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16:00, 5 September 2009
Tsagareishvili: in Georgia, inmates of Rustavi prison go on hunger strike
Georgiy Tsagareishvili, a Georgian MP, asserts that already for more than a week up to 10 prisoners, who serve their terms in the Second Rustavi Prison, are holding their hunger strike. However, the Ministry for Punishment Enforcement, Probation and Legal Aid, denies this information.
14:00, 5 September 2009
Ecologists: building small HPPs in Armenia harms the environment
Aram Gabrielyan, head of the Environment Department of the Ministry for Nature Protection of Armenia, said that construction of small Hydroelectric Power Plants (HPPs) breaks the ecological balance and results in appearance of problems in the environment.
Traditional Chechen wedding gown (on the left) and European wedding outfit. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru, www.dolchevita.net
13:00, 5 September 2009
After meeting Mayor, wedding saloon owners in Grozny fear bankruptcy
Owners of the wedding saloons in the capital of Chechnya were imperatively advised, at a meeting at the city Mayoralty, to stop selling wedding dresses, made not in the traditional Chechen style. The city authorities assure that this measure is of only "recommendatory character." However, the shop owners talk about "demand" and "prohibition" and are afraid of going bankrupt.
12:00, 5 September 2009
DFSB: organizer of attempt on Evkurov liquidated in Ingushetia
Rustam Dzortov, who was killed during a special operation conducted in the Ingush village of Barsuki, was in command of all the militants in Ingushetia and one of the organizers of the murder attempt on President of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov. This was reported by a representative of the press service of the Department of the Federal Security Bureau (DFSB) for Ingushetia.
23:50, 4 September 2009
Kabardino-Balkaria: trial on Nalchik attack case makes a break
The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has announced a two-week break in litigation on the Nalchik attack. The last court session on September 3 listened to evidences of Alik Shorov, an employee of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was, on October 13, 2005, the head of the service of district militiamen.
23:30, 4 September 2009
CPJ supports additional inquiry into Politkovskaya's case
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the decision to return the case of three suspects of murdering Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", to additional investigation before its repeated delivery to the court. This is said in the statement of Nina Ognianova, coordinator of the programme for Europe and Middle Asia, which has arrived to the "Caucasian Knot".
23:10, 4 September 2009
Tskhinvali: Georgian journalist asks political asylum in South Ossetia
The family of the Georgian journalist Levan Gudadze, who criticized the regime of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, applied for political asylum in South Ossetia. This was reported by Murat Dzhioev, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.
23:00, 4 September 2009
Native of Azerbaijan, figurant in "Black Hawks" case, killed in Moscow
In northeast of Moscow, an unidentified gunman shot dead Rasul Khalilov, a native of Azerbaijan, a student of the Moscow Institute of Economy and Culture and a figurant in the case about an attack in spring last year of a group of nationalists from the organization named "Black Hawks" on two Moscow students. This was reported by Sergey Loginov, advocate of one of the defendants.
22:00, 4 September 2009
Check point "Kazbegi-Verkhniy Lars" opened on Russian-Georgian border
In Kazbegi, on Georgia's border with Russia, the renovated check point "Kazbegi-Verkhniy Lars" was opened. It was modernized with the financial help of the United States of America under the programme "Strengthening of Safety of Georgian Borders".
Novorossisk. Vadim Karastelev, specially for "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 4 September 2009
Gorlov: trial of opponents of the "children's curfew" in Krasnodar Territory was held with violations
The actions of the Novorossisk Court in the case of appealing against the acts of the prosecutor's office, which had passed at the same time a presentation, a caution and a warning to the supporters of cancellation of the "children's law" in the Krasnodar Territory, were accompanied by rough violations; therefore, the human rights activists' complaint was denied. This was stated by Stanislav Gorlov, a lawyer of the Moscow ANO "YURIX", who defended the interests of the Novorossisk human rights activists.
21:00, 4 September 2009
Employee of the Chechen Ombudsman's office detained for bribery attempt in Novosibirsk Region
Said Yashuev, an employee of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, is accused of an attempt to bribe an officer of the UFSIN (Federal Administration for Punishment Enforcement) for the Novosibirsk Region. Friends and colleagues of the detainee believe that his detention was a provocation.
20:00, 4 September 2009
Trial of bloggers starts in Baku
Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, under chairmanship of Judge Araz Guseinov, opened a preparatory session on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and rendering of bodily injuries.
Beslan, September 3, 2009. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
19:00, 4 September 2009
Kesaeva: the state failed to learn how to prevent terror acts
Terror acts are committed in Russia, because the state cannot prevent them. This is the opinion of Ella Kesaeva, head of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan".
Chechnya, Shali. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru
18:00, 4 September 2009
Video about arrested "shahids" ambiguously perceived in Chechnya
In the evening on September 3, one of the republic's TV channels showed a report about the young men detained in the southeast of Chechnya, who planned to commit terror acts by self-explosion. The report caused contradictory reaction of the population and local observers.
Beslan, school No. 1. September 3, 2009. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
23:10, 3 September 2009
Russia commemorates Beslan victims
Today, cities of Russia mark the Solidarity Day in the war on terror. Russian temples held requiems in memory of the victims of the acts of terror committed in Beslan and Moscow.
Azerbaijan, Baku, Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/44984019@N00, Emin Aliev
22:40, 3 September 2009
Azerbaijan: Novruzali Mamedov's widow believes that her husband was killed in prison
Mariam Mamedova, the widow of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), who dyed in Azerbaijan in imprisonment, believes that he was killed. The woman has filed a complaint to the General Public Prosecutor of Azerbaijan Zakir Garalov.
22:10, 3 September 2009
Azerbaijani Ombudsman asks the court not to imprison young bloggers
Elmira Suleimanova, Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan has addressed the Sabail District Court of Baku in the context of the end of investigation of the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli and arrival of the materials to the court.
22:00, 3 September 2009
Captain who beat to death a regular soldier arrested in Armenia
The court of general jurisdiction of the Vaik and Ararat Regions of Armenia has satisfied the petition of the inspector of the Military Prosecutor's Office asking to arrest Captain Andok Galstyan, who beat to death private Aram Mkrtchyan.
21:00, 3 September 2009
In Volgograd, doctor guilty of baby's death punished conditionally
The Court of the Alekseev District of the Volgograd Region has sentenced the obstetrician-gynaecologist of the central district hospital for using a technique at delivery, forbidden by the WHO (World Health Organization), which entailed death of the newborn to 18 months of conditional punishment.
20:10, 3 September 2009
Estemirova, Sadulayeva and her husband were killed by same gunmen, Chechen NGOs believe
Kidnapping and subsequent murder in July of the well-known Chechen human rights defender, employees of the HRC "Memorial" Natalia Estemirova and a similar later crime against the leader of the youth public organization "Let's Save the Generation" Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov could be accomplished by one and the same group. This is the opinion of some Chechen NGOs, which are convinced that true organizers and customers of these murders will be never punished.
News
A Dagestani resident was convicted of inciting terrorism.

Residents of Mamedkala spoke about the situation in the village after the flooding.

An engineer has been detained in connection with the dam breach at the Gejukha Reservoir.

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.