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Armenia, Yerevan, September 21, 2011, Deputy Head of the Central Police Department is convoying Levon Barsegyan to the police car. Courtesy of azatutyun.am (RFE/RL)
18:00, 12 November 2011
In Armenia, head of "Asparez" Club files lawsuit against policemen
Levon Barsegyan, the head of the "Asparez" Journalistic Club from the second largest Armenian city of Gyumri, filed a lawsuit to the administrative court demanding to treat the actions of the policemen, who prevented the protest action in the morning on September 21 in downtown Yerevan, as illegitimate.
17:00, 12 November 2011
Khloponin: Ombudspersons in NCFD most often complain of power agents
Most of the complaints addressed to the Ombudspersons working in the regions of Northern Caucasus deal with violations of citizens' rights by law enforcement bodies, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian President for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said at his meeting with the Ombudspersons, who work in the NCFD.
16:13, 12 November 2011
In Rostov-on-Don, policemen detain two activists of the "Left-Wing Front"
Late in the evening on November 11, two activists of the "Left-Wing Front" were detained on charges of hooliganism.
16:00, 12 November 2011
Entrepreneur shot dead in Kabardino-Balkaria
In the evening on November 11, in the village of Yanikoy, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, entrepreneur Akhmad Gegraev was killed.
15:00, 12 November 2011
House of Bulat Chagaev, owner of FC "Xamax", searched
After the searches conducted at the Geneva-based offices of the companies belonging to the Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev and in the office of the Football Club "Xamax", purchased by him in May this year, police inspectors also searched his house.
13:00, 12 November 2011
Rukman Ediev killed in a special operation in Chechnya
In the course of a special operation conducted in the Shali District of Chechnya, law enforcers killed Rukman Ediev, which, according to the local MIA, was an active member of the armed underground in the republic.
Rostov Region, city of Zverevo, a picket of pensioners, former mine employees, against abolition of privileges on utility bill payment, March 2009. Photo by the Left-Wing Front of the Rostov Region, www.lefdon.rf
12:00, 12 November 2011
Zverevo residents get ready to picket Rostov-on-Don Administration
Pickets with demand to revise the existing tariffs on utilities will be held in Rostov-on-Don near the city administration by residents of the city of Zverevo.
Campaigners of the "Song for Democracy". Avaz Zeinalov (centre), editor-in-chief of the "Khural" newspaper, Baku, October 21, 2011. Courtesy of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, www.irfs.az
11:00, 12 November 2011
Azerbaijani rights defenders ask Ashton to help in release of political prisoners
In Azerbaijan, the organizers of the campaign "Song for Democracy" have sent an appeal to Catherine Ashton, High EU Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, who plans to visit Baku next week.
10:00, 12 November 2011
Lithuanian football fans decide not to go to Chechnya
The players of the Lithuanian national football team have disregarded the recommendations of their Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and flew to the capital of Chechnya in the same charter flight with their upcoming opponents – the second national Russian team. However, not a single fan of the Lithuanian team has come to Grozny.
23:50, 11 November 2011
In Adygea, court sentences former UFSIN division head to 4 years of probation for embezzlement
Adam Gadagatl, the former head of the operative division of the UFSIN (Department of the Russian Federal Correction Service) for Adygea, was found guilty of an especially large embezzlement committed by an organized group of persons through the use of one's office position, the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic reports.
23:50, 11 November 2011
In Karachay-Cherkessia, two brothers found guilty of killing sister
In the murder case of the 19 year-old girl in Karachay-Cherkessia, her two elder brothers were found guilty; they were sentenced to 13 and 9 years of imprisonment in a high security colony, the Republic's Supreme Court has reported.
23:50, 11 November 2011
Leader of People's Party of South Ossetia demands to initiate criminal cases against people who beat him
On November 10, Roland Kelekhsaev, the unregistered South-Ossetian presidential candidate and the leader of the oppositional "People's Party", submitted an application to the Prosecutor's Office about his beating.
23:40, 11 November 2011
Resident of Chechnya to stand trial on charges of abducting Doku Zavgaev's sister
Ruslan Akharashev, a resident of Chechnya, will be tried on charges of abducting back in 1997, the sister of the former head of the republic Doku Zavgaev.
23:40, 11 November 2011
Van Damme is going to fight Somluck Kamsing in Chechnya
The Hollywood actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, who is staying for two weeks in Chechnya at the invitation of Ramzan Kadyrov, said on air of Chechen television that the head of Chechnya had agreed to hold his fight with Somluck Kamsing, the 1996 Olympic boxing champion, in Grozny.
23:30, 11 November 2011
In Georgia, district head detained as bribery suspect
Employees of the Department of Constitutional Safety of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained Igor Tkebuchava, the head of the Khobi district administration, on charges of bribery, the MIA has announced today.
23:20, 11 November 2011
Astrakhan court reinstates dismissed TEC member as school principal
The Kirov District Court of Astrakhan has restored Nadezhda Gogoleva, Director of School No. 74 and a member of the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) with a decisive vote from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia), in her position. Her employers could not cite any reason at the trial, why the woman had been fired.
23:10, 11 November 2011
Azerbaijan: gas blast in school burns a teenager
In Baku, a gas explosion took place in a school; one pupil suffered burns.
23:00, 11 November 2011
Pre-investigation check is on in Nalchik on students' mass poisoning
The investigatory division for the city of Nalchik is conducting a pre-investigation check of the fact of poisoning of 48 students and teachers of the Kabardino-Balkar State Agricultural Academy (KBSACA). A service check will be also held with respect to the doctors of the Urvan District Hospital, where a poisoned girl had died.
22:40, 11 November 2011
Boiler explosion kills a man in Nagorno-Karabakh
Armen Martirosyan, a resident of the city of Gadruta, was killed in an explosion in the boiler house; another victim was hospitalized.
22:30, 11 November 2011
Festival "Artisterium" in Georgia attracted 74 artists from different countries
Georgia has finalized the annual festival of avant-garde art "Artisterium", which was attended by 74 artists from around the world.
News
The road to 14 villages in Dagestan is blocked due to a landslide.

A state of emergency has been declared in the Khunzakh district due to landslides.

The property of former State Duma deputy Rizvangadzhi Isaev has been seized.

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.