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22:40, 9 December 2011
Next court session on massacre in Kuschevskaya scheduled for December 12
The next court session on the case of Andrei Bykov, one of the figurants in the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya will take place on December 12. The official representative of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has confirmed that Bykov's case is considered in special order.
22:40, 9 December 2011
Court extends custody of suspect of murdering Yuri Budanov
The Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till February 26, 2012, the arrest of Magomed Suleimanov, accused of killing former colonel Yuri Budanov.
Doctor of Philosophy and Candidate of Psychology Alexei Nagovitsyn and Victor Zhenkov, advocate of Alexander Kalistratov, the head of the Altai Branch of Jehovah's Witnesses, at the press conference in the Independent Press Center in Moscow, November 7, 2011. Courtesy of the http://hro.org
22:40, 9 December 2011
Jehovah's Witnesses fix over 1000 facts of oppressing them in Russia during two years
Within the two years that have elapsed after the Russia's Supreme Court upheld the sentence of the Rostov Regional Court on recognition of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and a number of their publications to be extremist, the religious organization has documented and published on the Internet reports about more than 1000 incidents involving violations of the rights of believers of this confession in Russia.
22:40, 9 December 2011
Ingushetia: at trial of Guliev and Nalgiev witnesses' protocols are announced
On December 8, at the court session, where the case of the former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, accused of torturing detainees and committing other crimes, is considered, interrogation protocols of witnesses and victims were announced.
22:40, 9 December 2011
Investigation on threats to employees of "Khural" newspaper launched in Azerbaijan
The Baku police have started an inquiry on the application of journalists of the "Khural" newspaper about the threats coming to them from unknown persons. Avaz Zeinalov, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper remains in custody on charges of bribe-taking.
22:30, 9 December 2011
Melnikov: GPO spreads Chechen experience of fighting militants' helpers over other regions of Northern Caucasus
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation is actively disseminating the experience of fighting militants' supporters in Chechnya, as the most efficient, among the power agents in all other regions of Northern Caucasus, Artyom Melnikov, the head of the GPO Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today.
22:20, 9 December 2011
Ankvab spoke out in defense of the rivers of Abkhazia against constructors of Olympic objects
Without a damage to the environment of Abkhazia delivery of building materials for construction of Olympic objects is possible only from the area of the Kodor river (Ochamchira district), President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab declared promising to disallow industrial delivery of inert materials from other rivers.
22:10, 9 December 2011
Deputy Head doctor of Budennovsk hospital fined for beating up a journalist
On December, 8, Magistrate's court of Budennovsk, Stavropol region, acknowledged Deputy Head doctor for security in the local hospital guilty of beating up a journalist who was shooting an episode of rape of a child in the hospital.
20:00, 9 December 2011
The circumstances of death of an observer from KPRF at the election of State Duma are under investigation in Krasnodar region
On December, 6, Sergey Babenko, observer from KPRF at the past parliamentary election, was found dead in a private house in the settlement of Shkolnoe, Belorechensky district of Krasnodar region. Deputies of State Duma demanded a thorough investigation of the circumstances of his death.
18:00, 9 December 2011
Homeless people in Rostov are taught computer literacy
A complex social center rendering aid to homeless persons in Rostov-on-Don (CSC) has organized courses of computer literacy for maladjusted citizens living in the center.
00:00, 9 December 2011
Rules for users' behaviour on the "Caucasian Knot" interactive services
23:50, 8 December 2011
In Sochi, policeman sentenced for beating detainee
In Sochi, a police officer was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment for beating a detainee.
23:40, 8 December 2011
Personnel of Azerbaijani newspaper "Khural" claim being threatened
Journalists of the Azerbaijani oppositional newspaper "Khural" reported on threats coming to their address from unidentified persons.
Intigam Aliev. Photo from azadlyq.org, RFE/RL
23:20, 8 December 2011
Azerbaijani human rights defender Intigam Aliev claims that he was beaten at Istanbul airport
Intigam Aliev, the well-known Azerbaijani human rights defender and lawyer, the head of the Society of Legal Education, claims that on December 7 he had been detained at the Istanbul airport and subjected to pressure and violence by Turkish policemen. According to Intigam Aliev, he was released and deported to Baku only after intermediation of international human rights organizations.
23:10, 8 December 2011
Website of Association "Golos" re-opened
The website of the Association "Golos" (Vote), which observed the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation and which was attacked by hackers on the day of the parliamentary elections, was fully re-opened.
23:00, 8 December 2011
American Academy of Tourism awards Adzharia
On December 7, the city of Cannes hosted the annual awards ceremony of the American Academy of Tourism and Services. Georgia was represented by Adzharia, which won in three nominations at once.
OMON (riot police) in Triumphal Square in Moscow, December 6, 2011. Photo by Elena Mikheeva from Grani.Ru
22:50, 8 December 2011
Chechen MIA denies information about sending police regiment to Moscow
The information that one of the units of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is quartered in Moscow is absolute disinformation and falseness. This was reported by the republic's law enforcement agencies.
22:20, 8 December 2011
Woman from Makhachkala claims disappearance of her brother
On December 7, in the capital of Dagestan, unidentified armed men kidnapped Rashid Shuaibov, a resident of Makhachkala, and his whereabouts is still unknown. This was reported by his sister Subigat Gasanova, a resident of Makhachkala.
22:00, 8 December 2011
Employee of South-Ossetian MoD wounded at oppositional rally in Tskhinvali
On December 8, Soslan Gabuev, a staff member of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of South Ossetia, got a knife wound during an opposition rally in the city of Tskhinvali. This was reported by Uruzmag Margiev, the deputy head of the city GOVD (Chief Interior Division).
21:00, 8 December 2011
More than 170 Nalchik residents hospitalized with poisoning
Starting from December 6, in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, 170 persons, including 68 children, were hospitalized with a diagnosis of "acute gastroenterocolitis", "food toxic infection". The infection source is still unidentified: the samples of water showed its compliance with the standard.
News
Two regions of the North Caucasus have announced days off in connection with Eid al-Fitr.

The names of two Dagestan combatants killed in Ukraine have been released.

Five soldiers from Dagestan were killed in Ukraine.

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.