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22:30, 10 May 2011
Armenian rights defenders support Thomas Hammarberg's report
The report of Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights Council of Europe, published on May 9, is truly reflecting the situation in Armenia, and the rigorous assessments made therein could have been expected, say the Armenian rights defenders.
Andrei Krasnenkov, who is representing Ramzan Kadyrov, the claimant in litigation against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial". Moscow, Khamovniki Court, May 10, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:20, 10 May 2011
Advocate of head of Chechnya moves new motions in case of head of the HRC "Memorial"
Today, at a regular session of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow on the slander case initiated against the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, Andrei Krasnenkov, legal representative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has moved a number of new petitions.
22:10, 10 May 2011
Kabardino-Balkaria: all supposed militants, liquidated in special operation, identified
According to preliminary data, Nadezhda Petruchenya and Anatoly Ozrokov have been identified among the suspected militants, killed today in a special operation in Nalchik.
22:10, 10 May 2011
Azerbaijan: five believers arrested for holding protests
Protesters against the ban on hijabs in schools, held May 6 in Baku, have been sentenced to administrative arrests.
Celebrations of the Victory Day in Rostov-on-Don. Ekaterina Dekanis (left), South-Western Front, May 9, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 10 May 2011
Regions of SFD and NCFD, and countries of Southern Caucasus, celebrate Victory Day
In the regions of Southern Russia and Transcaucasian countries the Victory Day was celebrated in various formats.
18:00, 10 May 2011
28 people were killed in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during a week
During the week from April, 25, till May, 1, no less than 28 people were killed and minimum 18 wounded in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other open sources.
23:40, 9 May 2011
OMON company deputy commander killed in Dagestan
On May 8, in the village of Shamkhal, Kirov District of Makhachkala, an unidentified person made several pistol shots at Asvad Abdullaev, deputy commander of OMON (riot police) company No. 1 for the Republic of Dagestan (RD), who was at that moment in the yard of his house. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the RD.
23:30, 9 May 2011
Huge batch of counterfeit alcohol confiscated in north of Chechnya
In the plain Shelkovskoy District of the Chechen Republic the police detained a truck carrying more than a thousand bottles of alcohol. A source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya asserts that this is the largest of the recently detected batches of alcoholic beverages.
23:20, 9 May 2011
Gagoshidze: Georgia may recognize "Circassian Genocide" before May 21
The Georgian parliament may recognize the so-called "Genocide of the Circassian Nation" before May 21, since the Circassian issue has rather powerful lobby in Georgia, said Yulon Gagoshidze, Minister on the Matters of Georgian Diaspora.
Zoya Svetova at presentation of her book "Innocent Is Found Guilty". Advocate Victor Parshutkin is on the left. Moscow, Cultural Centre "Pokrovskie Vorota", April 27, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:10, 9 May 2011
Author of the book about native of Chechnya convicted for terrorism dedicated it to Anna Politkovskaya
The presentation of the book by Zoya Svetova "Innocent Is Found Guilty" about the scientist Igor Sutyagin, accused of espionage, and the Chechen girl Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism, was attended by about a hundred persons; half of them were journalists of Russian and foreign mass media. As it turned out later, some visitors could not get into the hall and waited outside hoping to get an autograph from the author of the book. According to Zoya Svetova, she dedicated her book to Anna Politkovskaya.
Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, Memorial Complex. Military parade in honour of the Victory Day, May 9, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:30, 9 May 2011
Festive ceremonies are going on in Nagorno-Karabakh since May, 7
A triple holiday is celebrated in Nagorno-Karabakh on May, 9: the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the 19th anniversary of creation of the Defense Army of Karabakh and the day of liberation of the town of Shushi.
22:20, 9 May 2011
Operative search officers started search of missing people in South Osetia
A search group of Peace-support mission named after General Lebed started search of those missing since the period of the Georgian-Osetian conflict of 1989-2008.
22:10, 9 May 2011
A fortune-teller's family fired upon in Dagestan, two persons wounded
Unidentified people committed an attempt at a woman fortune-teller and her husband in Sergokala district of Dagestan, both of them were hospitalized with grave gunshot wounding.
22:00, 9 May 2011
Investigation in Dagestan does not rule out that the journalist of an Islamic newspaper was killed by mistake
According to a preliminary version, Yahya Magomedov, journalist of an Islamic newspaper "As-Salam", might be killed by mistake: he might have been confused with his relative, a police officer, Alkhas Amirhanov, Senior Assistant Chief of Investigative Department of the Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan, reported.
21:00, 9 May 2011
Militants who perished last week in Chechnya committed suicide rather than were liquidated in assault, eyewitnesses assert
The two members of the armed underground, whose liquidation was reported on April 25 by the republic's authorities and power agents, blew themselves up after they ran out of ammunition, but not killed in the course of the special operation, said the head of one of the republic's public organizations (NGOs).
20:00, 9 May 2011
Dagestan: rights defender who opposed environment pollution fined by "Rospotrebnadzor"
The Inter-District Division of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) for Dagestan fined Murtazali Tagirov, head of public organization "Fighter for Justice" by 4500 roubles.
19:00, 9 May 2011
Finnish court finds Shamil Basaev's brother innocent in the case of illegal immigration
Today, a trial took place in Finland on the case on illegal immigration of Chechen natives. The defendants Abdulkhamid Mechiev and Mikael Storsjo were acquitted.
18:00, 9 May 2011
Head of Nazran GUVD demands to open criminal case against oppositionist Khazbiev
On May 6, the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev was summoned to the Investigatory Committee of Ingushetia by investigator Gaitov for questioning. Magomed Tambiev, head of the Nazran GUVD (Chief Interior Department), has asked the Prosecutor's Office initiate a criminal case against the oppositionist.
23:00, 7 May 2011
In Dagestan, dozens of houses are flooded by heavy rains
About 50 houses were flooded in the village of Atlanaul, Buinaksk District of Dagestan, after heavy rains. This was reported by the republic's department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).
22:30, 7 May 2011
Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia: oppositionist Khazbiev was not kidnapped
The Ingush Prosecutor's Office has conducted a check of the application lodged by Lydia Khazbieva, mother of the oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, who complained of illegal actions of law enforcers, who on March 23 kidnapped Khazbiev and his brothers.
News
Islamic scholars explained the specifics of calculating zakat in Chechnya and Dagestan.

Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

Aishat Baimuradova's killers threatened her acquaintance, a native of Dagestan.

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.