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Screenshot of the homepage of the "Open Society Foundations – Armenia" website
11:40, 30 September 2019
Armenia: Soros Foundation complains of persecutions
The Yerevan-based office of the "Open Society Institute – Assistance Fund" (Soros Foundation) has announced the persecution by members of the "Veto" movement, who have been on duty at the foundation building for several weeks and make photos of coming-out people.
A participant of the rally in Baku demands to release political prisoners. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:30, 30 September 2019
CoE demands from Azerbaijan to cancel activists' convictions
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to withdraw convictions from eight activists, whose rights violations were recognized by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
The award named after Doctor Aishat Magomedova nominees who got into the final. September 29, 2019. Photo by Rasul Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:24, 30 September 2019
Dagestani nominees of Aishat Magomedova Prize voice out main problems of Caucasian women
The participants of the awarding ceremony named after Doctor Aishat Magomedova, the founder of the Women's Charity Hospital in Makhachkala, named the major women's problems in Northern Caucasus: domestic violence, honour killings, female genital mutilation, lack of high-quality medical care and unemployment.
Detention on the charge of financing a terrorist organization. Screenshot from video posted by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfTBj2eRx70
12:16, 29 September 2019
"Kommersant" discloses details of case of financing IS*
Investigators treat Alim Begiev, a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), as the organizer of the fundraising scheme for militants in Syria and Iraq. He was allegedly involved in the transfer of millions of roubles to militants through the republics of Northern Caucasus.
Natig Djafarli. Screenshot from video posted by Meydan.tv https://www.meydan.tv/ru/site/news/28429
11:55, 29 September 2019
Court forbids "ReAl" activist from leaving Azerbaijan
The Sabail District Court has retroactively notified Natig Djafarli, the Executive Secretary of the "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) Party, about the ban on his leaving the country. The oppositionist has associated the ban with his speeches at foreign events.
11:42, 29 September 2019
NKR counts 150 shelling attacks by Azerbaijan within a week
On September 22-28, the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime on the troops contact line for about 150 times, firing more than 1600 shots, the Ministry Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.
Screenshot of Marina Ken's Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2295258243862521&set=pcb.2295258377195841&type=3&theater
11:31, 29 September 2019
Petersburg picketer supports arrested Ingush activists
On September 27, in Saint Petersburg, Marina Ken, a local activist, held a picket in support of the protesters arrested in March this year in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia. She stood with posters calling to set free the Ingush activists, including Malsag Uzhakhov, Akhmed Barakhoev and Zarifa Sautieva.
17:24, 28 September 2019
Serviceman died in NKR
Arman Levonyan, a soldier of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has died from a gunshot wound received in unclear circumstances, the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.
17:09, 28 September 2019
GPO reports about prevented terror act in Adygea
A check of the social media groups that promoted violence at schools, conducted after the tragedy at the Kerch Polytechnic College, has prevented a terror act, pre-planned by a resident of Adygea, said the spokesman for the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).
Azerbaijani servicemen. Photo: Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan: https://mod.gov.az/ru/news/proveden-ocherednoj-etap-uchenij-kavkazskij-oryol-2019-28651.html
16:52, 28 September 2019
Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of 19 shelling attacks
Within last 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 19 times, including from sniper rifles, the country's Ministry of Defence has stated today.
Cathedral Mosque of Maikop. Photo: Sergei Demeshkin, https://www.flickr.com/photos/160124708@N03/41485027484
16:38, 28 September 2019
Orientalists admit problems in studying Islam history in Southern Russia
The history of Islam in Southern Russia and Northern Caucasus is full of unresolved contradictions and white spots. The compilers of the encyclopaedic dictionary "Islam in the Russian Federation" had to postpone the publication of the consolidated volume in order to fill in the gaps in studying the topic.
Banknotes of Azerbaijan and USA. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
11:20, 28 September 2019
British court refuses to extradite Zamira Gadjieva to Azerbaijan
The court found that the right of Zamira Gadjieva, the wife of the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, to administering justice in Azerbaijan may be violated, and refused to extradite her to her homeland.
11:08, 28 September 2019
French court cancels friendship declaration with two NKR communities
A ruling of the administrative court of the city of Lyon has cancelled two friendship declarations of French and Karabakh cities. Thus, already nine such declarations concluded by twin cities of France and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have been cancelled by French courts, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.
Aishat Magomedova. Screenshot from the Caucasian Knot video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=574&v=mebL4D-qkmE
10:58, 28 September 2019
Aishat Magomedova's memory film presented in Makhachkala
Stories about the hard life of highland women of Dagestan formed the basis of the film, a private screening of which was held in Makhachkala on the eve of the awarding the prize of Dr Aishat Magomedova, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot from BBC News – Russian service https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=jp65fNM4Mj8
10:44, 28 September 2019
Kadyrov forces four wedding participants to apologize
Two more wedding participants criticized by Ramzan Kadyrov for breaching Chechen customs have posted their video apologies on the Internet. Kadyrov improves his rating by using Chechens' traditionalism of condemning such behaviour, said Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.
Timur Debishev. Screenshot of Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/debishev95/
08:38, 28 September 2019
ICRF ignores experts' conclusions about torture of Grozny resident by law enforcers
Investigators have four times refused to initiate a criminal case on the application of Timur Debishev, an actor of the Grozny theatre, who claimed torture after his detention.
Funeral of Regina Gagieva. Screenshot from video posted by Krylia TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ34Byd7H9k
08:28, 28 September 2019
Police work check begins after Gagieva's resonance murder
Investigators have promised to check the information that the death of Regina Gagieva, a resident of Vladikavkaz, was caused by law enforcers' inaction.
Zhalaudi Geriev in the courtroom. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the Caucasian Knot
22:15, 27 September 2019
Journalist ridicules investigator's refusals to investigate kidnapping in Chechnya
The Prosecutor's Office found no violations in the eighth investigator's refusal to investigate the kidnapping of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, in Chechnya. The journalist himself doubts that any checks were carried out at all on the complaint about his kidnapping.
22:04, 27 September 2019
Talekh Bagirzade's spouse suspected of delivering prohibited things to prison
Leyla Ismailzade, a wife of Talekh Bagirzade, the sentenced leader of the movement "Muslim Unity", tried to smuggle a mobile phone to prison, investigators suggested. Leyla Ismailzade denies the allegations.
Magomed Daudov. Photo: fotograf_095 - https://www.instagram.com/p/BUSAiQqjO-b/ https://ru.wikipedia.org
21:52, 27 September 2019
Magomed Daudov's video report on his trip to Ingush border provokes indignation in social networks
Users of social networks criticized Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, for using bad language on a video selfie made while waiting for an opponent on the border with Ingushetia.
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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.