Caucasian Knot

Homepage / News

22:00, 9 July 2010

Blogger Alaudin Dudko, known under the nick of ingushetiya_ru, was transferred from the isolation facility of the Butyrka prison to the Lefortovo similar facility. The judicial session, where decision on his freedom restriction measure was made, ruled to leave him behind bars for three more months, while the investigation on his case continues.

22:00, 9 July 2010

Gamsakhurdia's advocate rejects her client's accusation of bribery

Lawyer Keti Bekauri, who is defending the interests of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has treated the new charge presented to her client as "provocation".

20:00, 9 July 2010

Ingushetia residents complain of power agents' actions

Two residents of Ingushetia - Rakhman Imazhev from the city of Nazran and Anzor Mamilov from the city of Nazran - sent their complaints against the actions of power agents, which they believe to be illegal, to Ingush President Yunus-Bek Evkurov and human rights organizations.

19:00, 9 July 2010

Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria states that militiamen forced him to self-incriminate

Karalbi Karamizov, a resident of Chegem-2 village, Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has addressed the local human rights centre with a complaint against the actions of the militia. He asserts that militiamen forced him to defame himself and other innocent people.

18:00, 9 July 2010

HRC "Memorial" may wind up in Chechnya

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" may close up its branch in the Chechen Republic. This was stated by Chairman of the Board Oleg Orlov in the context of recent statements made by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov on the work of human rights defenders.

Gazel minivan - model GAZ-3221. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org

23:10, 8 July 2010

Five persons lost in road accidents in Grozny for a week, 60 - all over Chechnya this year

A huge road accident with casualties happened on July 7 in the Lenin District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. An employee of the MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs) is among the casualties. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the MIA that in several recent road accidents in the republic's highways killed two more persons, including a two-month-old baby, and wounded at least seven more.

23:00, 8 July 2010

Heads of children's camps dismissed in Stavropol Territory

In the Stavropol Territory, the prosecutor's office has dismissed, for the period of service investigation, director of the camp "Kolosok" and the head of the daytime camp "Ulybka"; on July 7 a child from the latter camp got drowned in a water basin in the territory of "Kolosok".

22:30, 8 July 2010

14 children got poisoned in camp near Astrakhan

The Investigatory Department for the Astrakhan Region of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office) has initiated a criminal case on the fact of a mass poisoning of children, who took their rest in the camp "Young Railwayman", located in the Privolzhskiy District of the Region, the press service of the Department reports.

22:10, 8 July 2010

Ramzan Kadyrov promises to amnesty Chechen militants again

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has called the members of the armed underground to surrender and promised to amnesty them. Kadyrov made this unexpected statement on July 7 during his meeting with the leaders of the Republic's power agencies.

22:00, 8 July 2010

Association of rights defenders of Dagestan calls Magomedov to control power agents

The participants of the conference, where a decision was passed to establish a new human rights organization in Dagestan, adopted an open letter to President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov, listing the measures, which, in the opinion of the authors of the document, should promote cardinal changes of the situation in the republic in the sphere of human rights and return people's trust in the authorities.

21:00, 8 July 2010

HRC "Memorial" reports about Kadyrov's threats

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" regards the words pronounced on July 3 by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in his interview to the "Grozny" TV Channel as a direct and obvious threat addressed to the Centre. Mr Kadyrov named the people involved in the "Memorial" as enemies of the people, enemies of the law and enemies of the state.

Tatiana Lokshina (on the left) and Natalia Estemirova. Chechnya, Grozny, April 2006. Photo by http://grend.livejournal.com

20:00, 8 July 2010

Rights defendants state absence of answers to key questions on Estemirova's murder

Today, the Independent Press Centre has hosted a press conference: "Investigation of Natalia Estemirova's murder: questions to investigation."

19:00, 8 July 2010

Azerbaijani youth activists hold protest actions

Today in Baku several youth organizations of Azerbaijan have held a protest action dated to the first anniversary of the arrest of the bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.

18:00, 8 July 2010

Victim in Ruslan Yamadaev murder case recognizes one of defendants

General Sergey Kizyun, who suffered during the murder of the former State Duma Deputy Ruslan Yamadaev in September 2008, asserts that he has identified one of the defendants as Ruslan's killer by his eyes.

23:40, 7 July 2010

Pamfilova hopes mutual trust and common goals of residents and authorities may alter the situation in North Caucasus

The struggle for the minds and the hearts, for a common system of values which could embrace North Caucasus and integrate it in Russia is a big and serious topic which should be started with telling the truth, with a wish to understand one another, says Ella Pamfilova, head of the council under the Russian President on facilitating the development of the institutions of civil society and human rights, chair of presidium of the all-Russia public movement "Civil Dignity".

23:20, 7 July 2010

Signatures of Krasnodar Krai residents in support of convicted Tsogoeva sent to RF President

Collection of signatures continues in Krasnodar Krai in support of Elvina Tsogoeva, 36, resident of North Ossetia, who killed a 19-year-old young man, thinking that he had raped her three-year-old daughter. Part of signatures have been sent to the Russian President.

23:10, 7 July 2010

A burnt car with human bodies found in Dagestan

A burnt car was found with the bodies of, possibly, two persons in the outskirts of Dagestan capital during the night of July 7.

Chechnya, Grozny. Civil restoration works in 2008. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru

23:00, 7 July 2010

Authorities in Grozny count more than 800 houses in an emergency state

The Chechen authorities intend to address the federal center with a request to increase the quotas for implementing the program of pulling down old and repair houses, and building new ones. Within Grozny alone, 843 houses are recognized to be in the state of emergency and hazardous for living. Grozny residents express dissatisfaction with the quality of construction works and report that the repair performed is often a facelift.

22:00, 7 July 2010

Editor of opposition newspaper in Georgia accuses authorities of persecution

Nana Gagua who, together with her husband Malkhaz Gulashvili, is the owner and editor of the newspaper "Georgian Times" in Tbilisi, in her statement addressed to international organizations states that, due to opposition orientation of the newspaper, she, her husband and sons live under permanently extreme conditions.

21:00, 7 July 2010

Maxim Gvindzhia insists Abkhazia is not occupied territory

Maxim Gvindzhia, minister of foreign affairs of Abkhazia, calls the statements by US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and representatives of Georgian authorities to the effect of occupation of Georgia by Russian troops as fantasy.

⟵ Previous article

1 2 … 2708 2709 2710 … 3357 3358

Next article ⟶

News

Alipat Sultanbegova, an activist. Photo: SOTA https://t.me/sotaproject/54465

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 20-26, 2023

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 12-18, 2022

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 29-September 4, 2022

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

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

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

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.