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09:00, 8 March 2012
Unidentified people in Azerbaijan threaten a well-known journalist Khadija Ismailova, correspondent of Azerbaijani service of “Radio Freedom”. This was reported by Ismailova herself. She associates the threats with her journalist’s activities.
23:00, 7 March 2012
Today, in Azerbaijan, the Absheron District Court concluded the trial against Ramin Bairamov, the editor-in-chief of the website Islamazeri.az. The Court found him guilty of illegal purchase and possession of weapons and drugs and sentenced him to 1.5 years of imprisonment.
Zalina Elkhoroeva, a resident of the Republic of Ingushetia, kidnapped on December 22, 2010. Courtesy of the www.mashr.org
22:00, 7 March 2012
During the press conference "Enough to crackdown Caucasus" held in Moscow, human rights defenders from different regions of Northern Caucasus have discussed the problems of election fraud, continuing kidnappings of people, and the situation with natives of the Caucasus serving their sentences in prisons in Russia.
21:00, 7 March 2012
Today, the Vilnius Regional Court, which considers the case against Egle Kusaite, accused of terrorism, announced the testimony of the Russian citizen Hasan Arsigiraev. According to the witness for the prosecution, Egle Kusaite wished to become a member of jihad, the holy war.
20:00, 7 March 2012
In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Minister of Health, who until present was in a forced "vacation" for about two months after the scandal at the Nalchik Children's Hospital, has been finally dismissed from her position.
19:00, 7 March 2012
Azerbaijan and Georgia will submit a joint application to host the European Football Championship in 2020. This was announced by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in his today's speech to the Azerbaijani MPs. In the summer of 2014, the UEFA will make a decision to choose the countries for conducting the Championship.
18:00, 7 March 2012
Armenia refused to participate in the song contest "Eurovision-2012", which will be held in Baku in May. Today, the Armenian Public Television has officially informed the European Broadcasting Union of its decision. This is declared by the statement published on the official website of the song contest.
17:00, 7 March 2012
The identity of a suicide bomber, who blew herself up at the checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Karabudakhkent, was identified.
16:00, 7 March 2012
In Chechnya, workers of the organization "Spetsstroi" receive no wages since last October, although the managers have repeatedly promised to resolve the problem, the workers of the organization state. The managers explain wage arrears by absence of funds at the organization's accounts.
15:00, 7 March 2012
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence to Leon Krivobokov, the resident of the city of Volgodonsk, who was sentenced by the Rostov Regional Court to 8.5 years of imprisonment at a high security colony for grenade explosion in a trading tent on the beach in the summer of 2010.
14:00, 7 March 2012
Ruslan Evkurov, a distant relative of the Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov, accused of committing fraud against the residents of the village of Dolakovo, began to gradually repay his debts to his creditors. However, he emphasizes that at present he cannot fully repay the money to deceived villagers.
13:00, 7 March 2012
According to Paata Zakareishvili, the conflict specialist, the representative of the oppositional Republican Party of Georgia, Vladimir Putin's victory in the election will result for Georgia in an attempt to return the country to the sphere of Russia's influence; however, it is impossible under present conditions.
11:00, 7 March 2012
The first session of Stavropol regional court where the case of Victor Dvorakovsky accused of preparation of an act of terror will be considered on the merits was appointed on March, 19, Press secretary of the court Violetta Bondareva informed.
10:00, 7 March 2012
A man wounded at the moment of an assault at a district police officer in the town of Kaspiysk, Dagestan, died in hospital.
09:00, 7 March 2012
On March, 6, about 50 activists of youth organization of National Front of Azerbaijan attempted to hold an action of protest in Baku demanding release of political prisoners. The police suppressed the action.
08:00, 7 March 2012
Five policemen perished and two were gravely wounded as a result of an act of terror in the settlement of Karabudakhkent, Dagestan, a source in laws enforcement bodies of the republic reported. A suicide bomber blasted himself on the post.
23:00, 6 March 2012
Today in the evening, in the state TV Channel air, three out of four candidates for presidency of South Ossetia signed a joint statement on holding free and fair presidential election.
22:00, 6 March 2012
The Stavropol Regional Branch of the association "Golos" (Vote) does not recognize the results of the presidential election because of numerous violations identified in the region. The Regional Election Commission denies the allegations.
21:00, 6 March 2012
Today, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the arrest of Rustam Makhmudov, accused of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", till May 31.
Magomed Idrisov (on the right), Chairman of the Precinct Election Commission (PEC) No. 1147, with some unidentified person, who accused observers from the "Novaya Gazeta" of illegal agitation, Dagestan, Makhachkala, March 4, 2012. Photo by Gurizada Kamalova, http://gurizada.livejournal.com/
20:00, 6 March 2012
In their blogs on the Internet, Dagestani residents report on violations in the course of the voting during the Russian presidential election held on March 4. Among those violations, they mention voting of the same persons at different electoral precincts; besides, some Dagestani residents report that their votes had not been counted at the voting.
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.