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17:33, 9 February 2008
Georgia: "Thieves of Votes" action of the opposition
The United Opposition of Georgia has held a two-hour action under the motto "Thieves of Votes" in the centre of Tbilisi, in Rustaveli Avenue, and accused President Mikhail Saakashvili and Levan Tarkhnishvili, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, of falsification of the January 5 election.
17:28, 9 February 2008
Journalist beaten by militiamen in Krasnodar Territory
Sergey Rozhkov, a journalist from the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, was detained at night of February 2 in the house of his relative, when he was preparing a lawful protest action. According to the journalist, he was handcuffed, beaten and thrown into the luggage compartment of the militia's "Zhiguli" car.
17:23, 9 February 2008
Suren Surenyants: Armenian TV Channels strongly hampered Ter-Petrosyan's pre-election campaign
By their one-sided coverage of the pre-election campaign, the TV Channels of Armenia, including the private ones, have really created compelling obstacles for the first Armenian president in the pre-election race.
16:20, 9 February 2008
Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya denies tortures in Chernokozovo
On the outcomes of another inspection of the custody conditions of inmates kept at the Chernokozovo Corrective Colony No. 2, the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has not confirmed that convicts are tortured in this facility and the custody conditions are intolerable.
12:23, 8 February 2008
Aushev: military actions strengthen radicalism in the Caucasus
Military actions and special operations undertaken in the Caucasus with the aim to eliminate the threat of terror are inefficient in struggling against radicalism, but on the contrary, they strengthen it, asserts Ruslan Aushev, the first President of Ingushetia.
12:20, 8 February 2008
Conviction record lifted from imam of Pyatigorsk
On February 7, 2008, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow ruled to cancel the conviction record from Anton Stepanenko, imam of the city of Pyatigorsk, under the verdict of the Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory of March 30, 2007.
12:17, 8 February 2008
In Kabardino-Balkaria, a defendant in the case on attack on Nalchik wants to refuse from taking part in the trial
Azamat Akhkubekov, one of those accused of attacking power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a petition to the chair of the court Mohamed Tashuev with a complaint against the treatment of defendants during convoying. If the complaint is not satisfied, Akhkubekov is going to refuse from taking part in the process.
12:14, 8 February 2008
Advocates of ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan are dissatisfied with his treatment
The advocates of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, remained dissatisfied with the medical examination of their client. Elton Guliev, one of ex-minister's defenders, has stated that Aliev's transfer to the prison clinic was caused not by care of his health but by desire to prevent his meeting with PACE co-Rapporteurs.
12:11, 8 February 2008
"Voice of Beslan" changes the name and will not get registered
The "Voice of Beslan" public organization created by those who suffered from terror acts is changing its name to the "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian Public Organization of Terror Act Victims.
12:08, 8 February 2008
Officer guilty of Chechen woman's death sentenced to three years of conditional imprisonment
On February 7, the Grozny Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexei Korgun, Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Troops of the Russian MIA, guilty of the death of a woman-resident of the Shatoy District of Chechnya, to three years of conditional imprisonment.
11:55, 8 February 2008
Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia: only several participants of disorders are still behind bars
Sources in the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia refute the information that dozens of people detained on January 26 during mass disorders in Nazran are still under arrest.
10:05, 7 February 2008
Board to assess the investigation of Beslan tragedy created in North Ossetia
On February 5, in North Ossetia, the public organization "Styr Nykhas" held a sitting with participation of the Committees "Voice of Beslan" and "Beslan Mothers", where a decision was passed to found the Board in charge of assessing of the investigation of the Beslan tragedy.
10:03, 7 February 2008
Court rejects Stomakhin's early conditional release
The Tonshaev Court of the Nizhni Novgorod Region has refused to apply the procedure of early conditional release to Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the website of Chechen separatists "Kavkaz-Centre" who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.
09:58, 7 February 2008
Supreme Court of North Ossetia rejects the supervisory complaint of the "Voice of Beslan"
On February 4, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia rejected the supervisory complaint of the public organization "Voice of Beslan", in which the relatives of the casualties of the Beslan terror act had asked to consider the materials of the Leninskiy Court about re-registration of the organization and to cancel the decision of this court.
09:55, 7 February 2008
Residents of Chechnya complain against officials who give out compensations for destroyed houses for bribes
Residents of Chechnya continue complaining that compensations for the houses lost during the conflict can be received, only if one pays back a half of the sum to bureaucrats as the so-called "otkat" (kick-back).
09:52, 7 February 2008
Picket in memory of "zachistka" victims in Novye Aldy held in Moscow
In the Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow, a picket was held in memory of the victims of the clean-up ("zachistka") conducted eight years ago in Novye Aldy settlement located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
09:45, 7 February 2008
HRC "Memorial" to present its report "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"
On February 11, a press conference will be held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow to present the report of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" entitled "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"
16:42, 6 February 2008
Defendant in the case on attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria wants to refuse from his advocate
At the following session of preliminary hearings of the criminal case on the events of October 13 in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) appointed on February 20, defendant Kaziev is going to refuse from the services of advocate Sukhikh, T. V., appointed by the court.
16:38, 6 February 2008
Picket against kidnappings held in Dagestan
Today, the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and relatives of the people kidnapped in Makhachkala held a picket against kidnappings in the central square of the capital of the Republic.
16:35, 6 February 2008
Project "Observatory" stands up for "Voice of Beslan"
On February 5, the joint project of the International Organization for Fighting Torture (Geneva) and the Human Rights Federation (Paris) named "Observatory" condemned the legal pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization.
News
Bilyajari Station. Baku, May 3, 2026. Photo: APA https://ru.apa.az/infrastruktura/v-armeniyu-tranzitom-cerez-territoriyu-azerbaidzana-otpravleno-8-vagonov-s-udobreniyami-obnovleno-649408 A train carrying fertilizers has been sent from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

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

Human rights activists helped secure Murtazov's flight to 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.