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Derbent school. Photo: https://riadagestan.ru/
20:55, 23 January 2024
Scandal at Derbent school reminds about teachers' and officials' responsibility for children
The incident when schoolgirls of the Derbent school received insults and threats for allegedly inappropriate clothes and appearance could not have happened if the school administration had introduced school uniforms, and officials had paid more attention to educating and upbringing young people. This is what Dagestani political analyst, educator and lawyer assert.
19:43, 23 January 2024
Posts in messenger result in fine imposed on Grozny resident
A court in Grozny has fined Magomed-Emi Saidov, a local resident, concluding that his posts placed in the Telegram messenger were aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.
The fire in the building of the Central Exhibition Hall in Sukhumi. Photo by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Abkhazia
23:57, 22 January 2024
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 15-21, 2024
Pressure on journalists in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, murder of imam in Chechnya, fire in an art gallery, explosion in a furniture workshop, destroyed cemeteries in Nagorno-Karabakh, 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 January 15-21, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
Igor Nagavkin in the courtroom. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:10, 22 January 2024
Human rights defender Nagavkin enters into settlement agreement with SIZO administration
Volgograd human rights defender Igor Nagavkin managed to negotiate a settlement agreement with the administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), but the trial in the case on disorganization of the SIZO’s operation was not closed.
20:39, 22 January 2024
Irina Skorovarova accused in criminal case on discrediting Russian Army
Investigators filed a criminal charge on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against Irina Skorovarova, a resident of Taganrog. That was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”* with reference to Sergey Kovalevich, an advocate of Irina Skorovarova.
School no. 15 in Derbent, photo: riaderbent.ru
18:19, 22 January 2024
Fight for morality at Derbent school results in prosecutor's check
The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office (PO) has reported about a check conducted in connection with the information about violations of schoolchildren's rights in Derbent. High school students at one of the schools were persecuting teenagers whose clothes and appearance, in their opinion, were immoral.
17:07, 22 January 2024
Law enforcers unsuccessfully tried three times to fine Tuapse resident for discrediting Russian Army
A Tuapse district court for the third time returned to the police the protocol about discrediting the Russian Army, drawn up against Asker Allolo, a resident of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory.
21:39, 21 January 2024
Child suffers at wedding party in KChR
A seven-year-old girl was wounded during a shooting at a wedding party in the Ust-Dzhegutin District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). A resident of Rostov-on-Don, detained after the incident, has pleaded guilty.
Themis. Photo: shutterstock.com
18:52, 21 January 2024
Contract serviceman from Chechnya acquitted of killing his colleague
A court in Novocherkassk has acquitted Zaindi Takaev, a military contractor from Chechnya, accused of murdering Magomed Shakhbanov, his colleague from Dagestan. The acquittal was based on the outcomes of two examinations, which did not confirm Takaev's guilt.
Archival photo: an action in memory of Markelov and Baburova (photo by Karina Gadzhieva for the "Caucasian Knot")
17:19, 21 January 2024
Actions in memory of Markelov and Baburova held in Russian cities
In Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Riga and other cities of Russia and Europe, rallies were held in memory of Stanislav Markelov, an advocate, and Anastasia Baburova, a "Novaya Gazeta", a journalist; they were shot dead in 2009.
A colony in Karelia, photo: krasivoe-foto.ru
19:06, 20 January 2024
Lawyers assess chances of Ingush native for compensation for oppression in penal colony
Vakha Tsurov, a convict from Ingushetia, has little chance of obtaining compensation in court from the administration of the penal colony for disciplinary sanctions imposed on him because of performing namaz (prayer), state lawyers.
19:03, 20 January 2024
Four Krasnodar women fined for links with undesirable organizations
A court in Krasnodar has imposed fines on four local residents, finding them to be members of a number of foreign organizations deemed undesirable in Russia.
Omar Murtazaliev's viedo appeal. Screenshot of the video by Gulagu.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEk51OG-OM
18:55, 20 January 2024
Convict from Dagestan reports Muslims' hunger strike in colony
Inmates in the colony located in the Kurgan Region have gone on a hunger strike in protest against insults to believers' feelings and the seizure of their personal belongings, Omar Murtazaliev, a convict from Dagestan, has stated in a video appeal.
Laying flowers at the site of the murder of Stanislav Markelov, an advocate, and Anastasia Baburova, a journalist of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. Moscow, January 19, 2015. Photo by Yuliya Buslavskaya for the "Caucasian Knot"
17:40, 20 January 2024
Fifteen years pass since murder of advocate Markelov and journalist Baburova
On the 15th anniversary of the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, Moscow activists called for laying flowers at the place of their deaths and announced the screening of a film about the murdered journalist.
A gavel. Photo: Fyodor Obmaykin / Yugopolis
17:27, 20 January 2024
Resident of Dagestan found guilty of extremism
In Makhachkala, a court found Ruslan Abdullaev guilty of involvement in a cell of the “USSR Citizens”* and sentenced him to imprisonment in a penal colony. However, taking into account the time spent under arrest, the defendant was released in the courtroom.
A collective prayer. Screenshot of the video posted on the Telegram channel "ChP Grozny" on January 17, 2024 https://t.me/chpgrozny_95/7769
16:10, 20 January 2024
Resonance of Gakaev's murder accelerates families' reconciliation
The reconciliation of Abdurakhim Gakaev's relatives with the killer's family took place without any coercion; the apology is not a disgrace to the family and is usually accepted; and the promise of renouncing blood feud cannot be broken, experts on the Caucasus have indicated.
The Russian Ministry of Justice. Photo: https://minjust-rso.org/
23:14, 19 January 2024
"Ingush Independence Committee"* included into register of foreign agents
The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has added the "Ingush Independence Committee"* to the list of foreign agents, justifying this decision with the calls for violating the territorial integrity of Russia and creating Russia's negative image.
Kurban Dalgatov's photo at his parents' home. Photo by the "Chernovik" outlet https://chernovik.net/news/zakryl-kurtkoy-obzor-videokamery-i-telo-kurbana-potaschili-vniz
23:12, 19 January 2024
Dalgatov’s relatives express their indignation at leniency to those involved in case on his death
Eleven law enforcers are involved in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov, and four of them are placed under house arrest, including Bulat Medjidov, whose pre-trial restriction measure was changed on January 17. A Kurban Dalgatov’s widow requested investigators to return all the defendants to a SIZO (pre-trial prison).
Rizvan Dadaev. Screenshot of the video https://parniplus.com/lgbt-movement/rizvan-dadaev/
23:08, 19 January 2024
Grozny resident manages to leave Russia after being tortured because of his sexual orientation
Rizvan Dadaev, a resident of Grozny, who had been missing for a long time after his detention because of his sexual orientation, had been tortured in captivity for months. He has managed to leave Russia now.
Natalia Dorozhnova. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:50, 19 January 2024
Second protocol on discrediting Russian Army drawn up against Natalia Dorozhnova
Law enforcers have drawn up a second protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Natalia Dorozhnova, a Volgograd activist. The reason to persecute her was Dorozhnova's statements in an interview after the trial, which fined her under the same article, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.
News
Special military operation in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense press service More than 8,600 fighters from southern Russia have been officially recognized as killed in the SVO zone.

Askhabali Alibekov. Still from the "Wild Paratrooper" channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgXra9fVrsI Security forces demanded supervision of Askhabali Alibekov.

A court in Krasnodar confiscated the property and business of Aslan Trakhov and his son.

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.