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18:00, 8 June 2009
Advocates in Nalchik attack case challenge the court but fail
Today, at the regular session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria considering the criminal case dealing with the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, a dispute burst out between accusers and defenders in the course of interrogating a witness about the procedure of announcing witnesses' evidences in the course of preliminary investigation.
22:08, 6 June 2009
CEC of Armenia refuses to nullify Yerevan elections
The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia has refused to consider the application of the opposition demanding to recognize the outcomes elections to the Board of Elders of Yerevan null and void.
21:00, 6 June 2009
Apartment house collapses in Tbilisi killing a woman
A four-level apartment block has collapsed in the Vaki District of Georgian capital. As a result of the accident, Makvala Bitsadze, 68, who happened to be inside the house at the moment, was killed.
20:00, 6 June 2009
Dagestan President: Magomedtagirov was enticed to wedding party to be murdered
Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was not going to visit the wedding party on June 5, where he was killed, and, most likely, people linked with the customers of the murder urged him to go there. This was stated today by President Mukhu Aliev.
19:00, 6 June 2009
Saakashvili: UN Secretary General's report was made under Russia's influence
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has stated that the report presented by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in May at the UN Security Council was drafted under the influence of Russia.
18:00, 6 June 2009
North Ossetia holds scientific conference on genealogy of Caucasian nations
The international scientific and practical conference "Genealogy of Caucasian Nations. Traditions and Contemporaneity" was held on June 6 in the North-Ossetian Institute of Humanitarian and Social Researches (known as "SOIGSI").
17:32, 6 June 2009
World Bank predicts stabilization of Armenian economy
The World Bank (WB) expects stabilization in Armenian economy by the end of 2009. This was stated by Aristomene Varudakis, head of the Yerevan-based WB's office.
17:00, 6 June 2009
"Olympstroy" rejects second seaport in Sochi
The "Olympstroy" has decided to give up its plans to build the second seaport in Sochi, as reported today by Vice-Premier Dmitri Kozak, supervisor of preparation for 2014 Winter Olympic Games, to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
13:08, 6 June 2009
Oppositional paper to pay 10,000 US dollars to family of Armenian ex-President
The general court of Yerevan communities Centre-Nork-Marash has passed a decision to partially satisfy the claim lodged by the family of ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan against the oppositional newspaper "Armenian Time"; that is the paper shall pay 3.62 million drams (about 10,000 US dollars) to Kocharyan family, instead of claimed 16 million drams (42,000 US dollars).
12:00, 6 June 2009
Mukhu Aliev: Interior Minister of Dagestan had many enemies
The assassinated Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov had plenty of enemies: members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) and thousands of criminals. It was reported by President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev at an emergency sitting of the antiterrorist commission.
03:00, 6 June 2009
Armenia: opposition demands nullifying Yerevan elections
The Armenian opposition has demanded that the Republic's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) recognize null and void the outcomes of voting on May 31 for the Board of Elders of Yerevan, according to which the ruling Republican Party of Armenia proved to be the winner.
23:10, 5 June 2009
Oppositional members of fact-finding group are sure the group is deliberately disorganized
Seda Safaryan and Andrannik Kocharyan, members of the fact-finding group set up to investigate the opposition's clashes with the police on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan, who had been nominated to the group by the opposition, told journalists that purposeful actions to disrupt their work began after their decision to publish the final report on May 19.
23:00, 5 June 2009
Idris Tsizdoev, kidnapped in Ingushetia, not found yet
Relatives of Idris Tsizdoev, 28, who was kidnapped by unidentified persons on May 26 in Malgobek, still know nothing about his whereabouts. On that very day they informed law enforcement bodies about the incident; however, so far, they failed to learn anything about Tsizdoev's further fate.
Abkhazia. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/yoginya_ru
22:40, 5 June 2009
Newspaper editors: Abkhazian authorities hamper independent editions
This week in Abkhazia the issue of the independent newspaper "Chegemskaya Pravda" failed to appear, and another paper - the "Wanted Paper" - was forced to be printed by means of a risograph. According to editors of the editions, which position themselves as independent, the printing house named "Alasharbaga", where the papers used to be printed for a couple of years already, suddenly rejected them, saying that small circulations are unprofitable for them.
22:10, 5 June 2009
Armenia: imprisoned oppositionist is against amnesty
Gagik Dzhangiryan, an activist of Armenian opposition and former Deputy General Public Prosecutor, convicted for rendering resistance to power officials, is against amnestying political prisoner, saying that they had committed no crimes; therefore, the concept of amnesty is inapplicable to them.
22:00, 5 June 2009
Stay of children outdoor at night to be restricted in Volgograd Region
Amendments to the law aimed to restrict the stay of minors in public places late in the evening and at night, adopted at the federal level were supported by deputies of the Volgograd Regional Duma. The bill is ready and planned for adoption on June 11.
South Ossetia. Source: www.repub-of-southosetia.narod.ru
21:00, 5 June 2009
Dzhussoev: ecologists' claims against gas pipeline built in South Ossetia are groundless
Albert Dzhussoev, director general of the "Stroyprogress" Company, has stated that ecologists' accusations of his company, engaged in laying the Tskhinvali-Dzuarikau gas pipeline, are groundless, as before the construction the object of international value had undergone all the required numerous checks.
20:00, 5 June 2009
Chechnya's MIA reports detention of woman-militant
In the Grozny District of Chechnya, power agents have detained a woman, a suspected member of an illegal armed formation (IAF). Local law enforcers think that last autumn for a short period of time she was with one of militants' groupings.
19:00, 5 June 2009
Court postpones hearing of Nemtsov's claim on cancellation of Sochi Mayor election
Today, the Tsentralny District Court of Sochi has postponed for the third time the preliminary hearing of the claim lodged by oppositional politician Boris Nemtsov with a demand to cancel the outcomes of the election of the city Mayor. The hearing failed for absence of respondents from the electoral commission and Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov.
18:00, 5 June 2009
Interior Minister of Dagestan buried in his native village
Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, assassinated today in Makhachkala, was buried according to Islamic rites into the cemetery of Gonoda village in the Gunib District.
News
A Georgian citizen detained by security forces in South Ossetia has been released.

Valeria Kichigina. Screenshot from the Telegram account @valerafzlln. A Russian journalist has been convicted for reporting on the results of the Five-Day War.

The death of Ossetian combatants has attracted the attention of Georgian Facebook users*

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.