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Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). Photo: Bilal Randeree https://www.flickr.com
11:31, 17 February 2019
Chechen Muftiate announces novelties for pilgrims
On February 15, Chechnya began receiving documents from those who wish to make a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. This year, it has been decided to increase the number of theologians who will accompany the pilgrims; and each participant of the Hajj will receive religious literature and will be able to bring home five litres of water from the holy source, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Chechnya has announced.
Banners with portrait of the leader of "Muslim Unity" Talekh Bagirzade, Baku, April 8, 2017. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
11:19, 17 February 2019
Rights defenders persuade Talekh Bagirzade to stop hunger strike in jail
Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, has agreed to stop his hunger strike, the co-chairs of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Inmates-Believers (CPRIB), who visited Talekh in an Azerbaijani prison, have informed.
11:09, 17 February 2019
Political analysts point to dying conflict around monument to Avagyan in Georgia
After the protests, Georgian officials got convinced not to dismantle the monument to Mikhail Avagyan, a Karabakh War veteran, local politicians of Armenian origin have reported. The Georgian authorities will not let go of a conflict of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Diasporas, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.
10:57, 17 February 2019
NKR claims 220 shelling attacks during the week
On February 10-16, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than 1700 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.
10:48, 17 February 2019
Workers of Armenian smelter stop their protest
After the meeting with the Armenian Vice-Premier, workers of the Alaverdi Copper Smelter unblocked the Yerevan-Tbilisi railway, agreeing to wait for the outcomes of the talks on the resumption of the factory operation.
16:55, 16 February 2019
Law enforcers release one of detained residents of Grozny District
One of the three residents of Tersky was released without charging, two others are suspected of having links with militants, their relatives have informed.
Central Street in the dwelling settlement of Ilsky where the killed pensioners lived, Krasnodar Territory, 2019. Photo: Alina Desyatnichenko for the Caucasian Knot
16:45, 16 February 2019
Kuban residents support version of homophobia-based murder of fellow villagers
Two residents of the dwelling settlement of Ilsky were killed because of their sexual orientation, their fellow villagers are convinced. The fact that investigators have voiced out this version as one of the basic ones is a rare case, activists of the Russian LGBT Network have noted.
Khizri Shikhsaidov. Photo: Nsrdag, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57159500
16:25, 16 February 2019
Dagestani activists show disputable territories on Chechen border to Shikhsaidov
Members of the Dagestani Public Commission on the border with Chechnya have shown Khizri Shikhsaidov, the Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament, the potentially disputable territories for the demarcation. In his turn, he has assured that Dagestan has no intent to give any land to Chechnya.
16:09, 16 February 2019
Azerbaijani and Chechen authorities withdraw from interethnic conflict in Moscow
The parties in the mass brawl in the Pechatniki Moscow district were natives of Chechnya and Azerbaijan; mutual insults kindled the conflict, sources have reported. Employees of the Chechnya's permanent mission and the Azerbaijani Embassy in Moscow did not contact the parties, said the sources from both institutions.
13:25, 16 February 2019
Investigation of the "March 1" case over in Armenia
The Special Investigating Service (SIS) of Armenia has completed the inquiry into the case of riots in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008, and presented charges against the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, and other officials.
A person meditating. Photo: https://pixabay.com
13:16, 16 February 2019
Sochi Buddhist fined for meditation
The court has found the resident of Sochi, who conducted collective Buddhist meditations, guilty of illegal missionary activities and fined him by 5000 roubles. The court ruling has caused resonance among Facebook users.
Khabib Nurmagomedov. Screenshot from video at: https://ru.wikipedia.org/ Время спорта - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWyclHTd89o
13:07, 16 February 2019
Nurmagomedov pays fine for his brawl after fight with McGregor
Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Dagestani MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter, who was fined for the brawl he initiated after his fight with Conor McGregor, has paid the fine of 500,000 US dollars. Khabib has also paid the fines for his team members, Abubakar Nurmagomedov and Zubaira Tukhugov.
08:28, 16 February 2019
Chechen law enforcers launch campaign against wearing camouflage
The popular wearing of elements of military uniforms by Chechen residents undermines the law enforcers' authority and scares tourists away, law enforcers have stated. Raids were conducted in the Gudermes District, during which policemen warned men about the inadmissibility of wearing camouflage and other military clothes.
Advocate of 'Memorial' Murad Magomedov, lawyer of the 'Committee against Torture' Abubakar Yangulbaev and head of the 'Memorial' Office in Makhachkala Sirazhutdin Datsiev at the press conference in Makhachkala, February 15, 2019. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the Caucasian Knot
08:24, 16 February 2019
HRC "Memorial" treats inquiry into attack on Datsiev as inefficient
During a year, the investigation of threats received by the staff of the Makhachkala branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", arson of rights defenders' car, and beating up of Sirazhudin Datsiev, has not progressed; investigators shy away from contacts with victims and their lawyers, stated the participants of the press conference that took place in the capital of Dagestan on February 15.
Believers praying. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
08:16, 16 February 2019
Two believers detained at Salafi mosque in Makhachkala
On February 15, policemen conducted a preventive raid in the area of the mosque in Omarov Street; all the detainees are already back at large, the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has stated. Such raids are held every Friday, the journalist, Idris Yusupov, has added.
Believers praying, Magas, October 7, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
21:32, 15 February 2019
Islamic scholars point to growing Islamic leaders' influence in Ingushetia
Mass protests of residents of Ingushetia against the agreement on the border with Chechnya have demonstrated the significance of the religious factor in the region, the participants of the seminar on the history and modern state of Islam, held on February 13 at the Institute of Oriental Studies, have stated.
Alaverdi Copper Smelting Factory. Photo: Yakovlev Sergey https://ru.wikipedia.org/
21:21, 15 February 2019
Copper Smelter workers resume protest action in Armenia
Workers of the Alaverdi Copper Smelting Factory have again blocked the Yerevan-Tbilisi railway after the disruption of the meeting of governmental officials, the factory owner and the bank, Armen Kirakosyan, one of the organizers of the rally, has stated.
21:11, 15 February 2019
Religious activist Tural Allakhverdiev arrested for 20 days
On February 14, Tural Allakhverdiev, a believer and an active Facebook user, was arrested for 20 days for disobeying the police, the "Muslim Unity" Movement (MUM) has reported. MUM activists believe that Allakhverdiev was persecuted for calls to render material help to families of political prisoners.
At polling station in the Krasnodar Territory. Photo: Vlad Alexandrov, Yuga.ru
17:46, 15 February 2019
"Golos" counts overstated voter turnout at election in SFD and NCFD
Analysis of video records from polling stations in the Krasnodar Territory, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia has shown that the voter turnout in 2018 was overstated by 23-52%, the report of the movement for voters' rights named "Golos" (Vote) states.
Djambulat Umarov, Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video 'Chechnya Today' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6HuUnYrqg and Palitra TV https://ok.ru/video/12574852433. Collage made by the Caucasian Knot
17:29, 15 February 2019
Umarov offers making Abdurakhmanov Chechen authorities' envoy in Poland
The videos criticizing the authorities of Chechnya, which the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov posts on the Internet, spoil the image of the Chechen people, Djambulat Umarov, the Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information, has stated. He invited the blogger to present a concept for the implementation of Chechnya's foreign relations, promising to solicit for him to Ramzan Kadyrov.
News
Broken windows. Illustration created by the Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program. A residential building was damaged in a missile attack in the Rostov region.

A Stavropol resident has been convicted in connection with a terrorist organization.

Drone. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Three regions of the Southern Federal District were hit by drone attacks.

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.