk declare the contrary: the bodies of state authority issued no warning to the population.
Action against construction of the Kudepsta TPP, Sochi, July 8, 2012. Photo provided by participants of the action
01:00, 20 July 2012
Sochi: negotiations between local residents and TPP builders end fruitless
On July 18, in Sochi, villagers of Kudepsta flatly refused - in the course of their meeting with the builders of the Kudepsta TPP (Thermal and Power Plant) - to compromise and allow building the facility.
23:00, 19 July 2012
Prosecutor's Office of Stavropol Territory claims authorities' inaction during high water
A check conducted in the city of Mineralnye Vody has shown that the city infrastructure is not ready to confront the spread of high water, says the Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory.
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The Dagestan Ministry of Transport has advised motor carriers not to travel to Iran.

The ECHR found the ban on Ismayilova's departure from Azerbaijan to be a violation.

33 Azerbaijani families returned to Khojavend

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.