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22:10, 3 June 2009
A child of five who disappeared on May 30 in Chechnya is searched
In Grozny, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) are searching a boy of five who disappeared on May 30 under unclear circumstances. It is supposed that the boy could get drowned in Sunzha River.
21:00, 3 June 2009
Dagestan: soldier spends five years in slavery
Soldier Anton Kuznetsov, who was considered missing for five years, has returned from Dagestan to the Lipetsk Region. According to his story, he has spent all this time in slavery, where he had been sold by commanders of his unit.
20:00, 3 June 2009
AI awards imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev
The Amnesty International (AI) has awarded its prestigious prize "For journalism under threat" to Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" (Azerbaijan Daily), now serving his term in prison.
19:00, 3 June 2009
Konstantinova: militia detains Gipsies in Volzhsk, Volgograd Region
Starting from April 10, plenty of Gypsies have been detained in the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region. Elena Konstantinova, leader of the Volgograd Regional NGO in defence of Gipsy women's rights named "Congress of Romany Women - Juvlicano Romano Congresso", has made this statement in her conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
18:00, 3 June 2009
Death case of Evloev, owner of "Ingushetia.Ru", to be considered by another judge
Representatives of the family of Magomed Evloev, deceased former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", report that the judge of the Nazran Court of Ingushetia, who earlier considered Evloev's death case, has accepted his self-disqualification, on which relatives had insisted.
23:50, 2 June 2009
SKP claims the second militant killed during special operation in Nalchik identified
Officers of the Investigating Department of Russian SKP in Kabardino-Balkaria claim they have identified the second militant killed in the course of the May 28 special operation in Nalchik.
Reading the response of the city Central District prosecutor. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
23:10, 2 June 2009
Picketers detained in Sochi on May 14 are not satisfied with the prosecutor's response
The persons detained in Sochi on May 14 while holding individual pickets are not satisfied with the response of the city Central District prosecutor who failed to register violations in the militia actions at detaining them.
23:00, 2 June 2009
Azeri police prevents anti-Iranian action of protest
Today, the police forces have prevented activists of the "Musavat" party from holding a picket in front of the Iranian embassy in Baku in protest against violations in that country of the rights of ethnic Azerbaijanis.
22:20, 2 June 2009
Two persons arrested on the suspicion of falsifying the election of Yerevan mayor
On June 1, Norair Eghiazarian, member of a polling district at constituency No 8, and Armen Oganian, elector of the same district, were arrested in Armenia under the criminal proceedings initiated upon facts of violations in the course of May 31 election to the Elders' Quorum.
Tskhinval, 2007. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/timjudah
22:00, 2 June 2009
Dzhussoyev claims the number of electors in South Ossetia seriously overestimated
The South Ossetia CEC has falsified the number of 56,000 electors who took part in the parliamentary election on May 31, there are less than 20,000 people in the entire republic, states Albert Dzhussoyev, one of the opposition leaders, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Port of Batumi, Adjaria. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
21:10, 2 June 2009
Newspaper "Batumelebi" issued in Adzharia to be granted the Bucerius prize
On June 3, the independent newspaper "Batumelebi" issued in Adzharia (Georgia) is to receive the Gerd Bucerius Prize "Free Press of Eastern Europe" founded by the Norwegian foundation "Freedom of Speech" and the German foundation "ZEIT-Stiftung". The chief editor of the newspaper is already in Oslo where the award ceremony is to be held.
20:00, 2 June 2009
Armenia president issues instruction to prepare information on the amnesty conditions
During the June 2 meeting, Armenian president Serge Sargsian issued an instruction to the law enforcement officers to submit their proposals on the conditions of and legal grounds for the amnesty of political prisoners before June 15.
Nalchik. Photo by http://nalchik2000.narod.ru, Bagdasaryan S.
19:00, 2 June 2009
Defendants on the case of attack on Nalchik go on hunger strike
Towards the end of the court hearing today, 40 defendants on the criminal case of an attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005 in Kabardino-Balkaria announced that they were going on hunger strike to protest against denial of medical treatment to defendant Sergei Kaziyev whose state of health needed it.
18:00, 2 June 2009
Muftis of North Caucasus may cancel trip to Egypt
A sitting of the North Caucasus Moslems Coordination Council is due to be held one these days to take a decision on the possible exclusion of the Egyptian capital from the coming Middle East tour of the North Caucasus spiritual leaders. This has been announced by Ismail-Khadji Berdiyev, chair of the Clerical Department of Moslems in Karachai-Cherkess and Stavropol krai.
Shali, supermarket in the centre of the city. Source: www.kavkazweb.net
23:50, 1 June 2009
According to his acquaintances, Makayev killed during a special operation in Chechnya was not a militant
One of the two young men killed on May 28 in the city of Shali by Chechen law-enforcement officers in the course of a special operation did not belong to any armed underground group, said his acquaintances in an interview with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Kislovodsk. Source: www.radionavigator.ru
23:30, 1 June 2009
Electoral Committee: Natalya Lutsenko has won in the elections of the Kislovodsk Mayor
According to the preliminary data, Natalya Lutsenko, Acting City Mayor, nominated by the United Russia Party has won in the elections of the Mayor of the resort city of Kislovodsk.
23:00, 1 June 2009
The General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia: the mass media are full of reports about invented violations
The numerous inspections carried out to check the reports of violations at the elections to the Council of Elders of Erevan have shown that most of the information being spread by the mass media has been invented and aimed at imitating mass violations, said Sona Truzyan, Press Secretary of the General Prosecutor's Office in her interview with journalists. She pointed out that as of the end of day on May 31, the General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has received no complaints in writing.
22:30, 1 June 2009
The Dagestan authorities consider Gadji Abashilov's murder unsolved
The case involving the murder of Gadji Abashilov, Chairman of GTRC (State TV and Radio Company) Dagestan is considered unsolved by the President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliyev and Suleiman Uladiyev, the Abashilov's successor as the TV and Radio Company Chairman. They believe that the person who ordered the murder has not been found and those who will appear in court are just scapegoats.
Tbilisi, Freedom square. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
22:10, 1 June 2009
In Georgia, the opposition is piqueting the Tbilisi Mayor's Office
Today the Georgian opposition has started to piquet the Tbilisi Mayor's House demanding that the city authorities should rather fulfil its direct functions, e.g. deal with the sanitary cleaning of the city rather than interfere with the political process.
Tskhinval, South Ossetia. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/jurygerasimov
22:00, 1 June 2009
Kokoity declared the election in the South Ossetia fair amidst protests by the opposition
The elections held in South Ossetia were fair and transparent. South Ossetia has passed a test for mature democracy, declared the President of South Ossetia Edward Kokoity following the announcement of the parliamentary election results by Bella Pliyeva, Head of the Central Electoral Committee.
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.