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19:00, 4 December 2009
President of Dagestan: court decision to nullify Derbent elections to be appealed against
President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev said that the decision of the Derbent City Court to recognize the election results of the city Mayor null and void will be considered by higher judicial instances.
Azerbaijan, Baku. Bibi Heybat mosque. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org
18:00, 4 December 2009
CPJ calls Azerbaijani authorities to release sick journalist
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called the authorities to release Mushvig Guseinov, imprisoned journalist of the newspaper "Bizim Yol", arrested in 2007 on charges of receiving a bribe, because of his illness.
23:40, 3 December 2009
In 2009, over hundred HIV-infected persons revealed in Armenia
Most of the Armenian HIV-infected patients are aged 25-39, 60 percent of all of them represent this group. 73 percent, or 590 HIV-infected patients in Armenia are males, 27 percent, or 218 cases, have been registered among women; the number of infected children makes 16 cases, or 2 percent. This was reported by Samvel Grigoryan, Director of the Republic's AIDS Prophylaxis Centre.
23:20, 3 December 2009
In Azerbaijan, ex-policemen convicted for a series of crimes
Today, the Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan finished the process on the case of a group of former policemen, accused of committing a series of armed assaults on currency exchange offices in 1998-2008.
Tbilisi, cinema "Amirani". Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:10, 3 December 2009
In Georgia, journalists of "Batumelebi" complain of blackmail by power agents
The General Inspectorate of the Georgia's MIA has initiated a study of the accusations put forward by the weekly named "Batumelebi" (Batumi Residents) against law enforcers who tried to blackmail the paper journalists.
23:00, 3 December 2009
Armenia: art workers and militaries ask President to release Mikaelyan
A group of Armenian military commanders and well-known figures of arts have addressed President Serzh Sargsyan with an appeal to release Sasun Mikaelyan, an activist of the opposition and one of notable Armenian commanders of the Karabakh War, from custody.
22:00, 3 December 2009
Investigation assumes that Caucasians had to do with "Neva-Express" train accident
Inspectors have managed to compile verbal identikits of two out of four probable executors of the explosion of the "Neva-Express" train. According to eyewitnesses, the suspected terrorists had "Caucasian appearance."
22:00, 3 December 2009
March to take place in Yerevan on Human Rights Defence Day
On December 10, the International Human Rights Defence Day, the Armenian Committee for Defence of Political Prisoners and Victims of Repressions will hold a march against injustice and illegal actions with a demand to release the requirement of clearing of activists of opposition.
22:00, 3 December 2009
Dagestan: election results cancelled in Derbent
Today, the City Court of Derbent has nullified the protocols of election of the city Mayor, held on October 11, for all local electoral commissions and the total protocol of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Derbent.
21:00, 3 December 2009
Georgian authorities demand from South Ossetia to release all four detained teenagers
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has expressed his discontent with the decision of Tskhinvali court in relation to four detained Georgian teenagers, since two of them were left to serve their terms in South Ossetia.
20:00, 3 December 2009
Abkhazia officially asks Ecuador to recognize its independence
Abkhazia has officially addressed Ecuador with a request to study the issue of recognizing its independence. This was reported by Maxim Gvindzhiya, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Abkhazia, who is at his working visit in Ecuador.
19:00, 3 December 2009
Doku Umarov has no means for huge terror acts, Chechen power agents assert
The militants' statement about their involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train is treated by power agents as another "propaganda duck" of separatists. They assert that Doku Umarov has neither real means nor capacities to commit large-scale diversions and terror acts outside the republic.
18:00, 3 December 2009
Festival of children-invalids held in Dagestan capital
On the eve of the International Day of Invalids, marked on December 3, Makhachkala hosted a cultural-and-sports festival for children with disabilities. Now, Dagestan has about 27 thousand children-invalids.
23:20, 2 December 2009
Imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist demands independent examination
Mushvig Guseinov, imprisoned journalist of the newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way), who suffers from tuberculosis, is indignant by statements of the officials of the Azerbaijani Penitentiary Service that his health condition has normalized. "They just want me to die," Mushvig said yesterday in a telephone conversation with his relatives, as reported by his sister Dilbyar Guseinova.
23:00, 2 December 2009
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 23-29
Exchange of militant statements between Azerbaijan and Armenia on the destiny of Karabakh; situation with public human rights organizations in Chechnya and resonant murders in Northern Caucasus; terror acts against trains in Dagestan and Novgorod Region, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 23-29 in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
During the trial against Geogrian teens. The supreme court room of South Ossetia. December 2, 2009. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:00, 2 December 2009
In South Ossetia, Georgian teenagers are sentenced to a year of imprisonment, two of them - conditionally
The trial is over in Tskhinvali of the four Georgian minors detained on November 4, 2009, by power agents of South Ossetia.
23:00, 2 December 2009
Opinions differ as to the Public Commission on Chechnya
The message about the intention of a number of Russian human rights organizations to set up the Public Commission for monitoring the situation with observance of human rights in the territory of the Chechen Republic has caused contradictory reactions in the republic. Some members of local human rights NGOs saw in this initiative a sort of encroachment of "Varangians" on their sphere of influence; others believe that the commission will help local residents.
22:20, 2 December 2009
Forum in Nalchik defines family traditions as important factor of Russia's family policy
The section "Family and Public Health" of the Forum "Caucasus. Traditions and Modernization", held on November 30 in Kabardino-Balkaria, discussed the issue of preserving the Caucasian family values at the background of modernization of the rest of the life. In the opinion of singer Varvara, mother of four children, these values are surely exemplary. Other debated topics were social problems, health of the population and demography.
22:00, 2 December 2009
By blowing up "Neva-Express" train militants from Northern Caucasus wanted to kill civil servants
Militants of Northern Caucasus call the terror act against the "Neva-Express" train a link in the chain of "blows on strategic objects in the territory of Russia."
Vladimir Yeloev and his sister. After the release. December 2, 2009. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 2 December 2009
South Ossetia to release Georgian teenagers in response to Georgia's liberation of five Ossetians
The Georgian party has released five citizens of South Ossetia: Ibragim Laliev, Lavrentiy Kaziev, Yakov Tekhov, Pavel Tekhov and Vladimir Eloev. The hostages were handed over at the Georgian-South-Ossetian border.
News
A frame of former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili with Bidzina Ivanishvili. Photo: Georgia 24 / Telegram channel Former Prime Minister of Georgia Garibashvili has been charged with a new accusation.

Frame protesters at the rally in Tbilisi marked Ukraine's Independence Day. Photo: MO SE / Facebook Protesters in Tbilisi marked Ukraine's Independence Day with a march.

The uniform of the serviceman of Armenia. Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. The death of the serviceman from Sisian has added to the non-combat losses of Armenia.

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.