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23:40, 4 January 2011
"Dagestani Airlines" promise to upgrade fleet in 2011
In 2011, the "Dagestani Airlines" Company plans to upgrade the fleet of aircrafts by replacing its obsolete Tu-154 aircrafts for modern models, said Deputy Director General Gadjikhan Keramaliev.
23:30, 4 January 2011
Lithuania will try to strengthen OSCE's role in settling Transcaucasian conflicts
Lithuania, which will chair the OSCE in 2011, plans to revive the solution process of frozen conflicts, including those in Transcaucasia, said Audronius Ažubalis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania.
23:20, 4 January 2011
Georgian authorities toughen legislation for benefit of tourists in Adzharia
Amendments have been made in the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences, offered by the Government of Adzharia, which stipulate fines for livestock appearance on the beaches and in other places visited by tourists.
23:10, 4 January 2011
In Stavropol, bear bites cleaner of his cage to death
In the Zoo of Stavropol, which is situated in the Victory Park, this morning a bear has bit a human to death, said Boris Skripka, head of the Civil Defence and Emergency Department of the Administration of Stavropol.
23:00, 4 January 2011
Kabardino-Balkaria: explosion in a night club
In the city of Nalchik, unidentified criminals planted a bomb into the building of the entertainment club named "Sahara". No injuries were reported.
22:50, 4 January 2011
Illegal tree felling continues in Yerevan, ecologists assert
In the capital of Armenia, within the second half of 2010, 150 trees were cut down. This was reported to journalists by Arthur Aftandilyan, spokesman of the initiative group "We are City Managers".
22:40, 4 January 2011
In Georgia, court fines protesting veterans
Tea Tadashvili, Judge of the Tbilisi City Court, has fined 11 participants of the protest action of war veterans who were detained on charges of rendering resistance to policemen. Each of them was administratively fined by 400 laris (about 230 US dollars).
Photo of Adam Khamkhoev posted on the blog that Magomed Mutsolgov runs on the "Caucasian Knot"
22:30, 4 January 2011
Ingushetia: kidnapped Adam Khamkhoev returns home and reports torture
Adam Khamkhoev, a resident of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, who was kidnapped on December 30 together with the other two young persons - Pliev brothers - was released on January 3. His father Musa Khamkhoev asks the republic's public prosecutor to investigate the case, claiming that his son was tortured by power agents.
22:20, 4 January 2011
Selling exhibition of inmates' works opens in Yerevan
The House of Culture of the Erebuni community is housing a selling exhibition of works performed by fifty prisoners serving their sentences in penal institutions in Armenia. The event was organized by the Fund of Assistance to Convicts at the Ministry of Justice.
22:10, 4 January 2011
Names of casualties of special operation in Dagestan defined
The persons liquidated during the special operation in Shamkhal village, Kirov District of Makhachkala, have been identified. They are Badrudi Rasulov and Maksud Ismailov, suspected of attempts on law enforcers.
22:00, 4 January 2011
A child shot down in Georgia on the New Year's night
Giorgi Chkoidze aged 12 was shot down from a shotgun on the balcony of his house in Tbilisi. The man who had shot, the boy's neighbour, yielded to the police on his own accord.
21:00, 4 January 2011
A hand grenade exploded near a militia duty group in Ingushetia
Unidentified people threw two hand grenades into a militia duty group guarding the New Year tree in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia.
20:00, 4 January 2011
Deputy Chief of the headquarters of a military unit dislocated in Ingushetia wounded in an explosion in Vladikavkaz
This morning an explosive device was activated in Vladikavkaz, in a car with Deputy Chief of the headquarters of a military unit dislocated in Ingushetia inside it. The officer was taken to hospital with grave wounding, Alla Akhpolova, Manager of Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of North Osetia, reported.
19:00, 4 January 2011
Identity of the man whose remains were found in a burial place near Vedeno, Chechnya, established
The personality of one of the four participants of armed underground whose remains were found on the New Year's Eve in the mountains of Chechnya has been identified. This is a twenty-two-year-old native of the district center of Vedeno. law enforcement bodies are continuing an inspection on the fact.
18:00, 4 January 2011
Arrested veterans of war are waiting for the beginning of the process in the Municipal Court of Tbilisi
Seven veterans of war arrested during an action of protest in Tbilisi have by the moment been taken to the building of the Municipal Court where they are waiting for the beginning of a trial, lawyer Gela Nikolaishvili told a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".
23:30, 3 January 2011
Parade of Santa Clauses held for the first time in Volgograd
The parade of Russian Fathers Frost and German Santa Clauses, first held in Volgograd, brought together about three hundred participants.
23:10, 3 January 2011
Shakhinoglu: appointment of US Ambassador to Azerbaijan will not solve all bilateral problems
Elkhan Shakhinoglu, head of the Research Centre "Atlas", has treated the fact of appointment of the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, after the post was vacant for 18 months, as a positive fact for bilateral relations. However, as he said, it does not mean that all the problems between the two countries will be solved.
23:00, 3 January 2011
About 300 employees of Armenian Pension Fund lose their jobs
On December 29, the Government of Armenia signed an agreement with the Company "AiPost", under which pensions will be paid out at post offices. This caused discontent among hundreds of employees of the Pension Fund, who lost their jobs as a result of such arrangements.
22:50, 3 January 2011
In Georgia, police disperses hunger-striking war veterans
In Tbilisi, the Police of Georgia has used force to disperse the protest action of war veterans. Several persons were detained.
Nardaran Pir, settlement of Nardaran, Azerbaijan. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:20, 3 January 2011
Azerbaijani Muslims sign-in for President to allow wearing hijabs in schools
In the settlement of Nardaran, about 2500 signatures were collected under the petition to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev with a request to lift the ban on wearing hijabs in schools.
News
A video of the last days of the Armenian population in Karabakh sparked a conflict among Facebook users*

Ruben Vardanyan declined to appeal the Baku court's verdict.

Ruben Vardanyan. Photo: State Security Service of Azerbaijan Vardanyan's relatives criticized the Baku court's verdict.

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.