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"Verkhny Lars" checkpoint. Photo: http://15.mchs.gov.ru/upload/site40/iblock/c27/c276bdf30f911799cd3057e9f3ef7f58.jpg
16:17, 13 August 2018
Tourists report 13-hour lines on border between Russia and Georgia
At the "Verkhny Lars" checkpoint, travelers have to stay in a line for more than 10 hours, the Department for North Ossetia of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports today. In social networks, tourists note that officials underestimate the problem on the border between Russia and Georgia.
Kaspiysk. Photo: Shamil Magomedov, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Каспийск
16:07, 13 August 2018
Vladimir Putin announces construction of a deepwater port in Kaspiysk
At the fifth Caspian summit in Kazakhstan, Vladimir Putin has announced that the port to be built in the city of Kaspiysk until 2025 will be able to receive ships with a workload of 15,000-25,000 tons.
Column of Georgian soldiers near Tskhinvali, August 8, 2008. Photo: REUTERS/Irakli Gedenedze
15:55, 13 August 2018
Georgian war veterans describe protracted shelling before Five-Day War
Ten years after the August 2008 events, Georgian war veterans told the "Caucasian Knot" how the acute phase of the conflict, which went down in history as the "five-day war," began and developed. War veterans said that large-scale military operations began not on August 8, but on August 6, when the villages of Nuli and Avnevi were destroyed by mortar fire, and on August 2, wounded law enforcers began to enter the military hospital.
Farmers on protest rally in the Krasnosulin District and a policeman, August 12, 2018. Photo by Vyacheslav Prudnikov for the Caucasian Knot
11:23, 13 August 2018
Rally of farmers held under law enforcers' control
In the Krasnosulin District, Rostov Region, 15 activists went out to protest, demanding from the authorities to pay attention to farmers' land problems.
11:13, 13 August 2018
Dagestan official complains to ECtHR about his detention
Rayudin Yusufov, a former Dagestani official, accused of fraud, has reported to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that he was detained without observing the necessary formalities.
Participants of the V Caspian Summit, August 12, 2018. Photo: http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/58296/photos/54966
10:59, 13 August 2018
Convention on Legal Status of Caspian Sea signed
On August 12, in Kazakhstan, the leaders of the so-called "Caspian Five" countries signed the Convention on Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan have called the deal historic.
Rally demanding legalization of marijuana and light drugs, Tbilisi, June 2, 2014. Photo by Edita Badasyan for the Caucasian Knot
10:47, 13 August 2018
Georgia's CC responds to opponents of marijuana legalization
The Constitutional Court (CC) of Georgia has treated as unjustified those assessments and statements made by the clergy in connection with the decision made by the CC on marijuana consumption.
12:23, 12 August 2018
Brother of former Armenian Prime Minister indicted
Genrikh Abramyan, a brother of Ovik Abramyan, a former Prime Minister of Armenia, is accused of illegal acquisition and storage of arms and ammunition. The court decided to arrest him.
22:39, 11 August 2018
In Western Georgia, dozens of families cut off from outer world by heavy rains
In the Senak Municipality of Georgia, about 70 families were cut off from the outside world: after intense rainfalls, the Tekhura River came out of the banks; and streams of water smashed two bridges.
Ammunition found by law enforcers in Dagestan. Photo http://www.rosgvard.ru/ru/news/article/v-dagestane-vzryvotexniki-omon-unichtozhili-vzryvoopasnye-boepripasy
18:38, 11 August 2018
Two hideouts with ammunition found in Chechnya and Dagestan
Hideouts with submachine guns and ammunition have been neutralized in the Chechen village of Kalaus and in the Makhachkala settlement of Shamkhal, law enforcers have reported.
The barrel of a gun. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:34, 11 August 2018
Nagorno-Karabakh blames Azerbaijan for 200 bombardments during a week
From August 5 to 11, Azerbaijani soldiers made more than 1800 shots on the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.
14:17, 11 August 2018
Tourist from Austria dies on Mount Elbrus
Rescuers have handed the body of a man, whose heart stopped on Saturday while he was climbing Mount Elbrus, over to law enforcers.
Azerbaijani tanks. Photo by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence https://mod.gov.az/ru/news/tankovye-podrazdeleniya-pristupili-k-intensivnym-zanyatiyam-video-23771.html
14:06, 11 August 2018
Azerbaijan counts 82 shelling episodes from Armenia
Within the past 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone for 82 times by using heavy machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.
Harlem Désir. Photo: OSCE/Frédéric de La Mure
10:39, 11 August 2018
OSCE Official for Media Freedom urges Baku to stop blocking news websites
Harlem Désir, the OSCE Official on Media Freedom, has called on Azerbaijani authorities to urgently reform the country's mass media legislation. Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has cancelled the blocking of one of the news websites – the "arqument.az".
10:34, 11 August 2018
Terrorist Chataev's helper detained in Georgia
Law enforcers have detained Ruslan Shavadze, who had been sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison for complicity to the terrorist grouping headed by Akhmed Chataev.
A flag with a logo of the Committee Against Torture of the United Nations. Photo: press service of the Committee Against Torture http://www.pytkam.net
08:34, 11 August 2018
UN point to problems with investigation of torture in Northern Caucasus
The UN reports are important, but authorities do not always consider them, said Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Civil Assistance Committee, and Sergey Davidis, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
Participants of an anti-corruption rally in Makhachkala. June 12, 2017. Photo by Murad Muradov for the "Caucasian Knot"
08:27, 11 August 2018
Witnesses tell about attack on "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
Karim Kasumov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of attacking a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during a rally in Makhachkala, knew that he was interfering with making a video by a media professional, one of the witnesses told the court, refuting the version of his defence.
Robert Kocharyan. Photo © administration of Robert Kocharyan https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/politics/20180802/13621852/bez-prava-na-svidanie-v-kakih-usloviyah-soderzhitsya-ehks-prezident-armenia-robert-kocharyan.html
22:01, 10 August 2018
Court postpones decision on Kocharyan's complaint about arrest
The Court of Appeal has considered the complaint of the defence of Robert Kocharyan, the second Armenian President, about his arrest, and has postponed the decision on it until August 13. The members of the Council of Elders of Yerevan from the "Apricot Country" Party have stopped their action against Kocharyan, saying that they will wait for the court's decision.
21:57, 10 August 2018
Arrested Azerbaijani activist appeals against relatives' visits
Ruslan Nasirli, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), has demanded from the court to restore his right to be visited by family members and have telephone talks with them.
Manvel Grigoryan. Photo: public domain https://ru.wikipedia.org
17:35, 10 August 2018
Defence of Manvel Grigoryan appeals against his arrest
The state of health of Manvel Grigoryan, a former MP and the head of the Armenian "Erkrapa" Union of Volunteers, is worsening day by day; and his life is under threat, the defence explained its petition to change the measure of the defendant's freedom restraint.
News
Erosion of the banks of the Sulak River. Frame from a video by the administration of the Kizilyurt district / Telegram Reinforcement of the banks of the Sulak has begun after villagers appealed to Shchukin and Ramazanov.

Queue at the gas station. Frame from the video Krasnodar/Teletype from 22.07.26, https://t.me/tipichkras/81260 Residents of southern Russia deemed the rise in gasoline prices unjustified.

Boris Gontsov. Photo: https://riadagestan.ru/ The former mayor of Kaspiysk has been arrested for two months.

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.