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20:50, 8 April 2009
ICPO announces arrest of suspects of murdering Ruslan Yamadaev
The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has reported about detention of suspects of committing a number of resonant crimes, including assassination of Ruslan Yamadaev, former deputy of the State Duma of Russia, and an attempt on the former military commandant of Chechnya General-Colonel Sergey Kizyun.
20:10, 8 April 2009
In Armenia, police detain ten oppositionists
Today, at about 6 p.m. local time, in Yerevan, a clash burst out between policemen of the patrol-sentry unit and participants of the so-called "political walks" in the Northern Avenue of the Armenian capital.
20:00, 8 April 2009
Ivanishvili: Georgian authorities get ready to April 9, soldiers had to give away their mobile phones
The authorities of Georgia get ready to the opposition's protest action on April 9. Relatives of Georgian soldiers complain that the authorities keep servicemen in information vacuum. The opposition is not set up to initiate any clashes, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Khatuna Ivanishvili, press secretary of Nino Burdzhanadze, leader of the Party "Democratic Movement - United Georgia.
19:00, 8 April 2009
In Dagestan, "Chernovik" journalists refuse to sign the indictment that was brought to the court
Yesterday, on April 7, journalists of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper, including its editor-in-chief, accused of kindling hatred or enmity, or humiliation of human dignity, were acquainted with the indictment, which they refused to sign. Meanwhile, back on April 5, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Yuri Tkachov approved the indictment under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sent the case to the court.
18:00, 8 April 2009
Evkurov promised to supervise search of Gapur Tankiev kidnapped in Ingushetia
During his meeting with relatives of Gapur Tankiev, a resident of the city of Malgobek who was kidnapped on April 3, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov promised to personally supervise the course of investigation. Until now, nothing is known about Gapur's whereabouts.
22:40, 7 April 2009
Kulaeva: issue of treating Gipsies in Russia is very painful
Stefaniya Kulaeva, a human rights activist of the Anti-Discrimination Centre "Memorial", said that the issue of attitude to Gipsies proved to be interesting to many and rather painful, after the debate had burst out and is still underway after the media reported about the incident in St-Petersburg metro, when a radio announcement was made: "Take care, Gipsies are here!"
22:00, 7 April 2009
In Armenia, youth organizations protest against amendments to the Law "On Police"
On April 6, near the building of the National Assembly of Armenia, a protest action was held by youth public organizations. Several dozens of young people expressed their negative altitude to the bill with amendments to the Laws "On Police" and "On Police Troops" and demanded to cancel the bill.
Source: http://basik.ru
21:00, 7 April 2009
Advocate Uvaisov: MIA agents planted arms on Butdaeva
Ziyavudin Uvaisov, advocate of Dinara Butdaeva, whose indictment was approved by the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan on the criminal case of involvement in an armed formation, illegal purchase, storage and transportation of firearms, has stated the innocence of his client.
21:00, 7 April 2009
Yamadaevs reject Sulim's involvement in Ahmat Kadyrov's murder
Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev, executed by gunmen in Dubai on March 28, find it full absurdity that President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov had accused Sulim, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special GRU battalion, of involvement in murdering Ramzan's father Ahmat Kadyrov.
20:30, 7 April 2009
Ingushetian authorities promise to study the "Mashr" report on murders and kidnappings
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the press service of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov that the authorities of Ingushetia plan to analyse all the proposals contained in yesterday's report "Violence under Control" drafted by the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr" and telling about kidnappings and murders in the republic in 2008.
20:00, 7 April 2009
"Mothers of Dagestan": specially invited provokers started a verbal skirmish during roundtable
Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the board of the public organization "Mothers of Dagestan", has stated that "special public activists" had been invited on March 10 to the meeting of the leader of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev with Russian human rights activists and members of the Russian Public Chamber Commission on Interethnic Relations and Freedom of Religion; and the above "activists" provoked the roundtable into a verbal skirmish.
19:00, 7 April 2009
In Azerbaijan, editor-in-chief of "Tezadlar" sentenced to a year in prison
Today, the Yasamal District Court has sentenced Asif Marzili, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tezadlar" (Contrasts), to one year of imprisonment.
18:00, 7 April 2009
Mutsolgov: CTO regime in Ingush villages is illegal
Human rights activist Magomed Mutsolgov asserts that introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in six villages of Ingushetia is illegal. He also places in question the information about a fight in late March militants with special agents in Sunzha District.
23:50, 6 April 2009
Akhilgov: Tochiev's resignation is linked with his initiative to struggle against corruption in Ingushetia
Ibragim Tochiev, ex-head of the administration of the President of Ingushetia, had forced heads of district administrations to write own-will dismissal applications with an open date. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Kaloy Akhilgov, new press secretary of the President of Ingushetia. Thus, he has refuted the earlier information about possible reasons of Tochiev's resignation.
23:00, 6 April 2009
MIA of Ingushetia refutes any participation of power agents in Tankiev's kidnapping
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia has asserted non-involvement of earlier arrested FSB agents in kidnapping on April 3 of Gapur Tankiev, 23, a resident of Malgobek.
Residence of President of Ingushetia. Source: www.ingushetia.ru
22:00, 6 April 2009
Ex-head of President's administration disapproves Evkurov's methods of fighting corruption
The reason of dismissal of Ibragim Tochiev, head of the administration of the President of Ingushetia, after only four months in this position, could be in his disapproval of President Evkurov's initiative, under which all materially accountable servants were forced to write applications on dismissal on their own will with an open date.
21:00, 6 April 2009
Woman injured by grenade explosion in Kabardino-Balkaria
In the morning on Sunday, April 5, in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, a local woman-resident was wounded as a result of a grenade explosion in the yard of her own house; she was hospitalized.
Refugees and forced migrants from Alagirskij district of North Ossetia. Source: www.mvd.ru
20:40, 6 April 2009
Housing is still the major issue for refugees in North Ossetia
For almost two decades already, the problems of forced migrants now living in North Ossetia have been vexed both for the people and for the republic. For almost 20 years refugees live in hostels, barracks, sheds and cellars, which had been provided by the republic's leadership, and the housing issue is still the main one for them.
Dzheirakh District of Ingushetia. Source: www.ingushetia.org
20:00, 6 April 2009
"Mashr": in 2008, 212 persons were killed in Ingushetia
In 2008, in Ingushetia, 8 persons were kidnapped and 212 more lost. The figures are published in today's regular report "Violence under Control" of the human rights Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Magomed Mutsolgov, leader of the "Mashr" and a member of the Expert Board for Human Rights in Russia.
20:00, 6 April 2009
Six activists of movement "Why?" detained in Georgia
Today, the police of Tbilisi have detained six activists of the movement called "Why?" near the building of public broadcasting of Georgia, where they held a protest action.
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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.