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08:02, 31 October 2019
The Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) has closed an event dedicated to the anniversary of the terror act in parliament for a number of media outlets. Rights defenders and journalists have condemned the ban, treating it as a restriction imposed on the freedom of speech.
A mourning rally at the "Poazot Kashmash" memorial cemetary. Photo by Magomed Aliev for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:58, 30 October 2019
In Nazran, participants of a mourning rally expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that victims of the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict had not been given any chance to deliver their speeches at the rally. The authorities hold the rally formally, but this is not a reason to ignore the event, human rights defender Tamerlan Akiev believes.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: screenshot of the video "Historical appeal of the leader of the Chechen Republic" https://youtu.be/yOxC8h4FBZ0
23:55, 30 October 2019
By requiring villagers to observe mourning for their deceased neighbours, Ramzan Kadyrov continues to formulate a "code of conduct for a Chechen native," believes Mikhail Roschin, a researcher engaged in the oriental studies. The imposition of rules of behaviour leads to a decrease in the popularity of Ramzan Kadyrov, believes historian Alexei Malashenko.
On the contaact line in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: REUTERS/Staff
23:49, 30 October 2019
The Azerbaijani troops shelled villages and military positions in the Tavush District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. The Armenian side regarded the shelling attack as a provocation related to a meeting of the Council of CIS Defence Ministers in Baku.
An Armenian woman on her knees in front of the dead child. 1915. Photo: en:American Committee for Relief in the Near East - from usa gov site https://ru.wikipedia.org/
21:46, 30 October 2019
The US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly in favour of the resolution on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
The border territory between South Ossetia and Georgia. Photo by Jelger Groeneveld - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:South_Ossetia?uselang=ru#/media/File:Georgian_farmer_at_Khurvaleti_victim_of_borderization_by_Russian_and_South_Ossetian_troops.jp
21:43, 30 October 2019
The closure of checkpoints on the border with Georgia deprived many residents of South Ossetia of timely medical care, declared the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) after the death of Margarita Martiashvili in a clinic in Tskhinvali.
18:39, 30 October 2019
After a blood stroke, a woman from South Ossetia was taken to a clinic in Tskhinvali and died. Because of the closed border, the patient was not taken to Tbilisi where she could be provided with more qualified medical treatment.
A law enforcer. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
18:32, 30 October 2019
Law enforcers started to check for extremism the movement "Vo Blago Obschego Naroda" (For the Good of the Common People, also known as V.B.O.N.) after video records had been posted on the Internet in which people were beaten and forced to apologize for their negative statements addressed to Azerbaijanis.
A bride. Photo Pixabay License
18:27, 30 October 2019
It's senseless to limit the number of cars in wedding corteges, since most accidents involving them do without grave consequences, Grozny residents believe. In their opinion, it's just enough to send a patrol car to accompany a wedding motorcade.
Infographic by the "Caucasian Knot"
17:17, 30 October 2019
Two years have passed since the events of the "four-day war," which ended in April 2016 with the conclusion of a truce agreement between the parties to the conflict: Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, on the one hand, and Azerbaijan, on the other hand. The formal truce did not stop the confrontation.
14:50, 30 October 2019
Organizers of the campaign "End to torture!" have condemned the authorities' inaction on the issue of ill-treatment of detained oppositionists and activists and stated their intent to attract the international community to the solution thereof. They have presented their action plan within the ten-day-long public campaign.
Inside of the building of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Photo by the press service of the ECtHR https://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home"
11:30, 30 October 2019
A transgender man, Nikolo Gviniashvili has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about Georgian authorities' refusal to change his gender record in documents. To change the data on the gender in documents, they demand from Georgian transgender people to confirm the fact of changing the gender, human rights defenders report.
Screenshot of the video published by Chingiz Akhmadov (on the left) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4M7f5CIrAt/
11:28, 30 October 2019
Chingiz Akhmadov, an employee of the Chechen television, has shown a man in the video, who, according to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, had been killed. The man was named as a relative of Islam Kadyrov, whose name was mentioned in connection with the attempt on the head of Chechnya.
Performance at the "AniDag" festival 2019б held on October 20 in Makhachkala. Screenshot of the video by the "Kavkaz.Realii"
07:37, 30 October 2019
The organizer of the event, Saida Tuchalova, has pointed out just single aggression acts towards the participants of the "AniDag" anime festival, which was disrupted because of threats in 2018. Spectators of the festival have noted its importance for self-realization of Dagestani youth.
07:11, 30 October 2019
At his solo picket in Makhachkala, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the assassinated shepherd brothers, has demanded to dismiss the policeman, Ibragim Aliev, who had reported about the killing of two militants.
Screenshot of the video of the detention of a rally participant in front of the courthouse before the consideration of an appeal filed against the arrest of Abdullah Makhmudov. Zafar Ahmadov's page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AndreyBoqatov/videos/2318451585135005/
23:50, 29 October 2019
An activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was detained in front of the courthouse before the consideration of an appeal filed against the arrest of rally participant Abdullah Makhmudov. The PFPA associates the detention of its activist with the preparation of a new rally.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Photo © Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
23:22, 29 October 2019
In Dagestan, two wives of a militant killed in Syria got pensions for the loss of primary income earner for more than three years. They are suspected of forging documents, a source reports.
Islam Kadyrov at a briefing. Screenshot of the video on the channel of the mayor of Grozny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s57bt97hYiM
19:50, 29 October 2019
A scandal around video records with the brutal actions of Islam Kadyrov did not get a resonance in the public institutions, noted residents of Chechnya and users of social networks. They fear that the verification of the video records made public will not lead to the criminal proceedings against the former mayor of Grozny.
The dispersal of a rally in Tbilisi. June 20, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze
19:37, 29 October 2019
In Tbilisi, the court refused to grant the victim status to the activists who suffered during the dispersal of a rally in front of the parliament building. The authorities do not want the protesters to gain access to the case file, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) states.
A still from the film "Daimokhk". Cerutti Film (2019)
16:51, 29 October 2019
The film "Daimokhk" about Chechen choreographer Ramzan Akhmadov will not be shown during the screenings of the Artdocfest festival in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, since "that will be safer for its heroes," film director Masha Novikova says.
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.