All news

Homepage / All news

05:22, 16 April 2026

Residents of a village in Makhachkala have accused officials of inaction.

Officials took no action to clear the flooded streets in the Reduktorny settlement of Makhachkala, and the prolonged power and water outages forced some residents to leave their apartments.

04:23, 16 April 2026

The sentence in the case of the deaths at a pumping station in Volgograd has been increased.

The Volgograd Regional Court has increased the sentence for Dmitry Lebedev, former chief engineer of Water Supply Concessions, sentencing him to five years in a penal colony.

03:24, 16 April 2026

A resident of Adygea was convicted of financing extremists.

A court in Adygea sentenced a local resident to a fine after investigators found him making money transfers to an extremist organization.

02:26, 16 April 2026

The regional state of emergency has been extended to the mountainous regions of Dagestan.

In addition to the federal emergency regime in effect in Dagestan, Sergei Melikov declared a regional emergency regime due to severe weather in several areas of the republic, including mountainous ones.

01:29, 16 April 2026

Some prisoners in the Taganrog pretrial detention center have ended their hunger strike.

In the Taganrog pretrial detention center, checks were conducted after the Muslim prisoners began their dry hunger strike, and their situation improved somewhat. Some prisoners are still refusing food, but intend to gradually end their hunger strike.

00:30, 16 April 2026

Russian analysts assessed the potential of the Trans-Caspian Corridor amid the war in Iran.

Given economic factors, the Trans-Caspian Corridor is not capable of replacing the sea routes through the Straits of Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb. However, against the backdrop of the war in Iran, its importance as an alternative route to Europe has temporarily increased, according to Russian analysts.

A still of protesters outside the Georgian Parliament on the 504th day of continuous protests. Photo: Publika / Facebook

23:31, 15 April 2026

Pro-European protests in Tbilisi have continued for 504 consecutive days.

On the 504th day of uninterrupted protests, protesters at the Georgian Parliament once again took to Rustaveli Avenue with banners and flags. The activists declared they would not pay the administrative fines, despite the freezing of their bank accounts.

22:31, 15 April 2026

Anton Chechin's detention regime has been tightened

Russian citizen Anton Chechin, a participant in pro-European protests convicted in Georgia, has been transferred to a closed prison. Chechin and another convicted Russian, Artem Gribul, were fined for card playing.

The crossing at Novogrigoryevskaya. Photo courtesy of Svetlana Surkova to "Caucasian Knot."

22:02, 15 April 2026

The lack of a crossing over the Don River has worried residents of a village in the Volgograd region.

The ferry crossing across the Don River near the village of Novogrigoryevskaya has been out of service for four days. The "state" ferry is undergoing repairs, while the "private" ferry has been closed by regulatory authorities. A district council member has reassured local residents that the private ferry will resume service on April 16, and the "state" ferry on June 1.

21:31, 15 April 2026

Food and fuel were delivered to the snow-blocked village of Bezhta in Dagestan.

An EMERCOM Mi-8 helicopter delivered aid to the cut-off village of Bezhta in the Tsuntinsky District of Dagestan. The same aircraft was unable to evacuate a meteorologist from the Sulak-Vysokogornaya weather station.

Cleanup in Anapa. Screenshot from the Krasnodar Krai Emergency Response Center, April 15, 2026, https://t.me/opershtab23/15696.

20:42, 15 April 2026

Volunteers reported cleaning up oil spills on Anapa's central beach.

A joint cleanup effort at Anapa's central beach was carried out by rescuers and volunteers. The volunteers reported that the oil spill was quickly removed. The number of birds contaminated with oil in recent days has exceeded 400.

19:51, 15 April 2026

A soldier was convicted in Nalchik for leaving his unit without permission.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Ibragim Mutaliev to five years in prison, finding him guilty of evading military service during mobilization.

18:58, 15 April 2026

An activist from Volzhsky was released after her arrest.

Activist Varvara Luch was released from pretrial detention after five days of administrative arrest for allegedly promoting the symbols of extremist organizations.

18:37, 15 April 2026

The sentence against a Nalchik developer in the case involving apartments for orphans has been upheld.

The Court of Cassation refused to overturn the sentence of Radzhab Aykham Kamal, a Syrian displaced person and the CEO of Nedvizhimost-Nalchik LLC. In his testimony, he stated that he was unable to complete the construction of housing for orphans due to the sharp rise in the price of building materials following the imposition of sanctions after the start of the Second World War.

17:37, 15 April 2026

A border guard died in an avalanche in the Tsumadinsky District.

The body of a man missing after an avalanche was found in the Tsumadinsky District of Dagestan. Local residents quickly pulled another victim from the snow.

Flooding in Dagestan. Photo: Dagestan headquarters of "WeAreTogether"

16:50, 15 April 2026

Residents of Dagestan reported on the situation in flooded areas.

Water pumping is still ongoing in flooded areas of Dagestan, local residents reported. They say volunteers are providing significant assistance.

15:50, 15 April 2026

The head of a village in Kuban was killed in the SVO zone.

Eduard Popov, head of the village of Lvovskoye, was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 842 soldiers from the Krasnodar region have been officially recognized as killed.

13:00, 15 April 2026

A combatant from Ingushetia was killed in a military operation.

Musa Khautiev from the Malgobek district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 189 fighters from Ingushetia have been officially recognized as killed.

12:03, 15 April 2026

The defense called for Karapetyan's release from house arrest.

A Yerevan court has begun hearing the case of Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the Strong Armenia party. The defense has requested that the defendant be released from house arrest to prepare for the June parliamentary elections.

11:05, 15 April 2026

Arashukov's relatives were denied their request to transfer him to another prison colony.

Relatives of Rauf Arashukov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, were denied their request to transfer him from the Orenburg region to a penal colony in Mordovia. The former senator's defense team disagreed with the decision.

⟵ Previous article

1 2 … 11 12 13 … 3376 3377

Next article ⟶

News

Human rights activists reported violations of Belkisa Mintsayeva's rights.

Ukrainian prisoners held in Chechnya have returned home.

Aishat Khizrieva was able to leave Russia.

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

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

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

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.