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22:10, 15 July 2010
Participants of Petersburg Dialogue demand from Russian authorities to strain efforts in solving Estemirova's murder
In the course of the 10th Petersburg Dialogue held in Yekaterinburg its participants noted that the inquiry of the murder was not persistent enough. They demanded that Russia's authorities do the utmost to solve the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the HRC "Memorial", and stop the criminal case against the head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov.
22:00, 15 July 2010
Medvedev: Estemirova's killer announced in international search
President Dmitri Medvedev said, making comments on the information that the authorities of the Russian Federation were not to willing to solve the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the HRC "Memorial", that the executor of her murder had been precisely established.
21:00, 15 July 2010
Action in memory of Natalia Estemirova held in Grozny
The commemoration action was held in the Journalists' Mini-Park; the picket was not advertised and brought together, under organizers' estimates, some 100-150 persons.
21:00, 15 July 2010
Russian bloggers leave for ethnographic expedition to Caucasus
Today at 11:00 a.m. Moscow time the Vorobiovy Gory in the Russian capital saw the start of the ethnographic expedition to Northern and Southern Caucasus and Kazakhstan, organized by the well-known Russian designer and blogger Artemiy Lebedev.
Moscow, Chistoprudny Boulevard. Action in memory of Natalia Estemirova, July 15, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 15 July 2010
50 persons came to Estemirova's commemoration picket
Today, one year after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", a picket in Moscow brought together 50 persons. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there are flowers and lit candles under Estemirova's portrait; and the names of human rights defenders who perished in recent years are written on the asphalt nearby - Magomed Evloev, Maksharip Aushev, Farid Babayev and Anna Politkovskaya.
18:00, 15 July 2010
Lord Frank Judd: Chechnya remains in informational isolation
According to Lord Frank Judd, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya and a member of the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG), believes that removal of the information blockade, improvement of social and economic life and organization of the negotiating process are prerequisites of solution of the problems of the Chechen Republic.
18:00, 15 July 2010
NCMD Military Prosecutor's Office investigates treachery of "Sever" battalion fighters
The Military Prosecutor's Office of the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD) will check the media data that in February 2010 in the course of a special operation in Chechnya military servicemen of battalion "Sever" (North) opened fire on special fighters of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who came from the city of Ufa.
23:50, 14 July 2010
EU gives Georgia 23 million euros for refugees' needs
On July 13, Per Eklund, head of the representative office of the European Union (EU) in Tbilisi, and Kakha Baindurashvili, Minister of Finance of Georgia, signed a document, according to which the EU would allocate 23 million euros to the needs of Georgian refugees.
23:40, 14 July 2010
In Krasnodar Territory, prosecutors reveal mass violations in children's establishments
The checks made by prosecutors of the Territory after the death of schoolchildren in the "Azov" summer camp revealed violations in 220 establishments, which render health-improvement and rest services to children.
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.
News
Two North Caucasus republics are among the regions with the highest road traffic fatality rates.

A Chechen resident was criticized for posting ads on social media. Still from the video "Emergency in Grozny" https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpK4pfjKcT/ A Chechen resident was publicly reprimanded for selling window tinting.

A new group of fighters was sent from Grozny to the SVO zone.

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.