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TV tower, Tbilisi. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 7 May 2009
Adelkhanov: Tbilisi will be quiet only till evening
Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, is quiet after yesterday's clash with the police; the opposition has announced a time-out till the evening, as Emil Adelkhanov, deputy chair of the board of the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
19:00, 7 May 2009
Process on Nalchik attack takes break till June 1
Today, the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has made a decision to delay the next session of the trial on the criminal case about the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, till June 1, 2009. The break is caused by the state of health of three defendants, who need hospitalization, and also with the need for the defendants to get additionally acquainted with the materials of the criminal case.
18:00, 7 May 2009
Constitutional Court would not consider the complaint of "Voice of Beslan"
Russian Constitutional Court refused to consider the complaint lodged by the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", asking to recognize point 2 of Article 14 of the Federal Law contradicting to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
23:00, 6 May 2009
"Reporters without Borders" help satirist Mirza Sakit
The international organization "Reporters without Borders" (RwB) engaged in defending the freedom of press has allocated material help to satirist Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zakhidov), employee of the newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who was released from custody on April 9.
Erevan, Republic square. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
22:50, 6 May 2009
Armenia: fact-finding group on March 1, 2008, events suspends work
Three members of the fact-finding group that was set up to collect information about the events on March 1, 2008, who represented the power and the Ombudsman, have made a decision on temporary suspension of their authorities in the group. This was reported to journalists by Levon Zurabyan and Stepan Safaryan, representatives of oppositional organizations - the Armenian National Congress and the "Heritage" Party.
22:30, 6 May 2009
Investigatory Committee refuses to investigate into detention in Ingushetia of later killed oppositionist Evloev
So far, the Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia has decided not to open a criminal case on illegal detention of Magomed Evloev, former owner of an oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" (nowadays - the "Ingushetia.Org"). This was reported by Magomed Gandarov, advocate of Evloev's family.
Freedom square, Tbilisi. 26 April 2009. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 6 May 2009
In Georgia, MIA agents detain oppositional activist
Last night in Tbilisi, employees of Georgia's MIA detained Giorgiy Oniani, an activist of the radical youth oppositional movement "November 7". He was detained after an incident that took place yesterday in the morning near the building of the Public Television, where a picket of the opposition was held.
21:00, 6 May 2009
Staff of United Army Grouping to be disbanded in Chechnya by September 1
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Military Commandant's office of the Chechen Republic that by September 1 this year, the Staff of the United Army (Forces) Grouping (UA(F)G) in Northern Caucasus, which acted in the territory of Chechnya, will be disbanded. Instead, a news command structure of the federal forces in Chechnya will be set up.
20:10, 6 May 2009
Supreme Court of Russia refused to stop construction of two cargo ports in Sochi
Ecologists failed to achieve cancellation of construction of two cargo ports in the Imereti Valley of Sochi. Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has rejected the claims lodged by the international public organization "Social and Ecological Union" and one Russian citizen, who demanded to stop the construction of the ports, since, in applicants' opinion, it caused damage to nature.
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.
News
Participants in the fighting in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense Press Service The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,000.

Cherkessk City Court. Photo from the Telegram channel of the United Press Service of the Courts of Karachay-Cherkessia https://t.me/sudpress09/1776 The court agreed to transfer the defendants in the Kalimatov case from the Armavir pretrial detention center.

Seven people were killed and seven were wounded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus in the first quarter of 2026.

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.