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23:15, 28 February 2024
Andrei Vyazov, an activist from Krasnodar, detained at an action in memory of Alexei Navalny* and arrested for 14 days, is being kept in a special detention centre with no yard for walking.
Flowers at the memorial to fascism victims in Krasnodar. Screenshot of the photo posted on the Telegram channel "Protokol Krasnodar" on February 16, 2024 https://t.me/protokol_band/3894
22:16, 28 February 2024
In Sochi, activists, who tried to pay tribute to the memory of deceased opposition politicians Alexei Navalny* and Boris Nemtsov, noted that there were a lot of law enforcers near the monuments where such actions took place, who were also patrolling the city.
Advocate Aza Alieva. Photo courtesy of Aza Alieva
21:50, 28 February 2024
The sentence for natives of Dagestan Magomed Atimagomedov and Daud Kuramagomedov in a case on murder in a Kalmyk penal colony became excessively harsh due to the fact that the defendants refused advocates by agreement, notes a former advocate of Magomed Atimagomedov.
Nikita Zhuravel. Photo: https://chechnyatoday.com/news/370378
20:47, 28 February 2024
The ruling of the Grozny court to sentence Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, who burned the Koran, to 3.5 years in prison will be challenged, his defence has stated.
Seda Suleimanova. Screenshot of a video https://www.kavkazr.com/a/chechnya-zhiva-li-seda-suleymanova-/32802752.html
19:51, 28 February 2024
Russian authorities must provide information about the fate of Seda Suleimanova, who had been returned by law enforcers to her family in Chechnya, participants of the action in Tbilisi have stated.
Usam's family was deported. Photo from the website of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee https://www.nhc.no/en/80-years-since-the-mass-deportations-of-the-chechens-and-ingush/
18:57, 28 February 2024
The deportation of Chechens and Ingush led to territorial conflicts, wars and broken families, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee has stated in an article dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the deportation. The material describes the story of a Chechen family who survived deportation.
Oleg Orlov*. Screenshot of the photo posted by the RusNews on February 26, 2024 https://t.me/rusnews/49328
16:50, 28 February 2024
The verdict passed to Oleg Orlov*, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Human Rights Defence Centre, for his statements contradicts the Constitution and Russia's international covenants; it is evidence of the abolition of the freedom of speech in Russia, human rights defenders have pointed out.
Anna Tsomartova. Photo from the girl's social media
23:58, 27 February 2024
The father of Anna Tsomartova, who disappeared after the competition in Kaspiysk, has received no reaction from authorities to his appeal to help searching for his daughter.
Mariana Katzarova, фото: Mariana Katzarova https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0.jpg
23:46, 27 February 2024
The criminal prosecution of human rights defender Oleg Orlov* is politically motivated, states United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation Mariana Katzarova. The UN Special Rapporteur has also called for the release of all political prisoners.
Nikita Zhuravel. Screenshot of the photo posted on the Telegram channel "Chechnya Segodnhya" (Chechnya 
Today) on November 2, 2023 https://t.me/chechnyatoday/14249
20:43, 27 February 2024
In Chechnya, a court found Nikita Zhuravel guilty and sentenced him to three years and six months of imprisonment for burning the Koran.
A spontaneous memorial in memory of Alexei Navalny. Screenshot of the video posted on the Sota Telegram channel https://t.me/sotaproject/75322
19:51, 27 February 2024
Residents of Makhachkala organized a spontaneous memorial in memory of Alexei Navalny near the monument to the victims of repression and laid flowers there.
Oleg Orlov* in a courtroom. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
18:17, 27 February 2024
The court has sentenced Oleg Orlov*, a human rights defender, to 2.5 years of freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Army.
18:11, 27 February 2024
In Krasnodar, law enforcers accused spouses Sergey Albov and Alina Albova of extremism after they had posted leaflets with the image of Alexei Navalny*. The court sentenced Sergey Albov to two days of arrest and dismissed the case against his wife.
A resident of Krasnodar detained for shooting at a wedding party. Screenshot of the video posted on the Teleram channel of Irina Volk, the Russian MIA Spokesperson https://t.me/IrinaVolk_MVD/608
16:45, 27 February 2024
The police have released a video with an apology from a resident of Krasnodar detained for shooting at a wedding party. The young man has explained his actions as an attempt to follow the Caucasian traditions.
Turkish flags. Photo by Şinasi Müldür from Pixabay
23:56, 26 February 2024
More than 30 families of political emigrants from the republics of Northern Caucasus have been detained in Turkey, Djokhar Dudaev's nephew among them, the Diaspora sources have reported worried about the pressure on the detainees.
A rally in Nazran whose participants commemorated the victims of the deportation of the Vainakh people. Photo by the press service of the head of the Republic of Ingushetia
23:16, 26 February 2024
Eighty years after the deportation, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, death of Alexei Navalny* and Caucasus, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 19-25, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Klim Voroshilov (from left to right), late 1930s. Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/
22:16, 26 February 2024
The reason for deporting Caucasian nations in 1944 was in their ethnicity, while the then USSR Constitution guaranteed equality; this was stated by Oleg Kelemetov, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in his application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
Oleg Orlov*. February 26, 2024. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
21:47, 26 February 2024
A public prosecutor requested court to sentence human rights defender Oleg Orlov*, accused of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, to two years and eleven months of imprisonment.
Anna Tsomartova. Photo from her personal account on the VKontakte social media
18:15, 26 February 2024
Anna Tsomartova, an athlete, was last seen in the FSB sanatorium in Kaspiysk, after which she disappeared, Nikolai Tsomartov, her father, has stated in his petition posted on the Change.org website. He has asked Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to help with the inquiry.
Boris Goncharenko (on the left) and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=362891449914551&set=a.113632768173755 (the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia)
17:40, 26 February 2024
The project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has recognized Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) building in the town of Goryachy Klyuch, as political prisoners. The charge of terrorism is unjustified, human rights defenders have stated.
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.