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APB on wanted suspect Ibragim Mazhaev allegedly involved in the attack on policemen. Photo: MIA for Chechnya.
16:38, 18 December 2016
Law enforcers report on four policemen killed in Grozny
Four policemen were killed by suspects involved in an attack on policemen in Grozny. The police launched the interception plan in the city. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source from the law enforcement authorities. According to law enforcers, they managed to cordon off a group of militants in the Staropromyslovsky District.
Shootout in the centre of Grozny, December 17, 2016. Photo: screenshot of video recorded by eyewitness, Youtube.
16:02, 18 December 2016
Attack in Grozny becomes fourth militant attack committed on New Year's Eve
The shootout of December 17 at the centre of Grozny has become at least the fourth since early 2016 and the seventh since early 2015 armed clash between law enforcers and militants in Chechnya. As a result of those seven incidents, 22 people, declared militants, were killed and two others were injured, and 21 law enforcers were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot". For the fourth year in a row, in December, in southern regions of Russia, militants declare themselves loud attacks and terror acts.
03:42, 18 December 2016
Rustam Aptaev detained in Ali-Yurt subjected to torture, his defenders assert
Rustam Aptaev, a 36-year-old resident of Grozny, detained on December 13 by believers of a mosque in the village of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia for the attempted murder of Isa Tsechoev, a well-known Islamic preacher, and brought to a police station, is being subjected to torture, since law enforcers force him to incriminate himself. This was reported by detainee's defenders and relatives.
00:30, 18 December 2016
Ramzan Kadyrov reports on four people killed in shootout in Grozny
As a result of a shootout in Grozny, four militants were killed and two others were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Besides, an inspector of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) was injured. This was reported by Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya.
A car shelled during the shootout in Grozny. December 17, 2016. Photo courtesy of an eyewitness
23:51, 17 December 2016
Six people killed in shootout in Grozny
As a result of an armed clash in the capital of Chechnya, six people were killed. According to preliminary information, one of the casualties is the 18-year-old Ibragim Mazhaev.
The AZAL airplane of the Embraer company. Photo: Azal.az
17:31, 17 December 2016
Experts find project of Azeri low-cost airline competitive
Through the creation of a low-cost airline "Buta Airways", the Azerbaijani national carrier AZAL is trying to fight for the monopoly in the low-cost market, experts say. The AZAL already possesses some experience in creating a brand for cheap air flights – the AZALJET, but only a small part of this airline's tickets are sold at lowest prices.
The participants of a "roundtable" on the problem of family ill-being. Makhachkala, December 16, 2016. Photo Mkala.ru
14:55, 17 December 2016
Authorities of Dagestan plan to reorganize remaining orphanages
The last two Dagestani orphanagesn, located in the cities of Izberbash and Kaspiysk will be re-profiled in 2017, said Djamal Ataev, the spokesman of the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences. According to the Ministry, the total number of orphans in Dagestan is 5678 people.
The Deputies of Tbilisi Self-Government during the debates on city budget. Photo: Tbsakrebulo.gov.ge
13:57, 17 December 2016
Tbilisi Budget adopted despite opposition's protest
Seven oppositional Deputies of Tbilisi Self-Government has voted against the draft city budget, offered by the authorities, but still it was adopted by the majority of them.
A young woman in the national costume. Grozny, September 2014. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:00, 17 December 2016
Chechnya: female employees of state agencies complain about enforcement to work in hijabs
According to women, working in state institutions of Chechnya, they were obliged to come to work in the garment, completely covering their hair and forehead. The order is spread exclusively in the oral form, said the women.
The painting "Interrupted Happiness" by Amina Kabulaeva. Photo courtesy of Patimat Guseynova
12:01, 17 December 2016
Exhibition of international project "We are only on the side of peace" opens in Makhachkala
The works of Dagestani painters, who take part in the international project "We are only on the side of peace", bring the idea of accord, solidarity and rejection of war. The exhibition in Makhachkala will last for a month.
The Stepanyan family of refugees from Azerbaijan in Nagorny Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
07:35, 17 December 2016
2300 refugees from Azerbaijan remain stateless in Armenia
2.6% of refugees from Azerbaijan, remaining in Armenia, are still without Armenian citizenship after the termination of the programme in support of forced migrants, said Anahit Airapetyan, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Armenia.
05:02, 17 December 2016
Sochi invalids complain about unlawful evacuation of their cars
The police and private companies are indiscriminately evacuating cars, including those marked as "disabled person", said Pavel Zhestovskiy, the chairman of the society of invalids of the Tsentralny District of Sochi. This practice has become widespread, social activists assert.
Aliy Musukov. Photo: Pravitelstvo.kbr.ru
04:08, 17 December 2016
KBR's Premier denies his involvement in sale of Philharmonic building
The members of the government of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) were not informed about the sale of the building of the Philharmonic Society to a private person, which followed after the transfer of the building to the balance of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Torgset".
Alexander Khloponin in Vladikavkaz. Screenshot of a TV program "Russia - Alaniya", alaniatv.ru
22:26, 16 December 2016
Khloponin finds South Ossetia's commitments on investment programme fulfilled
In 2016, despite the disruption of the construction schedule of the Drama Theatre in Tskhinvali, the South-Ossetian authorities have coped with their obligations before Russia in implementing the investment programme. This was stated by Alexander Khloponin, a Russian Vice-Premier.
Gevorg Safaryan (inthe centre) in the courtroom. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:19, 16 December 2016
Prosecutor demands to sentence Safaryan to 2.5 years in prison
The official from the Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has asked the court to find Gevorg Safaryan, a member of the "Constituent Parliament", guilty of using violence against a policeman.
15:35, 16 December 2016
Court upholds decision on recognizing International "Memorial" as "foreign agent"
The Zamoskvoretskiy District Court of Moscow has upheld the putting by the Russia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of the International "Memorial" into the register of organizations-"foreign agents". The court ruling will be appealed against, said Elena Zhemkova, the executive director of the organization.
The equipment of the participants of a "tractor march". August 2016. Photo: RFE/RL
14:56, 16 December 2016
Farmers of Southern Russia intend to hold a new "tractor march"
Seeing that there are no promised meetings in the Federation Council and Presidential Administration in Moscow, farmers from the Krasnodar Territory went to their congress held in Stavropol. There, it was decided to hold the All-Russian Farmers' and a repeated "tractor march".
Construction of a high-rise building. Photo http://www.riadagestan.ru/
14:14, 16 December 2016
Mayoralty of Makhachkala states 280 cases of illegal construction
During the first 11 months of 2016, the Mayoralty of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, received 280 materials on illegally erected buildings. On 120 lawsuits on demolition of illegally built structures, courts ruled in favour of the Mayoralty.
Vladimir Vladimirov, the Governor. Photo http://budennovsk.org/?p=89201
13:45, 16 December 2016
Stavropol Governor stands up for controversial land law
The aim of the law adopted in the Stavropol Territory, which has increased up to 2500 hectares the minimum land area allocated to tenants, is to protect land of the territory from outside influence, said Vladimir Vladimirov, the Governor. His statement in defence of the scandalous law was made three days after it was appealed against by the Prosecutor's Office.
A police car in Turkey. Photo http://www.vestikavkaza.ru/news/Politsiya-Turtsii-razyskivaet-chetyrekh-predpolagaemykh-terroristov.html
12:38, 16 December 2016
Native of Chechnya arrested in Turkey on suspicion of involvement in IS
A native of Chechnya has been arrested in the province of Agri in Eastern Turkey and accused of having links with the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia, said the spokesman of the Counterterrorist Department of the Security Office of the province.
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A native of Chechnya disappeared after being detained at Verkhniy Lars.

Nikita Zhuravel's mother received his letter from the prison colony.

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.