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Participants of joint protest action of oppositional "Musavat" Party and Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). Baku, July 31, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 3 August 2010
Fuad Gakhramanly: detainees for participation in Saturday's action in Baku are insulted
As stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Fuad Gakhramanly, deputy chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), the participants of the Saturday's action of the opposition, who had been sentenced to administrative arrest in Baku, are exposed to insults and pressure.
19:00, 3 August 2010
Balkars stop hunger strike in Essentuki and continue in Moscow
Tonight, the group of Balkars, which were holding their hunger strike at the building of the representative office of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) in the city of Essentuki for 25 days, stopped their action and returned to Nalchik.
Logo of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg". Turkhan Kerimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:00, 3 August 2010
Azerbaijan: "Azadlyg" to restart on August 4
The next regular issue of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" will be published in Azerbaijan on August 4. It became possible after negotiations of the paper's editorial board with the top management of the "Azerbaijan" Publishing House.
23:30, 2 August 2010
Georgian NGOs stand against "hate speech"
In Georgia, a working group will be set up to fight against the "hate speech". This was decided today during a joint working meeting of the public movement "Multinational Georgia" with the local NGOs.
23:20, 2 August 2010
Pensioners from Rostov Region adjudge 600,000 euros from Russia at ECtHR
According to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the authorities of Russia shall have to pay over 600,000 euros to 87 military pensioners from Novocherkassk, Rostov Region.
23:10, 2 August 2010
Militiamen suspected of bribe-taking in Stavropol Territory
Head of the investigatory department at the OVD for Kislovodsk and his subordinate are suspected of taking a bribe. Under the version of the investigation, the officials received a large bribe from four GIBDD (STSI) employees for hiding their crimes.
Rally in support of all-Russian action "Strategy-31" in Volgograd. Inscription on the poster: "Strategy-31 for freedom of assembly!" July 31, 2010. Photo from: http://nbp-volzhsky.livejournal.com
23:00, 2 August 2010
"Strategy-31" rallies held in South of Russia
Actions in support of the All-Russian campaign "Strategy-31" took place in eight cities of the South of Russia, where participants demand from the authorities to respect Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which guarantees the citizens' right to peaceful assemblies. In each city the rallies were 10-50 persons strong.
22:00, 2 August 2010
Suspect of kidnapping detained in Kabardino-Balkaria
Militiamen have detained a resident of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, suspected of an armed kidnapping of a resident of Maiskiy settlement from a route bus.
21:00, 2 August 2010
Balkar hunger-strikers offered to stop their action
The group of Balkars who are holding a hunger strike in Essentuki near the representative office of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) was visited by Alexei Verbitskiy, federal inspector in Kabardino-Balkaria, who offered them to go home.
21:00, 2 August 2010
Opposition rapper Noise MC arrested in Volgograd
The Volgograd Court has arrested Ivan Alekseev, a well-known rapper, singer and composer, also known as "Noise MC, for 10 days on the charge of hooliganism.
20:00, 2 August 2010
Armenia: recruits should be better examined, experts say
The tragic death of six servicemen became a result of omissions of one of the links of the system, which had recruited a person, representing potential danger to the society. This opinion was stated today at a press conference by psychologist Karine Nalchadzhyan, who noted that the incident proved the need of a more careful medical examination of recruits.
19:00, 2 August 2010
In Sochi, mayoralty employees donate one-day salary to fire victims
Bureaucrats of the city will donate their one-day salaries into the assistance fund to victims of forest fires in Russia.
18:00, 2 August 2010
Change of militants' leaders may activate their actions in Northern Caucasus, experts believe
Dokku Umarov, leader of the armed underground in Northern Caucasus, has declared his resignation as "Amir of Imarat Kavkaz", created by him in autumn of 2007, and transfer of the powers to his successor. Experts believe that the change of power among militants may result in sharp increase of separatists' activity in the region.
20:00, 31 July 2010
School of Koran experts to open in Chechnya in August
A school of hafizes (readers of the Koran by heart) will open on August 23 in Ramzan Kadyrov's family village - Khosi-Yurt (Tsentoroi). The school will be named after Zelimkhan, senior brother of President Kadyrov, who died in 2004.
20:00, 31 July 2010
OMON motorcade shelled in Dagestan with victims
Today, unknown persons blew up and shelled a column of OMON (special militia) vehicles in Dagestan. Under preliminary data, 12 militiamen were wounded. The incident happened near the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District.
19:00, 31 July 2010
Picket against monetization of privileges held in Elista
Today, in Elista, near the building of the Kalmyk State University, opposite the House of Government of Kalmykia, a picket was held against the republic's law on monetization of privileges coming into effect from August 1.
18:00, 31 July 2010
ICPO: seven wounded in mass fight in Dagestan
As reported by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) the Russian Federation, seven persons were wounded in the mass fight on July 30 in Dagestan.
17:00, 31 July 2010
Police disperses oppositional protest action in central Baku
In Baku, the police have dispersed a joint protest action of the oppositional parties "Musavat" and the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), held with the demands of the freedom of assembly, ensuring the democratic character of the parliamentary elections to be held on November 7 and account of the national interests of Azerbaijan at negotiations on Karabakh settlement.
16:00, 31 July 2010
North Ossetia to hold first national-cultural contest of Ossetian beer
The first nationwide contest of Ossetian beer "Iron Bagany-2010" is aimed towards revival of the traditions of house brewing and attraction of the population's interest to the national historic heritage, the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of North Ossetia has announced.
Park of live butterflies in Rostov-on-Don, Rumyantsev's swallowtail butterfly. July 31, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
15:00, 31 July 2010
Rostov-on-Don opens largest in Russia park of butterflies
As stated by Sergey Trifonov, director general of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Barbos" - the Rostov park of live butterflies, the park opened in Rostov-on-Don is the first in the south of Russia and the largest in the country. In the first two days of its work, the park was visited by about 500 persons.
News
Future conscripts from the North Caucasus Federal District have not noticed any changes in the conscription rules.

A promise of tough measures for rising prices during Ramadan in Chechnya has sparked controversy on social media.

A Chechen resident was fined for searching for extremist materials.

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.