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20:00, 6 May 2011
Hackers disabled an independent web-portal "Voice of Ingushetia"
The web-site "Voice of Ingushetia" (golosingushetii.ru) has been disabled already for several days, representatives of the web-site told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Before that the web-site had undergone a powerful attack and was working several days without fully functioning.
19:00, 6 May 2011
A corruption scheme detected in the sphere of public health in Georgia
Constitutors of "Express-Diagnostika" company in Tbilisi have been detained for misappropriation of state finance. They are accused of legalization of illegal income (money laundering) and forgery of the customs documentation.
18:00, 6 May 2011
A resident of North Osetia who abducted a bride in Volgodonsk detained in Rostov region
The police personnel of Rostov region detained three young "abductors of a bride". The kidnapped girl, resident of Volgodonsk, was returned home safely.
23:55, 5 May 2011
French Armenians protest against rejection of bill on criminalization of Genocide denial
On May 4, hundreds of people held a demonstration in front of the French Senate in Paris in support of the bill assuming criminal liability for denial of the Armenian Genocide. The action was attended by about 500 persons.
23:50, 5 May 2011
US increases maximum term of visas for Georgians to 10 years
The US government has increased the maximum term of visas for certain categories of Georgian citizens to 5 and 10 years. Earlier, the maximum term for all citizens was one year.
23:40, 5 May 2011
Activists of "Mothers of Beslan" fail to meet Dmitry Medvedev
As reported by Aneta Gadieva, one of the members of the "Mothers of Beslan", the meeting of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with the victims of the terror act in September 2004 did not take place.
23:30, 5 May 2011
In Dagestan, schoolgirl convicted conditionally for reporting about terror act during "direct line" with Putin
A verdict of guilty has been passed to a schoolgirl: on December 14, 2010, a 16-year-old pupil called the office of the programme "Conversation with Vladimir Putin" and reported to the operator knowingly false information about an impending terror act in the Moscow Region, said the spokesman of the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office.
Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura in the Sovietskiy District Court of Ulan-Ude, January 19, 2011. Photo by Sergey Basaev for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:20, 5 May 2011
In Ulan-Ude, court re-examines the case of journalists, who spread leaflets about deportation of Caucasian nations
On April 14, the Sovietskiy District Court of the city of Ulan-Ude started reconsidering the case of the Buryat journalists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura on charges of inciting social hatred to employees of law enforcement bodies in their article about deportation of Caucasian nations. On April 29, another session took place, where the prosecution witnesses were questioned.
23:10, 5 May 2011
Oppositional rally held in Yerevan
A rally of the People's Party is over in the capital of Armenia near the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran; however, the announced march along the route: Mashtots Avenue - Amiryan Street - Square of the Republic, was not held. The date of the next action was not announced.
23:00, 5 May 2011
Baburova's parents claim to collect 5 million roubles from Tikhonov as moral compensation
Today, the suffered party - Larissa Baburova and Eduard Baburov - moved a petition at the trial on the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova about bringing a civil action against Nikita Tikhonov. They want to receive 5 million roubles in compensation for their moral harm and 40,000 roubles - for their material damage.
22:40, 5 May 2011
Former Deputy Mayor of Astrakhan convicted for death of 5 persons
They perished in a collapsed building of a hostel, where they had been illegally placed two years before the tragedy, runs the verdict.
22:30, 5 May 2011
In Adygea, journalists' attempts to clarify inquiry details of road accident involving high-ranking official are fruitless
After in November 2008 journalists and public figures of Adygea sent a letter to President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev about the investigatory of the road accident involving the head of the Republic's "Rospotrebnadzor", on April 26 this year an answer came from the Chief Investigatory Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) saying that the inquiry is within the competence of the Prosecutor's Office of Adygea. The Office, however, had stated earlier that journalists cannot interfere into the inquiry since they had nothing to do with the case.
22:20, 5 May 2011
Action "Electric Grid in Defence of Environment" held in Karachay-Cherkessia
Today, power engineers of Karachay-Cherkessia have planted, in the course of the action "Electric Grid in Defence of Environment", 360 young trees.
22:10, 5 May 2011
Unidentified people committed an explosion and fired upon a police car in Dagestan, one person perished
An explosive device was activated on May, 4, in the highway near the settlement of Nizhnie Makharhimahi, Dagestan, while a police car was passing, then unidentified people opened fire upon the policemen, one person perished, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported today.
22:00, 5 May 2011
Investigation on the case of murder of Politkavskaya prolonged till September
The investigation of the criminal case of murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", has been prolonged till September, 7, 2011, official representative of Committee of Inquiry Vladimir Markin reported.
20:00, 5 May 2011
The Committee of the USA for international religious freedoms advices the USA to block Ramzan Kadyrov's bank accounts
On May, 1, the Committee of the USA for international religious freedoms (constituted by the US Congress in 1998) issued its annual report on religious freedoms in 28 countries of the World.
20:00, 5 May 2011
A requiem for the victims of terror passed off at school No 1 of Beslan
On Tuesday, May, 3, the religious holyday All Souls' Day ("Radonitsa") in North Osetia, a commemoration requiem for the lost hostages and special squad soldiers, victims of terror of September, 2004, passed off at school No 1 of Beslan.
19:00, 5 May 2011
Transparency International: the police and the court are the most corrupt bodies in Armenia
According to a survey undertaken by the organization "Transparency International", a slight progress was registered in the sphere of struggle against corruption in Armenia in 2010. The experts of the organization state that the police and the courts still remain the most corrupt bodies in Armenia.
18:00, 5 May 2011
Operative agents confiscated 5 kg explosives from a detained man in Moscow
On May, 4, during search in a suspected man's flat the personnel of law enforcement bodies confiscated a trotyl block of 200 gram weight, about five kilogram explosive on basis of cyclonite, a detonating cord, 15 mobiles, four passports, two portable radio transmitters and different seals and warrants on driving vehicles, law enforcement bodies of the capital reported.
23:20, 4 May 2011
Georgia holds flash mob in defence of media independence
On May 3, the World Press Freedom Day, human rights defenders held an action in support of independence of mass media near the building of the parliament in Tbilisi.
News
Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

In February 2026, three people were killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and southern Russia.

Russian troops in a combat zone. Still from a Russian Defense Ministry video: https://mil.ru/news/1b9c3525-a768-4ce0-81c3-4b4a885d8335 The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in the SVO has exceeded 8,750.

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.