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21:00, 28 May 2011
Ara Ovannisyan is at large in Armenia
On May 27, an opposition activist Ara Ovannisyan, convicted on the case of the events of March 1-2, 2008, in Yerevan, was released under the amnesty from the penal institution "Sevan".
20:00, 28 May 2011
Tskhinvali residents wear respiratory masks to protect from dust
High concentration of dust in the air has become one of the most acute problems for residents of the capital of South Ossetia, after they started replacing underground utilities. City authorities lack cleaning equipment to combat the dust; while local residents have to put on respiratory masks.
19:00, 28 May 2011
Ombudsman of Georgia reports 152 detainees at opposition rallies in May
On May 28, the Office of the Ombudsman of Georgia published a list of 152 persons detained during the May protest actions, found in 17 IVSs (temporary isolation facilities) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), located both in Tbilisi and in regions of the country.
18:00, 28 May 2011
Action against violence held in central Tbilisi
Today, a protest rally against the violence of the ruling regime was held in Tbilisi, in front of the Parliament of Georgia, where on May 26 the police dispersed the opposition rally.
17:00, 28 May 2011
Azerbaijan celebrates Day of the Republic today
Today, Azerbaijan marks its Day of the Republic - on May 28, 1918, the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic (ADR) was proclaimed, which was the first republic in the Muslim world.
16:00, 28 May 2011
Worker at Sochi Olympic construction loses his arm at shell explosion
Two construction workers from Uzbekistan suffered in Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi. A shell explosion tore away an arm of one of them and caused minor injuries to the other.
15:00, 28 May 2011
Azerbaijani opposition to hold rally on June 19
At its session held on Friday, the oppositional Public Chamber of Azerbaijan made a decision to hold a new rally on June 19.
14:00, 28 May 2011
In Georgia, one of suspects of insulting Saakashvili arrested, another one fined
In Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court has sentenced Vakhtang Maisuradze and Georgi Lapiashvili, who were detained on May 27 on suspicion that they threw chocolate at Mikhail Saakashvili, when the latter was in the theatre. Maisuradze was sentenced to three months in jail; Lapiashvili was fined by 300 US dollars.
12:30, 28 May 2011
Dagestan natives get lost in Tyumen Region
Asiyat (Julia) Babaeva, a resident of the town of Raduzhnoe, Tyumen Region, informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband Umalat Babaev, a native of Dagestan, from yesterday did not answer telephone calls; and his whereabouts are unknown. Along with him, Samur Kurbanov, a friend of the family, also disappeared.
09:00, 28 May 2011
Nikol Pashinyan amnestied in Armenia
As reported by Arsen Babayan, press secretary of the Criminal-Executive Department of the Armenian Ministry of Justice, Nikol Pashinyan, a supporter of the Armenian opposition and editor-in-chief of the "Aikakan Zhamanak", was released under the May 27 amnesty.
23:50, 27 May 2011
Norwegian rights defenders urge Prince Hokon not to visit Baku
Leaders of three Norwegian human rights organizations - the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Rafto Foundation and the Foundation for the Human Rights House - sent a letter to the Norwegian Crown Prince Hokon Magnus asking him to abandon his trip to Azerbaijan to participate in the International Exhibition and Conference "Caspian Oil and Gas" to be held on June 6-7 in Baku. According to human rights advocates, by his visit Prince Hokon will express "undeserved recognition of President Aliev's regime."
23:40, 27 May 2011
Complaint of 75 Chechen victims of 1999 bombing sent to ECtHR
The complaint, prepared by the Committee Against Torture, was forwarded to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg on behalf of 75 applicants from Chechnya. They include both close relatives of the casualties and the persons who were seriously injured as a result of the missile attack and bombing of the village of Elistanzhi, Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic, by Russian Air Forces on October 7, 1999.
Einullah Fatullaev. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:30, 27 May 2011
Einullah Fatullaev plans to continue his journalism
The Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who spent over 4 years in prison, and who was released on May 26, intends to continue his professional activities.
23:00, 27 May 2011
USA and EU justify dispersal of opposition rally in Georgia
The Ambassadors to Georgia of the United States and the European Union - John Bass and Philip Dimitrov, respectively, - believe that the crackdown at night on May 26 of the unsanctioned rally of the "People's Assembly" was carried out legally; however, riot policemen were applying disproportionate force to the situation.
22:50, 27 May 2011
Resident of Dagestan turns for help to adaptation commission
Today, Sergey Evloev, 19, a resident of Makhachkala, who had stated earlier that he was abducted by local law enforcers, turned for help to the commission under the President of Dagestan engaged in assisting the persons, who have decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities, in adapting to peaceful life.
Colleagues from the North-Ossetian State University mourn over the tragic death of Shamil Dzhigkaeva in the foyer the building of the Department of Ossetian philology. Vladikavkaz, May 27, 2011. Photo: nosu.ru
22:40, 27 May 2011
Dudieva: poet Dzhigkaev was killed for his poem
Susanna Dudieva, leader of the "Beslan Mothers", has moved a version that the murder of the National Poet of North Ossetia-Alania Shamil Dzhigkaev was caused by his poem critical of pilgrims from Chechnya and Ingushetia. However, the Ingush authorities called on not to make hasty conclusions.
22:30, 27 May 2011
Opposition activist Sasun Mikaelyan is at large in Armenia
Today, on May 27, Sasun Mikaelyan, one of the most famous commanders of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, was set free from the penal institution "Prisoners' Hospital".
20:00, 27 May 2011
Mayor's office of Krasnodar refused permission of a picket in defense of convicted human rights activist Pavel Cherevatov
A non-governmental organization "Grass Roots" filed an application of holding a picket in defense of convicted human rights activist Pavel Cherevatov in Krasnodar. The Mayor's office refused granting the application. The organizers consider this refusal groundless and do not give up their plans of holding the action of protest.
19:00, 27 May 2011
Minister of Public Health of North Osetia accused of misappropriation of budgetary funds
According to the version of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Minister of Public Health of North Osetia has inflicted damage on the budget to a sum of one million rubles.
18:00, 27 May 2011
Gachechiladze: there are more victims of dispersal of the meeting than officially reported
One of the leaders of the "Georgian Party" Levan Gachechiladze is sure that there were much more victims of the dispersal of the oppositionists' meeting in Tbilisi than it was officially reported.
News
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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.