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Pope Benedict XVI. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
23:20, 14 July 2010
Obligations before Svetlana Schultz are fulfilled, Kamyshin Mayoralty asserts
The Mayoralty of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, reports that all the obligations of local authorities before Svetlana Schultz, who had addressed the Pope, and her family are fulfilled.
23:10, 14 July 2010
HRC "Memorial": authorities of Dagestan should stop persecuting journalists and rights defenders
Dagestan becomes a dangerous place for civil activists and journalists, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" made in the context of threats addressed to Magomed Khanmagomedov, a special correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik", who made his own inquiry into the special operation conducted in Derbent on June 16, 2010.
23:00, 14 July 2010
Three children drowned in Chechnya from start of bathing season
The republic's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports about nine persons drowned from the start of this year's bathing season in local water bodies. The count of victims of abnormal is also on the rise.
22:00, 14 July 2010
In Dagestan, advocate of female suicide bombers states their innocence
Today, lawyer Makhach Guchuchaliev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the recent announcement by the National Antiterrorist Committee of Russia of the women detained in Dagestan - Madina Gadjieva, Zaira and Zalina Akaeva, Zalina Alieva and Fatima Nurmagomedova - to be terrorists-suicide bombers has nothing to do with reality.
21:00, 14 July 2010
Volgograd: Anna Chapman, accused of espionage in USA, is song heroine and potential political figure
The Volgograd-based newspaper "Gorodskie Vesti" (City News) announced a contest "Let's help our people with a good song!" to the best work about Anna Chapman, who was detained in the USA along with other nine suspected spies who worked for Russia. Local political scientists do not exclude that Chapman's surname will appear in the list of candidates for the State Duma in 2011.
Photo by http://commons.wikimedia.org
20:00, 14 July 2010
Over 7000 subscriptions in Tsogoeva's support gained in Krasnodar Territory
On July 13, the Krasnodar Territory finished signing-in in support of Elvina Tsogoeva, 36, a mother with many children and a resident of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, who killed a guy of 19, thinking that he had raped her three-year-old daughter. During 13 days of the action 7200 subscriptions were gained.
19:00, 14 July 2010
Forbidden names to appear in Azerbaijan
This year the country will compile a list of permitted, non-recommended and forbidden names.
18:00, 14 July 2010
Krasnodar: rights defenders against "propaganda of unisex love" on TV
Since July 12, human rights activists are gaining subscriptions under petition against appearance on the TV channel "New Kuban Television" (NKT) of reports, which advertise, in their opinion, unisex love and intimate services.
23:20, 13 July 2010
Court finds natives of Dagestan who made word "Kavkaz" out of their comrades-in-arms guilty
In the Baltic Fleet, the garrison court of the city of Baltiysk has convicted seven natives of Dagestan, regular servicemen, who "wrote" the word "Kavkaz" by bodies of their comrades-in-arms.
23:00, 13 July 2010
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 5-11
Trial on Ruslan Yamadaev's murder begins; members of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG) visit the Caucasus; rights defender Orlov is officially accused of slandering Chechen President; Ingush Imams rise ransoms for murder and bride kidnapping, - look these and other events in the review of the week of July 5-11, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 13 July 2010
SQBJ refused to open case against ex-head of military court of Grozny
Today, the Supreme Qualification Board of Judges (SQBJ) refused to give consent to initiation of a criminal case against Alexander Kuznetsov, former chairman of the Grozny Garrison Military Court, accused of forgery, making illegal decision and causing damage.
22:20, 13 July 2010
In Dagestan, girls announced suicide bombers by power agents left home after prohibition to wear hijabs
Today, Bege Akaev, a resident of Novokayakent village, Kayakent District, said that his daughter - Zaira, 20, and Zalina, 15, announced by the National Antiterrorist Centre of Russia to be potential suicide bombers, left home six months ago because of domestic conflicts.
Memorial of Military Glory in Kutaisi (Georgia) prior to demolition. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/24167350
22:00, 13 July 2010
Funds are not enough to erect in Moscow prototype of Memorial of Glory demolished in Kutaisi
Erection of a monument in Moscow instead of the Memorial of Glory blown up in Kutaisi may face certain difficulties. As of July 12, 7 million roubles were raised for the purpose, which is, as noted by Valery Vinogradov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow, obviously not enough. It is planned to start construction already in the end of July and to open the memorial on December 19 - one year after the monument was blown up in Kutaisi, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
21:20, 13 July 2010
Georgia: Tsotne Gamsakhurdia is ready to plead guilty
Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who is serving his term on the charge of a deliberate murder attempt, is ready to admit the charges live on TV. This was stated on July 12 by his advocate Keti Bekauri.
21:00, 13 July 2010
In Dagestan, journalist is threatened for an article about murders of Derbent residents
As announced on July 12 by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Russian ICPO, an investigation is underway in this republic under the earlier opened criminal case on the fact of dissemination on June 16 of a video clip showing alleged militiamen executing alleged militants in Derbent.
20:00, 13 July 2010
Woman from Dagestan states extrajudicial execution of her brother
Dzamilya Samurkhanova, a resident of Makhachkala, is going to institute criminal proceedings of militiamen of the Derbent GOVD, who on June 16 shot dead her brother Rustam Samurkhanov, 22. The woman asserts that her brother had nothing to do with any criminal matters.
Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz
19:00, 13 July 2010
In Dagestan, advocate demands to make inspector who beat her criminally liable
Dzhamilya Tagirova, a lawyer of the Dagestan Specialized Bar, has petitioned about initiating a criminal case against Kerim Mazaev, an inspector of the Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, who beat her right in the ROVD building.
18:00, 13 July 2010
Advocates of "Taboo Art" organizers to apply to ECtHR
The defence of the convicted organizers of the an exhibition "Taboo Art-2006" Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev plans to apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a complaint against violations of clients' rights to expression of their opinion. The opponents of the exhibition are going to strive for expulsion of the convicts from Russia.
23:30, 12 July 2010
Kabardino-Balkaria: attempts on militiamen from Elborus ROVD
On July 11, in the Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria, attempts were undertaken on employees of the district interior division (ROVD). When the car of the ROVD head was passing by, an explosion was triggered; and a self-made bomb was detected and neutralized under the bottom of the car of the head of the criminal militia of the same ROVD. Nobody suffered in these incidents.
23:20, 12 July 2010
Law enforcement bodies investigate militiaman's murder in Karachai-Circassia
The body of a militiaman, aged 27, with numerous piercing ands cutting wounds was found in the evening on July 11 in Uchkeken village of the Malokarachaevskiy District of Karachai-Circassia.
News
Two soldiers from Kamyshin were killed in a military operation.

A fighter from the Volgograd region was killed in Ukraine.

The number of stray dogs in the Volgograd region has decreased.

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.