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23:30, 26 May 2011
Rostov-on-Don to hold flash mob on smoking-quitting day
On May 31 - the Day of Smoking-Quitting - activists of the "Young Guard" will appear in gas masks and offer all the wishing volunteers to give blood samples for determination of the level of carbon monoxide (CO) in the organism.
23:10, 26 May 2011
In Rostov-on-Don, court obliges city administration to sanction "Strategy-31" rally
The Pervomaiskiy District Court has ordered the city administration of Rostov-on-Don to sanction the "Strategy-31" action in defence of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which stipulates the freedom of assembly, in those months as the applicants will indicate. According to the organizer of this rally Pavel Nagibin, the court has consistently recognized the unlawfulness of the refusal by the city administration to sanction the "Strategy-31" rallies on October 31, 2010, and January 31 this year.
23:00, 26 May 2011
States ready to pay USD 5M for information on Dokku Umarov's whereabouts
The United States, which had earlier put Dokku Umarov, leader of "Imarat Kavkaz", on the list of international terrorists, are ready to pay remuneration of five million US dollars for information about his whereabouts, says the joint Russian-American declaration on combating terrorism.
Action of the ANC rally in support of Armenian political prisoners in Freedom Square in Yerevan. June 18, 2010. Photo by Gagik Shamshyan, "Armenia Today".
22:40, 26 May 2011
Armenian Parliament supports amnesty
The Armenian National Assembly has approved the draft law "On Amnesty", initiated by the President of the country Serzh Sargsyan, when 91 MPs voted for it, and one MP abstained. The amnesty was announced in connection with the 20th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Armenia to be marked on September 21.
22:30, 26 May 2011
HRW and RWB condemn Georgian authorities for dispersing oppositional rally
The international organizations Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Reporters Without Borders (RWB) have treated the force used by Georgian police to disperse the demonstration in Tbilisi as excessive and disproportionate.
22:20, 26 May 2011
Journalist Einullah Fatullaev pardoned in Azerbaijan
Today Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev signed an order today to pardon 89 prisoners; among those pardoned is Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief and founder of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Daily Azerbaijan.
22:10, 26 May 2011
Consideration of Dudko's case to continue on June 1
As ruled by Judge Natalia Larina, the trial of blogger Alexei Dudko would continue at the Taganka District Court in Moscow on June 1.
22:00, 26 May 2011
Georgian police detained Burjanadze's fellow-fighters for accusation of the loss of two people
Two members of ex-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze's "Democratic Movement - United Georgia" were detained by Georgian police for accusation of actions which resulted in the death of people.
21:00, 26 May 2011
Charges brought against 90 participants of the action in front of the Georgian Parliament
After last night's dispersal of the action of "People's Assembly" in front of the Parliament in Tbilisi which turned into an unauthorized one, charges were brought against 90 people, Head of Informational and Analytic Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia Shota Utiashvili reported.
20:00, 26 May 2011
The "Georgian Party": Levan Gachechiladze is safe and sound
Supporters of Levan Gachechiladze, leader of the "Georgian Party", whose location was unknown after yesterday's dispersal of the unauthorized action in Tbilisi by riot squad announced that he was safe and sound and was in a safe place together with his son at the moment.
19:00, 26 May 2011
The Ministry of Interior Affairs: 36 gunmen killed in Kabardino-Balkaria since the beginning of the year
The personnel of law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed 36 participants of paramilitary groups and their accomplices, Sergey Vasiliev, Minister of Interior Affairs of the republic, reported at a session of the Parliament of KBR today.
18:00, 26 May 2011
Eight people wounded in a skirmish among natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan in St. Petersburg
A skirmish among natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan occurred at night of May, 22, not far from a cafe in the 8th Line of Vasilievsky Ostrov, St. Petersburg, eight people got wounded. According to law enforcement bodies, the incident was a result of shoot-outs.
23:10, 25 May 2011
Tbilisi: application on oppositional rally expires at midnight
The protest rally of the "People's Assembly", which demands President Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation, continues at the Parliament in Tbilisi, despite the information that at midnight, after the rally application expires, it may be dispersed by the police.
23:00, 25 May 2011
Dagestan: detainee's advocate cannot meet his client
On May 6 in the morning, Hadji Murat Khalitov, a resident of the village of Serebryakovskaya, Kizlyar District, was detained. His advocate Murad Magomedov said that since May 17 he was not able to contact his client; and he fears that the detainee is tortured. The investigator in charge of Khalitov's case told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the suspect was kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the city of Kizlyar.
23:00, 25 May 2011
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 16 to 22 May
Protest actions of the opposition movement "People's Assembly" in Georgia; recognition by Georgian Parliament of Circassian genocide committed by Russian Empire; visit of Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, to Northern Caucasus; events within the European Action "Museum Night", - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 16-22, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
22:50, 25 May 2011
Residents of Ingushetia tell about oppressions in Pyatigorsk SIZO
Detainees kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Pyatigorsk are oppressed based on their ethnicity and religion. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by relatives of the residents of Ingushetia kept there.
22:40, 25 May 2011
AI's report concentrates on elimination of Five-Day War consequences
The 2010 report of the Amnesty International (AI) on Georgia for 2010 emphasizes the consequences of the military conflict in August 2008; violations of the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs); actions of the police and security bodies; and violation of children's rights in refugees villages. The report was prepared within the general annual report on human rights situation in the world and was disseminated on May 12.
22:10, 25 May 2011
Azerbaijan: Baku resident goes on hunger strike
Gurban Aliev, a resident of the city of Baku, went on a hunger strike in front of the State Committee for State Property Management (SCSPM) of Azerbaijan. He demands to restore his ownership rights.
22:00, 25 May 2011
Azerbaijan: oppositionist faces new charges
Elnur Israfilov, an arrested participant of the rally on April 2 in Azerbaijan, was presented another accusation, this time of "intentional destruction or damage of other people's property." This was reported by his advocate Yalcin Imanov.
21:00, 25 May 2011
Norwegian Directorate of Immigration does not consider the situation in Chechnya dangerous
The most wide-spread reason to refuse political asylum in Norway to residents of Chechnya is the use of general situation in the republic as an argument by the claimants without specifying the particular threats, Guri Norstrom, official of PR Department of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on May, 24.
News
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Residents of Makhachkala considered the construction of an ice arena inappropriate.

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.