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Islam Kadyrov applies an electric shocker (stun gun) to a woman. Photo: screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=BpjWCGHbJ6E
16:46, 29 October 2019
Report on videos with Islam Kadyrov confirms Tumso Abdurakhmanov's version
Video records showing the brutal actions of the former mayor of Grozny confirm the statement of Tumso Abdurakhmanov about his conflict with Islam Kadyrov, YouTube users note.
Seimour Khazi. Photo by Aziz Kerimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:26, 29 October 2019
Azerbaijani oppositionist denies disorderly conduct charges
Seimour Khazi, the deputy chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), claims the charges of disorderly conduct and of failure to obey to the police brought against him are false. He associates his arrest with his participation in the preparation of an opposition rally.
James Longman. Photo Alex078892- CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Longman#/media/File:James_Longman.png
11:22, 29 October 2019
James Longman's confession of no help to Chechen gays
The footage about the visit of the ABC's filming crew and the confession of the journalist, James Longman, to homosexuality has led to the appearance of a large number of homophobic comments in the popular Chechen publics. However, some users have called for tolerance. The story of persecutions of LGBT people in Chechnya has not been forgotten, said Igor Kochetkov, the head of the Russian LGBT Network.
11:13, 29 October 2019
Azerbaijani activists launch campaign against torture
The Committee against Repressions and Torture has announced the start of a 10-day-long public campaign in Azerbaijan under the slogan "End to torture!"
Aslan Iritov. Screenshot of the video by the Committee against Torture "Cleansing of the "Volny Aul"" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2hisa-kdY
08:41, 29 October 2019
CaT announces action in support of activist Aslan Iritov
A series of solo pickets in support of Aslan Iritov, the head of the organization "Volny Aul" (Free Village), will be held on October 31. The action is timed to the second anniversary of the clashes with law enforcers in the yard of Iritovs' house.
Screenshot of Salikh Ibn Baz's post on Twitter
08:38, 29 October 2019
Grandson of Saudi Sheikh declared his contempt for Kadyrov
Salikh Ibn Baz, a descendant of the former Mufti of Saudi Arabia, has accused the head of Chechnya of lying about Wahhabis and oppressions of Muslims. The religious advisor to Ramzan Kadyrov has invited him to Chechnya, but Ibn Baz expressed his contempt for Kadyrov.
Islam Kadyrov. Screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpjWCGHbJ6E&feature=youtu.be
08:35, 29 October 2019
Video of Islam Kadyrov's vacation posted on Internet after scandal
Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, publicly exposed for his cruelty, demonstrates the absence of problems in his life, as it follows from the videos posted in social networks.
A solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Makhachkala. October 25, 2019. Photo by Ilyas Kapiev for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:30, 28 October 2019
Pickets in support of journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev held in Makhachkala
In the capital of Dagestan, activists have held a series of pickets with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).
Chingiz Akhmadov. Screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/B4HfxnpoNXp/
23:23, 28 October 2019
Chechen authorities treat video with Islam Kadyrov as a trump card in a dispute with blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov
The Chechen authorities have shown their dominance in a dispute with Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who criticizes the Ramzan Kadyrov's regime, by providing him with full versions of videos about the brutal actions of Islam Kadyrov, the former mayor of Grozny. The blogger regarded the scandalous TV report about Islam Kadyrov as an attempt to get ahead of his posts.
Sharip Magomedsharipov with a security escort. Photo: screenshot of the post on Ismail Magomedsharipov's page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ismail.magomedsharipov.7/posts/2397667787169177
19:55, 28 October 2019
Report on beating of official criticized for authorities' indifference to oppression of Dagestanis
A former official from the Kizlyar District was beaten at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Khasavyurt, reports his brother Ismail Magomedsharipov, a member of the parliament of Dagestan. Facebook users note that officials also began to suffer from the "legal arbitrariness" in the republic and reproached the Magomedsharipov brothers for the indifference to cases of human rights violations.
Guard duty at the front of the Karabakh army. Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia http://www.mil.am/hy/news/7038
19:42, 28 October 2019
Azerbaijan registers 21 shelling attacks in conflict zone
The positions of the Azerbaijani troops on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were subjected to shelling attacks, including from heavy machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.
Cover of the book by Khadjimurad Donogo. Photo from Khadjimurad Donogo's page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/donogohadjimurad/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARDqt_RDXUDFsX-C1ArExP-p_SSRGe69UvR-iK-wPyrFoZM029PmCvpc8Tdgkh1BYCP_OUqsaZO5V39S&hc_ref=ARROqaockuLMsYBBvQu67hTqUa0iAFIY5bq6Kw6MEUkqQWmaVIDBcxjFBQekf2rSOt8&fref=nf" title=
13:47, 28 October 2019
Historians interested in information from new book about Imam Shamil's son
A book by historian Khadjimurad Donogo published in Makhachkala contains the documents about the life of an eldest son of Imam Shamil, never published earlier. Serious studies on the topic of the Caucasian war are in demand in modern society, historians note.
A wedding. Photo: StockSnap https://pixabay.com/ru/users/jetratull-10530573/?tab=latest
13:37, 28 October 2019
Georgian resident suspected of forcing his teenage daughter to get married
In Georgia, law enforcers detained a father of a minor girl. The man is suspected of forcing his minor daughter to get married.
James Longman, a reporter of the "ABC Chanel", and the Chechen police chief Apti Alaudinov. Photo: screenshot of the report by the US "ABC Channel" https://abcnews.go.com/International/time-told-head-chechen-police-gay-standing-jail/story?id=66323713&cid=clicksource_574_null_dp_hed
13:09, 28 October 2019
Chechen police chief distances himself from gay persecution after British journalist's coming out
After the coming out of James Longman, a reporter of the "ABC Chanel", who visited the Chechen republic, Chechen police chief Apti Alaudinov has assured him that in Chechnya, gays are not afraid of persecution by the authorities, but of their relatives' reaction to their sexual orientation.
Placing of flowers at the monument to victims of the terror act in the territory of the National Assembly of Armenia. October 27, 2018. Screenshot of the video by GALA NEWS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9CTcvh330
11:37, 28 October 2019
20th anniversary of shooting of Armenian parliament highlights need to resume investigation into terror act
In Armenia, officials and ordinary residents paid tribute to victims of the shooting of the Armenian parliament on October 27, 1999. The possibility of resumption of the investigation into the terror act was discussed.
The conveyor belt with bottles of vodka. Photo http://www.delfi.lv/biznes/bizopinion/alkogol-v-latvii-budet-dorozhat.d?id=43239210
11:34, 28 October 2019
Grozny residents complain about increased control over alcohol buyers
Law enforcers are on duty at the exit from the only hypermarket in the Chechen capital where alcoholic beverages are sold. The law enforcers inspect the people who entered the wine and vodka department and detain them if alcoholic beverages are found, local residents report.
11:47, 27 October 2019
Court leaves Azerbaijani activist Ilham Gusein under arrest
The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint against the administrative arrest of Ilham Gusein, a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Majlis of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence treats the arrest as unjustified.
Pre-trial prison. Photo: Elena Sineok, Yuga.ru
11:33, 27 October 2019
ICRF gets interested in traumas of inmate of Khasavyurt SIZO
A resident of the Kizlyar District, kept in custody at the Khasavyurt SIZO (pre-trial prison), was hospitalized with a craniocerebral trauma; investigators opened a case about the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm.
Picket of miners in Gukovo, October 26, 2019. Photo by Vyacheslav Prudnikov for the Caucasian Knot
11:19, 27 October 2019
Gukovo miners demand report of bankruptcy manager
On October 26, at a picket in Gukovo, former employees of the "Kingcoal" Company adopted an appeal to the prosecutor asking to oblige Roman Kopets, the bankruptcy manager of the "Zamchalovsky Anthracite", to report weekly on the progress of tendering the underground workings.
Photos of victims of the terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre. Photo: Life News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz4f6HuICe0
11:07, 27 October 2019
Muscovites paid tribute to Dubrovka terror act victims
About 200 people gathered in Moscow for the mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the terror act at the Theatrical Centre. Only 60 victims out of a thousand received compensations from the authorities; it's too late for others to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Igor Trunov, a lawyer, has stated.
News
South Ossetia's losses in fighting in Ukraine have raised questions about the combatants' motives.

A student from South Ossetia has been arrested in Tbilisi on espionage charges.

The death of a South Ossetian soldier in the North Ossetian Military District sparked a debate on social media.

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.