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Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot of the video by the BBC Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp65fNM4Mj8&t=1s
12:48, 25 January 2022
Kadyrov announces Russian spending on Chechnya
The Russian government allocates 300 billion roubles a year for supporting Chechnya; the republic won't hold "even a month" without Moscow's support, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has stated.
12:40, 25 January 2022
Kadyrov invites Yangulbaevs to come to Chechnya
The sons of Zarema Yangulbaeva (Musaeva) should come to Chechnya to fetch their mother, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, again accusing the whole family of various crimes. Abubakar Yangulbaev intends to sue the head of Chechnya for calling his family as terrorists.
12:32, 25 January 2022
After blackmail with his sister's photo, blogger Khalitov refuses to stop criticizing Kadyrov
Khasan Khalitov, a blogger living in Turkey, has refused to apologize to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, despite the threats to publish obscene photos of the blogger's sister. Social network users considered it unworthy for Muslims to humiliate women.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot of the video on his personal page vk.com/ramzan
23:58, 24 January 2022
Kadyrov creates a threat to Kalyapin and Milashina by accusing them of terrorism
The allegation of Ramzan Kadyrov, who classified Igor Kalyapin, the head of the “Committee Against Torture”*, and journalist Elena Milashina as terrorists, will not be followed by criminal prosecution of those people, but the risk of unlawful pressure on them has increased, human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina and advocate Marina Dubrovina point out.
Igor Kalyapin, Ramzan Kadyrov. Photos: Foreign and Commonwealth Office; screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://grozny-inform.ru/news/society/131879/
23:55, 24 January 2022
Human rights defender Kalyapin considers it useless to respond to Kadyrov’s accusation
It is useless to complain about the Ramzan Kadyrov’s allegation that Igor Kalyapin, the head of the “Committee against Torture”*, is an accomplice of terrorists, since the leader of Chechnya always get away with it, the human rights defender explains.
Law enforcers detain Zarema Musaeva. Screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/CZHKjIooFWA/
23:52, 24 January 2022
Video of Zarema Musaeva’s kidnapping posted on Internet
According to video from surveillance cameras, law enforcers took Zarema Musaeva out of the house entrance without warm clothes. The elderly woman was walking through the snow without shoes, Sergey Babinets, a lawyer of the “Committee Against Torture”*, emphasized.
The FSB officers detain a suspect. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/terrorizmu-net/fsb/fsb-rossii-predotvrashchena-popytka-soversheniya.html
23:49, 24 January 2022
On January 17-23, 2022, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus
During the week of January 17-23, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
Yelena Milashina, Igor Kalyapin. Photos: ttps://chechnyatoday.com/news/317599, http://president-sovet.ru/presscenter/news/read/2922/ Collage by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:47, 24 January 2022
Kadyrov demands to detain rights defenders Kalyapin and Milashina
The head of Chechnya has labelled Igor Kalyapin, a member of the presidential Human Rights Council, and Yelena Milashina, a "Novaya Gazeta" journalist, as terrorists' helpers and called to detain them.
Khasan Khalitov. Photo https://doshdu.com/prozhivajushhij-v-gruzii-chechenskij-bezhenec-soobshhil-chto-ego-hotjat-ubit/
23:45, 24 January 2022
Blogger Khasan Khalitov's sister humiliated in Chechnya
Khasan Khalitov, a blogger living in Turkey, has received a photo of his naked sister, who was abducted in Chechnya, accompanied by a demand to stop criticizing Chechen authorities.
Zarema Yangulbaeva. Screenshot of the video on Instagram of Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAKOLSlcvd/
22:47, 24 January 2022
Zarema Musaeva arrested for 15 days in Grozny
Zarema Musaeva is kept in the special detention centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya; she was detained because of insulting and attacking a policeman in Grozny. The court arrested her for 15 days, Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister of Information and Press of Chechnya, has informed.
Zarema Yangulbaeva, screenshot of the post by the "Committee against Torture" https://t.me/against_torture, Abubakar Yangulbaev, screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0yFcGfEFkI Collage by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:58, 24 January 2022
Absence of contacts with relatives living in Grozny worries Yangulbaev
After the abduction of Zarema Musaeva, her son, Abubakar Yangulbaev, said that about 15 members of the Yangulbaev and Musaev families living in Grozny have stopped communicating.
14:30, 24 January 2022
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 18-23, 2022
Kidnapping of a human rights defender Yangulbaev’s mother by Chechen law enforcers in Nizhny Novgorod; resignation of Armen Sarkisyan from the post of President of Armenia; strike of social workers in Georgia; public outcry after a conflict between a native of Dagestan and passengers of a bus in Moscow; report of the law enforcement bodies about the liquidation of crypto farms in Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 18-23, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
Saidi Yangulbaev. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpTtMH76z8&t=1s
11:59, 24 January 2022
Saidi Yangulbaev and his daughter leave Russia
The departure of the former federal judge, Saidi Yangulbaev, and his daughter Aliya from Russia was caused by the threats voiced out by Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, Natalya Kurekina, the press secretary of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT)*, has stated.
Polad Aslanov. Photo https://doshdu.com/reportery-bez-granic-prizvali-vlasti-azerbajdzhana-otkazatsja-ot-presledovanija-polada-aslanova/
11:57, 24 January 2022
Health condition worsening of Azerbaijani journalist, Polad Aslanov, alarms doctors
The health condition of the Azerbaijani journalist, Polad Aslanov, who has been on a hunger strike for 18 days, demanding a revision of his case, has sharply worsened, his wife has informed.
Abubakar Yangulbaev. Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot: t.me/against_torture. Photo: IA ‘Chechnya segodnya’ https://chechnyatoday.com/news/348226. Collage made by the Caucasian Knot
11:42, 23 January 2022
Kadyrov responds to Yangulbaev by accusing his family of complicity in terrorism
The head of Chechnya has accused the family of the human rights defender, Abubakar Yangulbaev, of organizing an attack on a former Chechen law enforcer in Turkey and calling for terrorism; in his turn, Abubakar has asked the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to check Kadyrov's threats for extremism.
11:31, 23 January 2022
Azerbaijani activist's repost in social network causes summons to the GPO
Ilham Gussein, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was summoned to the Azeri General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), where he was issued a verbal warning in connection with his publication on the Facebook. The PFPA treats it as pressure on the activist and on the party as a whole.
Zarema Yangulbaeva and the Chechen Ombudsperson Mansur Soltaev. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAL5i5JfKU/
11:15, 23 January 2022
Rights defenders demand to protect judge's family from Chechen law enforcers
The authorities of Chechnya have made kidnappings of the relatives of their opponents a constant practice, but the abduction of Zarema Yangulbaeva is something special, since she is the wife of a retired judge. Federal authorities must interfere, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.
Chechen policemen. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the Caucasian Knot
19:14, 22 January 2022
Analysts reproach Chechen law enforcers for violating Russian MIA's subordination
Most likely, law enforcers from Nizhny Novgorod had known about the pre-planned abduction of Zarema Yangulbaeva by Chechen policemen, but they didn't dare to oppose them, since law enforcers in Chechnya, while bypassing Russian laws, obey directly the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and not the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.
19:00, 22 January 2022
Krasnodar journalist claims beating up by law enforcers
Vladislav Kramskoy, a journalist, has stated that he was beaten up by law enforcers after he asked them to show their IDs and introduce themselves. As a result, he not only received traumas, but a protocol was drawn up against him for disobeying a law enforcer's lawful demand.
12:53, 22 January 2022
Advisor to Dagestani head extradited from Germany to Russia
German authorities have extradited to Russia Osman Makhachev, who worked as an adviser to the former head of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, and now is accused under the case of a large bribe.
News
Activists have reported the destruction of a memorial to victims of the Armenian Genocide in Karabakh.

Analysts have assessed the consequences for Baku of breaking off relations with the European Parliament.

Historians and activists have called on Armenian authorities to resist the destruction of cultural heritage in Karabakh.

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.