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17:00, 29 June 2011
Dagestan: local resident reported his nephew's disappearance
Today Magomed Yusupov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about disappearance of his nephew Davud Israpilov, which occurred on June 24. According to Magomed Yusupov, earlier, Davud has been repeatedly summoned for questioning in the OVD (Interior Division) of the Tsuntin District.
16:00, 29 June 2011
Azerbaijan: opposition continues protests demanding democratic reforms
The Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) intends to continue protests demanding democratic reforms in Azerbaijan. This was announced on June 28 by Isa Gambar, a member of the Coordinating Council of the CMDPC, a leader of the party "Musavat".
15:00, 29 June 2011
Suspects in two foreign women's beating in Baku rejected political motives of their actions
The law enforcement authorities of Azerbaijan detained the fourth suspect in beating on 15 June in Baku of Amanda Erickson, an American journalist, and Celia Davis, a British human rights activist. This is Nazim Khuseinov, a resident of Babak District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). All four detainees said that they did not know who the girls were and that initially they wanted to get acquainted with them.
Picket on the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims with participation of rights defenders and residents of Chechnya who suffered from rights violations. Chechnya, Grozny, June 24, 2011. Photo by the press service of the Chechen Representative Office of the IRPO "Committee against Torture"
14:00, 29 June 2011
Questioning of "Dosh": Chechen residents hardly trust in local human rights organizations
Residents of Chechnya hardly trust in the official agencies, which activity is aimed at human rights protection, and out of 200 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the country only the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" faces the relative confidence of the population. These are the results of a questioning survey conducted by the Caucasian independent magazine "Dosh".
13:00, 29 June 2011
Georgian Parliament: opposition initiates investigation of pressure on journalists
The Parliament of Georgia established an initiative group to create a temporary parliamentary commission to investigate the facts of pressure on journalists. The Georgian MP Dzhondi Bagaturiya announced that at the press briefing on June 29.
12:00, 29 June 2011
The Ministry of Interior Affairs: an underage resident of Chechnya exploded policemen out of revenge
On June, 28, a nineteen-year-old resident of Urus-Martan district of Chechnya Yusup Magomedov was sentenced to six years and one month of custody by the court with service of the sentence in a general regime colony for committing an act of terror. The reason for Yusup Magomedov’s joining the gunmen became the murder of his close relative who had also been a participant of armed underground, a representative of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya considers.
11:00, 29 June 2011
A father of two girls detained in Chechnya for suspicion of their murder
On June, 27, the personnel of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya detained a father of two girls, one of them underage, in Shelkovskoy district of the republic for suspicion of having committed a murder. The “Caucasian Knot” correspondent received this news from the republican law enforcement bodies.
10:00, 29 June 2011
“The New Rights” in Georgia explain singing an agreement with the ruling party by the necessity of compromising
Among the points of the agreement on electoral issues signed by the ruling party with several oppositional parties of Georgia there is an increase of the number of seats in Parliament from 150 to 190 along with the increase of the portion of deputies elected on the basis of party lists and paying off one million lari to each party which overcomes the 5% barrier at the parliamentary election. “The New Rights” consider these points the most significant ones.
23:00, 28 June 2011
Azerbaijani authorities forbid entrance of Bloomberg employee because of her Armenian origin
On June 28, Diana Markosyan, a Bloomberg photojournalist, was detained by border guards at Baku Airport upon arrival, said the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and added that she would be deported to Istanbul.
22:00, 28 June 2011
Trial on terror acts in Georgia: Russians sentenced to 30 years in prison
Today, the Tbilisi City Court has sentenced 15 defendants in the case on terror acts in the Georgian territory, including Evgeniy Borisov, a serviceman of the Russian armed forces stationed in Abkhazia, the press service of the court reports.
21:30, 28 June 2011
Tsiklauri: Georgia to open memorial to Circassians' genocide
Georgia will commemorate the genocide of the Circassian nation committed by the Russian Empire. As reported by Nugzar Tsiklauri, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Diasporas and the Caucasus, it is also planned to create a cultural centre of Circassians.
20:30, 28 June 2011
Gas explosion in Vladikavkaz was caused by improper use or defective equipment, experts say
Eyewitnesses of the blast that occurred at a wedding party in Vladikavkaz on June 25 say that the explosion was strong and totally unexpected. Experts believe that the cause of the incident could be in improper use or defective gas cylinder. The total number of victims of the blast is 55, including 6 children; the condition of 20 of them is grave.
20:00, 28 June 2011
In Dagestan, follower of Turkish theologian complains against his verdict
Associates of Ziyavdin Dapaev, one of the followers of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi, who was found guilty in Dagestan of organizing an extremist organization named "Nurdzhular", wrote an open letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asking for help. Dapaev himself filed an appeal complaint against his sentence.
19:00, 28 June 2011
Dagestan: mother of teenager beaten by policemen complains of pressure
The mother of the teenager, who was beaten in June 2009 by employees of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division) of Dagestan, said that she and her son were forced to sign papers that the suffered party had no claims to two out of the three defendants. The defendants themselves, who had lodged a cassation complaint against their sentence, deny the fact of pressure, insisting on their innocence on the case.
18:00, 28 June 2011
Natives of Chechnya accused of disorders in Zelenokumsk go on hunger strike
Three brothers and natives from Chechnya – Magomed, Issa and Ayub Gafurov, whose participation in the conflict with Cossacks in Zelenokumsk in November 2010 is considered by the court, went on hunger strike, Natalia Shamra, press-secretary of the Soviet District Court of the Stavropol Territory, reported today.
17:00, 28 June 2011
Another suspect of beating journalist and rights defender detained in Azerbaijan
So far, law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan refrain from comments on possible motives for the beating on June 15 in Baku of the American journalist Amanda Erickson and British human rights defender Celia Davis, despite detention of three suspects of committing this crime.
14:00, 28 June 2011
“The New Rights” and “Christian Democrats” in Georgia left the “oppositional octad”
Two parties in Georgia which insisted on joint negotiations with the ruling party on revision of Electoral code of the country left the “oppositional octad”. “Christian Democrats” and “The New Rights” decided to sign an agreement on electoral issues with the ruling party “United National Movement”.
13:00, 28 June 2011
Public Committee: Azamat Ahkumbekov’s prison conditions in the investigative isolation ward of Nalchik are fatal for his health
Prison conditions of Azamat Ahkumbekov, defendant on the case of an attack at Nalchik on October, 13, 2005, may be seriously be injurious to his health. This was a conclusion of Public Committee of Control over institutions of confinement in Kabardino-Balkaria after a visit to the investigative isolation ward of the capital of the republic.
08:00, 28 June 2011
The case of explosions in Volgograd in April referred to court
Investigation of the criminal case against a resident of Astrakhan accused of preparation and committing explosions near the buildings of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and the Academy of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Volgograd this April “on the grounds of ideological hate” has been accomplished.
23:00, 27 June 2011
Rally of blondes to be held in Sochi on July 23
The first All-Russian rally of blondes will take place in Sochi on July 23. Its programme includes parade of blondes and laying a stone into foundation of the first Russian restaurant for blondes to be built there.
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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.