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14:16, 10 November 2008
Chechnya ambiguous to disbandment of "Vostok" and "Zapad"
People in Chechnya have differently perceived the news that the special battalions "Vostok" (East) and "Zapad" (West) subordinate to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) of the Russian Ministry of Defence will be disbanded. Although many residents treated these subdivisions negatively enough, others believe that the battalions were dissolved to please President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.
14:10, 10 November 2008
MPs offer reduction of land area alienated for Sochi Olympic sites
The total area of the land plots in Sochi bought out for construction of 2014 Olympic objects can be reduced. A group of Deputies from "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) faction has brought in a bill to the State Duma, under which the state can take, till January 1, 2014, the land plots owned by Sochi citizens into restricted use for construction of Olympic objects.
00:05, 10 November 2008
FIDH Final declaration on Georgia
We, FIDH member and partner organizations express our support to human rights defenders and to civil society representatives working in Georgia, and share their concerns about human rights violations and shortcomings in Georgia.
21:13, 8 November 2008
No more "Zapad" and "Vostok" battalions in Chechnya
The battalions "Zapad" (West) and "Vostok" (East) of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Ministry of Defence, deployed in the territory of Chechnya, are transformed into motorized rifle companies.
19:05, 8 November 2008
In Armenia, world economic crisis touches on raw materials and real estate
The world economic crisis has affected the real estate market of Armenia and the sector of raw materials of the country. Prices on copper and molybdenum, extracted and exported by the country, have gone down.
18:56, 8 November 2008
Chechnya rejected a special lab for remains identification
The Ministry of Health of Russia has denied the proposal of Chechen leaders to set up in the republic s special laboratory for genetic examination of unidentified bodies.
17:50, 8 November 2008
North Ossetia bewails victims of terror act in Vladikavkaz
Today, North Ossetia parts with the victims of the terror act committed on November 6 in Vladikavkaz. The mourning was announced in the republic.
17:39, 8 November 2008
Rostov-on-Don holds First Southern Venture Fair
The First Southern Venture Fair has presented innovations from Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk, Taganrog, Volgodonsk, Shakhty, Volgograd, Stavropol, Makhachkala and Elista. They covered the sectors of construction, medicine and medical equipment, telecommunications, information technologies and chemical industry.
16:27, 8 November 2008
Armenia starts returning its internally displaced persons
Armenia has started its programme of returning internally displaced persons to their permanent residences, where their houses and apartments had been damaged or ruined during the Karabakh conflict in 1992-1994.
15:20, 8 November 2008
Tenants of "manor house" in Grozny seek Russian President's support
In Chechnya, tenants of House 2/1 in Putin Avenue of Grozny, asked by city authorities to abandon their apartments, wrote an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev asking him for help.
12:07, 8 November 2008
RRs want to participate in Iran-Armenia railway
The Company "Russian Railways" (RRs) is ready to take part in construction of the Iran-Armenia railway in the capacity of project contractor, should Armenia, Iran and Russia agree on the project terms, as Vladimir Yakunin, President of the RRs, told journalists.
11:14, 8 November 2008
Terror act in North Ossetia was committed by woman-native of Ingushetia, investigation asserts
The law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia have declared that, under preliminary data, the woman-suicide bomber who accomplished the terror act in Vladikavkaz on November 6 was a native of Ingushetia, aged 45.
10:10, 8 November 2008
Quota on Hajj pilgrims halved for Dagestan
This year, 8,000 pilgrims from Dagestan will make their way to Mecca, although the application had been for 15,000 persons. First of all, the priority is given to those who have never made the Hajj.
06:43, 8 November 2008
New York Times: Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question
Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against Russian aggression, The New York Times reports.
11:52, 7 November 2008
Court cancels decision to stop the "Ingushetia.Ru" website
The Panel on Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia has cancelled the decision of the Nazran District Court on recognition of the interview of businessman Musa Keligov placed in the website "Ingushetia.Ru" to be of extremist nature and sent the case to new consideration.
11:48, 7 November 2008
Opposition of Ingushetia is satisfied with meeting with Evkurov
Representatives of the Ingush opposition - Maksharip Aushev, Magomed Khazbiev and Musa Pliev, who had a meeting on November 3 with the new President of Ingushetia, believe that Yunus-Bek Evkurov is capable to change the situation in the republic for the better.
11:45, 7 November 2008
Mutsolgov: terror act in Vladikavkaz told on Ingushes at once
Immediately after blowing up of the "Gazel" taxi in Vladikavkaz, the Ingushes, who tried to drive through the "Chermen Circle" in the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, faced problems, Magomed Mutsolgov, leader of the Ingush Human Rights Organization "Mashr", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
11:39, 7 November 2008
Next action of Georgia opposition planned for November 23
From now on, Georgia will host permanent protest actions. It will be a new wave of protest; its aim being in peacefully changing the power in the country. This is the topic of the "United Opposition's Action Plan", which was distributed among the participants of the protest action in front of the parliament in Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi. Next time, the opposition will rally on November 23 near the building of the "Imedi" TV Company.
11:33, 7 November 2008
Emil Adelkhanov: 10,000 come to rally in Georgia
Today, the opposition rally in Georgia attracted "about ten thousand persons: this is the capacity of the square in front of the Government Palace in Tbilisi; it is all packed by people, and the crowd does not decrease," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent quotes his contact - Emil Adelkhanov, member of the Board of the NGO "Caucasian Institute", who is in the place of events.
11:30, 7 November 2008
13 injured by taxi explosion are still in hospitals of North Ossetia
According to the latest data, as a result of explosion of a fixed-route taxi in the centre of Vladikavkaz, in the square in front of the "Druzhba" movie theatre and marketplace "Globus", committed on November 6, 12 persons were lost and 38 more were wounded to different gravity.
News
Military operation in Ukraine. Still from a Russian Ministry of Defense video: https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=18838@morfVideoAudioFile The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,050.

An Astrakhan resident was arrested for promoting non-traditional values.

A UAV in the sky. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Residents' homes in Rostov Oblast damaged by drone attack

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.