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23:40, 2 February 2011
In Georgia, miners are on strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions
Today, starting from 6 in the morning, a full-fledged strike began at Tkibuli coal mines in Western Georgia. Their two-hour-long warning strike was held on Monday, January 31.
23:00, 2 February 2011
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 24-30
Last week passed as the aftermath of the terror act committed on Monday at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport and continued through other armed incidents in North-Caucasian republics; inquiry into the massacre in the Stavropol Territory continues, but no particular results are reported; in Georgia, forcibly evicted refugees seek justice at the European Court and political asylum in the West, - look these and other events in the review of the week of January 24-30, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 2 February 2011
In Volgograd, district head is suspected of bribe-taking
A criminal case has been initiated against Alexander Gorbunov, head of the administration of the Krasnoarmeiskiy District of Volgograd, under the article of "huge bribe-taking".
22:30, 2 February 2011
KBR: people are searched who install mined road signs "Imarat Kavkaz"
Persons are searched in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who install mined billboards along the roads in dwelling settlements of the republic with inscription "Imarat Kavkaz" or "United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay"; they are searched with involvement of aviation, armoured vehicles and special units. Road-patrol services are also involved in the search actions.
22:10, 2 February 2011
GUVD of Krasnodar Territory does not confirm attack on Dymovskiy
According to Igor Zhelyabin, militia spokesman of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, there was no attack on Alexei Dymovskiy, former militia major and now the leader of the movement named "White Tape": Alexei just fell asleep in a fixed-route taxi; and his cell phone was stolen.
22:00, 2 February 2011
Ten persons detained as suspects of preparing terror acts in Moscow
Ten suspects of preparing a series of terror acts on the New Year holidays in Moscow have been detained; seven of them have been charged.
21:00, 2 February 2011
Unknown attackers on militiamen in Kabardino-Balkaria stole their guns
The criminals who attacked militiamen today in the city of Chegem (the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR)) took away the casualties' firearms.
20:00, 2 February 2011
Attackers on Nazran in 2004 sentenced to long prison terms
Today, the Stavropol Territorial Court passed a sentence to 12 defendants, figurants in the case on the attack on Nazran (Ingushetia) in 2004, one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the rest - to 10-25 years of high security colony.
19:00, 2 February 2011
Austria to give Chechen suspected of terrorism out of Belgium
On February 1, the Austrian court decided to extradite Aslambek L., 32, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested in December 2010, to Belgium, where he is suspected of terrorist activities.
18:00, 2 February 2011
Father of Dagestanian detained in Italy is unaware of his son's whereabouts
Rasul Magomedov, a resident of the village of Balakhany and father of Anvar Sharipov, whose detention in Italy was announced by some media, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had long been unaware of his son's whereabouts. Law enforcement officials believe that it was Sharipov who accompanied his sister-suicide bomber, when she blew herself up at the Lubyanka Moscow metro station on March 29, 2010.
22:00, 1 February 2011
Sergey Gaplikov appointed to head "Olympstroy"
Instead of Taimuraz Bolloev, Sergey Gaplikov, deputy head of the government's office, has been appointed the head of the State Corporation on Construction of Olympic Venues and Development of Sochi.
21:00, 1 February 2011
NATO is promoted in Georgia through children's drawings
On January 31, the NATO Information Centre in Georgia presented a calendar, illustrated with children's drawings and statements of activists of Georgian public organizations.
20:00, 1 February 2011
US and UK Embassies urge their citizens in Azerbaijan to take care
On January 31, the Embassies of the United States and Great Britain in Baku made appeals to citizens of their countries in Azerbaijan asking them to be vigilant in view of possible threat of attacks on them.
Andrei Rudomakha at the ecological rally in Krasnodar, October 23, 2010. Poster reads: "Utrish shall live on!" Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
19:00, 1 February 2011
Krasnodar court drops charges against ecologists detained at the action in defence of "Utrish"
Today, the Magistrate Court has withdrawn charges of administrative cases initiated against two activists of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus Andrei Rudomakha and Dmitry Shabalin, detained in Krasnodar on December 12 last year during a rally in defence of the natural reserve named "Utrish".
18:00, 1 February 2011
Students and schoolchildren of Northern Caucasus to be tested for drugs
In 2011, voluntary testing for drug using among schoolchildren and university students will be held in all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
17:00, 1 February 2011
Agaev: explosion in Kuzminki has possibly frustrated an act of mothers revenge for her murdered sons
A hypothesis of Magomed Daudov having been involved in the explosion in “Domodedovo” airport was based upon our own analyses of the theme, Mairbek Agaev, editor of information and politics department of Dagestani newspaper “Chernovik” (“Draft”) told a reporter of “Caucasian Knot”.
16:00, 1 February 2011
Militia of Rostov-on-Don denies national background of mass scuffle on January, 19
Commenting on the information of a mass scuffle in Rostov-on-Don on January, 19, Deputy director of the school near which the incident took place declared that her pupils were not implicated in the scuffle.
15:00, 1 February 2011
Italian authorities refute Ruslan Umarov’s detention
Representatives of Italian authorities have refuted the information of detention of Ruslan Umarov, a thirty-five-year-old brother of Dokku Umarov, leader of North Caucasian gunmen.
Participant of the campaign "Strategy-31" in defence of Russian Constitution, Sochi, January 31, 2011. Poster: "Russian citizens have the right to peaceful assemblies, without arms, and hold rallies, marches and pickets!" Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
14:00, 1 February 2011
One more action within the framework of “Strategy-31” passed off in Sochi
Human rights and civil activists, leaders of Territorial Public Self-government groups (TPS), members of non-governmental organizations and political parties gathered in the public garden near Municipal administration building of Sochi on January, 31, from 17 to 19 o’clock, for a sanctioned meeting in protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation within the framework of the All-Russian action “Strategy-31”.
Construction of Stepanakert Airport, November 30, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 31 January 2011
Equipping of airport completed in Stepanakert
The construction works at the new airport in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh are nearing completion. Now, the equipment is being installed; in April they will bring in furniture; and in May they plan to receive the first aircraft.
News
UAV. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. 23 drones were shot down in five regions of the Southern Federal District.

40 drones were shot down in four regions of the Southern Federal District.

A soldier from the Astrakhan region was killed during 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.