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An inscription on the car "The Investigating Committee". Photo by Nina Tumanova for "Caucasian Knot"
10:55, 21 September 2017
Resident of Chechnya accused of financing Syrian terrorists
A resident of Chechnya, who in 2015, in Syria, joined the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, is accused of financing terrorism.
The front desk at the Republican Clinical Center for Infectious Diseases in Grozny. Photo http://rkcib.ru/index.php/o-bolnitse/fotogalereya/category/3-rabochie-momenty
10:08, 21 September 2017
Grozny café suspended after mass poisoning
Supervisory officials are examining a café in Grozny, whose visitors were hospitalized with poisoning.
A view of Nalchik. Photo http://fond-adygi.ru/page/v-kbr-do-konca-goda-otkroetsja-dvorec-detskogo-tvorchestva
08:04, 21 September 2017
Reports on terror threats in Nalchik prove to be false
Law enforcers failed to find any explosive devices in the shopping centres, from which residents of Nalchik were evacuated on September 20.
Circassian flag. Nalchik, September 25, 2013. Photo by Luiza Orazaeva for "Caucasian Knot"
22:06, 20 September 2017
KBR residents call Adygs Day a unifying holiday
Today, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has marked the Adygs Day for the fourth time. Nalchik townspeople treat it as a unifying holiday, but saw some opposition to the Revival Day of Balkar Nation in it.
A night club in the center of Baku. Photo: http://azerbaijan.travel/ru/
20:57, 20 September 2017
Police explain gays’ detentions in Baku by townspeople complaints
The detention raids of Baku gays were triggered by citizens’ complaints that people with non-traditional sexual orientation are engaged in prostitution, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated. Local LGBT activists assert that homophobic sentiments are very strong in the country.
A law enforcer in the street of Grozny. Chechnya. Photo: REUTERS/Eduard Kornienko
14:50, 20 September 2017
Moskalkova reports about inquiry into disappearances in Chechnya
Chechen investigating bodies have opened criminal cases on disappearance of 18 persons, Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russia’s Ombudsperson, has stated.
The former Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov. Photo by Oleg Pchyolov for "Caucasian Knot"
12:48, 20 September 2017
Former Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov refused pardon
Despite 189 appeals in support of the former Mayor of Makhachkala, a commission has unanimously refused to pardon Said Amirov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. This was reported by the newspaper "Orenburzhye" with reference to the Vice Governor of the Orenburg Region.
Ramzan Kadyrov (on the left) at the opening of the Timati's restaurant in Grozny on September 19, 2017. Photo https://chechnyatoday.com/content/view/306385
11:48, 20 September 2017
In Grozny, Timati's burger restaurant opened under snipers’ control
On September 19, at the opening of the Timati's restaurant in Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov handed out burgers to the first visitors, being guarded by armoured vehicles and soldiers. This was reported by local residents.
The earlier unpublished documents from the Vatican are transferred to Armenian Genocide Museum. Photo http://novostink.ru/armenian-genocide/213165-dar-muzeyu-genocida-armyan-ranee-neopublikovannye-dokumenty-iz-vatikana.html#ixzz4tCr8T02s
11:23, 20 September 2017
Archive documents from Vatican transferred to Armenian Genocide Museum
The number of the documents from the secret archives of the Vatican, earlier unpublished and donated to the Museum, includes the records of diplomats who worked in the Ottoman Turkey in the period from 1914 to 1917.
The armed forces of Azerbaijan. Photo: mod.gov.az
09:26, 20 September 2017
Azerbaijan registers 127 cases of shelling per day
During the past 24 hours, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 127 times at the contact line. This has been reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Tatiana Moskalkova. Photo from her personal page on FB https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004315208644&fref=ts
08:10, 20 September 2017
Tatiana Moskalkova announces her intention to meet alleged gays in Chechnya
According to the law enforcement agencies, two residents of Chechnya, mentioned in the publications of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" as dead, are alive. This has been reported by Tatiana Moskalkova, Russia's Commissioner for Human Rights, during her trip to Grozny. Tatiana Moskalkova intends to meet them.
Baghdad. Photo: James Gordon - Flickr
05:59, 20 September 2017
Chechen authorities deny information about IS member Tagirov's return to Russia
Khasan Tagirov, a native of Chechnya, detained in Iraq, is kept in prison in Baghdad and will be brought to trial in accordance with the Iraqi laws. This was reported by the administration of the Chechen leader.
Stefan Schennach. Photo https://news.day.az/politics/881362.html
05:14, 20 September 2017
PACE co-rapporteurs call on Baku to release political prisoners
Stefan Schennach (Austria) and Cezar Florin Preda (Romania), the co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee, have called on the Azerbaijani authorities to speed up the reform of the penitentiary system, bring the country's legislation on NGOs to European standards and release activists arrested and sentenced for political reasons.
Aziz Orudjev. Photo http://azerbayd.videoduel.ru/3-172307-ugolovnoe-delo-protiv-reportera-kanal-13-vozbudili-v-barde-sotrudnik-internet-televideniya-kanal-13-teymur-kerimov.html
04:15, 20 September 2017
Journalist Aziz Orudjev arrested for his professional activities, his brother asserts
In Baku, a trial in the case against Aziz Orudjev is scheduled for September 27. The journalist is being prosecuted in connection with his professional activities, claims his brother Anar Orudjev, a founder of the "Kanal-13".
Oleg Orlov. Photo RFE/RL
03:47, 20 September 2017
ECtHR refuses to reconsider case of journalists beaten in Ingushetia
Judges from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have refused to send for reconsideration the case of beating in Ingushetia of rights defender Oleg Orlov and three journalists. Russia is obliged to pay 84,000 euros of compensation to the complainants.
23:52, 19 September 2017
Police stop AIP congress
The police have blocked the building, where an event was scheduled in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Azerbaijani Islamic Party (AIP).
Entrance to Khasavyurt, Dagestan. Photo: http://www.riadagestan.ru/
22:30, 19 September 2017
Law enforcers give the body of killed Khasavyurt resident out to his relatives
Sakhrudin Ibragimov, a resident of Khasavyurt, was killed in a shootout with policemen, the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has stated.
Zelimkhan Bakaev (on the right) with the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: RFE/RL
19:22, 19 September 2017
Chechen authorities react to appeal of disappeared singer's mother to Kadyrov
On September 18, in Chechnya, the Ministry for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) almost simultaneously rejected the political and criminal subtext in the disappearance of Zelimkhan Bakaev. The Ministries have assured they are making all efforts to find him.
Advocate Akhmed Elmurzaev's personal account on Facebook. Photo https://www.facebook.com/a.elmursaev?lst=100000971118348%3A100011332704369%3A1505845857
18:55, 19 September 2017
Defence achieves initiation of criminal case on attack on "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
In Makhachkala, three months after an attack on a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, investigators have instituted a criminal case under the Article stipulating up to six years of imprisonment.
Putin Avenue. Grozny. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for "Caucasian Knot"
18:53, 19 September 2017
Central Grozny blocked because burger restaurant opening
Policemen have partly blocked Putin Avenue in connection with the opening of a rapper Timati’s burger restaurant in the capital of Chechnya.
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Increasing the value of housing certificates in Armenia has not solved the housing problem for refugees.

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.