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Ramzan Kadyrov; women wearing headscarves. Photos: Musa Sadulaev / Grozny Inform, Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot." Collage by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:47, 1 January 2023
Single women are unable to raise their son as real males, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Instagram* users have found this statement to be overly categorical; some responded by suggesting that Kadyrov stop sending men from Chechnya to Ukraine.
New Year's light display in Sochi. December 2021. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJ90wyb-x4
22:26, 1 January 2023
Amid the military operation in Ukraine, authorities of most regions of Southern Russia have banned mass celebrations on the occasion of the New Year, with the exception of festive events for children. Mayors of several cities have also changed the format of New Year celebrations.
Emran Navruzbekov. Screenshot of the video posted on the YouTube channel of the project "Gulagu.net" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xb04bPnioo
22:07, 1 January 2023
After his interview about the involvement of FSB agents in terror acts, relatives of the wife of Emran Navruzbekov, a former operative agent, and his mother's relatives were detained in Dagestan. Navruzbekov asked law enforcers not to touch his relatives.
Arslan Mirzaev. Screenshot of the video posted on the Ali Charinsky's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@AliCharinsky
22:40, 31 December 2022
The reason for initiating a criminal case against Arslan Mirzaev, a blogger from Dagestan, on discrediting Russian militaries, was in his publications criticizing the Kremlin's policy in Ukraine, the blogger himself has suggested.
Emran Navruzbekov. Screenshot of the video posted on the YouTube channel of the project "Gulagu.net" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xb04bPnioo&t=62s
22:20, 31 December 2022
In his interview, Emran Navruzbekov, an operative agent of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), who has asked for political asylum in Europe, stated that FSB agents were involved in terror acts and staged special operations committed and conducted in Dagestan.
Yuri Shevtsov and Galina Shevtsova in the corridor of the Lenin District Court in Astrakhan. Photo courtesy of Vasily Shevtsov for the "Caucasian Knot"
15:28, 31 December 2022
A court recognized as “actually fictitious” the events by which the police in Astrakhan explained the detention of Yuri Shevtsov and Galina Shevtsova for two days.
A signpost at the entrance to Bosnia and Herzegovina, photo: kirpet.ru
15:23, 31 December 2022
About 20 natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia arrived through Turkey to Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply later for political asylum in Croatia, but they were deported from the Sarajevo airport to Istanbul.
Khasan Ibragimov. Photo: Grozny Inform https://chechnyatoday.com
11:57, 31 December 2022
On December 26, 2022, Khasan Ibragimov, Ramzan Kadyrov's official representative in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, was detained in Simferopol on suspicion of beating a young man who stood up for a girl in a restaurant.
Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:26, 30 December 2022
The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the outcomes of the annual contest named after the deceased journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Gozny Inform https://www.grozny-inform.ru/
15:57, 30 December 2022
All the participants from Chechnya in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, including law enforcers, have gone there voluntarily, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.
Beating up a restaurant visitor. Screenshot of a video posted in the Telegram channel "Yaroslav's Letters" https://t.me/gramotyyaroslava/15755
12:39, 30 December 2022
Four men took part in beating up a restaurant visitor in Simferopol despite attempts to stop the brawl, says the video of the incident with Chechen law enforcers.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Grozny Inform https://www.grozny-inform.ru
05:28, 30 December 2022
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has emphasized that he has the right to run for president in Russia, but he will never do that.
Magomed Daudov. Photo: Alterbulat https://ru.wikipedia.org
05:20, 30 December 2022
The “Team Against Torture”* received responses to 37 out of 68 letters with a study on torture in Northern Caucasus sent to representatives of the authorities and the law enforcement bodies.
Urus-Martan, photo: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD
23:55, 29 December 2022
Any resident of the Urus-Martan District, regardless of activity type, will be punished for participating in any mass meeting, the head of the district police has announced.
The mobilized. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
23:50, 29 December 2022
Women from the Volgograd Region have stated that their husbands are being held in custody after they refused to take part in hostilities; they receive no medical care and adequate food.
Alexei Belyakov. Photo courtesy of Lyubov Belyakova
20:03, 29 December 2022
Alexei Belyakov, a Sochi policeman, was found dead in his car five years ago. All these years, investigators would not look for the perpetrators, Alexei's mother asserts.
A soldier. Photo by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defence
19:57, 29 December 2022
After his request for dismissal for family reasons, a contract serviceman from Ingushetia lost his payments but after his appeal to the court, the command abandoned their claims, human rights defenders report.
The deportation of the Kalmyk people. Photo: https://www.idelreal.org
16:07, 29 December 2022
On the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Deportation of the Kalmyk people, the cities of Kalmykia hosted commemorative events. It is important to continue to keep the memory of the victims of deportation, users of the social media point out.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Grozny Inform https://www.grozny-inform.ru
14:43, 29 December 2022
Ramzan Kadyrov has received the Medal “For Comradeship-in-Arms” of the National Guard of Russia, which is awarded for strengthening military cooperation, including with other countries.
Natives of Chechnya on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Screenshot of the video by the Balkan service of Radio Liberty https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/ceceni-s-granice-bih-traze-azil-eu/32195930.html
13:52, 29 December 2022
Several dozen natives of Chechnya have stuck in Bosnia and Herzegovina due to the refusal of border guards to let them into Croatia. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the natives from Chechnya face the threat of deportation, human rights defenders assert.
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.