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20:00, 19 October 2009
Khazbiev: someone voted for my family on election day in Ingushetia
In the voting day in Nazran, on October 11, Magomed Khazbiev, leader of Ingush opposition, detected and registered the facts evidencing that some other person cast votes instead of his family members. According to his story, similar situations could be observed in many settlements of Ingushetia.
19:00, 19 October 2009
Krasnodar "greens" to complain to Russian FSB of their detention by frontier guards in Sochi
Activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus are writing a letter to Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB, with complaints against the actions of the FSB frontier guards, who had detained ecologists for breaking the frontier regime. This was reported by Suren Gazaryan, member of the Board of the Ecological Watch.
18:00, 19 October 2009
Political prisoners accuse US, Russia and France of immoral deal with Yerevan
Today, the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persons of Armenia has addressed its open letter to Presidents of Russia, USA and France, where it accuses the leaders of these countries of an immoral deal with the authorities of Armenia.
23:00, 17 October 2009
Litigation chronicle: Chechen President vs. head of HRC "Memorial"
One of the consequences of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", committed on July 15, 2009, which aroused a broad public resonance in Russia and abroad, was the litigation under the claim lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial", who had stated Kadyrov's guilt in Estemirova's murder. The "Caucasian Knot" follows the course of events and offers its readers the chronicle thereof.
Novorossisk. Photo by http://dic.academic.ru
23:00, 17 October 2009
Demonstrators in Novorossisk to demand nuclear-free Black Sea status
On the International day of the Black Sea to be marked on October 31, a demonstration is planned in Novorossisk under the slogan "Nuclear-free status - to the Black Sea!" As explained by Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights, who has submitted an application on the action to the Mayoralty, such status means a ban not only on nuclear weapon, but also on transportation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) across the sea waters.
22:00, 17 October 2009
South Ossetia to found its film studio
Tamerlan Dzudtsov, Minister of Culture of South Ossetia, said that in 2010 the republic will start making its own feature films.
21:00, 17 October 2009
In Chechnya, militia fights with excessive car glass tinting
On October 16, an operation under the conventional title "Automobile" started in the republic. Law enforcers stop cars with excessive glass tinting.
19:00, 17 October 2009
Bastrykin: Anna Politkovskaya's murder will be solved
On October 16, Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, said that the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" will be solved.
18:00, 17 October 2009
TV producer from Georgia asks political asylum in Russia
Badri Afanasiev, producer of the Georgian TV Channel "Imedi", has applied to Russia for political asylum.
16:00, 17 October 2009
CTO regime cancelled in Sunzha District of Ingushetia
Today, the operative staff of the FSB in Ingushetia has made a decision to lift the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the morning on October 15 in the territory of the Sunzha District of the republic.
15:00, 17 October 2009
Parliament of Karachai-Circassia failed to elect Derev to be Senator for the fourth time
The National Assembly (NA) of Karachai-Circassia has for the fourth time rejected the candidature of Vyacheslav Derev, who was nominated by leaders of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party to the position of representative of the NA at the Russian Council of Federation.
13:00, 17 October 2009
"Strong Georgia": EU report allows starting Saakashvili's impeachment
The report of the commission of the European Union (EU), where President of Georgia was found guilty of unleashing the war in South Ossetia, allows initiating the procedure of impeaching President Mikhail Saakashvili. This was stated by Carlo Kopaliani, member of the Republican Party and an MP from the oppositional faction "Strong Georgia", at a press conference on October 16.
12:00, 17 October 2009
Azerbaijan wants to refuse from gas supplies via Turkey
The absence of solutions to the issues of transit between Azerbaijan and Turkey compels Baku to look for new markets for Azerbaijani gas, as President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev said at the sitting of his government.
11:00, 17 October 2009
Experts to teach Volgograd peasants how to use manure energy
Employees of the Volgograd Centre for Power Efficiency plan to build and test a biogas installation on the basis of the breeding farm located in the Volgograd Region for converting the animals' manure into useful energy.
06:00, 17 October 2009
Biyakai Magomedov: "order" to strangle "Chernovik" failed
After replacement of the Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, the efforts of the local prosecutor's office against five journalists of the edition "Chernovik", accused of excitation of national, racial or religious hostility, began to come to naught; it means that the urgency of the "order" to shut down the edition has been exhausted. This was stated by Biyakai Magomedov, the lawyer of the "Chernovik".
23:50, 16 October 2009
Prosecutor's office of North Ossetia opens administrative proceedings against "Electrozinc"
The prosecutor's office of the Industrial Municipal District of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has opened an administrative case against the "Electrozinc" factory in the context of the latter's emissions of sulphur dioxide to the atmosphere on October 5; also a presentation was passed on violation of ecological legislation.
23:20, 16 October 2009
In Azerbaijan, court considers claim of Mamedov's widow
Today, the Nasimin District Court of Baku, chaired by Ikram Shirinov, continued considering the claim lodged by the widow of Novruzali Mamedov, former head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) against the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan, Penitentiary Service and its medical establishment, and also against Colony No. 15.
23:00, 16 October 2009
Moscow GUVD sends Kadyrov vs. Orlov criminal case to prosecutor's office
All the materials of the case concerning Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under the article of slander have been transferred to the Moscow prosecutor's office. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who had submitted an application demanding to initiate a criminal case against Mr Orlov.
Construction of the joint highway "Adler - Krasnaya Polyana" by JSC "RZD". Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:20, 16 October 2009
Ecologists to challenge their detention by FSB frontier guards in Sochi
On Monday, October 19, members of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus, will file their application to the Adler District Court; the ecologists protest against their detention by frontier guards of the FSB, when they were surveying the construction of Olympic object - the combined railway and motor road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory.
22:00, 16 October 2009
In Rostov, nine schoolchildren hospitalized after vaccination
In Rostov-on-Don, nine school pupils were hospitalized after flu vaccination, some more kids addressed the local polyclinic after inoculation.
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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.