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12:02, 21 October 2008
Head of Rada's commission on weapon shipments to Georgia asks for protection
Valery Konovalyuk, head of the temporary investigatory commission of the Supreme Rada, set up to inquire into the facts of deliveries of Ukrainian armaments to Georgia, has stated the danger, to which he is exposed in connection with the work of the commission.
11:57, 21 October 2008
EU: election in Azerbaijan, despite improvements, still does not meet international standards
The European Union, when making comments on the outcomes of the presidential election in Azerbaijan on October 15, has stated that local authorities had done a lot according to the recommendations of the Office for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Venetian Commission.
11:08, 21 October 2008
"Voice of Beslan" demands to pass the law "On Social Defence of the Rights of Terror Act Victims"
Right at this time, in North Ossetia, members of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" are holding a picket in defence of the bill designed by them and entitled "On Social Defence of the Rights of Terror Act Victims". Some 50 persons have rallied near the building of the Russian Academic Theatre in Vladikavkaz.
11:03, 21 October 2008
A young man kidnapped in Karabulak, Ingushetia
In the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, a person has been just kidnapped, an eyewitness of the incident informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
10:57, 21 October 2008
Chiefs of Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice promise to transfer satirist Mirza Sakit to another colony
The picket to take place today at 4:00 p.m. in front of the Ministry of Justice and organized by human rights activists and journalists in defence of the rights of the imprisoned satirist Mirza Sakit, journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper, is postponed.
14:22, 20 October 2008
Moscow militia reports prevention of mass fight with participation of Caucasian natives
On Sunday, October 19, militiamen prevented a mass fight in the northeast of Moscow; there are no victims, a source in the Moscow City Department of Internal Affairs (GUVD) has reported today.
14:18, 20 October 2008
In Azerbaijan, colony warders beat satirist Mirza Sakit
In Azerbaijan, satirist Mirza Sakit, journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who is serving his term at Penitentiary Establishment No. 14, was beaten.
14:14, 20 October 2008
Investigation of shipwrecks in the Kerch Strait suspended
Inspectors have suspended the investigation of the case about accidents in the Kerch Strait, where on November 11 last year several ships sunk in the strongest storm.
14:06, 20 October 2008
Kabardino-Balkaria sets up commission to investigate bus accident in Krasnodar Territory
In Kabardino-Balkaria, an interdepartmental commission has been set up to investigate the reasons of the accident of the Moscow-Nalchik passenger bus that took place on the Kavkaz Federal Highway last Sunday, on October 19.
13:54, 20 October 2008
International experts monitor human rights in Abkhazia
In the context of the appeal of the OSCE Chairman to the Office for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR), a group of experts was sent to Abkhazia with a mission to assess the situation with human rights in the conflict zones; the group will work from October 11 to October 25.
23:32, 18 October 2008
South Ossetia's militia ordered to open return fire on Georgians
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia has ordered its watching stations (posts) to respond with return aimed fire, in case they are attacked by aimed fire from Georgian positions.
22:25, 18 October 2008
Another counterterrorist operation underway in Ingushetia
The FSB Department for the Republic Ingushetia has announced that today the area of dwelling settlements Muzhichi and Galashki in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia has become a counterterrorist operation zone.
19:17, 18 October 2008
South Ossetia accuses Georgians of kidnapping three Ossetians
On Saturday, October 18, the Ministry of Defence of South Ossetia stated that on October 17 Georgians kidnapped three persons from the South-Ossetian village of Artsev.
17:09, 18 October 2008
Rally of Ingush opposition relocated to Moscow
The Ingush opposition will hold their protest rally against the biased, in their opinion, investigation into the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", in Moscow.
14:21, 18 October 2008
Volgograd Region: entrepreneurs punished for advertising drugs among children
The prosecutor's inspection held in a clothing marketplace in the Volgograd Region has detected products intended for children, bearing an image of a hemp (cannabis) leaf. Those guilty will pay a fine.
11:15, 18 October 2008
Russian bards to hold charitable concerts in North and South Ossetia
On October 18, Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and on October 19, Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, will host charitable concerts of participants and laureates of traditional and widely known Valery Grushin All-Russian Festivals of Bards' Songs.
19:48, 17 October 2008
In Dagestan, Afghan war veterans suspend hunger strike
The participants of the hunger strike initiated by the so-called "Afghan veterans" on October 6 in Makhachkala made a decision, after meeting Shamil Zainalov, Chairman of the Government of Dagestan, to suspend their protest action.
19:11, 17 October 2008
Moscow-Tbilisi TV conference: Georgian refugees' problems need urgent solution
While politicians quarrel, the problems of Georgian refugees should be promptly addressed, and cooperation of Russian and Georgian civil societies should be promoted - this is the conclusion reached, according to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, by the participants of the television conference between Moscow and Tbilisi on the topic "Are peoples of Georgia and Russia able to strike hands?" held at the press centre of the RIA "Novosti" on October 16.
19:05, 17 October 2008
Book "South Ossetia - Chronicle of Customized Murder" published
The book-album named "South Ossetia - Chronicle of Customized Murder", which was in early October presented to PACE delegates and at the OSCE conference on human dimension in Warsaw, has caused public resonance. On October 16, representatives of public organizations held a press conference on the topic.
19:02, 17 October 2008
Independent monitoring fixes gross violations at Azerbaijani election
A group of regular voters has promulgated preliminary monitoring results of the October 15 presidential election in Azerbaijan. The press release that was disseminated today runs that the report, which was drafted on the basis of inputs from 1500 registered observers, has registered gross violations.
News
Armenian politicians began their campaign for votes before the start of their campaign.

Azerbaijan's Parliament. Screenshot of the photo from Report? https://report.az/ru/vneshnyaya-politika/azerbajdzhan-priostanavlivaet-sotrudnichestvo-s-evroparlamentom The Azerbaijani Parliament has suspended relations with the European Parliament.

Three Strong Armenia representatives arrested in voter bribery case

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.