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23:00, 12 March 2009
Dagestan: utility gas explosion kills two persons
On Wednesday, March 11, utility gas blew up in a lean to a dwelling house killing two daughters of the owner, both Group II invalids.
22:30, 12 March 2009
North Ossetia: "RusHydro" Company floods unique necropolis
The company named "RusHydro", which is building the Zaramag Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), has flooded the Alaidon Necropolis, a unique monument of the Koban culture of the Caucasus, which was found in North Ossetia. The accident was reported by Ossetian archaeologist Khasanbek Chshiev.
22:00, 12 March 2009
Militia column shelled in southwest of Chechnya
On March 11, in the submontane Achkhoi-Martan District of the Chechen Republic, unidentified criminals shelled a motorcade with employees of law enforcement bodies. One of the militiamen was hospitalized with gunshot wounds. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a source in law enforcement bodies of the Republic.
Source: www.chechnyafree.ru
21:30, 12 March 2009
Within a month, Chechnya destroyed over 360 bombs
The engineering-sapper subdivisions of the Internal Troops (ITs) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia neutralized, during February this year, 360 different explosive objects and six self-made bombs detected in the territory of Chechnya.
21:00, 12 March 2009
European Court on Human Rights condemns Russia on three more cases from Chechnya
Today, the European Court on Human Rights has unanimously convicted Russia for violent disappearances of 13 persons in different districts of Chechnya in the period from January 2001 to January 2003.
20:00, 12 March 2009
Chechnya: a case initiated against FMS employee who issued passport to suspect of Politkovskaya's murder
In Chechnya, the woman-employee of the Federal Migration Service (FMS), accused of illegal issuance of a foreign passport to the expected murderer of the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, will face justice. This was reported today at the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia.
19:00, 12 March 2009
Evkurov orders MIA of Ingushetia to stop persecuting Moslems
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov does not find the young men who "would not go to the mosque with others" to be Wahhabites and instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and Muftiyat to stop persecuting the youth on the basis of their religion. This was stated by President of Ingushetia in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" and "Gazeta.Ru".
18:00, 12 March 2009
Murat Kardanov accused of attack on Nalchik in October 2005
Murat Kardanov, a resident of Zolukokoazhe village, who was arrested on December 30, 2008, and before for three years was registered among the casualties, has been charged with participation in the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from well-informed sources.
23:30, 11 March 2009
"Chernovik" journalists study their indictment in Dagestan
In Dagestan, four journalists of the "Chernovik" newspaper and their editor-in-chief were presented charges under Article 282 of the Russian Federation's Criminal Code, which assumes criminal liability for excitation of hatred or enmity, or humiliation of one's dignity. According to Magomed Magomedov, a "Chernovik" journalist, today his colleague Arthur Mamaev was summoned to the investigatory department of the investigatory committee at the prosecutor's office of Dagestan for getting acquainted with the materials of the case.
23:00, 11 March 2009
Youth organization "Together" accuses Armenian high school teachers of bribe-taking
Today, photos of 30 Armenian higher schools teachers inscribed "Bribe-takers" stuck in central streets of Yerevan, underground passes and on walls of higher educational establishments. The youth movement "Miasin" (Together) claims to have organized the action.
22:30, 11 March 2009
Complaint on fact of Chechen woman's death in bombardment sent to European Court
On March 10, experts of the Inter-Regional Committee against Torture sent a complaint to the European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg on violation of the right to life of Raisa Kosumova, a native of Chechnya, who perished in 2003 as a result of a mortar attack. The complaint was filed on behalf of the casualty's mother.
22:00, 11 March 2009
Mukhu Aliev: situation with kidnappings in Dagestan grows better
President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev asserts that the situation with kidnappings in his Republic becomes better now. According to his data, during the last decade, 80 persons were kidnapped in Dagestan, of them 47 persons were returned, 4 bodies were found and whereabouts of the remaining 29 is unknown.
21:00, 11 March 2009
European Court received almost 400 suits against Russia from Georgian citizens
The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has registered 391 applications filed by citizens of Georgia who suffered in the Russian-Georgian conflict in August 2008, as reported by the Georgian human rights organization named "42nd Article of the Constitution".
20:00, 11 March 2009
Azerbaijani columnists alarmed of the freedom of press
"Freedom of press is in danger!" - this was the motto of today's action held in Baku at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety by the "ASI Club" (Club of "Advocates of freedom of speech"), which unites columnists of the leading mass media of Azerbaijan.
19:00, 11 March 2009
Evkurov promised to relatives of Ingushetian prisoners to take the case under his personal control
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has met relatives of the 12 defendants in the case about the attack on Ingushetia in 2004, who are kept in custody for the fifth year already, and, according to the relatives, are exposed to torture. The President plans to take the case under his special supervision.
18:00, 11 March 2009
Members of Russian Public Chamber and human rights activists discuss kidnapping issue in Dagestan
A delegation of the Russian Public Chamber headed by Nikolai Svanidze and well-known Russian human rights defenders held a meeting with top managers of the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan and Republic's NGOs. The delegation was also received by President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev.
23:00, 10 March 2009
Levon Barsegyan: Armenian authorities exert less pressure on media
Armenia has exhibited some progress in the freedom of mass media, however, "in special cases" the authorities can strengthen their pressure on journalists; such pressure is the strongest on media of Yerevan, as Levon Barsegyan, President of the Journalists' Press Club "Asparez", has noted.
23:00, 10 March 2009
Volgograd Region: huntsman who detained poaching bureaucrats complains of threats
Huntsman Sergey Matveev who detained Vassily Farion, head of the Department of the Russian Federal Taxation Service for the Volgograd Region, and his two companions, who were hunting for roes without a license in the Scherbakov Game Husbandry in the Kamyshin District, now complains of threats.
22:30, 10 March 2009
Switzerland to build cottages for 42 refugee families in Ingushetia
In 2009, the Swiss Administration for Development and Cooperation (SADC) plans to build cottages in Ingushetia for 42 families of forced migrants from the Chechen Republic. This was stated by Peter Mikula, head of the coordination office for cooperation of the Swiss Embassy in Russia, during his meeting with President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov.
Source: http://mchs.gov.ru
22:00, 10 March 2009
Fourth victim of the explosion of "Vladikavkaz-Moscow" train dies in Rostov-on-Don
The militiaman who was burned by the explosion of the dining-car of the "Vladikavkaz-Moscow" train has died in the first-aid hospital of Rostov-on-Don. Thus, the death-roll of the explosion has reached four persons.
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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.