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11:00, 15 May 2010
Khloponin: no need to return CTO to NCFD
Alexander Khloponin, Russian Vice-Premier and President's Plenipotentiary for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), sees no need to return the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime to the territory of the District.
10:00, 15 May 2010
Armenia starts international comic strips festival
From May 14 on, in capital of Armenia has launched the Second International Festival of Comic Strips. Their cartoon stories are presented by 20 well-known masters from France, Italy, Russia and the United States.
07:00, 15 May 2010
Tskhinvali has problems with water supply
For several days already the population of Tskhinvali has been experiencing difficulties with water supply. Experts of the united on duty-dispatch service of the government of South Ossetia strain efforts to eliminate failures at the water line caused by heavy rains in the mountains.
23:50, 14 May 2010
Resident of Makhachkala complains against the securities officials who performed special operation in her house
Today, a resident of Makhachkala Aziza Akhmedulayeva approached with a letter to the heads of security forces in Dagestan, Vice-Premier of Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov, and Commissioner for human rights in Dagestan Umupazil Omarova, to make an official investigation into preparation of special operation on May 8.
23:40, 14 May 2010
At trial over Fatulleyev held in Azerbaijan statements of prosecution witnesses concluded
In the Garadag district court of Baku, at a trial of the earlier sentenced journalist Eynulla Fatullayev who is charged with drug possession this time, the statements of prosecution witnesses concluded. As it was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, evidences were given by the convicts of prison colony No12 where Fatullayev is serving time. Witness Orudge Bairamov has stated that in the colony Fatullayev allegedly confessed him to using drugs during his service in the army.
22:40, 14 May 2010
Ombudsman: police uses torture in Armenia
As stated by Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan at a press conference on April 21, now the police of Armenia use violence and torture with the aim to receive confessions.
22:30, 14 May 2010
In Georgia, Ombudsman and NGOs sign memorandum in defence of human rights
On May 10, Georgian Ombudsman Georgi Tugushi and a number of local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) signed the memorandum "On defence and support of human rights in the area of legislative offers and constitutional proceedings".
22:30, 14 May 2010
South Ossetia handed over a detainee from the village of Bershueti to Georgia
A citizen of Georgia Gocha Beridze (from another source - Berianidze) who was abducted, according to the Georgian side's statement, from the village of Bershueti in Gori district on 13 May and handed over by South Ossetia to the Georgian authorized persons.
22:10, 14 May 2010
MIA: assassinated Yakubov who planned a terror act on May 9 in Chechnya was a Dagestan resident
Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechen Interior Minister, has reported today that the terrorist who had planned to commit a terror act on May 9 was identified. According to his story, he was a resident of Dagestan.
Kartoevs' household - ruined and burnt down. Ingushetia, Ekazhevo, April 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 14 May 2010
Bodies of casualties of March 2 special operation in Ingushetia are not given out to relatives
Movlatkhan Kartoeva, mother of the four men assassinated in the course of the special operation conducted on March 2 in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, says that so far the bodies of her sons are not given out to her for funerals.
20:00, 14 May 2010
Repeated examination appointed in Azerbaijan on case of Dagestan drug contrabandist
Today, the Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan has reappointed on June 1 the hearing on the case of drug dealing and use by Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, who is kept in the investigatory insulator of Azerbaijan since February 10.
19:00, 14 May 2010
Baku cancels decision to demolish "Fatmei Zakhra" mosque
Despite court decisions to demolish the "Fatmei Zakhra" mosque, located in Eni Gyuneshli village, Surukhan District of Baku, after interference of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, it will be preserved. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this was the topic of the official statement of the Department of Moslems of the Caucasus (DMC) widespread on May 13.
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.
News
Pashinyan cited the election campaign as the reason for his refusal to attend the Moscow parade.

A shipment of Russian grain and fertilizers was sent from Baku to Armenia.

The Armenian opposition and Russian propaganda shared their indignation at Armenia's rapprochement with the EU.

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.