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22:00, 23 May 2009
In Georgia, opposition plans to elect a single leader
On May 26, the opposition in Georgia plans to name their united leader. Consultations to this end are underway, and, probably, in the next few days such leader will be named, as reported by the headquarters of the opposition.
21:00, 23 May 2009
In Ingushetia, combat collision results in casualties
Today in Ingushetia, in the vicinity of Nesterovskaya village, Sunzha District, a skirmish burst out of law enforcers with suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). Three militiamen were wounded and one militant was liquidated.
20:00, 23 May 2009
Dagestan: journalists and NGOs dissatisfied with Prosecutor's Office
On May 22, the participants of the roundtable on interaction of the Prosecutor's Office with mass media and public organizations sent their resolution to the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, where they ask "to check the facts of non-fulfilment by the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan of its functions and give legal and disciplinary estimate to the operation of the Republic's Office."
18:00, 23 May 2009
First President of Armenia wrote a book on Armenian-Turkish relations
The book named "Armenian-Turkish Relations" by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, first President of Armenia and leader of the Armenian National Congress, has come off the press. It deals with Mr Ter-Petrosyan's approaches to Armenian-Turkish relations, presented in his presentations, interviews and publications in 1989-2009.
15:00, 23 May 2009
International peacemaking centre to be set up in Northern Caucasus
Currently, a number of international organizations are coordinating the issue of creating, in the territory of one of the republics of Northern Caucasus, of an international civil peacemaking centre. In the near future, the project of such centre will be submitted to Presidents of Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan.
14:00, 23 May 2009
Blind residents of Chechnya can study Koran
For the first time ever, the vision invalids who live in Chechnya have an opportunity to study the Koran. The Republic now has ten copies of the Moslem sacred book with relief-dot typesetting.
13:00, 23 May 2009
Ombudsman of Armenia blames General Prosecutor's Office for prosecuting witnesses
Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Arutyunyan has put responsibility on the State Office of Public Prosecutor for incessant violence and prosecution by law enforcement bodies of witnesses on the case about the events on March 1, 2008.
11:00, 23 May 2009
Ingushetia: 15 persons with sub-machine detained in special operation
In the Nazran District of Ingushetia, 15 persons with sub-machine guns and pistols were detained, as reported by Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of Ingushetian President.
10:00, 23 May 2009
Politicians and human rights activists: amnesty of political prisoners in Armenia is a must
Politicians and human rights activists in Armenia believe that the amnesty of political prisoners will take the authorities out of the deadlock.
Armenia, Yerevan. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
23:40, 22 May 2009
Speaker of Armenian Parliament confirms amnesty of oppositionists
On May 28, the Day of First Republic, President of Armenia will make a statement on announcing amnesty to those who were sentenced under the case on events in March 1, 2008, in Yerevan. This was stated to journalists by Ovik Abramyan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, in his answer to the question about any possible amnesty to opposition's activists.
23:10, 22 May 2009
In Ingushetia, court starts trying Evloev's murder case
The Nazran Court of Ingushetia has started considering on the merits the criminal case on the murder of Magomed Evloev, former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru".
23:00, 22 May 2009
Armenia: clash burst out again between supporters of ruling parties
At night on May 21, in the Southwest District of Yerevan another clash took place between the members of pre-election offices of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Party "Prospering Armenia" (PA).
22:10, 22 May 2009
Stavropol Territory: criminal case opened on child's death in hospital
The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case on the fact of death of a newborn in one of the hospitals in the Stavropol Territory.
Dmitri Medoev, 21 May 2009. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 22 May 2009
Ambassador of South Ossetia to Russia: picket in Moscow was held not by opposition, but by people feeling offended by authorities
In the opinion of Dmitri Medoev, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation, opposition exists in the republic, but all of them are in Tskhinvali; however, those people who hold actions in Moscow are not opposition.
Makhachkala, Dagestan. Source: www.mkala.ru, photo of Nikolai Belousov
21:00, 22 May 2009
Criminal case opened in Dagestan against militiaman accused of murdering pregnant woman
On May 21, Usman Amaev, Senior Inspector of Russian Prosecutor's Office for Dagestan, signed a statement to open a criminal case against a militiaman on the fact of injuring Gasan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, and murdering his wife Saniyat Magomedova, who was in her fourth month of pregnancy.
20:00, 22 May 2009
Ingushetia: special operation goes without violating civilians' rights
The broad-scale special operation against members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), launched by power agents on May 16 in villages of the pre-border Sunzha District of Ingushetia and then extended to the whole territory of the republic, continues. Residents assert that no rights of civilians are broken in the course of actions.
19:00, 22 May 2009
The Grozny suicide bomber was a prominent athlete
Beslan Chagiev, the terrorist-suicide-bomber who blew himself up on May 15 near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic in Grozny, some time ago was a well-known wrestler. The reasons on Chagiev's suicide are still unclear.
18:00, 22 May 2009
Mosque "Ilakhiyat" in Baku reopened, but access restricted
Mosque "Ilakhiyat", located in the Yasamal District of Baku, which was closed on May 20 for visitors, has reopened for visitors. However, the access for believers will be restricted. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that today the traditional Friday namaz took place there, attended by more than one thousand persons.
23:40, 21 May 2009
Yamadaevs' relative: authorities of Chechnya are behind Atlangeriev's kidnapping
Movladi Atlangeriev who was kidnapped in Moscow more than a year ago paid by this for his friendship with the Yamadaevs and for his intractability with the present authorities of Chechnya. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by a member of Yamadaev's clan in his interview.
23:30, 21 May 2009
Eight suspected militants detained in Chechnya within two days
On May 20, in the course of special operations conducted in Chechnya against members of armed formations employees of law enforcement bodies detained three suspected militants' helpers. Four helpers and one former militant were detained on the previous day, on May 19, as asserted by law enforcement bodies of the republic.
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.