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Abubakar Yangulbaev. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
20:13, 19 October 2019
Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the Committee against Torture (CaT), has filed a complaint to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, demanding to punish Ibrahim Aliev, a former police chief of the Shamil District.
The match of the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) with the Moscow "Lokomotiv" FC in front of the half-empty stands. Photo by the press service of the "Akhmat" FC
20:08, 19 October 2019
The stands at the match of the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) were again filled with the use of administrative resources. Fans of the club are disappointed with the game of the team.
Shamil Khadulaev. Screenshot of the video by ННт TV channel: https://youtu.be/r-X4__H0XEc
20:00, 19 October 2019
Only two out of nine members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan are included into its new membership. Shamil Khadulaev is sure that he was not invited there for his active human rights activities.
Tumso Abdurakhmanov (on the left) and Chingiz Akhmadov. Screenshots of the videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0d3Li-O6oA, https://www.instagram.com/p/B05ghk9oGeE/
19:48, 19 October 2019
Chingiz Akhmadov, a journalist of the "Grozny" TV Channel, has been appointed director of the "Chechnya Today" Agency. Akhmadov is regularly posting video replies to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, in social networks in defence of Chechen authorities.
Barbed wire. Photo by Nina Tumanova for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:27, 19 October 2019
Border guards have stopped an attempt of Georgian intelligence agents to get into South Ossetia's territory, the official Tskhinvali has stated.
Girls in Grozny. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:24, 19 October 2019
Northern Caucasus preserves early marital relations; however, these traditions violate the laws of the Russian Federation, lawyers believe.
The LGBT flags. Photo https://www.svoboda.org/a/28496059.html
09:19, 19 October 2019
Volunteers of the Russian LGBT Network have evacuated almost 160 people from Chechnya and continue helping local homosexuals. According to the complaint filed by the Network in the interests of the murdered Chechen resident, Arbi Altemirov, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg may oblige Russia to investigate the case.
Logo of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"
09:17, 19 October 2019
Ramzan Shaikhaev, who was visiting Chechnya as a guest, was detained for a month by law enforcers without explanations; and on September 9, he disappeared, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has informed. His acquaintances believe that Shaikhaev had drawn law enforcers' attention because of his "suspicious" beard.
Alexander Cherkasov. Screenshot of the  video by Grani.ru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfgQ8DXakE
09:16, 19 October 2019
A Moscow court has refused to cancel the fine imposed on Alexander Cherkasov, a human rights defender, for the action held on the anniversary of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
The mosque in General Omarov (Hungarian Soldiers) Street in Makhachkala. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
09:13, 19 October 2019
Today, a check of documents of the visitors of the Makhachkala "Tangim" Mosque was held before the collective Friday namaz (prayer), not after as before. The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated that there were no detainees.
Magomed Katsiev (on the right) and Khasan Katsiev. Photo by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" https://memohrc.org
23:56, 18 October 2019
During a search, law enforcers presented a search warrant with another address, said a father of Khasan Katsiev, a participant of a March rally in Magas. Magomed Katsiev appealed to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with a request to protect his family members from persecution of law enforcers.
Rapper Uretra Batya recorded a video with an apology for the song "A Chechen Girl". Screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/B3u3u3vFlkO/
23:52, 18 October 2019
Rapper Uretra Batya recorded a video with an apology for the song "A Chechen Girl", and the performer Gangvest denied his involvement in the creation of the song and assured his respect for the Chechen people. Users of Instagram noted the apologies were not enough.
Mothers of the deceased soldiers at a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Screenshot of the video https://www.facebook.com/nikol.pashinyan/videos/562113981214484/
23:48, 18 October 2019
At a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, female relatives of the soldiers who deceased in peacetime demanded to pay them the same compensation as victims of the 2008 riots. According to the Prime Minister, payments are scheduled to be started in a few months.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot of the video by the "Grozny" TV Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=mqr7XSn8omk
19:39, 18 October 2019
Ramzan Kadyrov suggested that criticism of the Chechen authorities in articles by Elena Milashina was dictated by an author's bitterness at Chechen men. While trying to refute the article about clean-ups in Chechnya, the leader of the republic violated the rules of decency, local residents note.
A poster in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
15:43, 18 October 2019
Natalia Prilutskaya, a specialist for Russia at the "Amnesty International" (AI), believes the case against journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev was fabricated. The statement released by the human rights organization can have a positive effect on the Abdulmumin Gadjiev's case, his advocate believes.
15:36, 18 October 2019
In Baku, law enforcers conducted mass detentions of activists, including organizers of a rally scheduled for October 19, the opposition reports. The police threatened with sanctions for holding an unsanctioned rally.
The United Nations Human Rights Council. Photo: Ludovic Courtès, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45464991
11:52, 18 October 2019
The election of Armenia to the United Nations Human Rights Council was approved by 144 countries.
Prison trucks. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:50, 18 October 2019
The seven arrested leaders of Ingush protests will be taken to the psychiatric hospital in Stavropol for examination. Malsag Uzhakhov, Akhmed Barakhoev and Zarifa Sautieva are badly tolerating long travels in prison trucks (paddy wagons) because of their health problems.
The building of the European Court of Human Rights. Photo REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
11:47, 18 October 2019
Isropil Nalgiev and Bagaudin Gagiev, Ingush activists, have submitted complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about searches, arrests and fines for their participation in a rally.
11:45, 18 October 2019
Residents of the Gardaban District of Georgia forced the teacher Gamid Sadykov to make a public apology after he condemned the bride's abduction. Activists organized a campaign in his support in social networks.
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.