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23:40, 22 April 2011
For the week of April 11-17 armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away 17 lives
During the week from April 11 to April 17, at least 17 persons were killed and at least 15 more were wounded in the glowing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
23:20, 22 April 2011
Orlov: stability in Northern Caucasus is impossible without observance of human rights
Respect for human rights and the rule of law in Northern Caucasus are prerequisites for ensuring peace and stability in the region, said Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", at a press conference on human rights in Chechnya.
23:20, 22 April 2011
Georgia: Deputy Governor of Shida Kartli detained on bribery charges
Employees of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained Avtandil Mestvirishvili, Deputy Governor of the region Shida Kartli (Eastern Georgia), on bribery charges. No details have been disclosed so far.
23:10, 22 April 2011
Chechnya gets ready to celebrate Orthodox Easter
For celebrations of the Orthodox Easter, Chechnya expects arrival of plenty of its former residents. A special working group has been set up to cope with all the activities associated with this holiday.
23:10, 22 April 2011
Presentation of a book about Chechen woman convicted on terrorism charges to take place in Moscow
On April 27, the Moscow Cultural Centre "Pokrovskie Vorota" will host a book presentation, written by Zoya Svetova, a Russian human rights activist, a publicist and journalist, about the trials of the scientist Igor Sutyagin, convicted as a spy, and of the Chechen woman Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism.
23:00, 22 April 2011
In Krasnodar, Prosecutor's Office accuses Mayoralty officials of fraud
As reported by the press office of the Territorial Prosecutor's Office, several officials of the Krasnodar Mayoralty have repeatedly violated the law, while forming the budget, distributing and using the budgetary funds, placing orders on the purchase of goods, works and services for municipal needs, and in managing and disposing municipal property, including land resources.
23:00, 22 April 2011
In Stavropol Territory, chief physician of hospital where child was raped is accused of negligence
As reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the chief physician of the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, where a 9-year-old girl was raped, is accused of a failure to ensure the proper guarding of his hospital, which allowed the criminal to get into it.
22:50, 22 April 2011
Armenia decides to re-investigate disorders of March 1, 2008
The Special Investigatory Service (SIS) in charge of investigating the dispersal of the mass opposition rallies on March 1, 2008, has issued a statement urging people to help in investigating the events of those days. The service decided to revise the investigation of the "March 1" case.
22:30, 22 April 2011
Dagestan: three Kidero villagers disappear after detention, rights defenders report
In the village of Kidero, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, law enforcers conducted searches in the houses of Magomed Abdulkhalikov, Shakhban Magomedov and Magomed Magomedov and took the young men away to some unknown place. Currently, their whereabouts are unknown. On April 20, 2011, Mukhtar Kamaludinovich Zhabuev, a resident of the village, submitted a respective application to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
22:30, 22 April 2011
Apsheronsk: all hospitalized children discharged, kindergarten head sacked
Doctors have discharged all the pupils of kindergarten No. 7 of the city of Apsheronsk, Krasnodar Territory who were hospitalized with a suspected infectious disease, said an employee of the press service of the district administration. The kindergarten remains closed; its head was fired; and district doctors are visiting the homes and examine all the pre-school children who visited the kindergarten.
21:00, 22 April 2011
Fifteen people injured as a result of a road accident in Chechnya
Fifteen people got injured as a result of a collision of three cars. It has been the biggest road accident in the republic during the past several months.
20:00, 22 April 2011
NAC: one of the gunmen killed in Chechnya was an emissary of "al-Qaeda" in Northern Caucasus
National Anti-Terrorist Committee reports that one of the people killed during a special operation in Chechnya was an Arab hireling, chief emissary of "al-Qaeda" under the alias "Moganned". The other killed person was identified as resident of Grozny by name of Sultygov.
19:00, 22 April 2011
Mayor's office of Yerevan authorized a procession and meeting of the opposition
Mayor's office of Yerevan has allowed Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the National party, to hold a meeting and a procession. The meeting will start on May, 5, at 16:00, in an area neighbuoring to Matenadaran.
18:00, 22 April 2011
The first North-Caucasian biannual exhibition will start working in Dagestan
The exhibition project of modern art "North-Caucasian biannual" will be first opened in the town of Kaspiisk, Dagestan, today.
23:20, 21 April 2011
Stavropol Territory: journalist beaten when filming rape report
Yuri Ugryumov, a correspondent of the federal NTV Channel was beaten on April 20 in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, in the course of filming a report about a rape of a nine-year-old girl. The child was abducted by unidentified persons from the ENT ward of the district hospital of Budyonnovsk and raped.
23:00, 21 April 2011
Moscow commemorates victims of Armenian genocide
On April 20, the Big Hall of the Central House of Writers hosted a party in memory of victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. The event dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the tragic events in Turkey was held by the organization "Russian-Armenian Commonwealth" in cooperation with the Embassy of Armenia in Russia.
22:50, 21 April 2011
Journalist detained in Rostov on suspicion of blackmail
Margarita Efremova, a journalist of the newspaper "Yuzhny Federalny" (Southern Federal), was detained in one of Rostov cafes. She is suspected of extorting money from the administration head of the head of the ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Morozov District.
22:30, 21 April 2011
Defendant faints at trial on Nalchik attack case
Today, at the court session on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, one of the defendants, Azamat Akhkubekov, asked the court to ensure his safety in connection with his announced hunger strike, while the defendant Khabas Emkuzhev lost consciousness.
22:20, 21 April 2011
Video from scene of crime presented at Stanislav Markelov's murder trial
On April 20, the court, which considers the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, satisfied the petition of the state prosecution to show to the jury the video record of interrogation of the accused Nikita Tikhonov at the scene of the crime, filmed in November 2009 in Prechistenka Street.
22:10, 21 April 2011
Chechnya abounds in recruits, local military commissariats report
Officials from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) refute the data that residents of the Caucasus will not be drafted into the army. It also reported that the Chechen Republic has much more potential recruits to the army and military schools than required by the delivered quota.
News
A North Ossetian soldier was killed in Ukraine.

A combatant from North Ossetia was killed in a military operation.

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.