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18:00, 14 May 2010
Lawyer meets detainee for car explosion in Maiskiy, Kabardino-Balkaria
Today, lawyer Magomed Abubakarov had a meeting with his client Anzor Guchapshev, detained on suspicion of preparing a terror act in the city of Maiskiy, Kabardino-Balkaria, on May 11, 2010.
Activist with a poster at the LLC "Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan". Poster: "Gazprom, stop poisoning us free of charge!" May 11, 2010. Photo by Alexander Alymov for "Caucasian Knot"
23:50, 13 May 2010
Astrakhan: picket held against LLC "Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan"
Pickets with demand of monetary compensation of the damage caused to health of citizens of the region are regularly held at the head office of this Limited Liability Company (LLC). The fifth picket was held on May 11.
23:20, 13 May 2010
Lawyers complain that they are not let to Guchapshev detained in Kabardino-Balkaria
Elena Bairamkulova and Magomed Abubakarov, lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen Bars accordingly, have addressed Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Department of the Russian ICPO for the KBR (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), and Anzor Getigezhev, Public Prosecutor of the Maiskiy District of the KBR, with their complaints that employees of the Maiskiy ROVD did not let them to Anzor Guchapshev, whose interests they represent and who was detained on the fact of a car explosion of Maiskiy.
23:00, 13 May 2010
Dagestan: attack on motorcade kills eight wiremen
According to updated information, in Dagestan, at shelling and blowing up of a militia motor column in the Sergokalin District, which transported employees of the republic's television broadcasting centre, eight workers of the repair team were lost, and four militiamen were wounded.
23:00, 13 May 2010
Two Adygea residents convicted for use of slave labour
The Krasnogvardeisk District Court of Adygea has found the defendants accused in the criminal case about illegal deprivation of freedom of Vladimir Vinsha, a resident of Ladozhskaya village, Ust-Labinsk District of the Krasnodar Territory, guilty.
Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/3243431
22:20, 13 May 2010
At trial on attack on Nalchik, prosecution is against jurymen
In the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the prosecution petitioned to reject the request lodged by advocates and defendants to transfer the case to the Chairman of the Supreme Court for consideration by a jury.
22:00, 13 May 2010
Monument to Beslan terror act victims to open in Moscow on June 1
The opening ceremony of the memorable sign in Moscow dedicated to the victims of the act of terror in Beslan, committed on September 1-3, 2004, is planned for June 1. The issues of its installation were discussed on May 12 at the working meeting of Alexander Totoonov, deputy chairman of the government of North Ossetia and republic's plenipotentiary at Russian President, with Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts.
21:00, 13 May 2010
Azerbaijan: human rights activists tell about officials' arbitrariness in the NAR
At the press conference held in Baku at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) journalists and human rights activists Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev and Elman Abbasov told about the bureaucrats' arbitrariness and total flouting of human rights reigning in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). Earlier, Mekhtiev and Abbasov, being regional correspondents of the IRFS, for two years had been monitoring the situation with human rights in the NAR.
20:00, 13 May 2010
FSB identified all the figurants in the case of suicide bombers on Moscow metro
Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has declared that the executors and organizers of the Moscow bombing were identified; some of them were already killed. In his turn, Medvedev stated that terrorists deserve no quarter.
South Ossetia, Leningori. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
19:00, 13 May 2010
South Ossetia released three citizens of Georgia
Today, the South-Ossetian authorities, through intermediary of the European Council commissioner for human rights Thomas Hammarberg, have set free the three residents of Kaspsky area, Georgia.
18:00, 13 May 2010
The Grozny residents inform of youth abduction
Next abduction of a youth has happened in Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. Representative of one of the Chechen NGO has reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that this abduction took place at around 11am this morning in Mayakovsky small town.
23:50, 12 May 2010
Denisova: I was not notified that my criminal case was stopped
The militia of Krasnodar failed to present the decision about termination of the criminal case against Ms Denisova, head of the Krasnodar human rights organization "ETnIKa", as the human rights activist asserts. She is going to demand apologies and damage compensation.
23:20, 12 May 2010
Inquiry into the case of 12 school directors in Chechnya is not over
The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has opened criminal cases against directors of 12 schools of the Vedeno District. According to the investigation, last summer each of them appropriated, by forgery, 30,000 roubles. Defendants' colleagues speak about constant extortions and small salaries of teachers. Also, they are confused by the fact that all the 12 directors are suspected of simultaneous forgery and appropriation of the same sum. The investigation continues.
23:00, 12 May 2010
One person lost and three wounded by two explosions in Kabardino-Balkaria
As reported by local law enforcement bodies of the republic, today in the morning, when a car with militiamen was blow up in the city of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria, a local resident was wounded and a militiaman was contused. Yesterday, on May 11, in the evening in city of Maiskiy a car exploded: a man was killed and another one was wounded.
23:00, 12 May 2010
In Karachai-Circassia, activists of "Adyge Khasse" demand to solve Aslan Zhukov's murder
Activists of the youth movement of Circassians "Adyge Khasse" express their readiness to hold a rally in the context of the unsolved murder of Aslan Zhukov. This was reported by Timur Zhuzhuev, chairman of the movement.
22:40, 12 May 2010
Dymovskiy plans to hold all-Russian protest action on June 12
Former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy has expressed his intention to organize an all-Russian rally on June 12 on the problem of malversations in law enforcement bodies and the judicial system.
21:10, 12 May 2010
Case of Levon Gulyan who died in police to be sent to the ECtHR
The lawyers who represent the interests of the relatives of Levon Gulyan, who died three years ago at the police station, are going to lodge a complaint, after passage of all the domestic instances in Armenia, to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). They promised it today at a press conference.
21:00, 12 May 2010
Karachai-Circassia: President's adviser killed
Today, in the city of Cherkessk, Fral Shebzukhov, adviser of the President of Karachai-Circassia was assassinated.
20:00, 12 May 2010
Moscow municipal court found legal the sentence for extortion in the Politkovskaya murder case
Moscow municipal court dismissed a cassation appeal of the advocates of former militiaman Sergey Khadzhykurbanov, who was declared not guilty in the journalist Anna Politkovskaya murder case but then sentenced to eight years in prison for extortion money from a key witness.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/vigggo/1577251650
19:00, 12 May 2010
European Court fined Russian Federation for disappearance and death of the Chechen people
The European human rights court (EHRC) in Strasbourg has fined Russia to the sum of 225 000 euro for disappearance and death of habitants of Chechnya, the released court communique informs today. Relatives of the disappeared people repeatedly applied to the Russian judicial bodies but were not satisfied with their decisions. In the claimants' opinion, the local courts failed to investigate properly the circumstances of their relatives' disappearance.
News
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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.