Caucasian Knot

Homepage / News

Viktoria Mylnikova. Photo: https://sochicommunity.ru/zoozashhita-kak-obraz-zhizni/

23:59, 15 September 2022

Sochi animal rights defender suspected of hooliganism after saving animals

In Sochi, the police detained five participants of a spontaneous protest action to save dogs. Animal rights defender Viktoria Mylnikova, who tried to draw the attention of law enforcers to animal cruelty, has been charged with hooliganism.

23:57, 15 September 2022

Court confirms Chechen resident’s right to compensation for injury

The Supreme Court of Chechnya cancelled a court’s decision on a claim filed by the Russian Ministry of Finance, which challenged the award of compensation amounting to 400,000 roubles to Shamsold Akhyadov, a resident of Chechnya, for being wounded during the second Chechen military campaign.

Volunteers from Chechnya in Donbass. Screenshot of the video https://vk.com/kadyrov_ramzan_ahmatovich

23:55, 15 September 2022

Kadyrov calls on Russian regions to self-mobilize to send fighters to Ukraine

Russian governors should declare self-mobilization in their regions to form detachments and send them to Ukraine, the leader of Chechnya says.

A lesson. Screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/admin/articles/381147/edit

16:41, 15 September 2022

Chechnya is ranked last in teachers' salaries

In Chechnya, the school teachers' average salaries are the lowest among Russian regions; in other regions of the North-Caucasian and the Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD), it is also lower than the Russia's national average.

A fire at a dump. Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, mnr.gov.ru

16:34, 15 September 2022

Residents of Ingush city of Malgobek link dump fires with townspeople's non-vigilance

Fires at the waste dump in Malgobek occur, among other things, because the townspeople set fire to the garbage brought there, local residents have suggested.

Shamil Nurmagomedov, 2018. Photo courtesy of Rustam Djalilov for the "Caucasian Knot"

16:29, 15 September 2022

Defence achieves lifting of regime toughening for Dagestani Shamil Nurmagomedov

The court sent for review the decision to transfer Shamil Nurmagomedov, a resident of Dagestan convicted of financing terrorism, from a colony to prison. The long stay in the cell has told negatively on his health, his advocate has stated.

Akhmat Kadyrov. Screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_cYehHZ6Cs

16:22, 15 September 2022

Kadyrov's minor son heads children and youth movement in Chechnya

The Russia's Ministry of Education has agreed to the candidacy of Akhmat Kadyrov, the 16-year-old son of the head of Chechnya, for the post of the regional chairman of the Russian movement of children and youth.

Activists with a banner "Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Trade Union." Photo https://ura.news/

06:16, 15 September 2022

Court liquidates “Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Trade Union”

In Moscow, a court granted the demand of the Prosecutor’s Office to liquidate the “Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Trade Union”. The Prosecutor’s Office did not provide any grounds for the liquidation of the trade union, and the decision will be challenged, advocate Maxim Krupsky says.

Gennady Zyuganov (on the left) and Ramzan Kadyrov. Photos: https://www.grozny-inform.ru http://duma.gov.ru

06:08, 15 September 2022

CPRF treats as a fake letter to Putin with a request not to give post of Minister of Defence to Kadyrov

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) called a provocation the publication of a letter to the Russian President on behalf of CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov asking Vladimir Putin to prevent the appointment of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov as the Russian Minister of Defence.

06:04, 15 September 2022

Astrakhan citizen punished for calling for terrorism on social media

A resident of Astrakhan was found guilty of public calls for terrorist activities and fined 360,000 roubles.

Volunteers from Chechnya preparing to be sent to Ukraine. Photo: https://www.grozny-inform.ru

05:57, 15 September 2022

Military analysts dispute on Chechnya's leadership in number of fighters sent to Ukraine

Chechnya is not standing out from other regions in terms of the number of fighters sent to Ukraine, Alexander Khramchikhin has stated. In his turn, Vasily Dandykin believes that Chechnya is the main supplier of fighters to Ukraine.

A detention facility. Photo by Fyodor Obmaykin / Yugopolis

16:32, 14 September 2022

Resident of Volgograd Region detained for recruiting into ranks of terrorists

In the Volgograd Region, law enforcers have detained a local resident suspected of recruiting an Uzbek citizen into the ranks of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.

Residents of the village have turned to the head of Dagestan in a video appeal. Screenshot of the video posted on Alibek Kairbekov's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neoc1t3YNog

15:59, 14 September 2022

Villagers asked head of Dagestan to solve problem of destroyed road

Residents of the village of Nizhnee Kazanische in the Buynaksk District have turned to Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, with a request to solve the problem of the destroyed road leading to the village.

15:38, 14 September 2022

ICRF reacts to large families' complaints in Tuapse District of Kuban

In Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), investigators have started checking large families' complaints that they had been given land plots for housing construction in a hard-to-reach place without communications.

Leonid Agutin. Screenshot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0KHgkrW3JM

01:13, 14 September 2022

Chechen initiates campaign against Leonid Agutin's concert in Stavropol

The performers, Leonid Agutin and Klava Koka, whose concerts were scheduled on the City Day in Stavropol, are opposing the state policy, public figures have stated in their appeal to the governor of the Stavropol Territory. They called on him to cancel the singers' concert.

01:01, 14 September 2022

Resident of Dagestan achieves compensation for violence at SIZO

The Kirovsky Court of Makhachkala has reduced by 20 times the amount of compensation for the moral harm claimed by Magomed Piraev, who complained of beating and illegal placement into the dungeon (punishment cell) for 15 days at the Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison). Instead of the claimed 500,000, he was awarded 25,000 roubles.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: IA ‘Chechnya Today’, https://chechnyatoday.com/

22:22, 13 September 2022

Kremlin’s refusal to meet Kadyrov points to his participation in attack on Shoigu

When pointing out mistakes during the special military operation in Ukraine, Ramzan Kadyrov claims to be in a more significant position, but the Kremlin has pulled him down. This opinion is voiced by the political analysts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The “SKA” grove. Photo: Anastasia Rychagova https://don24.ru

22:07, 13 September 2022

Rostov residents appeal to Putin for protection of grove from construction

In Rostov-on-Don, a land plot in the “SKA” grove was again put up for sale for residential construction. Activists wrote an appeal to the presidential administration with the demand to cancel the decision of the Federal Property Management Agency.

At a polling station. Photo by Eduard Kornienko, Yuga.ru

18:56, 13 September 2022

CPRF refuses to recognize outcome of elections in Krasnodar Territory

During the elections in the Krasnodar Territory, numerous violations were recorded, but the election commissions actually ignored them. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) will seek to bring violators to justice, the regional branch of the party announces.

18:35, 13 September 2022

Dagestani resident perishes in Ukraine

A resident of the Kazbek District perished during the special military operation, the head of the district reports. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the information about at least 219 natives of Dagestan perished there has been officially confirmed.

⟵ Previous article

1 2 … 404 405 406 … 3253 3254

Next article ⟶

News

Official losses in the southern part of Russia in the North-Eastern Military District zone exceeded 8,300

The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 8,250

Four airports in southern Russia have been closed due to security threats

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

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

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

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.