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16:00, 22 July 2010
In Karachai-Circassia, young people revive national dances
Practically every month Circassian young nationals of Karachai-Circassia are inviting residents in different villages and districts to show them how Adygs' ancestors danced their national dances.
15:00, 22 July 2010
Lithuanian court extends arrest of woman from Klaipeda suspected of terrorism
Under the decision of the Vilnius Regional Court, Egle Kusaite, suspected of terrorism, will stay behind bars till September 26. The court is afraid that once at large the woman may disappear from justice.
14:00, 22 July 2010
Mudslide destroys 20 houses in Kabardino-Balkaria
In Bulungu village, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, a mudslide destroyed about 20 houses; two of them are not subject to restoration. Four heads of cattle were lost.
13:00, 22 July 2010
Azerbaijan demands to remove film about Karabakh away from French broadcasting
The embassy of Azerbaijan in France has sent a protest letter to the German-French TV channel named ARTE because of broadcasting of the film "Haut Karabagh: Gomchassar", telling about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
12:00, 22 July 2010
Power agents suspect Kazbek Tashuev of organizing the Baksan HPP terror act
Law enforcement bodies believe that one of militants' leaders - Kazbek Tashuev - may stand behind the explosions at the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria triggered on July 21. This was stated by a source from power agencies of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District. According to his version, members of his grouping were recognized by the workers of the HPP.
10:00, 22 July 2010
Residents of Dzhaparidze village in Georgia ask authorities' protection against wolves
Residents of Dzhaparidze village, Dedoplistskaroi District of Georgia, ask the authority to ensure protection of the village against wolves, which get into the yards of private households.
Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP). Photo by: © Branch of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "RusHydro" – "Kabardino-Balkarian Branch"/www.kbf.rushydro.ru
23:00, 21 July 2010
17 explosions were triggered in Kabardino-Balkaria during 50 days
Operative agents of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) believe that they have established a potential organizer of the explosions at the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria committed on July 21. According to their data, this is one of militants' leaders, whose name is not disclosed in the interests of the investigation.
22:00, 21 July 2010
Prayer house destroyed in Pankissi Gorge, local residents assert
As reported by villagers of Birkiani, located in the Pankissi Gorge of Georgia, a prayer house of local followers of traditional Islam was ruined there.
20:00, 21 July 2010
In Azerbaijan, journalists detained at the building of President's administration
On Tuesday, July 20, four journalists were detained in Baku near the administration of the President of Azerbaijan, when they were covering the protest action of residents of the Sabirabad District, who suffered from floods.
Action of the initiative group of Vladikavkaz residents near the building of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) in Moscow with a demand to stop "Electrozink" factory. Poster runs: "All the 'best' – to children!" July 5, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
19:00, 21 July 2010
Vladikavkaz residents lay an action against "Electrozinc"
In the capital of North Ossetia the initiative group continues its judicial efforts to stop the "Electrozinc" factory. On July 19, a statement of claim was filed by residents of the sanitary zone around the factory, as reported by Zalina Kairova, leader of the initiative group named "Electrozinc - what do we breath in?"
18:00, 21 July 2010
Armenia: 257 victims of Stalin purges get loans to buy or repair their flats
Under the governmental credit programme aimed at improvement of living conditions of the citizens who have the status of repressed persons, as of July 1, 2010, loans during the previous decade had been granted to 257 persons to the total sum of 972,659,730 drams.
17:00, 21 July 2010
Terror act in Baksan HPP committed in Kabardino-Balkaria
At night on July 21, the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) was attacked. Having killed two securities, the terrorists entered the machine hall and seized HPP workers. Then, they planted and triggered two explosive devices.
16:00, 21 July 2010
Georgia announces February 25 to be Day of Soviet Occupation
The Georgian parliamentary committee on foreign relations has initiated two statements, according to which August 23 will be announced to be the Memory Day of Totalitarian Regimes' Victims, and February 25 - the Day of Occupation.
Flood implications in Musaly village, Saatlin District of Azerbaijan. June 5, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
15:00, 21 July 2010
In Azerbaijan, residents of flooded villages demand from authorities to accelerate restoration
On July 20, some 100 residents of the flooded villages of the Sabirabad and Saatlin Districts of Azerbaijan came to the President's administration with a demand to speed up restoration of their houses and increase compensations for the damage caused by floods.
14:00, 21 July 2010
Two young men shot dead in Kizilyurt District of Dagestan
Today at night in Kirovaul village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified persons shot two young men dead from their automatic firearms.
13:00, 21 July 2010
A one-year-old girl kidnapped in North Ossetia
On July 19, at about 5:00 p.m. in Maiskoe village, Chakhkieva, Khadidzha Rustamovna, aged one year and three months, disappeared. According to eyewitnesses, the child was hastily taken away by another girl, aged about 6-8 years.
20:00, 20 July 2010
Teachers of Additional Education Centre in Astrakhan stop their hunger strike
The teachers of the Astrakhan Regional "Centre of Children's Scientific and Technical Creativity", who demanded to cancel the order about reorganization of the "Centre of Children's Aesthetic Training", have stopped their hunger strike.
Tent camp of refugees from South Ossetia in a Tbilisi suburb. Georgia, August 2008. Photo by Guram Muradov/http://civil.ge
19:00, 20 July 2010
Georgian-Ossetian forum asks help in addressing problems faced by population of Georgia and South Ossetia
The Dutch city of Leiden hosted a meeting of the participants of the Georgian-Ossetian Civil Forum, where an appeal was adopted to the parties of the Geneva Consultations, asking to help in solving the problems of the peaceful population of Georgia and South Ossetia.
18:00, 20 July 2010
Georgian opposition urges parliament to reject new Constitution
Ten oppositional parties of Georgia have made a joint statement asking the parliament not to adopt the new version of the national Constitution. The signatories believe that the hasty consideration of the bill has only one aim - granting guarantees to Mikhail Saakashvili that he will continue ruling the country as prime minister after the end of his presidency.
17:00, 20 July 2010
Medvedev offers tougher sanctions for terrorism
After the recent resonant terror acts committed in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev has brought in a bill to the State Duma on amending the Russia's Criminal Code.
News
A shot of a potholed road on Zavokzalnaya Street in Khasavyurt. Photo: People's Front Dagestan / Telegram channel Residents of Khasavyurt complained about the road conditions.

Four fighters from Dagestan were killed in Ukraine.

Islamic scholars explained the specifics of calculating zakat in Chechnya and Dagestan.

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.