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22:50, 15 April 2011
Zegduleti villager released in Georgia
The confrontation of Zegduleti villagers and local authorities continues. After interference of Irakli Alasaniya, activist of the "Free Democrats" Party, Roman Aladze, a resident of the village, detained in the morning, was released.
22:40, 15 April 2011
Armenian authorities make chess a mandatory school subject
By decision of the Government of Armenia, chess will be taught at primary schools. Officials believe that this will contribute to mental development of younger schoolchildren.
22:20, 15 April 2011
Finland tries Shamil Basaev's brother and editor of "Kavkaz-Centre"
Today, a trial has started in Finland on the case of illegal immigration of Chechen natives. One of the defendants in this case is Abdulkhamid Mechiev, 26, who identified himself as the brother of Shamil Basaev, field commander of Chechen militants. The court will announce its verdict on May 9.
Inara Gabaraeva at the fire victims' rally in Tskhinvali, April 16, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 15 April 2011
The news of threats to human rights activist Inara Gabaraeva came from South Osetia
Three men in South Osetia who introduced themselves as employees of the Ministry of Defense have threatened to Inara Gabaraeva, local human rights activist and Head of the Committee of Victims of fire. This news came from South Osetia on April, 14, to SMS-service of "Caucasian Knot".
20:00, 15 April 2011
Investigators established that the act of terror on February, 14, was committed by Razdobudko and his wife
The investigation established that the act of terror on February, 14, in the village of Gubden, Dagestan, was committed by resident of Pyatigorsk Vitaly Razdobudko and his wife. This was reported by Sergey Chenchik, Director of the Headquarters of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in North Caucasian Federal Okrug (NCFO).
19:00, 15 April 2011
A Finnish priest demanded to make public the names of the owners of "The Kavkaz Center"
A Finnish priest Yukha Molari against whom criminal proceedings were started for fomentation of interethnic strife by his severe attack upon "The Kavkaz Center" web-site supporting North-Caucasian gunmen considers it necessary to lay open to the public the names of the participants of this internet community.
18:00, 15 April 2011
The Ministry of Agriculture of Chechnya: the speed of mine clearing the area must be accelerated manifold
Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture consider that that the process of mine clearing of the territory of Chechnya must be accelerated manifold. With the present-day speed of performing these works clearing agricultural and forest lands of Chechnya will take no less than one hundred years.
23:30, 14 April 2011
Dagestan launches new multilingual social network without pre-moderation
In Dagestan, a project is launched of a new multilingual social network GODUDU.COM, which uses a translation technology that will allow users who speak different languages to communicate with each other in their native languages. According to the designers, the network should become a public discussion platform - a number of Dagestani officials have already opened their posts there. The GODUDU.COM has no pre-moderation.
Alexander Khloponin. Photo by http://info.sibnet.ru
23:20, 14 April 2011
Blogosphere actively reacts to Khloponin's interview
After publication of the interview of Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), which he gave to the "Caucasian Knot" and "Gazeta.ru", a number of politicians and businessmen launched an online polemics with him. The blogosphere also could not remain indifferent to Mr Khloponin's statements.
23:10, 14 April 2011
Figurant in Manege Square riots sentenced to conditional imprisonment
In Moscow, the court has sentenced a Muscovite Vladislav Khakhanov to a conditional term for participation in the pogroms in Manege Square on December 11, 2010. For beating in the metro a man of non-Slavic appearance he was sentenced to conditional imprisonment for a term of six months with one-year probation.
Korkmaskala township, September 2010. Photo by the newspaper "Dagestanskaya Pravda": dagpravda.ru
23:00, 14 April 2011
Woman from Makhachkala suburb reports about bribes in hospitals
Patu Abdullaeva, a resident of Dagestan, complains about bribe extortions at local medical institutions. She has reported about it to the "Caucasian Knot" by means of the new SMS-service. The hospital denied the allegations; and Zoya Magomedova, head of the medical department of the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health, said that nobody had complained about any facts of this sort.
22:30, 14 April 2011
In Dagestan, head of Kaitag ROVD demands to open criminal case against district head and public prosecutor
Head of the police of the Kaitag District Lieutenant-Colonel Abdurashid Bibulatov accuses local authorities of gross embezzlements and concealment of serious criminal offences. The acting head of the district denies the charges, while the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has no information on the topic.
22:20, 14 April 2011
Stavropol Territory: local woman convicted for false reports about terror acts
The Petrovskiy District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced a woman-resident of Svetlograd to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment for false reports about impending explosions.
22:10, 14 April 2011
Ex-Head of Semikarakorsk, Rostov region, convicted for abuse of authority
Vasily Mikheev, ex-Head of Semikarakorsk urban settlement of Rostov region, has been convicted for abuse of authority which caused damages to a sum of over one million rubles.
22:10, 14 April 2011
Armenian prisons are overcrowded
Currently, Armenian penitentiary institutions (PIs) are severely overcrowded, which leads to deterioration of custody conditions and increase of death rate there, human rights defenders and politicians of Armenia assert.
22:00, 14 April 2011
A Russian non-governmental organization awarded a prize of PACE for investigating crimes in Chechnya
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) awarded the "Human Rights" prize to a Russian non-governmental organization "Committee Against Torture" of Nizhny Novgorod for investigations of crimes in Chechnya. The respective decision was officially announced on April, 12, within the framework of the spring session of the organization in Strasbourg.
22:00, 14 April 2011
Check of Raznochinovskiy boarding school, Astrakhan Region, reveals no violations
An audit conducted by investigating bodies of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation) for the Astrakhan Region at the Raznochinovskiy orphanage-boarding school in the context of reports about multiple deaths of pupils found no evidences of crime.
Kazakhstan citizens wait for a verdict of the сommission for militants' adaptation. Photo by Albert Tokaev for the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 14 April 2011
Committee for adaptation of gunmen in Dagestan complied the request of arrested citizens of Kazakhstan
On April, 13, the Committee for assistance to adaptation of persons who decided to stop terrorist and extremist activities in the territory of Dagestan to peaceful life adopted an appeal to the Supreme Court and Public prosecutor's office of the republic to reduce preventive punishment for four citizens of Kazakhstan arrested for participation in paramilitary groups in the territory of Dagestan.
19:00, 14 April 2011
A mass scuffle occurred in Dagestan, one person killed
A mass scuffle with the use of firearms took place on April, 13, in the settlement of Jimikent, Derbent district of Dagestan. One person was killed, three more got wounded.
18:00, 14 April 2011
Parliamentarians of Kabardino-Balkaria suggested to legitimate snitching on one's close relatives
The Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria has introduced a law in draft to the State Duma suggesting to cancel the clause of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation according to which a citizen is exempted from liability "for concealment of a crime committed by his of her spouse or close relative not promised beforehand".
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.

An arrested teenager. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in ChatGPT. During the week from December 22 to 28, no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia.

Larisa Tuptsokova. Video frame https://www.youtube.com/live/eFSqZwT4xt0 Georgian scientists and cultural figures have stood up for Larisa Tuptsokova.

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.