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Alexander Kananyan. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the Caucasian Knot
11:14, 5 February 2020
Alexander Kananyan stops his hunger strike
Alexander Kananyan, a resident of Karvachar, a city in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stopped his protest hunger strike after the start of a commission on studying the environmental impact of minor hydropower plants (HPPs). Meanwhile, his supporter, Mger Pogosyan, continues his hunger strike.
The European Court of Human Rights. Photo: REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
11:02, 5 February 2020
ECtHR awards compensations on North-Caucasian kidnapping complaints
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay 80,000-88,000 euros to residents of Dagestan and Ingushetia, who complained about kidnapping of their relatives by law enforcers.
Imran Aliev. Screenshot: https://youtu.be/HFYe8UAe9rQ
08:46, 5 February 2020
Resident of Chechnya declared wanted after blogger Aliev's murder
French investigators consider a politically motivated killing to be the main version of the death of the Chechen blogger, Imran Aliev, sources have informed.
At the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: REUTERS/Staff
08:31, 5 February 2020
NKR soldier accused of Vagram Avagyan's death
A colleague of Vagram Avagyan, a conscript soldier, who perished in a military unit of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has been charged with non-statute relations (hazing).
Participants of rally in front of the Parliament of Abkhazia. Photo courtesy of the activists
08:21, 5 February 2020
Protesters at Abkhaz Parliament announce their action round-the-clock one
In Sukhumi, protesters have refused to interrupt their action demanding to adopt the anti-corruption law. They plan to spend the nights in the squire in front of the Parliament until an anti-corruption law is adopted by the MPs.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: REUTERS/Said Tsarnayev
22:40, 4 February 2020
ICRF not to check Kadyrov's threats
Ramzan Kadyrov has explained that his calls to execute authors of rumours about Chechnya were misunderstood; therefore, there is no reason to check his threats – as follows from the investigators' answer released today by the Committee against Torture (CaT).
The European Court of Human Rights. Photo: REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
22:26, 4 February 2020
ECtHR awards compensation to resident of Dagestan for torture by law enforcers
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded 30,000 euros of compensation to Biyarslan Akaev, a native of Dagestan, who has claimed that law enforcers had tortured him with electric current.
Detention. Photo: NAC press service, http://nac.gov.ru/antiterroristicheskie-ucheniya/operativnym-shtabom-v-kbr-provedeny.html
17:12, 4 February 2020
Residents of Ingushetia and North Ossetia report searches and detentions of activists
Today, Amirkhan Bekov, Maksharip Batygov, Ismail Khamkhoev, and Magomed Barakhoev have been detained after a raid conducted by law enforcers in three Ingush and one North-Ossetian villages.
Imran Aliev. Screenshot from video posted at YouTube Channel "KYFiK OLEG - PRIME-SHOW" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNfz5rSvhXDkZO9ZJjNpmlw
16:58, 4 February 2020
Imran Aliev's acquaintances report circumstances of his murder
Chechen blogger Imran Aliev was murdered in France after a native of Chechnya who came to Europe succeeded in gaining confidence in him, acquaintances of Imran Aliev reported.
Sapiyat Magomedova. Photo by Raisa Medjidova for the Caucasian Knot
14:23, 4 February 2020
FSB investigator removes advocate Sapiyat Magomedova from Ashikov brothers' case
The head of the investigating team in charge of the investigation into a case against the Ashikov brothers and Omar Abdurashidov, accused of financing terrorists, ordered to remove Sapiyat Magomedova from the case. The investigators suggest that the advocate who earlier represented the interests of Omar Abdurashidov can no longer defend Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov because of the conflict of interests.
Azerbaijan's military drills. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan, https://mod.gov.az
14:10, 4 February 2020
Azerbaijan registers 21 shelling attacks within 24 hours
The positions of the Azerbaijani troops have been shelled, including from heavy machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.
12:27, 4 February 2020
Witness confirms kidnapping of Dagestanis killed in Chechnya
An employee of the car technical service station has confirmed to the court that three out of eight Dagestanis, who were then declared killed in Chechnya, were kidnapped before his eyes, the advocate has narrated.
Journalist Polad Aslanov. Photo: Gülmirə Aslanova. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=137011440924807&set=pcb.137011470924804&type=3&theater
12:14, 4 February 2020
Journalist Polad Aslanov complains about unfair trial
In Baku, the trial of Polad Aslanov, accused of high treason and threat of murder, began with charges against the judge. In the opinion of the journalist and his advocates, the judge who had earlier worked for the Ministry of National Security (MNS) is interested in a guilty verdict.
Angela Matieva. Photo: press service of the Ingush government, http://www.magas.ru
12:04, 4 February 2020
Matieva calls on Putin to stand up for Ingush activists
In her open letter, Angela Matieva, an Ingush activist and a political analyst, has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to interfere into the situation with the arrested protesters in Magas.
Makhachkala resident Murtazali takes part in a series of pickets for the first time. Photo by Ilyas Kapiev for the Caucasian Knot
08:31, 4 February 2020
Gadjiev's relatives deprived of right to visit him in SIZO
Five persons have continued their solo pickets in Makhachkala in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an arrested journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly and portal. For more than a month, the new investigator running Gadjiev's case is banning his family members to visit him, the journalist's relative have complained.
Policeman. Photo: Maxim Tishin / Yugopolis
01:56, 4 February 2020
Russian advisor and his wife die in Tskhinvali
The death of Igor Gal, Russia's advisor on public health matters, and his wife was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, the South-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has suggested. Their death occurred amid a scandal with the supply of medicines, a "Caucasian Knot" blogger has noted.
Tumso Abdurakhmanov (left) and Imran Aliev (right). Collage prepared by the 'Caucasian Knot'. Screenshot from video posted by "Radio Europa Liberă - Moldova" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s2uZT2jIVE, скриншот сообщения в ТГ-канале ABU SADDAM SHISHANI
22:18, 3 February 2020
Tumso announces details of accomplices in blogger Aliev's murder
The Chechen natives living in France and Germany, who helped the alleged killer of blogger Imran Aliev, have confessed to Tumso Abdurakhmanov that they were unaware about the aim of their fellow countryman's arrival in Europe.
Robert Kocharyan. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the Caucasian Knot
21:48, 3 February 2020
Kocharyan's defence denied judge challenge
The advocates of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, failed to achieve disqualification of Judge Armen Danielyan. In their opinion, the judge's decision to return Kocharyan to SIZO (pre-trial prison) proves the judge's impartiality.
Mekhman Guseinov. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
21:33, 3 February 2020
Blogger Mekhman Guseinov claims electoral competitor's attempt of bribery
Azerbaijani blogger Mekhman Guseinov accused Faradj Guliev, the leader of the "National Revival Movement" Party, of trying to bribe him to withdraw his candidacy at the early parliamentary elections to be held on February 9.
Video with beating of debtor posted on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B8E2mRFh7mD/
21:21, 3 February 2020
Chechen Instagram users express their indignation about video with beating of debtor
Users of Chechen social media found it unethical to post a video in which members of the Orstkhoi teip (family clan) were using sticks to beat their relative who did not return a debt to his creditors. Such a video can provoke relatives and other debtors to abuses, suggest residents of Chechnya.
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The head of Tuapse announced the city's readiness to welcome tourists during the holiday season.

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.