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23:50, 14 October 2009
Bill "On Defamation" brought into Azerbaijani parliament
The law draft "On Defamation", assuming cancellation of criminal punishment for slander, has been registered by the Secretariat of the National Assembly (NA) of Azerbaijan.
23:40, 14 October 2009
Court appoints linguistic examination of Igor Averkiev's article about the Caucasus
On October 13, the Leninskiy Court of Perm made a decision to suspend proceedings on the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of the Perm Territory to recognize the article about the Caucasus, written by Igor Averkiev, Chairman of the Perm Civil Chamber, to be an extremist one.
23:20, 14 October 2009
"Memorial" files cassation on court ruling on Chechen President's claim
The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed against the ruling of the Tver Court of Moscow, which had partially satisfied the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Centre Oleg Orlov.
23:00, 14 October 2009
Korovin: journalists' non-admission to elections in Astrakhan was illegal
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Igor Korovin, chairman of the Astrakhan regional electoral commission, that journalists were not admitted to polling stations in the Astrakhan Region because the workers of local commissions were against "strangers' eyes."
22:10, 14 October 2009
Isa Yamadaev: Sulim needs urgent surgery
Marina Volodina, deputy head of the press service of REN TV, reports, with reference to Isa Yamadaev, brother of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, that Sulim needs an urgent surgery.
22:00, 14 October 2009
REN TV film crew leaves Ingushetia because of threats
The film crew of the REN TV Channel, which was subjected to threats in Ingushetia, managed to safely leave the republic owing to the help of the units of President Yunus-Bek Evkurov and oppositionist Maksharip Aushev.
21:10, 14 October 2009
Khabarovsk Territory: suicide of soldier from Volgograd Region investigated
The spokesman of the Khabarovsk Garrison Court reports about arrest of a serviceman suspected of non-statutory relations, which entailed a suicide on October 10 of a recruit from the Volgograd Region.
21:00, 14 October 2009
Sochi residents indignant with the road that will come across their households
In Sochi, residents of the Aviatsionnaya Street were greatly surprised to learn that a new motorway built for the Winter Olympiad-2014 will run right across their houses and kitchen gardens. According to the project, supports of the overpass will be installed right in kitchen gardens, and one of them will be erected in the place of an apartment house.
20:00, 14 October 2009
Several dozens illegally detained workers liberated in Makhachkala
In the capital of Dagestan, 30 persons, who were illegally kept at two brick-works, are now free.
19:00, 14 October 2009
Militiamen of Kabardino-Balkaria go to court for overtime bonuses
Servicemen of the patrol-sentry regiment of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria, who have addressed judicial bodies because of non-payment of their due bonuses for overtime work, work on weekends and holidays, are subjected to prosecution by their bosses. They told about it to journalists.
18:00, 14 October 2009
ICPO: organizer of attempt on Ingush President hides in the Caucasus
Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatskiy, the supposed organizer of the failed attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, and another accomplice named Magomed Tsokiev have been announced into federal search, as reported by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.
Dagestan, Derbent. Photo by the "Caucasia Knot"
23:30, 13 October 2009
Dagestan: court recognizes violations in election of Derbent Mayor
Khanakhmed Khanakhmedov, head of the support office of Imam Yaraliev, a candidate for Derbent Mayor, said today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Federal Judge of the city of Derbent Dzhambulat Gadjiev has found reasonable claims of individual voters who asked to nullify the totals of the election of the head of Derbent.
23:20, 13 October 2009
Kadyrov's advocate to challenge the ruling on HRC "Memorial"
Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, plans to bring protest against the ruling of the Tver Court of Moscow, which has satisfied Kadyrov's claim to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and to Oleg Orlov, head of this organization on defence of honour and dignity.
23:10, 13 October 2009
UJD chair: Gunib District head was elected with violations
Ali Kamalov, Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Dagestan (UJD), a native of the Gunib District himself, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that administrative resources were broadly used during election of the head of the Gunib District of Dagestan.
23:00, 13 October 2009
In Azerbaijan, protest action in front of Turkish embassy dispersed
Today, about 30 activists of the Organization for Liberation of Karabakh (OLK) tried to organize a protest action in front of the embassy of Turkey in Baku in the context of the Turkish-Armenian agreement on normalization of mutual relations.
22:00, 13 October 2009
Timoshenko: those guilty of beating journalists in Astrakhan should be brought to justice
Violations of journalists' rights during the passed elections in Astrakhan "look like an epidemic." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Boris Timoshenko, head of the monitoring service of the Glasnost Protection Fund.
Nalchik, the public rally in memory of the law enforcement officials killed by terrorists on the 13th of October 2005. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 13 October 2009
Rally in memory of events of October 2005 held in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria
Today in Nalchik, the Concord Square hosted a rally in memory of the law enforcers who fell victim of terrorists on October 13, 2005.
20:00, 13 October 2009
Bortnikov: organizers of attempt on Evkurov are dead
Today, at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee, its chairman, director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov told about the course of investigation of the attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and about the war on militants in Northern Caucasus.
19:00, 13 October 2009
Mailyan: protest of Armenian society can force MPs not to ratify Armenian-Turkish Protocols
Only a powerful protest wave in the society can force the parliament of Armenia refuse to ratify the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, which were signed in Zurich on October 10, as Masis Mailyan, chairman of the Public Board for foreign policy and security of Nagorno-Karabakh, believes.
18:00, 13 October 2009
Azerbaijan: advocate states protraction of bloggers' litigation
The next session of the Sabail District Court of Baku on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and causing bodily injuries, due to take place on October 13, was cancelled for non-appearance of the victims and their witnesses in the courtroom.
News
A Chechen gym teacher was killed in fighting in Ukraine.

Nalchik residents question the connection between rising prices and Ramadan.

Islamic scholars explained the specifics of calculating zakat in Chechnya and Dagestan.

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.