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18:30, 21 June 2011
Nagorno-Karabakh: journalists watch life of people
A group of journalists from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia and Armenia visit Nagorno-Karabakh. The programme of their visit schedules meetings with government officials, NGO representatives, travelling to remote regions of Nagorno-Karabakh.
18:00, 21 June 2011
Einullah Fatullaev called the Council of Europe to increase support to human rights in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev, a former political prisoner, visits Strasbourg at the invitation of the Council of Europe (CE). Within his visit, on June 20 he conducted a series of meetings in various structures of the Council of Europe.
17:00, 21 June 2011
Maryam Sharipova's brother got political refugee status in Italy
The Court of Trieste declared the decision of the Commission's on Political Asylum, which had rejected asylum for Anvar Sharipov, to be illegal due to insufficient and contradictory motivation, and provided a native of Dagestan with a political refugee status. Giorgio Kamai, the editor of the Media Centre Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, who watched over the detainee's fate from Italy, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
16:00, 21 June 2011
Baku: anonymous leaflets against hijab ban in schools
Authors of the leaflets, which are distributed anonymously at the entrances of apartment buildings in the capital of Azerbaijan, demand to abolish the practice of the ban on hijabs at schools, as it allegedly violates human rights.
15:00, 21 June 2011
Astrakhan Region: 'injured child' checked drivers' response to road accident
In the Astrakhan Region the GIBDD (road police) officers checked drivers' response by staging a road accident involving a child, and watched who of road users would stop seeing the bloodied boy and who would drive by.
14:30, 21 June 2011
Judoist from Ingushetia wins gold at European Cup
Zelimkhan Ozdoev from Ingushetia became the gold medallist in the European Cup competitions on judo, which took place in Slovenian city of Celei on June 19.
23:30, 20 June 2011
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 13-19
Acquittal in the criminal case on slandering Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, passed by court in Moscow; rallies and hunger strike of Dagestani residents who demand to open traffic in the tunnel connecting the centre of the republic with several mountainous districts; verdict of the Supreme Court of South Ossetia on the initiative of the new term of Eduard Kokoity's office; protest rallies in Baku, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 13-19, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 20 June 2011
Georgia: opposition demands Soso Dzhachvliani's early release
The oppositional party "New Right-Wingers" demands early release of the stage director Soso Dzhachvliani, an activists of the "People's Assembly" of Georgia, who was detained on May 26 during dispersal of the protest rally in central Tbilisi.
22:00, 20 June 2011
Afghanistan: eighth soldier from Georgia lost
During a mission of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Khelmand province of Afghanistan soldier Gia Goguadze perished, reported the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia on June 20. He was already the eighth Georgian soldier lost in Afghanistan.
21:00, 20 June 2011
Moscow: Yegor Sviridov's murder case in court
The Moscow Prosecutor's Office confirmed the indictment in criminal case against Aslan Cherkesov, a 27-year-old native of the city of Nalchik, accused of killing Yegor Sviridov, a fan of Football Club (FC) "Spartak", and sent the materials to the Moscow City Court for consideration.
20:00, 20 June 2011
"Forum of People's Unity of Abkhazia" nominates presidential candidate
In Abkhazia, the oppositional Republican Party "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia", headed by Raul Khadjimba declared an intention to nominate its presidential candidate. Nomination will take place at the next congress of the organization.
19:00, 20 June 2011
Chechnya: policeman accidentally kills man at wedding
On June 19 in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny District of Chechnya, a policeman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) accidentally shot and killed a local resident, 21-year-old man.
18:00, 20 June 2011
Car voyage "Sochi-Torino-Sochi" plans to learn European experience of waste management
Six Sochi residents in three cars started today an automobile trip from Sochi around the European Olympic capitals. During the trip they intend not only to talk about preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also to get acquainted with the European experience of waste management.
17:00, 20 June 2011
Kabardino-Balkaria: bodies of WW II soldiers found
In Kabardino-Balkaria, on Mount Elbrus, bodies of three soldiers of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) were found. Konstantin Shershov, an alpine skiing instructor, discovered the remains of the perished soldiers.
Sapiyat Magomedova. Photo by Yuri Timofeev (RFE/RL)
16:30, 20 June 2011
HRC "Memorial": investigation into lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova's beating in Dagestan gave no results
A year ago, on June 17, 2010, Sapiyat Magomedova, a lawyer of the Bar "Omarov A. S. and Partners" was beaten by militiamen at the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division) in Dagestan. As at June 17, 2011, in the case on Magomedova's beating there were no detainees and convicted, a preliminary investigation has not been finished yet.
16:00, 20 June 2011
South Ossetia accuses EU mission of intelligence activities
In the course of the trilateral meeting (Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia) within the Mechanisms for preventing and responding to incidents (MPRI), which was held on June 17 in the Georgian near-border village of Dhwani, the South Ossetian side focused attention on the "violations of the state border in Znaur District" and measures to prevent them.
Relative of a defendant in the Nalchik attack case protests against bad treatment of detainees at SIZO (pre-trial prison). Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik, 2005. Photo from the blog of Nadezhda Gevorkova (http://echo.msk.ru/blog/kevorkova/766174-echo)
15:00, 20 June 2011
Defendants in Nalchik attack case to remain in custody for three months more
Today the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has extended for another three months the detention of 56 defendants in the case on the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005. Kazbek Budtuev and Zalim Ulimbashev faced an extension of pre-trial restriction: recognizance not to leave.
14:00, 20 June 2011
Vanuatu's new Prime Minister overturns previous government's recognition of Abkhazia
Edward Natapei, the new Prime Minister of Vanuatu, stated that he overturns the government's decision to recognize independence of Abkhazia. Mr Natapei also requested Donald Kalpokas, the representative of Vanuatu at the United Nations, to start the process of establishing official relations with Georgia.
13:00, 20 June 2011
South Ossetia: KGB confirms detention of ten Georgian citizens
Georgian citizens were detained in South Ossetia for violation of the state border. Now the investigative activities are carried out, told the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
12:00, 20 June 2011
Dagestan: two children injured during special operation
On June 19 in the evening in Makhachkala a teenager and a child received tangential wounds in a shootout, while Shamil Paizullaev, who led the "Izberbash" grouping of militants, was killed, informed a source from the MIA of Dagestan.
News
More than 8,850 combatants from southern Russia have been officially recognized as killed in the SVO.

Teenagers set fire to a relay cabinet. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program. No casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts from February 23 to March 8.

Future conscripts from the North Caucasus Federal District have not noticed any changes in the conscription rules.

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.