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Nalchik city local administration. Photo by www.adm-nalchik.ru
20:00, 6 May 2009
Court session on Nalchik attack case postponed because one defendant is sick
The today's session on the criminal case dealing with attack on Nalchik in October 2005 was cancelled because of defendant Sergey Kaziev's illness.
19:00, 6 May 2009
Tbilisi: clash of oppositionists with policemen results in victims
Tonight in Tbilisi, at the building of Chief Administration of Patrol Police, a clash burst out between supporters of the opposition and policemen; several persons suffered. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia has detained Georgiy Gachechiladze, a popular variety singer, known under his scenic pseudonym "Utsnobi" (Stranger).
18:00, 6 May 2009
Kokoity: investigation into Red Cross robbery in Tskhinvali should be given special priority
President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity said at the meeting with top managers of his republic that the investigation into the robbery of the Tskhinvali-based office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) should get special attention; and nobody should have any claims to the South-Ossetian party.
23:20, 5 May 2009
Stavropol Territory: investigation of incitement of schoolboy to suicide completed
The criminal case against the mathematics teacher of Secondary School No. 2 of the village of Aleksandrovskoe has been sent to the Prosecutor's Office of Stavropol Territory for passing the indictment. The lady-teacher is accused of insult and inciting to suicide of a nine-form pupil.
23:00, 5 May 2009
Immigrants from Chechnya living in Ingushetia get ready for congress
On May 4, in the city of Grozny, the office of the expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) for Northern Caucasus hosted a conference of representatives of forced migrants, who made a decision to hold, on June 1 in Nazran, a congress of forced migrants from Chechnya with the aim to discuss the problems of their return home.
22:00, 5 May 2009
Court at trial on Nalchik attack changes judicial sequence
Today, the court that considers the case on the attack on power structures of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on October 13, 2005, has decided to change the order of judicial investigation. By doing so, the court has supported the prosecution, which petitioned in favour interrogating the witnesses in full about the sites they had visited during the events.
22:00, 5 May 2009
In Armenia, witnesses in "Case of Seven" refuse from their evidences
The witnesses in the so-called "Case of Seven", which was split by court's decision of April 1 into several individual cases, refuse from their evidences they had given at the investigation stage.
21:10, 5 May 2009
Georgian opposition postpones highway blockade by three days
The press service of the National Forum has reported that the Georgian opposition made a decision to postpone by three days the start of intended picketing of main country's highways in the context of MIA's information about a putsch allegedly prepared and then prevented.
21:00, 5 May 2009
Evkurov calls murder of sportsman in Ingushetia unjustified
Ingushetia continues investigating the murder of Adam Aushev, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village and younger brother of militant Magomed Aushev, liquidated during a special operation in Barsuki village, Nazran District, last December.
20:00, 5 May 2009
PACE Co-Rapporteurs call Armenian authorities to release those who did no violence on March 1, 2008
John Prescott and George Colombier, Co-Rapporteurs of the Monitoring Commission for Armenia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have addressed the Armenian authorities with an appeal to set free those detainees who did not take part in violent actions on March 1, 2008. This is reported in a statement promulgated today by the press service of the Council of Europe.
19:00, 5 May 2009
Azerbaijani police interferes with students' protest against terrorism
In the evening on May 4, policemen and persons in civilian clothes tore down posters of protest against terrorism, attached by students near the place, where massacre was committed on April 30.
18:00, 5 May 2009
Resident of Ordzhonikidzevskaya kidnapped in Ingushetia
In Ordzhonikidzevskaya (Slepsovskaya) village, Sunzha District of the Republic of Ingushetia, unidentified persons kidnapped a local resident Khamkhoev, Ismail Ibragimovich, 39, living at 21 Vygonnaya Street. On May 4, his wife - Lida Khamkhoevа - brought her written application to the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran; the document gives details of her husband's kidnapping and asks for help in searching him.
23:50, 4 May 2009
Azerbaijani MoD: in Armenia, our soldier-prisoner was pressed upon
The Armenian party fails to treat the captured Azerbaijani soldier according to international conventions; he is tortured with the aim to withdraw negative information about the Azerbaijani Army. This was stated by Eldar Sabiroglu, head of the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. The Armenian party has refuted this information.
23:30, 4 May 2009
President of Ingushetia obliges officials to report their incomes
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has obliged bureaucrats of his country to report about their incomes. The corresponding prescription was announced by him at the sitting of the Government and administration heads of cities and districts.
23:00, 4 May 2009
Number of Dagestan residents poisoned with potable water is 26
In Dagestan, as of morning of May 4, the number of residents of Novy Sulak settlement, brought to the Kizil-Yurt city hospital with preliminary diagnosis of sharp intestinal disease, is 26 persons, 11 children among them.
Rustaveli avenue, Tbilisi, 29 April 2009. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
22:20, 4 May 2009
Georgian opposition threatens to pester central highways
The Georgian opposition, which is now holding termless mass protests with a demand of President Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation, is expressing the intention to picket, in the round-the-clock mode, central highways of Georgia.
22:00, 4 May 2009
Isa Yamadaev: "Voctok" ex-commander is on the mend
The health status of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev causes no concern of the doctors; he started speaking and is prepared to the second surgery because of the wound received during the attempt on him in March 2009. This was reported by Sulim's brother Isa Yamadaev.
21:10, 4 May 2009
Law enforcers of Ingushetia search murderers of Troitskaya resident
Law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are in search of unidentified persons involved in the murder of a resident of Troitskaya village, Sunzha District, committed on Friday, May 1.
The spectacular view from Cascade on Erevan. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 4 May 2009
In Armenia, Kiviryan's relatives disagree with the article under which the case was initiated
A criminal case was initiated in Armenia on the fact of the attack on Argishti Kiviryan, manager of the electronic edition "Armenia Today". However, the journalist's relatives disagree with the article under which the case was opened.
20:00, 4 May 2009
Secret witness evidences at Nalchik attack trial
The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, where the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, is held, today has started a judicial investigation on the episode about preparation to the attack on the Department on Fighting against Organized Crime (known as "UBOP") of the MIA of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).
News
Protesters outside the Georgian parliament. Screenshot from Publika photo from April 19, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1736237834442426&set=pcb.1736237931109083 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia). Protests in central Tbilisi continue for the 508th day in a row.

Protesters at the Georgian Chancellery. Photo screenshot by Publika. Animal rights activists demand humane treatment for stray animals in Georgia.

Protest march in Tbilisi. Screenshot of the photo "Mautskebeli" from April 18, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1622268069898640&set=pcb.1622282206563893 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia). Protesters in Georgia demanded treatment for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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.