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Early voting at election of City Assembly. Casting ballots at the Sochi Central Territorial Electoral Commission. Members of the Commission register voters and issue ballot papers. February 26, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 6 March 2010
Sochi voters ask Russian President to cancel early elections
On March 5, individual voters, observers and candidates from CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), LDPR (Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia), "Edinaya Rossiya" United Russia), and self-nominees began and continue sending their collective and individual applications to the President of the Russian Federation demanding to cancel early elections in Sochi. They find them illegal.
Dagestan, Makhachkala. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
18:00, 6 March 2010
Charitable women's hospital reopened in Dagestan
The charitable hospital has started receiving patients in its new building.
17:00, 6 March 2010
Said Buryatskiy's liquidation in Ingushetia officially confirmed
As confirmed today by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB, among the suspected militants killed in the course of the special operation on March 3 in Ingushetia, one of their leaders known as Said Buryatskiy has been identified.
Spontaneous rally in Ingushetia on kidnapping of Mikail Pliev. Plievskiy Municipal District. March 6, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
16:00, 6 March 2010
Residents of Ingushetia state that militia used force against participants of spontaneous rally
Participants of the rally held in Plievo village after its resident Mikail Pliev was kidnapped on March 5 on his way from Nazran to Pyatigorsk complain that militiamen dispersed the rally and applied force to some of the protesters.
15:00, 6 March 2010
In Azerbaijan, journalists meet relatives of arrested colleagues
On Friday, March 5, the office of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety of reporters (IRFS) hosted a meeting of journalists with families of arrested journalists Einullah Fatullaev and Ganimat Zakhidov, and of bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.
11:00, 6 March 2010
David Ovannisyan: Armenian-Turkish dialogue grows into bargaining and speculations
The present stage of negotiations on normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations has the character of imitation. As stated by Professor of the Yerevan State University David Ovannisyan on March 5 at the roundtable "Dialogue Armenia-Turkey: Relation Recovery Process", the parties use any occasion to push negotiations into the track of deal-making and gambling.
10:00, 6 March 2010
Parliament of Catalonia recognizes Armenians' genocide
As reported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Armenia, the legislative body of the Autonomous Community Catalonia has unanimously voted for recognition of Armenians' genocide in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire.
09:00, 6 March 2010
Chechen religious website attacked by hackers
The religious website "Way of Truth" launched last year by the republic's Centre of Spiritual and Moral Enlightenment was exposed to hackers' attack. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a source from the Chechen Muftiyat.
08:00, 6 March 2010
After Burdzhanadze, other Georgian oppositionists are ready to come to Moscow
After the visit on March 5 to Moscow of Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the Georgian parliament and leader of the "Democratic Movement - United Georgia", activists of other oppositional parties - Labourites and Conservatives - have expressed their readiness to go to Moscow to establish relations.
23:40, 5 March 2010
Armenia welcomes US resolution on genocide, Turkey protests
Edward Nalbandyan, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, has stated that adoption by the International Committee of the House of Representatives of US Congress of the resolution on Armenians' genocide is an indication of the commitment of American people to universal values. Turkey in reply to the resolution recalled its ambassador from Washington.
23:00, 5 March 2010
Sappers to blow up mine-studded houses in the venue of special operation in Ingushetia
Two private houses in the special operation zone in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, had been mined with non-extractable mines, as reported by a source in power agencies. According to his story, these buildings will be blown up by sappers. The body of supposed Said Buryatskiy, found after examination of the operation venue, was already delivered to the Centre of Forensic-Medical Examination of the Ministry of Defence in Rostov-on-Don, where the genetic examination will be held to identify the casualty.
22:40, 5 March 2010
Thomas Hammarberg disappointed that murder of journalist Guseinov is still unsolved
The situation with the freedom of mass media, operation of the law-enforcement system of Azerbaijan and situation with NGOs were the main topics of debates in the course of the visit to the country on March 1-5 of Thomas Hammarberg, High Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights.
22:30, 5 March 2010
Over 700 villages in SFD and NCFD are under threat of flooding
In the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD), the forthcoming high water threatens to flood 731 dwelling settlements. This was stated on March 4 in Stavropol at the session of the Commission for Emergencies and Fire Safety.
22:10, 5 March 2010
Examination results of Denisova's PCs cause lawyers' doubts
Prior to start litigation on the case of Anastasia Denisova, head of the public organization "ETnIKA", accused of using counterfeit software in her home and office computers, the equipment, which was confiscated at search, was subjected to examination. The Prosecutor's Office of Krasnodar entrusted the Inter-Regional Public Organization (IRPO) "Union of Criminalists" to make the examination.
22:00, 5 March 2010
Elmira Suleimanova re-elected as Azerbaijani Ombudsperson
At today's session of the Parliament, Elmira Suleimanova, 72, was re-elected to the post of the Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan for her second term of 7 years. The opposition and human rights activists differed in their opinions on this re-appointment.
21:00, 5 March 2010
Dagestan: residents are negative to overall fingerprinting
Activists of public and political circles of Dagestan have criticized the offer of Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia to take fingerprints of all residents of Northern Caucasus. In their opinion, the procedure would break the rights of residents of the region, which is a full-fledged part of Russia, not an enclave inhabited exclusively by criminals.
Ingushetia. Photo by www.flickr.com/people/photomans, Aleksey Myakishev
20:00, 5 March 2010
Residents of Ingushetia are afraid of terror acts after Said Buryatskiy's murder
Local residents are afraid that after the special operation conducted by Russian power agencies on March 3 in Ekazhevo village the republic will face new terror acts. During the operation militants suffered losses and in the near future, most likely, they will strike back. If the fact of liquidation of the ideologist of extremism Said Buryatskiy (Alexander Tikhomirov) is confirmed, their response may be even tougher.
19:00, 5 March 2010
Head of Novorossisk UVD sues human rights activist Karastelyov
Vladimir Chernositov, head of the UVD (Interior Department) of Novorossisk has lodged a suit on defence of his honour, dignity and business reputation against Vadim Karastelyov, head of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights, who represents the interests of ex-militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy.
18:00, 5 March 2010
In Dagestan, militia detains and releases human rights activist
Today, Rasul Magomedov, a resident of Balakhani village, Untsukul District, a teacher of the local secondary school and a member of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", has stated that he was kept till late at night by militiamen in one of the rooms of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan without any explanations.
10:00, 5 March 2010
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 22-28
Inspectors report about solving resonant murders in Northern Caucasus; exchange of prisoners of was between Georgia and South Ossetia is in deadlocked; Chechnya celebrates Prophet Mohammed's birthday; human rights activists are beaten in the Kuban River area, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of February 22-28, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
News
A court in Stavropol ordered compensation to be paid to Khalit Mustafayev's family.

More than 8,850 combatants from southern Russia have been officially recognized as killed in the SVO.

A Stavropol resident was convicted of justifying terrorism.

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.