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18:49, 25 October 2008
Ministry of Emergencies: no new earthquakes expected in Chechnya
Specialists of the Ministry of Emergencies (MoE) of Chechnya believe that the territory of the Republic will not experience any more strong earthquakes with large-scale destructions like it was in Chechnya on October 11.
17:23, 25 October 2008
Military exercises held in Nagorno-Karabakh
Today, Nagorno-Karabakh was the venue of exercises in tactics with field firing with participation of all types of fighting equipment. Presidents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Serzh Sarkisyan and Bako Saakyan watched the event.
16:07, 25 October 2008
Famous singer from Azerbaijan Muslim Magomaev dies in Moscow
In Moscow at night on October 25 Muslim Magomaev, an outstanding singer from Azerbaijan and master of Soviet variety art died in his 67th year from a sudden heart arrest.
14:35, 25 October 2008
Salvador Dali's masterpieces on show in Rostov museum
An exhibition of original works of Salvador Dali is on at the Rostov local lore regional museum. This is a new project of Russian collector Alexander Shadrin from Ekaterinburg.
13:39, 25 October 2008
"Caucasian Knot" receives "black mark" from Chechnya's authorities
The "Caucasian Knot" was involved into participation in the action entitled "President of the Chechen Republic as Mirrored by Media" and was awarded the "Black Galosh", having failed to score enough "positive materials on the activities of the leadership of the Chechen Republic."
16:08, 24 October 2008
Azerbaijani CEC disappointed with EU's criticism of presidential election
In the evening on October 22, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) expressed its disappointment with the statement of the EU Presidency on the presidential election in the country held on October 15.
16:05, 24 October 2008
Ingushetia: Magomed Evloev's murder case sent to court
The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has finished the investigation and sent to the court the criminal case on the murder of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org").
16:02, 24 October 2008
IPD Director calls to sue Azerbaijani prison bosses
Leila Yunus, Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has made a statement inviting to lodge claims against bosses of penitentiary establishments.
13:21, 24 October 2008
Three Chechen militiamen can be among those kidnapped in Ingushetia
Late at night on October 23, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia (bordering on Chechnya), unknown persons kidnapped about 15 persons. Three Chechen militiamen can be among them. This information was provided by a source in law enforcement bodies of Chechnya.
13:14, 24 October 2008
Malashenko: Chechnya experiences re-Islamization
Alexei Malashenko, expert of the Carnegie Foundation, asserts that today Chechnya is in the process of re-Islamization. In his opinion, by strengthening the Sufi branch of Islam in Chechnya and spreading the Sufi values President Ramzan Kadyrov is fighting against Salafites - his religious and political opponents, and by reviving traditional Islamic norms of behaviour, he keeps the society under control.
23:44, 23 October 2008
Investigation: no attempt to poison Politkovskaya's advocate
Karina Moskalenko, advocate of the family of the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was not poisoned in France and, accordingly, there was no attempt on her life, police inspectors in the city of Strasbourg assert referencing to the former owner of the car now owned by Ms Moskalenko.
23:27, 23 October 2008
Dagestan: persons accused of murdering Farid Babaev refuse to admit their guilt
In Dagestan, Rasul Mamedrizaev and Seferali Sefimirzoev, accused of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, have refused to plead guilty.
00:30, 23 October 2008
Yuri Budanov's early release rejected again
The court of the city of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) has denied the petition on conditional-early release of former Colonel Yuri Budanov.
00:27, 23 October 2008
In Armenia, term of office of the commission for investigating March 1 events extended
On October 22, the National Assembly of Armenia passed a decision to extend the term of office of the temporary parliamentary commission set up to investigate March 1 events in Yerevan by four months, till February 25.
00:10, 23 October 2008
Moscow commemorates "Nord-Ost" victims
Today, Moscow remembers the victims of the tragedy in "Dubrovka" Theatrical Centre - six years ago during performance terrorists took almost one thousand actors and spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages.
13:17, 22 October 2008
Azerbaijan: father of imprisoned journalist asserts that his son's life is in danger
The life of Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who is kept at Penitentiary Establishment No. 12, is under threat, his father Emin Fatullaev has stated.
13:13, 22 October 2008
Veterans of Afghan war stop their hunger strike in Dagestan
On October 21 in Makhachkala, the negotiations of servicemen-"Afghans" with representatives of the Republic's Government and State Duma deputies from Dagestan came to the end. As a result of the arrangements reached, the "Afghans" agreed not to restart their temporarily interrupted hunger strike.
13:08, 22 October 2008
Farid Babaev's murder trial starts in Dagestan
Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan will hold the first hearing on the resonant case about the murder of Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party and candidate for the State Duma. Judge Ibram Garunov will chair the trial, which will be held with participation of jurymen.
13:01, 22 October 2008
Mutsolgov tells OSCE about problems of Ingush population and NGOs
Magomed Mutsolgov, Ingush human rights activist, member of the Expert's Board of the Office of Russian Ombudsman and leader of the "Mashr" human rights organization, has returned from Poland, where he took part on October 5-10 in OSCE session on fulfilment of obligations related to human dimension in 2008.
12:57, 22 October 2008
Court in Chechnya suspends some of the claims against "Vostok" battalion
The Grozny Garrison Military Court has stopped proceedings under 12 out of 31 civil suits lodged by former servicemen of the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the Russian Ministry of Defence deployed in Chechnya against their early dismissal from the military service.
News
Azerbaijan and Armenia discussed border delimitation rules

Five wagons of Russian grain were shipped via Azerbaijan to Armenia.

Ruben Vardanyan and Anait Manasyan. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the "Copilot" program. Armenia's Human Rights Defender refused Vardanyan's request to visit Azerbaijan.

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.