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23:30, 2 March 2010
Chechen authorities refute introduction of livestock and poultry tax
The authorities of the Chechen Republic have officially announced that the rumours about introduction of taxation of domestic animals and poultry have nothing to do with reality. The efforts of local administrations who make house-by-house visits and register livestock and poultry are explained only by the intention of the authorities to have a "clear idea about the population of privately owned animals."
Dagestan, Khasavyurt. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/20905191
23:20, 2 March 2010
Residents in Dagestan report blocking Mutsalaul village by troops and militia
Since today's morning, the village of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, is blocked by army units and local law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it Bashir Alavdinov, a resident of this village.
23:10, 2 March 2010
Owners of Chechen website abroad and Chechen authorities view the freedom of speech differently
The authors of the Chechen forum adamalla.com, opened in Europe, state that their resource will be a platform for free expression of opinions and an independent source for users to get information about what happens in the Chechen Republic and learn about the events hushed up by the official mass media. In his turn, Lema Gudaev, deputy minister of Chechnya for foreign relations, national policy, press and information, is sure that the Chechen Internet space in the region is independent and free.
23:00, 2 March 2010
Tsotne Gamsakhurdia stops hunger strike after meeting Patriarch
Lawyer Keti Bekauri told journalists that her client Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who is in custody, stopped his hunger strike in response to appeal of Elias the Second, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.
22:20, 2 March 2010
Czechia not to deport Pyatigorsk residents with annulled visas
As reported by a source in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the problem with the students of the Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (PSLU) detained in Czechia "is practically settled." A decision was made to issue Schengen visas to them for they could continue their travel.
Einullah Fatullaev. Photo by www.azadliq.org
22:00, 2 March 2010
Azerbaijan: Einullah Fatullaev fears for his life
Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan", serving his imprisonment in Azerbaijan, has stated a threat to his life. This was the topic of his letter addressed to the bosses of the Penitentiary Services of Azerbaijan and to the Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders and Committee to Protect Journalists, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
21:40, 2 March 2010
People's Party of South Ossetia demands release of Fatima Margieva
Today, the People's Party of South Ossetia has made a statement with indignation against the arrest of its member and public figure Fatima Margieva. In the opinion of the deputies who represent this party, her arrest is illegal and was caused by her political activities.
21:30, 2 March 2010
Chechnya sets up kidnapping inquiry division at its ICPO
As reported on Tuesday by Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russia's ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), a special division was set up at the regional department of the Committee for investigating kidnappings committed in Chechnya. The division will work in close interaction with relatives of kidnapped persons.
Press conference "Fighting counterfeits or fighting human rights defenders? Krasnodar case. Persecuting of Anastasia Denisova". From left to right: Dmitri Makarov, coordinator of the team of the Youth Human Rights Movement in Defence of Human Rights Activists and project coordinator of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Marina Dubrovina, Anastasia Denisova's advocate, and Alexander Verkhovskiy, Director of the SOVA Information-Analytical Centre and a member of the Public Board at the MIA of the Russian Federation. Moscow, March 2, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 2 March 2010
Human rights activists: Denisova's actions have no crime elements
Today in Moscow at a press conference "Fighting counterfeits or fighting human rights defenders? Krasnodar case. Persecuting of Anastasia Denisova" her colleagues have stated that the actions of the Krasnodar human rights defender and head of "ETnIKA" organization have no crime attributes.
20:20, 2 March 2010
Father of suspect of murdering head of Dagestan MIA indignant of ICPO's attitude
Today, Ahmadudin Borziev, father of Shamsullah Borziev, one of detained suspects of murdering Interior Minister of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, has stated that Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of Russia's ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), who denied that suspects were tortured, knows nothing in fact about the incident.
Law enforcers of Dagestan busy dispersing a rally held by relatives of the suspects accused of murdering Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, head of local MIA. Makhachkala, March 2, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 2 March 2010
Dagestan: journalist detained at rally dispersal
Today, law enforcers of Dagestan detained, when dispersing a rally held by relatives of the suspects of murdering Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, head of local MIA, Murad Muradov, a journalist of the Dagestan-based weekly "Novoe Delo" (New Business). The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Marko Shakhbanov, editor-in-chief of the weekly.
19:00, 2 March 2010
Azeri MIA demands tougher punishment to journalist Kerimov
The litigation between the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan and Eyub Kerimov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Femida-007", is transferred to the Baku Appeal Court, which will consider the appeal complaint of Nazil Aliev and Dableika Guliev, where they demand to toughen Kerimov's punishment.
Magomed Evloev. Photo by www.ingushetia.org
18:00, 2 March 2010
Ingush SC commutes sentence for Magomed Evloev's murder
Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has replaced colony-settlement by "restriction of freedom" to Ibragim Evloev, former head of security of the Interior Minister of Ingushetia, convicted for involuntary manslaughter of the former owner of the oppositional site "Ingushetia.Ru" Magomed Evloev.
21:00, 1 March 2010
Relatives of suspects of murdering MIA head of Dagestan hold rally in Makhachkala
Today, a 500-strong rally took place in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, were demands were voiced out about inadmissibility to torture Shamsullah Borziev, a resident of Rakhat village, and Abdulmedzhid Manapov from Botlikh village, both villages are in the Botlikh District, suspected of murdering Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Interior Minister of Dagestan.
19:00, 1 March 2010
Russian-Georgian border check point "Kazbegi-Verkhni Lars" reopened
Today in the morning, the border check point "Kazbegi-Verkhni Lars" started its operation. Its Kazbegi section works under the legislation of Georgia, while the Verkhni Lars one - according to the Russian legislation.
18:00, 1 March 2010
RWB criticizes media for the way they cover preparation to Sochi Olympics
The international organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) believes, as stated in its special press release on the state of things with mass media in Sochi and in Krasnodar Territory as a whole, that the Sochi-based press had failed to give due attention to ecological consequences of the Olympic construction.
17:00, 1 March 2010
Beaten human rights defender Karastelyov is better
The health condition of Vadim Karastelyov, a human rights activist from Novorossisk and Alexei Dymovskiy's official representative, who was beaten on February 27, is now better; however, for about a week no investigatory actions with him will be possible. This was stated by Marina Dubrovina, Mr Karastelyov's advocate, who visited him in the Novorossisk city hospital.
16:00, 1 March 2010
Hafiz school to open in Grozny
Chechen authorities plan to open a school of hafizes - readers of the Koran, who know the sacred book of Moslems by heart - in Grozny.
15:00, 1 March 2010
Experts doubt whether Azerbaijanis should take part in Winter Olympics
The two athletes who represented Azerbaijan were highly unsuccessfully at the 21st Winter Olympic Games, which were recently closed in Vancouver.
10:00, 1 March 2010
"Memorial" demands immediate inquiry into Karastelyov's beating
The attack on the human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov, committed in a suburb of Novorossisk, was not occasional, but another example of pressure on independent civil activists, or an attempt to get square with them. This is the opinion of the International Historical-Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial".
News
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Residents of South Ossetia named the main problems of the republic ahead of the presidential elections.

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.