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22:30, 12 May 2011
Wounded Dokku Umarov takes his treatment in Turkey, said a source from Chechen DFSB
As reported by the spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Chechnya, the leader of the North-Caucasian underground Dokku Umarov was wounded during the pursuit of his group in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia in March 2011, and is probably now in the territory of Turkey.
22:20, 12 May 2011
North Ossetia: lawyer convicted for extortion
A North-Ossetian lawyer was sentenced on charges of attempting to steal more than 4 million roubles from his client.
22:00, 12 May 2011
Ex-judge in Rostov-on-Don accused of bribery
Igor Anosov, ex-federal judge of Voroshilov district court of Rostov-on-Don, is accused of taking a bribe. Public prosecutor's office of Rostov region has validated the indictment.
21:00, 12 May 2011
A retired colonel of Federal Security Service in Volgograd region convicted for kidnapping
North-Caucasian district military court sentenced a reserve colonel of Federal Security Service convicted for kidnapping to 10 years of imprisonment.
20:00, 12 May 2011
Solicitors in Tbilisi are starting a hunger strike of protest
Georgian solicitors are starting a hunger strike in front of the Parliament of the country. The goal of the action is protection of their professional rights. The notification was submitted to Mayor's office on May, 11, and the hunger strike will start on May, 17.
19:00, 12 May 2011
Georgian Labourites protest against the nudist beach in Adzharia
The oppositional Georgian Labour party of Adzharia protests against possible opening of a nudist beach in Adzharia declaring its awareness of the respective plans of the authorities. The authorities of Adzharia state that the question has been discussed but deny the fact of having taken the decision.
18:00, 12 May 2011
A campaign "Temperance at the wheel!" started in Georgia
A presentation of a road safety campaign "Temperance at the wheel!" passed off on May, 11, in Tbilisi. It was initiated by the first lady of the country Sandra Roelofs.
23:50, 11 May 2011
Police reinforces security measures in Manege Square in Moscow
Georgy Borovikov and Dmitry Demushkin, leaders of nationalists, were detained tonight in Manege Square in Moscow, where, according to law enforcers, a non-sanctioned action was planned.
23:40, 11 May 2011
US Senate to consider resolution on Russia's occupation of Georgia
The US Senate will consider the situation with the presence of Russian troops in the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which were deployed there on the basis of Russia's bilateral agreements with these republics. This was stated by Temur Yakobashvili, Georgia's Ambassador to the United States.
23:30, 11 May 2011
Rostov Region: ex-assistant of Mayor of Azov suspected of fraud
The former assistant of the Mayor of the city of Azov, suspected of a large-scaled fraud, has been put on the search list.
23:20, 11 May 2011
Three soldiers wounded by explosions in Chechnya
On May 11, three servicemen were wounded by two explosions in the forest area in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, a source from law enforcement bodies reported.
23:10, 11 May 2011
First protest actions of the Georgian Party were not too crowded
Erosi Kitsmarishvili, co-chairman of the Georgian Party, gave low estimates to the protest actions held in Kakheti. According to Giya Khelashvili, head of the regional branch of the Party, the low activity of people in participating in them was due the fact that local authorities intimidate people and do not allow them to go out to rallies. However, according to sociologist Gocha Tshvitigshvili, the radical opposition in Georgia is currently not very popular.
23:00, 11 May 2011
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 2-8
Downpour floods the capital of North Ossetia and several villages in Ingushetia - local residents count the damage, while the authorities are trying to eliminate the consequences of the disaster; on the eve of the Victory Day a terror act was prevented in Astrakhan, while Dagestan holds a large-scale special operations against militants; Azerbaijani police again disperses protest action in Baku, - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 2-8, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 11 May 2011
Gaitaev: power agents conceal circumstances of search in Dudko's flat
On May 10, the Taganka City Court of Moscow held a session on the case of the blogger Alexei Dudko. Three witnesses - law enforcers, including Ildar Tikarev, who commanded the search in Dudko's flat about a year ago - were questioned. According to Abu Gaitaev, the blogger's advocate, the circumstances of the search are hushed up by law enforcers.
22:50, 11 May 2011
Rostov Region: former Acting Mayor of Novoshakhtinsk fined on charges of mismanagement
Sergey Skobelev, Acting Mayor of Novoshakhtinsk, has been fined by 120,000 roubles for a series of illegal, according to prosecutors, payments made to himself and his subordinates. The verdict was appealed against.
Five-sided meeting within the Mechanism to Prevent and React to Incidents. Ergneti, Georgia, October 28, 2010. Photo by Goga Aptsiauri, RFE/RL
22:40, 11 May 2011
Utiashvili: despite complications, five-sided meetings allow Tbilisi to hold dialogue with Sukhumi and Tskhinvali
In the course of the five-sided meeting within the Mechanism for Prevention and Reaction to Incidents (MPRI) Abkhazia often does not agree even with those arrangements, "which can be achieved without any political consequences," while the problem with the Ossetian delegation is that "they more promise than fulfil," believes Shota Utiashvili, head of the Georgian delegation at these meetings.
22:30, 11 May 2011
Azerbaijan: sentencing of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev postponed
The today's announcement by the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha (Azerbaijan) of the sentence to oppositionist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, accused of evading his regular military service, has failed, because the defendant's advocates have boycotted the session.
20:00, 11 May 2011
Activists of "PARNAS" party detained in Rostov-on-Don during their congress
Several activists of the Party of People's Freedom ("PARNAS") were detained in Rostov-on-Don on May, 11. They were delivered to the Department of Interior Affairs of Lenin district in Tekuchev street where protocols of administrative infractions were drawn up concerning them.
19:00, 11 May 2011
The car of Chief of regional Department of the Ministry of Education exploded in Dagestan
The car of Chief of regional Department of Education Labazan Magomedaliev was exploded in Untsukul district of Dagestan. There are no victims, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported.
18:00, 11 May 2011
Over 2000 young men and girls in Adygeia took part in the action "St. George ribbon"
On May, 9, a civil action "St. George ribbon" in Adygeia which had been going on since April, 26, within the framework of realization of republican target program "Youth of Adygeia" planned for 2009-2011 was accomplished, the Republican Committee of Youth Affairs reported.
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Eleven residents of a Dagestani village have been detained in connection with an extremism case.

A family from Makhachkala complained about delays in compensation for their flooded home.

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.