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Building of the secondary school in the village of Novosasatli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Photo from the school website: http://novosasatlu.dagschool.com
22:20, 31 March 2011
Residents of Dagestan report suspicious medical commission in schools
On March 22, at the only secondary school in the village of Novosasetli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, doctors of some medical commission conducted examination of children and, after putting disappointing diagnoses, suggested that parents buy corsets for their children for 500 roubles each; and many parents did it. However, as it turned out, neither the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan nor the Ministry of Education know nothing about this commission.
22:10, 31 March 2011
ECtHR awards 1.5 million euros to villagers in Chechnya bombed in 1999
On March 29, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on the case "Esmukhambetov et al versus Russia" (Application No. 23445/03) that Russia is responsible for human deaths during the military operation in Chechnya in 1999.
22:00, 31 March 2011
Georgia holds campaign against abortion
A forty-day-long action "Against abortion!" organized by the Georgian public organization "For Life" is held in Tbilisi, in front of the Parliament of Georgia.
21:00, 31 March 2011
Georgia: CER to be applied to 35 prisoners
The Georgian Commission on Conditional Early Relief (CER) has considered 40 CER applications from prisoners and decided to satisfy 35 of them.
20:00, 31 March 2011
Dokku Umarov's personal physician identified among killed gunmen
During a special operation law enforcement bodies in Ingushetia identified the body of Yusup Buzurtanov, personal physician of the leader of Chechen gunmen Dokku Umarov among the killed. There was also a woman among them.
19:00, 31 March 2011
Seven people killed in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during a week
In the duration of the week from March, 21, till March, 27, no less than seven people were killed, four wounded and one person kidnapped in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus. These are figures from "Caucasian Knot's" calculation based on its own materials and other open sources.
18:00, 31 March 2011
Ex-Minister of Public Health in Ingushetia is suspected of embezzlement of 200 million rubles
Investigative bodies of Ingushetia are investigating a high-profile corruption case, its figurant is Inna Malsagova, ex-Minister of Public Health of the republic who is suspected of grave abuse of authority in process of procurement of medical equipment.
23:50, 30 March 2011
Chechnya sums up literary contest on Kadyrov
The republic has held a literary contest among students of philological departments dedicated to the local head Ramzan Kadyrov. In the coming days it will be summed up, and the winners will be rewarded.
23:40, 30 March 2011
Journalist Teplischev hospitalized in Astrakhan
Today at 1 p.m. the Magistrate Court of Precinct No. 4 of the Sovietskiy District of Astrakhan was to hold another session on the case of journalist Oleg Teplischev, accused of beating Deputy from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Rifkat Shabanov. However, the session was postponed because the defendant was hospitalized.
23:30, 30 March 2011
NAC: militants liquidated today in Ingushetia had been preparing terror act
One of the men shot dead this morning in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia has been identified, according to power agents, as Ibragim Syroev, an active member of the underground. Also, power agents have reported that the casualties had bomb-triggering devices on them.
23:20, 30 March 2011
Ruslan Kurbanov: no clear picture of investigation into Moscow metro terror acts
The persons involved in explosions in Moscow metro in 2010 have been liquidated; and the investigation of the case is in deadlock, Andrei Soldatov, editor-in-chief of the website "Agentura.Ru", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Ruslan Kurbanov, a political scientist, agrees that over the past year no coherent picture of what happened at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations has been presented.
Persons detained in the course of a special operation. Republic of Ingushetia, Nazran, March 5, 2011. Photo from the Independent Internet Portal Angusht.com
23:10, 30 March 2011
Operation against militants in Ingushetia was prepared secretly from local law enforcers
The fact that a large-scale special operation against militants, which was held on March 28, was being prepared in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, was a secret for local law enforcers. According to relatives of the brothers Ilez and Islam Yandiev, detained during the operation, power agents planted ammunition, when they searched their house. According to law enforcers, the arrested brothers were not only involved in the explosion at the "Domodedovo" Airport, but were also preparing a new terror act.
23:00, 30 March 2011
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 21-27
Strong winds in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) left hospitals, kindergartens and schools without roofs; in Ingushetia, opposition Khazbiev, sentenced to administrative arrest, was released after Evkurov's interference; in central Yerevan public set up a tent for Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, who is on hunger strike for the second week, - look these and other events in the review of the week of March 21-27, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 30 March 2011
Kabardino-Balkaria has about 90 long-livers
Under the outcomes of the 2010 all-Russian census, about 90 long-livers (aged 100 and more) live in Kabardino-Balkaria, said Larissa Chelysheva, head of the census division of the "Kabbalkstat" (Department for Statistics of Kabardino-Balkaria).
22:50, 30 March 2011
Georgia hosts action with demand to release detained oppositionists
A number of NGOs have held an action in Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi with a demand to release the opposition activists, who spoke in support of Georgian prisoners and were detained on March 25.
Jehovah's Witness preaching in the street. Photo by noterror.ru
22:20, 30 March 2011
In Rostov Region, Jehovah's Witness states illegal interrogation of her minor children
As stated by Olga Petkevich, a resident of the village of Leninskiy, Matveyev-Kurgan District of Rostov Region, the principal of the village school and agents of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) questioned her minor children at home, when there were no parents. In her opinion, the reason for interrogation could be in the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses, which she has started confessing recently. On the other hand, the inspector on minors' matters said that the check was organized, because the children often miss classes at school.
22:10, 30 March 2011
Records, where figurants of Markelov's murder case discuss their weapons, made public at trial
At the Moscow City Court, where the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova is considered, prosecutors have released the bugging record, made in the flat leased by the defendants shortly before their detention. They discussed their impressive arsenal - numerous pistols and submachine guns, and the course of investigation into the murders of Markelov and Baburova.
22:00, 30 March 2011
In Armenia, Raffi Ovannisyan stops his hunger strike
Today, after 16 days of hunger strike, Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the Armenian oppositional "Heritage" Party stopped his protest action. The politician said that now he intends to continue his struggle for realization of his demands by other methods.
20:00, 30 March 2011
Yandiev brothers suspected of committing the act of terror in "Domodedovo" brought to the capital of North Osetia
Two brothers, Islam and Ilez Yandiev detained in Ingushetia, suspected of involvement in the act of terror in the Moscow airport "Domodedovo" are currently in Vladikavkaz.
19:00, 30 March 2011
The gunmen of Kabardino-Balkaria did not respond to their parents' call to surrender
None of the gunmen of Kabardino-Balkaria has yet expressed a desire to go to law enforcement agencies as self-reported criminals in response to a call of a group of residents of Baksan district to lay down arms of their own free will.
News
A shot of a potholed road on Zavokzalnaya Street in Khasavyurt. Photo: People's Front Dagestan / Telegram channel Residents of Khasavyurt complained about the road conditions.

Four fighters from Dagestan were killed in Ukraine.

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