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23:50, 6 May 2010
Chechen MPs ask for Kremlin's help in de-mining
The problem of clearing the territory of the Chechen Republic of explosives calls for a special federal programme. According to experts, the republic needs end-to-end de-mining of about 24,000 hectares.
23:00, 6 May 2010
Krasnodar court rejects Dymovskiy's complaint against verdict on Novorossisk UVD's claim
The Krasnodar Territorial Court has refused to satisfy the complaint of former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy, who tried to challenge the decision of Primorskiy Court of Novorossisk.
22:50, 6 May 2010
Kidnapped Ingush resident Chitigov is in hospital
Earlier kidnapped Zelimkhan Chitigov, 20, a resident of Ingushetia, was found by his relatives in the building of Karabulak OVD severely beaten. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from his mother Zuhra Chitigova.
22:00, 6 May 2010
FSB asserts that Zelimkhan Oziev liquidated in Ingushetia was a militant
Madina Khadzieva, press secretary of the Ingush MIA, has confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the information about liquidation by DFSB agents of Zelimkhan Oziev as a suspected militant. He was murdered in Kantyshevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia. However, Ms Khadzieva gave no details, since, according to her story, the data about this special operation was kept by the Russian DFSB for Ingushetia. Oziev's relatives assert that Zelimkhan was subjected to extrajudicial execution.
19:00, 6 May 2010
In Dagestan, all earlier kidnapped locals are free
Today, Magomedzagir Isagadjiev, a resident of Novy Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on April 27 by unidentified armed persons, supposedly, power agents, in Makhachkala right from a hospital ward, came back home. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Isa Magomedov, head of the village administration.
18:00, 6 May 2010
Georgia: five oppositionists wounded in clashes with police
The organizers of today's rally in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, where clashes with the police took place, assert that the action was peaceful. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) says that the protesters threw stones at policemen.
23:40, 5 May 2010
Volgograd Region is under threat of mercury pollution, ecologists assert
The Information Centre (IC) "Volgograd-Ecopress" and the Centre "Eco-Accord" (Moscow) have launched, together with the IPEN (International POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) Elimination Network) their global campaign "Without Mercury: You, I and Children". According to the initiators of the action, they plan to lobby adoption in 2013 of "a tough global agreement on mercury." Researches within the campaign have shown that the Volgograd Region is still under threat of mercury pollution.
23:00, 5 May 2010
Inspectors: Egle Kusaite wanted to commit terror act in Russia
Lithuanian law enforcers assert that they prevented a terror act, planned to be committed in Russia, according to the Lithuanian State Office of Public Prosecutor, by Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania.
22:30, 5 May 2010
Alexei Dymovskiy promises to reveal 800 corruption episodes
In the near future, the former Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy promises to make his new video appeal revealing facts about 800 cases of corruption in the MIA.
22:20, 5 May 2010
Andrei Lebedev: Kalmyk President should report his contacts with extraterrestrials
Andrei Lebedev, Deputy of the State Duma (from the LDPR), sent an appeal to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev asking him to clarify the situation with contacts of the head of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov with extraterrestrials.
Construction of Nekrasovskoe village for resettlers from the Olympic area of Imereti Lowland. Krasnodar Territory, August 2009. Photo by www.sc-os.ru
22:00, 5 May 2010
First resettlers from Imereti Lowland of Sochi move to Nekrasovskoe village
On May 4, four families from the Imereti Lowland, whose houses and land plots had been alienated because of building Olympic objects, marked their housewarming parties in new cottages in Nekrasovskoe village, Krasnodar Territory. At the same time, other Imereti residents were surprised to learn that their resettlement to new houses in Nekrasovskoe is postponed, or cancelled whatsoever.
22:00, 5 May 2010
Kadyrov's and Putin's press services accuse RWB of bias and superficiality
Dmitri Peskov, press secretary of Russian Premier, has stated that the Reporters Without Borders (RWB), who called Vladimir Putin in their annual report an enemy of the free press in Russia, had superficial knowledge of the topic. The press service of Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic, stated that the estimate given by the RWB was biased when ranking Kadyrov among oppressors of the freedom of speech.
21:20, 5 May 2010
Attacker on Liudmila Alekseeva sentenced conditionally
The Khamovniki Court of Moscow has sentenced Konstantin Pereverzev, who struck on March 31 at a Moscow metro station Liudmila Alekseeva, head of the oldest Russian human rights organization - Moscow Helsinki Group - to one conditional year.
21:00, 5 May 2010
Wounded women in Nazran were militant's helpers, Ingush DFSB asserts
As reported by the spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, the two women injured today in the course of a special operation in central Nazran (one of them later died in hospital), were helpers of Magomed Gardanov, leader of Ingush armed underground, liquidated in the skirmish.
Dagestan, Babayurt. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/26572534
18:00, 5 May 2010
Detained Kara-Tyube residents, Dagestan, released after rights activists interfered
The residents of Kara-Tyube village, Babayurt District of Dagestan, detained on April 15, were set free on April 18 only after active interference of human rights activists and media. All this time 16 persons were in the open air, since the ROVD (District Interior Division), where they were brought, has no enough room for keeping that number.
23:50, 4 May 2010
Astrakhan: bankers steal 2.5M from children's home pupils
In Astrakhan, employees of a bank branch were stealing money for several months in a row from accounts of orphans and minors left without parental care.
23:00, 4 May 2010
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 26-May 2
President of Chechnya is officially accused of involvement in murder of his former security; attempt committed in Kabardino-Balkaria on former and present state officials; journalists are again in authorities' disgrace, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 26-May 2, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 4 May 2010
Prime Minister of Abkhazia supports ICRC in searching persons missing since Georgian-Abkhazian war
Prime Minister of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba and George Drndorski, representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and deputy coordinator of programmes for Eastern Europe, discussed at their meeting on May 3 the opportunity to continue the programme of the ICRC Mission in Abkhazia on searching those who disappeared in the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhazian war and identification of its casualties.
22:40, 4 May 2010
In Georgia, imprisoned Tsotne Gamsakhurdia goes on hunger strike
On May 3, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the ex-President of Georgia, who is in custody in Tbilisi, announced his termless hunger strike in prison hospital as a protest against the actions of the prison administration.
22:00, 4 May 2010
Colony official and witness evidence at Einullah Fatullaev's litigation in Azerbaijan
The Garadag District Court of Baku has hosted another court session on the criminal case of already convicted editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan" Einullah Fatullaev.
News
Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

In February 2026, three people were killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and southern Russia.

Russian troops in a combat zone. Still from a Russian Defense Ministry video: https://mil.ru/news/1b9c3525-a768-4ce0-81c3-4b4a885d8335 The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in the SVO has exceeded 8,750.

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.