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12:00, 10 July 2009
At least 28 persons killed in Northern Caucasus last week
During the week on July 2-8, as a result of combat clashes and diversions in Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan, at least 28 persons were killed and at least 36 persons wounded.
11:00, 10 July 2009
Dagestan Prosecutor's Office scourges managers for using slave labour
13 directors of brick works in Dagestan are brought to administrative responsibility for using slave labour; materials on one of them were sent to the Investigatory Committee for opening a criminal case.
10:00, 10 July 2009
Armenia: political prisoner Arakelyan stops his hunger strike
Young activist of the opposition Tigran Arakelyan, arrested on charge of attacking a policeman, has stated today that he gave up the hunger strike announced by him in prison and plans to choose other methods of his struggle.
09:00, 10 July 2009
Security head of Karabulak OVD assassinated in Ingushetia
On July 9, in municipal district Plievo of the city of Nazran, unknown persons shelled a car with Israpil Ozdoev, head of the security division of Karabulak OVD (Interior Department). As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, the militia official died in situ.
20:00, 9 July 2009
Nagorno-Karabakh is ready to remove snipers from forefront
General-Lieutenant Movses Akopyan, Minister of Defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stated to journalists that the Karabakh party is ready to remove snipers from the forefront. The Minister has emphasized that Azerbaijan is against removal of snipers.
19:00, 9 July 2009
About 1500 came to oppositional rally in Tbilisi
The rally in Tbilisi to mark 3 months after the start of the opposition's termless protest action, which should have gathered, under oppositionists' plans some 10,000 participants, was in fact about 1500-strong. It is reported by a Georgian journalist who is now in Tbilisi.
18:00, 9 July 2009
Ingushetia: "Mashr" activists complain of persecutions
Members of the Ingush human rights Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Mashr" told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about illegal actions of power agents against them. They explain the pressure by their applications to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR).
17:00, 9 July 2009
Chechnya's MIA: attempt on Evkurov was commanded by Magas
The attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was organized by Magomed Evloev, head of a criminal grouping, also known under nickname Magas. This was reported today by Ruslan Alkhanov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya.
16:00, 9 July 2009
Relatives of missing people hold an action in Chechnya
On July 8, on the Family Day, relatives of missing people held an action in Grozny near the monument to perished journalists. The action was organized by the regional public organization "Search of Missing Persons".
15:00, 9 July 2009
Data on shelling two helicopters in Chechnya is contradictory
Militaries and law enforcers of Chechnya give contradictory information about the incident in the morning on July 8 in the mountain area of the republic. Earlier, it was reported that in Shatoy District two helicopters of federal forces were shelled, and one soldier was wounded.
14:00, 9 July 2009
Armenian oppositionist goes on termless hunger strike
Karen Karapetyan, head of the youth wing of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), has announced a termless hunger in protest against the arrest of Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of his wing.
13:00, 9 July 2009
Social shelter for refugees from Azerbaijan and Iraq opened in Armenia
In Armenia, in Darbnik village, Ararat District, a social shelter was opened for 46 families of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan and Iraq. The house was granted to them for gratuitous use.
12:00, 9 July 2009
Estemirova: disappearances are on rapid rise in Chechnya
After cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, the count of kidnapped residents is in dozens. This was stated by Natalia Estemirova, member of the Grozny branch of the HRC "Memorial", to the "Caucasian Knot".
11:00, 9 July 2009
In Ingushetia, mother seeks protection of her son from power agents
Petimat Archakovа asks to defend the rights of her son Magomed Archakov suspected of concealing militants. Currently, he is kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia and, according to his mother's statement, is exposed to torture.
10:00, 9 July 2009
Armenian President is ready to meet his Azerbaijani counterpart
As reported by co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has consented to have another meeting with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliev on Karabakh settlement, as planned, in Moscow on July 17.
09:00, 9 July 2009
Kelekhsaev's "People's Party" asks USA to recognize independence of South Ossetia
On July 8, the Board of the "People's Party" of South Ossetia, headed by Roland Kelekhsaev, passed an appeal to the United States and other countries of the world to recognize the right of South-Ossetian people to build their independent democratic state.
22:00, 8 July 2009
MIA counts at most 100 militants in Dagestan
At a press conference on July 7, Magomed Ismailov, Deputy Interior Minister, said, referring to operative data, that Dagestan has no more than 100 militants.
21:00, 8 July 2009
Trial on schoolboy's incitement to suicide started in Stavropol Territory
Today, the Budyonnovsk City Court, Stavropol Territory, has started considering the case of the teacher of mathematics accused of inciting a pupil of the 9th form to suicide.
20:00, 8 July 2009
ICPO: "Vostok" battalion servicemen were involved in disappearance of their comrade-in-arms
Inspectors have found proofs of involvement of militaries of the battalion "Vostok" (East), which was subordinated to the so-called "GRU" (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) in disappearance of their colleague Alikhan Khaladov in July 2004. This was stated by the official Chechen spokesman of the ID for Chechnya of the ICPO.
19:00, 8 July 2009
Germany and France reject visas to Abkhazian youth
Young people from Abkhazia cannot take part in the "Camp of Peace" organized by the Council of Europe in Germany and dedicated to settlement and transformation of conflicts, because of visa problems: embassies of France and Germany in Moscow refused to give visas to them.
News
Samira Gasimli. Photo from Samira Gasimli's personal archive, published by Meydan TV https://www.meydan.tv/ The wife of an Azerbaijani government critic faces libel charges.

Historians and activists have called on Armenian authorities to resist the destruction of cultural heritage in Karabakh.

Russian analysts assessed the potential of the Trans-Caspian Corridor amid the war in Iran.

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.