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23:20, 24 August 2009
In Georgia, court adjudges Eka Beseliya's relatives
The Kobuleti City Court has set free on bail Rati Milorava, son of Eka Beseliya, secretary general of the oppositional party "Movement for United Georgia", while her brother Sergo Beseliya will have to spend two months in pre-trial custody.
23:10, 24 August 2009
A powerful bomb blows up in Kabardino-Balkaria
On August 23, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), when a local district militiaman was moving in his car, a powerful explosive was triggered. The militiaman did not suffer; and as reported by a source in the republic's power bodies, the culprits have been established.
23:00, 24 August 2009
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 17-23
Explosions of terrorists-suicide bombers in Chechnya and Ingushetia; persecutions of human rights activists in Northern Caucasus; detention by Georgia of foreign ships sailing to Abkhazia; Georgia's exit from the CIS - look up these and other events in the review of the week of August 17-23 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 24 August 2009
Teenager wounded by explosion in Chechnya
On August 23, in the submontane Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, a local minor was wounded by explosion of unidentified ordnance.
22:00, 24 August 2009
Chechnya: a serviceman killed and four other wounded in a clash
On August 23, in the course of a combat clash that burst out in the Shali District of Chechnya, a soldier of the Internal Troops of Russian MIA was lost, and four militaries were wounded.
22:00, 24 August 2009
Moscow: Azerbaijani suspected of kidnapping his fellow countryman detained
It was reported by Moscow law enforcement bodies that they detained a citizen of Azerbaijan, suspected of kidnapping, together with his four accomplices, of a compatriot with further extortion of some 800,000 US dollars from him.
21:00, 24 August 2009
In Armenia, NGOs call authorities to defend Mariam Sukhudyan
Young members of a number of Armenian NGOs have addressed the president, prime minister and speaker of the parliament with an appeal to immediately publicly defend Mariam Sukhudyan, who is accused of disseminating false information about sexual harassments of pupils by a boarding school teacher.
20:00, 24 August 2009
Militants commit terror acts in Chechnya aiming to win a pause, power agents assert
The Chechen MIA believes that militants are committing terror acts with the use of suicide bombers with the aim to distract power agencies from broad-scale special operations in the mountains. President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that in no case the intensity of operations conducted against armed underground groupings will go down.
Astrakhan. Photo by http://astrakhan-450.ru
19:00, 24 August 2009
Woman from Astrakhan fined for criticizing Governor Zhilkin
In Astrakhan, a magistrate judge of the Kirov District has recognized local resident Nadiya Fokina guilty of hooliganism and sentenced her to a fine of 500 roubles; on August 17, she criticized Alexander Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, in the presence of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, when the former demonstrated a repaired embankment to the latter.
Chechnya, Grozny. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru
18:00, 24 August 2009
In Chechnya, human rights activists fear repressions against terrorists' relatives
Experts of some Chechen NGOs stick to the opinion that relatives and family members of the two suicide bombers, who blew themselves in the afternoon on August 21 in Grozny killing four employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya and a young woman, are under threat of punitive and repressive measures.
22:00, 22 August 2009
President of Ingushetia: I'd have forgiven my attempters
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said, at his first press conference after his return to the republic that would have been ready to pardon the terrorist who had attempted on him, should the latter have remained alive.
18:12, 22 August 2009
Georgia is ready to accommodate Guantanamo inmates
Georgia has expressed its readiness to accept prisoners from the American base in Guantanamo within its territory. This information was disseminated today by some Georgian and American media.
18:00, 22 August 2009
Evkurov interrupts treatment and returns to Ingushetia
Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who interrupted his rehabilitation course at a sanatorium near Moscow, has arrived in his republic. He made this decision because of aggravated situation in Ingushetia.
12:00, 22 August 2009
In Azerbaijan, court accepts NGO's suit against Ministry of Justice on the fourth try
On August 21, after a triple rejection, the Yasamal District Court of Baku has accepted the claim of the NGO "Centre for Election Monitoring and Teaching Democracy" (CEM&TD) against the Ministry of Justice.
Ingushetia, Nazran. Photo by www.venividi.ru/user/183, Artem Rusakovich
11:00, 22 August 2009
Power agents hold exercises at hospital in Ingushetia, human rights activists are indignant
Human rights activists have condemned the actions of power agents of Ingushetia under a simulated evacuation from the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Nazran. The training alert was announced there on August 21; however, at first, only law enforcement bodies knew about it, while ordinary people took the mess for the reality and were strongly frightened.
10:00, 22 August 2009
Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office forces 25 TB patients into treatment
Employees of the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, have revealed 25 local residents sick of tuberculosis. They had evaded examination and treatment; therefore, now they will be forced into treatment.
Ingushetia, refugee camp. By Magomedov Said for "Caucasian Knot"
09:00, 22 August 2009
In Ingushetia, 11 evicted families manage to get back to their barracks
Eleven families, ten of them being forced migrants from the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia and Chechnya, who had been earlier evicted by the decision of the Malgobek District Court from their barrack-type houses in Yuzny settlement of the Malgobek District, received a chance to get back into their barracks. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a member of the Public Commission of Human Rights at the President of the Republic.
08:00, 22 August 2009
Georgia: trial on Mukhrovani revolt postponed till September 1
The trial of the defendants in the case on the military revolt in Mukhrovani has been postponed from the earlier appointed August 21 to September 1.
06:00, 22 August 2009
Isaeva: arson in office of "Mothers of Dagestan" has to do with organization's activities
The arson in the Makhachkala-based office of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights was caused by the work of this NGO. Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the "Mothers of Dagestan", said that this was a sort of a warning to employees that they interfere with someone.
03:00, 22 August 2009
Ecologists who blocked highway in Sochi fined
On August 21, the magistrate court fined the ecologists detained at blocking the construction in Sochi of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway by 500 roubles each.
News
Mzia Amaglobeli in court. June 2025. Photo from TV Pirveli. A third complaint about the violation of Mzia Amaglobeli's rights has been filed with the ECHR.

The Supreme Court of Georgia refused to review Amaglobeli's sentence.

Beaches of Bobokvati. Photo: tourister.ru Bobokvati residents demand a report from authorities on the fate of land plots

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.