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22:00, 15 July 2011
Archaeologists find ruins of royal residence in Tbilisi
In the course of the diggings on the territory of the church of 40 Saint Martyrs of Sebaste in Abanotubani District of the city of Tbilisi Georgian archaeologists discovered the ruins of the residence of Vakhtang Gorgasali, First King of Georgia, and kitchen utensils, crypts and Roman baths-thermae.
21:00, 15 July 2011
Houses of militants' relatives again burned down in Chechnya, Sulim Yunusov asserts
According to journalist Sulim Yunusov, a native of Kurchaloi District, who had been granted political asylum in Germany, about three weeks ago in Chechnya the houses of parents whose sons joined illegal armed formations, have been burned.
20:13, 15 July 2011
Georgia: rally in support of detained photographers held at German Embassy
The next action of solidarity with three arrested press photographers was held in Tbilisi. Its organizers, representatives of the media holding "Aliya", submitted an appeal to the German Ambassador to Georgia to exert influence on the Georgian authorities. Representatives of the opposition also participated in the event.
20:00, 15 July 2011
70 refugee families evicted from buildings in Tbilisi
In Georgia about 70 refugee families from South Ossetia and Abkhazia received a written warning from the Ministry of Internally Displacement Persons, Resettlement and Refugees to leave the building they occupied till July 18. In case of disobedience they are threatened to be evicted forcibly.
18:00, 15 July 2011
Sochi residents ignore City Mayoralty's proposal to learn foreign languages free of charge
Special programmes on learning foreign language have been developed in the capital of the 2014 Olympics. According to the City Mayoralty's intention, not only the personnel involved in serving guests and participants of the Games, but also the citizens should learn English at the communication level. Sochi residents are offered language courses free of charge, but the local population is not eager for learning English.
17:00, 15 July 2011
Armenia creates a FEZ
In Armenia near the international airport "Zvartnots" a free economic zone has been established. On July 14 in Yerevan the agreement to that end was signed.
14:41, 15 July 2011
Dagestan: eight people injured in explosion at rally venue
Today at about 11:30 a.m. an explosion occurred at the turn to Mutsalaul village of Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic.
14:00, 15 July 2011
Estemirova's colleagues in Chechnya doubt her killers to be ever brought to justice
In the Journalists' Mini-Park in Grozny, local NGO activists held a rally in memory of Natalia Estemirova, the well-known Chechen human rights defender, who was murdered two years ago. Several dozens of persons came to take part in the rally.
12:00, 15 July 2011
Committee for adaptation of gunmen will solicit for Gazimagomedov’s serving his penalty in Dagestan
Zaipulla Gazimagomedov, former emir of Levashi group, fellow fighter of the leader of Dagestani gunmen Magomedali Vagabov killed in August, 2010, appealed to the Committee for adaptation of gunmen asking to allow him serve his penalty in the territory of Dagestan.
11:00, 15 July 2011
Relatives of the Moslems detained in North Osetia declared their readiness for a hunger strike
Relatives of the Moslems detained in North Osetia intend to go on a hunger strike if there appears no progress in the investigation by the end of the week, Madina Chibirova, mother of two detained members of the Moslem community, declared.
10:00, 15 July 2011
A film about Natalia Estemirova “Who Killed Natasha?” shown in St. Petersburg
A commemoration meeting devoted to human rights activist Natalia Estemirova timed to the second anniversary of her murder passed off on July, 14, in St. Petersburg. During the meeting a film “Who Killed Natasha?” shot by journalist Milain Soluis on the order of French TV was first shown in Russia.
23:00, 14 July 2011
Protest rally condemning violence against Muslims to be held in Dagestan
On July 15 in Khasavyurt District of Dagestan on the turn to the village Mutsalaul a protest rally against kidnapping, torture and murder of Muslims will be held, said Rasul Ismailov, a resident of Khasavyurt, the co-chair of the human rights organization "Civil Alternative".
22:00, 14 July 2011
Consideration of appeal on case "Kadyrov vs. Orlov" scheduled on August 8
On August 8 the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow will held a court session to consider two appeals on the case of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial".
21:00, 14 July 2011
Abkhazia invites Georgia to sign agreements on cooperation in detention and extradition of criminals
The 29th meeting of within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism with the participation of representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, the EU and the UN was held in the city of Gali. The Abkhazian side has once again raised the issue on kidnapping of Merab Kolbaya, a resident of the Gali district, accused by the Georgian side of involvement in terror acts in Georgia, by the Georgian special services.
19:00, 14 July 2011
Two policemen suffered at detention of Dvorakovskiy in Stavropol Territory; detainee in coma
Doctors amputated an upper limb of Victor Dvorakovskiy, who was detained in Stavropol Territory on suspicion of involvement in terrorism, reported Natalia Zharikova, the head of Health and Information Department of the resort city of Zheleznovodsk.
18:00, 14 July 2011
Human rights activists ask Medvedev to supervise investigation into Estemirova's murder
Today in Moscow the press conference "The first results of an independent investigation into the murder of Natalia Estemirova" was held, during which a report with the results of the investigation holding by the "Novaya Gazeta" (New Newspaper), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" . The report's authors the appeal to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to take personal control over the due process of law in the investigation into the Natalia's Estemirova murder.
17:00, 14 July 2011
Georgia: NGO activists offer to bail out arrested photographers
In Georgia the human rights activists plan to start collecting signatures on a petition for bailing out three photographers accused of espionage for Russia. The initiative was announced by Nino Tsikhistavi, the head of the NGO "Network of Caucasian Women" at the meeting with independent Georgian MPs.
15:00, 14 July 2011
Armenia: mothers of soldiers lost in army demand fair investigation into incidents
A protest of mothers of soldiers who perished as a result of hazing in the army was held near the building of the Government of Armenia. Mothers and close relatives of the soldiers lost in the Armenian army expressed their resentment over the fact that so far there is no tangible progress in none of the cases of non-combat military personnel casualties or deaths as a result of hazing in the army.
12:00, 14 July 2011
Orthodox believers in Georgia protest against biometric passports
Organizational Assembly of Orthodox believers of Georgia protests against enacting new electronic certificates of identity in the country. Zaza Nanobashvili, leader of the Assembly, made this statement at an action of protest near the National Museum.
11:00, 14 July 2011
Federal bureau of medical and social assessment (MSA) in Krasnodar region refused disability to a girl ill with cerebral spastic infantile paralysis (CSIP)
On July, 13, Federal bureau of medical and social assessment (MSA) refused acknowledging disabled a two-years-old Violetta Ariutlkina ill with mild CSIP.
News
A soldier was convicted in Nalchik for failing to report to his unit.

An anti-corruption lawsuit against Ruslan Tsalikov has been filed in court.

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

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.