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21:00, 13 June 2011
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 6-12
Negotiations in Transcaucasia on Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia's conflicts with South Ossetia and Abkhazia; resonant murder of religious leaders in Makhachkala, Dagestani capital; and assassination in broad daylight in Moscow of Yuri Budanov, "an enemy of the Chechen nation", – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 6-12, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
20:10, 13 June 2011
Yuri Budanov buried near Moscow
In the city of Khimki near Moscow the funeral took place of the former colonel Yuri Budanov, who was shot dead in Moscow on June 10. The ceremony passed without incident.
20:00, 13 June 2011
Georgia to issue neutral passports to residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Today, the Bureau of the Georgian Parliament has initiated the bill on neutral passports for residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
19:09, 13 June 2011
NCFD plans to create more than 90,000 new jobs
The most effective solution to the problem of new jobs in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) is to implement 70 selected investment projects, said Sergey Vereschagin, Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation at the first sitting of the working group on employment and labour migration in the NCFD, convoked in the city of Yessentuki.
19:00, 13 June 2011
No general reduction in gasoline prices in Chechnya
Several filling stations in Grozny keep the earlier gasoline prices. According to drivers, owners of some of them are deliberately selling only expensive gasoline with high octane number.
18:00, 13 June 2011
Over 430 persons amnestied in Armenia
According to the latest data, the amnesty declared by the Parliament of Armenia has already released 434 persons, said the press service of the Penitentiary Department of the Ministry of Justice.
16:00, 13 June 2011
Eduard Kokoity not to take part in presidential election in South Ossetia
The incumbent President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has refused to run for the republic's presidency, irrespective of the decision to be passed on June 14 by the Supreme Court on the issue of a referendum on the third term. This was announced today by the press service of the President and Government of South Ossetia.
14:00, 13 June 2011
In Georgia, a number of newspapers appeared with blank front pages in solidarity with "Media Palette"
Today, a number of newspapers appeared with the only inscription across the front page – Solidarity with "Media Palette". This was done in support of the Media Holding "Media Palette", whose enterprises had been audited for several days by the Ministry of Finance of Georgia.
13:00, 13 June 2011
Mass burial found in north of Chechnya
Amidst the plain Shelkovskoy District in northern Chechnya, a mass grave with remains of victims of extrajudicial executions was found. The remains of unidentified casualties were buried here by local residents in the early years of the counterterrorist operation.
12:00, 13 June 2011
150 films to be screened in Armenia at "Golden Apricot" Film Festival
This year, the Eighth Traditional International Festival "Golden Apricot" has received a record number of applications – 630 films from 81 countries; out of them, 150 films from 45 countries were selected for the contest, Mikael Stamboltsyan, the festival programme director, told reporters. The festival will last from July 10 to July 17.
23:18, 11 June 2011
Last week's death roll in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus was 10
During the week of May 30-June 5, at least ten persons were lost and at least eight more were injured in the 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.
23:00, 11 June 2011
Dagestan: car of head of Untsukul District Electric Grid blown up
In the morning on June 11, in the highway "Untsukul-Shamilkala", explosive devices were triggered, when the VAZ-21014 car with the above head of the Untsukul District Electric Grid inside was passing by.
22:23, 11 June 2011
Foreign ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia meet in Moscow
On June 11 in Moscow during a working meeting, the basic principles of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement were discussed by heads of MFAs (Ministries of Foreign Affairs) of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan Eduard Nalbandyan, Sergei Lavrov and Elmar Mamedyarov respectively.
21:00, 11 June 2011
Sentencing of Oleg Orlov accused of slandering Kadyrov is expected on June 14
Announcement of the verdict to Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who is accused of slandering the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, is scheduled for Tuesday, June 14. The verdict will be read out at 4:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.
Reconstruction of Akhmad Kadyrov Avenue in Grozny. Photo from the website of the Ministry for Housing and Municipal Facilities of the Chechen Republic (http://mgkhs.ru)
19:00, 11 June 2011
Mosque to be demolished in Grozny
It was decided to demolish a small mosque in Kadyrov Avenue in the Chechen capital, where broad-scale repair and construction works are on for several weeks already. According to the authorities, "it does not match the architectural appearance of the avenue," which awaits a radical reconstruction. A local clergyman treats the demolition of the mosque as sacrilege.
17:00, 11 June 2011
Fatullaev: readers in Azerbaijan want restoration of independent newspapers and earlier political course
The niche of independent journalism in Azerbaijan is almost completely destroyed; the country has big problems with the freedom of speech; however, readers want restoration of independent newspapers and continuation of the previous political course. This was stated by Einullah Fatullaev, a former political prisoner and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who had spent his last 4 years in prison and was released on May 26. Therefore, he intends to continue publishing his newspapers.
Special operation in Dagestan. Photo from operative materials of Russia's MIA for Dagestan
16:11, 11 June 2011
Searches conducted in Novy Khushet, Dagestan, two persons detained
Gadjimagomed Makhmudov, a resident of the township of Novy Khushet, Lenin District of Makhachkala, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in the morning on June 11 many township houses were searched; Ramil Magomedov and Akhmed Omarov were detained.
16:00, 11 June 2011
Alexei Dudko's advocate to appeal against verdict
Abusupyan Gaitaev, advocate of the blogger Alexei Dudko, intends to file a cassation complaint against the sentence passed by Judge Natalia Larina from the Taganka District Court of Moscow, which awarded Dudko with 6 years in a minimum security colony.
15:11, 11 June 2011
Canadian Armenians go on hunger strike against denial of Armenian Genocide
In the Canadian city of Toronto, eight Armenians began their 72-hour-long hunger strike, saying that they protest against denial by Turkey of Armenian Genocide.
15:00, 11 June 2011
Visa Kungaev does not associate Budanov's murder with vengeance for his daughter's death
The assassination of former colonel Yuri Budanov has nothing to do with the death of Elza Kungaeva, which caused Budanov's conviction in 2003, as Visa Kungaev, the girl's father, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by telephone from Norway.
News
Azerbaijan and Armenia discussed border delimitation rules

An Armenian court has arrested Artur Avanesyan.

Pashinyan at a concert in Gyumri. Screenshot from News.Am photo from April 20, 2026, https://news.am/rus/news/944772.html. Observers considered concerts featuring Pashinyan to be propaganda.

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.