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14:12, 10 July 2008
In Volgograd Region, woman sentenced to social works for cruel treatment of her child
A woman from the Kamyshin District, Volgograd Region, was washing her daughter in a washing machine with the motor on, for what she was sentenced to mandatory social works.
14:08, 10 July 2008
Rice: US understand complexities of building democracy in Georgia
Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, spoke, when meeting oppositional politicians, about the difficulties of building young democracy in Georgia, having noted that it cannot be done overnight.
14:02, 10 July 2008
Administrative Court of Yerevan deals with claim of ex-Deputy General Public Prosecutor of Armenia
The Administrative Court of Yerevan is considering a claim lodged by Gagik Dzhangiryan, former Deputy General Public Prosecutor, who was arrested during the post-election period and is kept in custody. The applicant claims to nullify the decrees of former President Robert Kocharyan, by which he had been dismissed and deprived of the rank of Class 1 State Adviser of Justice.
13:53, 10 July 2008
Kabardino-Balkaria: prosecutor finds charges against Kerim Malkarov ungrounded
Magomed Miziev, Public Prosecutor of the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a letter to Valery Ustov, head of Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, expressing his opinion that Kerim Malkarov, detained on murder suspicion, was charged without sufficient grounds.
13:33, 10 July 2008
Sources in Dagestan think that special operation in Khasavyurt could be ethnically motivated
The July 7-8 counterterrorist operation undertaken in the Khasavyurt District and the city of Khasavyurt was ethnically oriented, since only houses where Avars live were searched. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Magomedrasul Guseinov, a resident of Khasavyurt and Deputy Chair of the Executive Committee of the Avar National Council.
13:28, 10 July 2008
Georgia recalls her ambassador from Russia
Georgia has recalled her ambassador from the Russian Federation in the context of recent events in the conflict zones in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Russia's actions. This was announced today evening by Ekaterina Tkeshelashvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, at a special briefing.
13:20, 10 July 2008
No militaries' victims found in Grozny District of Chechnya
The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya insist that no human remains were detected in the territory of a former asphalt factory near the village of Goryacheistochnenskaya in the Grozny District of Chechnya. However, according to human rights activists, it does not mean that people were not massacred there.
16:38, 9 July 2008
Internet edition to show film on violations at May 21 elections in Georgia
The Internet edition named Presa.ge has made a decision to start on July 9 a web broadcasting of the third documentary showing falsifications of parliamentary elections in Georgia on May 21, 2008.
16:34, 9 July 2008
In Dagestan, journalists of "Nastoyascheye Vremya" recognized as victims
The investigatory committee of the investigatory department for the Kirovskiy District of Makhachkala, which operates under the prosecutor's office, has recognized the journalists of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper to be victims in the criminal case initiated against Director General of the edition Rizvan Rizvanov. The corresponding decisions were issued to journalists on July 8.
16:27, 9 July 2008
Georgian Republicans: amendments to the law on political parties will strike the opposition
In Georgia, the Republican Party demands to suspend making amendments in the law "On Citizens' Political Associations", asserting that it will strike the opposition. This was stated on July 8 by David Usupashvili, one of the leaders of the Party.
16:23, 9 July 2008
South-Ossetian teenager released by Georgia was suspected of espionage
A boy of 14 from South Ossetia, who disappeared in the evening of July 7, was accused by the Georgian party of espionage and released by Georgia on the following day, July 8, is in a shock condition.
16:17, 9 July 2008
Ecologists find decision to relocate Sochi Olympiad-2014 objects to be insufficient
Representatives of ecological organizations assert that the decision of Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin to move a number of Olympic objects away from the Grushevoy Ridge in the Krasnodar Territory does not solve all the environmental problems of the region.
16:12, 9 July 2008
Armenia sets up Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners
The establishment of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Repressed Persons was announced today at the press conference that took place in the office of the People's Party of Armenia.
16:08, 9 July 2008
Azerbaijan: judicial investigation of attack on journalist Halil is over
On July 9, the Nasiminskiy District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Shain Abdullaev, finished the judicial investigation on Sergey Strekalin's case, accused of inflicting on March 13 a knife wound to the journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper.
16:04, 9 July 2008
CPJ calls on Armenian authorities to apply early release opportunity to journalist Babadzhanyan
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has made a statement in support of imprisoned journalist Armand Babadzhanyan's petition on early release.
14:19, 8 July 2008
In Krasnodar Territory, "Rosprirodnadzor" and ecologists accuse each other of disinformation
The Krasnodar Department of the Russian Environment Supervisory Agency ("Rosprirodnadzor") believes that many ecological organizations are deliberately by the actions hampering the resort season. In their turn, ecologists declare that the authorities are concealing the truth about the situation in the Kerch Strait.
14:11, 8 July 2008
Leader of Party "For United Georgia" calls public to support "Kavkasia" TV Company
Today, Eka Beseliya, secretary general of the oppositional party "For United Georgia", held a press conference, where she called the Georgian public to financially support the sole oppositional TV Company "Kavkasia", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
13:52, 8 July 2008
Editorial Board of "Chernovik" newspaper to protest against Dagestan Procurator's warning
In the near future, the editor-in-chief of the weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint) is going to protest against the decision of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, by which the edition was warned on inadmissibility to breach the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities".
13:49, 8 July 2008
Dagestan resident found in Kizlyar could have been kidnapped to exchange for the run-away girl
The resident of Dagestan, who has been found today in Kizlyar, could have been kidnapped with the aim to exchange him for the girl, who had run away with his relative, as her parents were against their wedding.
13:46, 8 July 2008
UN Secretary General calls for inquiry of terror acts in Abkhazia and punishment of those guilty
Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, has condemned the recent explosions in the territory of Abkhazia and called to hold an investigation of these incidents and bring the criminals to responsibility.
News
Abkhazia and South Ossetia have ruled out rescinding Venezuela's recognition of their independence.

A film about Georgian refugees won a prize at the Amsterdam Film Festival.

An election billboard criticizing the Georgian opposition on a street in Kutaisi. Photo by Beslan Kmuzov for the "Caucasian Knot" Aage Borchgrevink: secrecy and freedom of elections in Georgia compromised

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.