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22:10, 25 April 2011
In Tbilisi, Armenian Diaspora holds protest in front of Turkish Embassy
On April 24, the Community of Armenians in Georgia held a protest rally under the slogan "We remember and fight for justice!" in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi. The action was attended by about 600 persons, who demanded to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915.
22:00, 25 April 2011
Krasnodar Territory: ecologists report pollution of Azov Sea
As reported by the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", after an accident at the sewage collector, waste water got into the Yeisk Estuary in the Krasnodar Territory.
21:00, 25 April 2011
23 workers poisoned with caustic gas vapor hospitalized in Rostov region
Over 20 workers got poisoned with caustic gas vapor while pressing a metallic cask at a ground of "Lomprom" public corporation in the territory of Rostov electro- metallurgical plant (REMP) in the town of Shakhti, Press service of the district Department of preventing and elimination of emergency situations reported.
20:00, 25 April 2011
Hundreds of former residents of Chechnya arrived in the republic to celebrate Easter
Orthodox believers in Chechnya have celebrated Easter. Over 500 former residents of the republic currently living in other regions came to celebrate the holiday.
19:00, 25 April 2011
A healer killed in Dagestan
In the evening of April, 24, some unknown people in Kizlyar district of Dagestan shot down a man who had practiced alternative medicine and healing, a representative of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.
18:00, 25 April 2011
A "hotline" for investors opened in Southern Federal Okrug
The Apparat of Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in Southern Federal Okrug has established a telephone "hotline" where entrepreneurs could ask questions or submit their offers on improving investment climate in the okrug.
Torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, April 23, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:00, 23 April 2011
Torchlight march and rally held in Nagorno-Karabakh in memory of victims of Armenian Genocide
Tonight in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) "Dashnaktsutun" of Artsakh and the "Aram Manukyan" Student Union organized a torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Action "Russia without cruelty" in Sochi, April 23, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 23 April 2011
Picket in support of homeless animals held in Sochi
Today, residents of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, went out to hold a picket as part of the All-Russian action in support of the law on protection of animals.
21:00, 23 April 2011
Yerevan holds torchlight march in memory of victims of Armenian Genocide
A torchlight march dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide was held in Yerevan today. This year saw coincidence of two important dates for Armenia - the Easter and the Remembrance Day of Armenian Genocide.
20:30, 23 April 2011
Fifth bomb within a day found in Dagestani railway
As reported by the press service of the Department for Dagestan of the Russian FSB, today's fifth bomb was found in the railway section Kizilyurt-Temirgoe in this republic; the bomb was successfully defused.
Magomed Khazbiev. Photo by Yuri Timofeev (RFE/RL)
19:00, 23 April 2011
Magomed Khazbiev's family announces reward for information about his kidnappers
The family of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has announced a reward of one million roubles for information about the persons who on March 23 captured him and his two brothers, Murad and Berd, in their own home and delivered to the GUVD (Chief Interior Department).
18:30, 23 April 2011
Moscow hosts rally against subsidizing Northern Caucasus
The participants of the rally started today at 3:00 p.m. near Chistye Prudy metro station are protesting against allocation of budget funds for supporting North-Caucasian republics.
Pilgrims in Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram), Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo by the Press Service of the Ministry for National Politics, Religious Affairs and External Relations of the Republic of Dagestan: www.minnaz.ru
18:00, 23 April 2011
Gizatulin: some of our pilgrims go to Mecca as tourists or tradesmen
On the eve of the upcoming May accreditation of tourist operators for the Hajj, different viewpoints are expressed. The governmental commission on religious communities believes that travel agencies and mediation companies are the perpetrators of the problems encountered by pilgrims. The board of muftis puts part of the blame on pilgrims as such.
17:30, 23 April 2011
Three women detained in Dagestan at attempt to sell a baby
On April 22, law enforcers of Dagestan and Chechnya conducted an operation and detained three female residents of Khasavyurt who tried to sell a newborn baby.
17:13, 23 April 2011
Picket against high-rise buildings is on in Sochi
In front of the Central Marketplace in Moskovskaya Street of Sochi, a picket is being held from 2 to 4 p.m., organized by Evgeniy Zakharov, a member of the initiative group for protection of the resort city against skyscrapers.
Mantas Kvedaravichyus during his visit to the children of the Gataev Chechen family in Lithuania, in the SOS-village near Vilnius, November 2010. Photo by Dmitry Florin
16:30, 23 April 2011
Kvedaravichyus: film about kidnappings and torture in Chechnya gives an actual picture
The documentary "Barzakh" telling about facts of torture and kidnappings in Chechnya, which was presented at film festivals in Lithuania, Switzerland and Spain, aims to tell the world about the situation in today's Chechnya, the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
16:00, 23 April 2011
Grocery store burnt down in Kabardino-Balkaria
At night on April 22, in the village of Khasanya, a suburb of Nalchik, unidentified persons set fire to a grocery store, which burned down completely. Nobody was hurt.
15:00, 23 April 2011
Housing construction suspended in South Ossetia
As reported by the State Committee for Restoration Projects in South Ossetia, the funding of housing construction in Tskhinvali has been suspended; it is unknown when it may be resumed.
Rally of residents of the Dagestani Tabasaran District and public activists in defence of law enforcers in Rhodope Boulevard in Makhachkala, April 22, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
08:00, 23 April 2011
Dagestan: protesters demand to investigate policemen's murders
On April 22, Makhachkala hosted a rally of residents of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan and public activists. The action in defence of law enforcers was about 600 persons strong.
23:40, 22 April 2011
Meeting of relatives of captured sailors with head of Adzharia postponed
Yesterday, on April 21, a meeting was to take place of relatives of the Georgian sailors, kept for over eight months by Somalia pirates, with the head of the government of Adzharia Levan Varshalomidze; however, it was reappointed on April 27.
News
Three days have been declared holidays in Chechnya to mark Eid al-Fitr.

Islamic scholars explained the specifics of calculating zakat in Chechnya and Dagestan.

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.