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Nanu Shaova, a 127-year-old resident of the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria. Photo: http://kbrria.ru/sites/default/files/field/image/dsc_5183.jpg
08:25, 5 July 2017
Oldest woman from Kabardino-Balkaria included in "Russian Book of Records"
Nanu Shaova, a 127-year-old resident of the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria, has been included in the "Russian Book of Records" as the country's oldest person.
05:36, 5 July 2017
Flight from Saint Petersburg to Tbilisi detained because of reported bomb on board
Flight A-9786 from the "Pulkovo" Airport to Tbilisi was to depart at 7:05 p.m., but was detained. Passengers had to pass the procedure of landing once again. At that moment, law enforcers were checking the aircraft for presence of an explosive device.
Hugo Almeida. Photo: http://www.fc-anji.ru/news/ru/club_news/anji_i_almejda_rastorgli_kontrakt130116/
00:59, 5 July 2017
Portuguese footballer complains about regular shooting in Dagestan
Hugo Almeida, a former striker of the Krasnodar "Kuban" FC and the Makhachkala "Anji" FC, has reported about regular shooting in Dagestan and his desire to leave the republic.
Defendants in case of attack on Nalchik in the court room. Photo by the Caucasian Knot correspondent.
00:40, 5 July 2017
Sister of man sentenced for attack on Nalchik complains about his torture in penal colony
Aminat Khupsergenova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has appealed to the Russian General Prosecutor, the chief of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), the leader of the "Committee for Civil Rights", and to the chairman of the Kabardino-Balkarian regional human rights centre with a complaint about violation of the Khasanbi Khupsergenov's rights.
RPG. Photo: © Sputnik / STR https://ru.sputnik.az/karabakh/20170209/408813104/obstrel-karabah-okkupirovannye-rajony-azerbajdzhana.html
23:39, 4 July 2017
Azerbaijan announces death of two villagers at bombardment of Alkhanly (+video)
As a result of shelling from the Armenian side, in the village of Alkhanly, Fizuli District, a woman and a two-year-old girl were killed, and another woman received shrapnel wounds, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.
Agvali, Dagestan. Photo: http://www.odnoselchane.ru/?com=photogallery&init_id=1195&page=photos_of_category&sect=1341
19:37, 4 July 2017
Resident of Dagestan accused of exploding a grenade in Agvali
The case about a grenade explosion in the computer club of the village of Agvali, Tsumadin District of Dagestan, as a result of which two schoolchildren were killed, has been sent to the court.
Murad Amriev with his sister, Grozny, June 10, 2017. Photo by Kheda Saratova for the Caucasian Knot.
18:48, 4 July 2017
Rights defenders report law enforcers' attempt to detain athlete Murad Amriev
Athlete Murad Amriev had to hide from the police in Pyatigorsk, since he was put on the federal wanted list base. This was reported by the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture".
16:24, 4 July 2017
In Moscow, police detain a picketer in connection with Boris Nemtsov's murder case
Today, Mikhail Lashkevich, an activist of the movement "Solidarity", has held a solo picket near the building of the court which considers the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder. The activist has been detained and brought to the Basmannoe OVD (Interior Division), the "OVD-Info" reports.
15:43, 4 July 2017
Defence of Sochi women sentenced for treason challenge their verdicts
The defence of Sochi women Annik Kesyan, Inga Tutisani, and Marina Djandjgava, sentenced on the charges of treason after sending SMS messages to Georgia, has filed complaints to the Russian Supreme Court (SC) with the demand to acquit the women. This was reported by their advocate.
Flooding. Photo: http://www.sk-news.ru/news/vlasti/47517/
13:36, 4 July 2017
Residents of Adygea complain about shortage of payments to flood victims
In Adygea, victims of the flood claim that the amount of 10,000 roubles got by them from the regional authorities is not enough to bring their houses in order. In total, 5000 people applied for financial assistance.
Arthur Panov and Maxim Smyshlyaev in the court. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the Caucasian Knot.
12:55, 4 July 2017
Arthur Panov starts new hunger strike
At the beginning of the today's hearing at the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, Arthur Panov, a citizen of Ukraine, accused of plotting a terror act, has reported that he declared a hunger strike on June 25 with the demand to extradite him to Ukraine.
Miners hold rally in front of of the "Kingcoal" Company office. Photo by Prudnikov for the Caucasian Knot.
11:55, 4 July 2017
Gukovo miners declare hunger strike
Today, in the town of Gukovo in the Rostov Region, miners of the "Kingcoal" Company have gathered for a new sanctioned picket. They claim that they did not receive their wages. The miners announced that they went on hunger strike in protest.
Alexei Kolyasnikov. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the Caucasian Knot.
10:38, 4 July 2017
Russia informs ECtHR about legality of ban on reading Bible in Sochi cafe
Alexei Kolyasnikov, a pastor from Sochi, was supposed to notify the authorities on holding a public event. This was stated by a Russian representative to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) in response to the ECtHR's question concerning the legality of the position of Russian courts which fined the pastor after the collective reading of the Bible in a cafe.
08:34, 4 July 2017
"Sberbank" checks information on extortion of money from chief of its branch in Chechnya
The "Sberbank" has launched a check into the information that Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, demanded 30 million roubles from Said-Magomed Djabrailov, the chief of the Chechen branch of the "Sberbank".
Banner with inscription "Sasna Tsrer", July 2016. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the Caucasian Knot.
03:03, 4 July 2017
Four advocates boycott court hearing in "Sasna Tsrer" case
On July 3, the court hearing in the case against 18 members of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun) took place in a tense atmosphere. The court repeatedly interrupted the hearing. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who attended the trial.
Alexander Lapshin. Photo: © Personal archive https://ru.sputnik.az/politics/20161219/408142419/azerbajdzhano-izrailskie-otnoshenija-bloger-lapshin.html
01:22, 4 July 2017
In Alexander Lapshin's case, witnesses condemn his trips to Nagorno-Karabakh
On July 3, in Baku, at a hearing held in the case against blogger Alexander Lapshin, the court questioned witnesses Eiyub Abdulazimov and Fakhraddin Safarov, internally displaced persons from the Shusha District. The witnesses told about the insult, inflicted on them by the blogger Alexander Lapshin's publications about Nagorno-Karabakh.
00:44, 4 July 2017
In Abkhazia, father of murdered schoolgirl sentenced to 20 years in prison
On July 3, the Supreme Court (SC) of Abkhazia sentenced a local resident to 20 years of imprisonment on the charges of raping and killing his nine-year-old daughter. His suspected accomplice was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment.
23:00, 3 July 2017
Head of Chechen "Sberbank" put on federal wanted list
Said-Magomed Djabrailov, the head of the Chechen branch of Russian "Sberbank" (Savings Bank), is suspected of illegally cashing more than one billion roubles through his bank and a number of one-day companies. This was reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya.
Ruzanna Tuko. Photo from the Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/p/BRdzAO7hKy3/?taken-by=miss_ruzanna_
19:04, 3 July 2017
Minister reports no violations at USE in Ruzanna Tuko's school
The objectivity of the final attestation at Takhtamukai School No. 1 causes no doubt; and any retake of the Uniformed State Examinations (USE) by the former official's daughter is out of question. This was stated by reported by Anzaur Kerashev, the Minister of Education and Sciences of the Republic of Adygea.
Residents of the Nogai District against the Republican authorities' interference in the elections, the village of Terekli-Mekteb, July 3, photo by Asya Kapaeva
15:58, 3 July 2017
In Dagestan, protesters disrupt introduction of head of Nogai District
In the village of Terekli-Mekteb, participants of the rally broke into a building of the administration for the Nogai District of Dagestan during a meeting in which Baimagomed Yarlykapov was introduced as an acting head of the Nogai District.
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Two parties have announced their lists for the parliamentary elections in Armenia.

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.