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Blogger Mekhman Guseinov. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
11:06, 6 February 2020
CEC partially satisfies blogger Mekhman Guseinov's complaint
Mekhman Guseinov, a blogger, insisted on cancellation of registration of Faradj Guliev, his rival at parliamentary elections, but the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has only made a warning and decided to wait for the outcome of the investigation initiated by the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).
Alizamin Salaev. Screenshot of Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=557490281792370&set=a.108531503354919&type=1&theater
08:22, 6 February 2020
Court refuses to investigate Salaev's allegation of torture
Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has told at the trial that he had been tortured by law enforcers, but the court rejected the defence's motion demanding to investigate this statement.
At the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: REUTERS/Staff
08:11, 6 February 2020
Three Vagram Avagyan's colleagues accused under his death case
Investigators have charged two other colleagues of the soldier, Vagram Avagyan, who perished in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), with non-statute relations (hazing); therefore, there are now three persons accused in his death base.
Advocate Gapur Murzabekov during the court hearing, February 5, 2020. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the Caucasian Knot
22:10, 5 February 2020
Defence of Ingush activist Amir Oskanov requests to summon law enforcers to court
An advocate of Amir Oskanov, a participant of a rally in Magas, requested the court to question both law enforces, with the use of force against whom Amir Oskanov was charged.
Military drills in Southern Military District. Photo: official website of the Ministry of Defence of Russia: https://stat.mil.ru/
21:52, 5 February 2020
Political analysts associate Caucasus exercises with Syrian conflict and crisis in Georgia
In the course of the regular military exercises in Northern Caucasus, soldiers and officers are practicing defensive tactics, explain Russian political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Their Georgian counterparts associated the military exercises in Russia with the political crisis in Georgia.
Imran Aliev. Screenshot from video posted at YouTube Channel "KYFiK OLEG - PRIME-SHOW" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNfz5rSvhXDkZO9ZJjNpmlw
18:05, 5 February 2020
Imran Aliev's murder reveals threat to Chechen activists in Europe
The murder in France of blogger Imran Aliev is an act aimed to intimidate critics of the Chechen government, believes Tumso Abdurakhmanov. The killer was hunting for Minkail Malizaev, whom the French authorities refused to provide police protection, suggested activist Djambulat Suleimanov and human rights defender Daniel Mihailovic.
A "warning conversation" with people detained for for using of narcotic and psychotropic substances. Screenshot from video posted by IA 'Grozny-Inform', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lhD4oUqZMU
17:23, 5 February 2020
Chechen law enforcers continue mass warning conversations with detainees
A new "warning conversation" with people detained for driving cars in a state of alcoholic intoxication, for using of narcotic and psychotropic substances, and "for other illegal actions" was arranged by Rustam Aguev, the chief of the Department for the Kurchaloi District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Mher Pogosyan. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the Caucasian Knot
17:10, 5 February 2020
Karabakh activist Mher Pogosyan ends his hunger strike
Today, Mher Pogosyan, a resident of Stepanakert, has ended his protest rally against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP). The protestor says that he is satisfied with the creation of a commission to examine environmental harm. Mher Pogosyan called for an anti-corruption inspection.
Idris Baisultanov, Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: chechnya.gov.ru, Reuters. Collage made by the Caucasian Knot
13:19, 5 February 2020
Ramzan Kadyrov appoints a relative Chechen minister to continue own personnel policy
Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed his cousin Idris Baisultanov the Minister of Education of Chechnya. Earlier, Idris Baisultanov held the post of the deputy head of the Chechen leader's administration. Ramzan Kadyrov continues to build his own "power vertical axis" in Chechnya, local residents suggest.
A man sitting at the computer. Photo: pixabay.com
13:06, 5 February 2020
Human rights defenders assess degree of Internet control in Caucasus
Four out of the six regions of the Southern Federal District, including the Volgograd and Rostov Regions, the Krasnodar Territory, and Adygea, are in the "red" area, the report suggests. This means that 30 or more facts of restriction of digital freedom were registered in the region or at least one case of violence as a result of online activity of citizens. In the North-Caucasian Federal District, the "red" area included Ingushetia, Chechnya, and the Stavropol Territory.
Portrait of Julietta Gukasyan. Screenshot from video posted by CBC TV Azerbaijan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZDzKF_U3A&feature=emb_logo
11:29, 5 February 2020
Russian soldier accused of killing woman in Gyumri failed to appear at court for fifth time
The court session on the murder of Julietta Gukasyan in Gyumri has been postponed for the fifth time because of the non-appearance of the accused Russian soldier. The Russian party has demanded to ensure his safety. The command of the Russian military base does not want in principle to bring soldier Razgeldeev to court, Arthur Sakunts, a human rights defender, has stated.
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.
News
Magomed-Amin Gatagazhev after his release. Screenshot from Roza Dunaeva's post. A native of Ingushetia has been released from a migration prison in Croatia.

Two Ingushetia residents have been convicted of selling weapons.

Historians have assessed the memory of the Muhajirs in the Eastern Caucasus.

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.