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Ani Zakaryan. Screenshot of a video on the channel ArmComedy в YouTube.com on YouTube
14:58, 10 December 2016
Party leader in Armenia is charged in context of Yerevan riots
During the riots in Khorenatsi Street in Yerevan, Ani Zakaryan, the leader of the "New Political Culture" Party, urged supporters of the "Sasna Tsrer" detachment to break the glass of a police car, investigators assert. Ms Zakaryan has treated the charges as politically motivated.
Tatyana Morschakova (in the center), a member of the HRC, at the meeting with the president Vladimir Putin on December 8, 2016. Photo: Kremlin.ru
12:15, 10 December 2016
HRC treats Rajapov's and Tsetievs' case as example of judges' and investigators' "frank pledge"
The case of the natives of Chechnya Khamid Rajapov and Tsetiev brothers, accused of beating and attempted murder of employees of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), shows the need of creating some independent institution to deal with checking complaints against law enforcers and investigators, the members of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) believe.
09:33, 10 December 2016
Prosecutor's Office states violations at payments to workers in Grozny
The prosecutor's check, launched after the publication of the "Caucasian Knot", has revealed violations at paying wages to workers the "MegaStroyInvest". At the same time, the information about the long delay in payment of wages was not confirmed, the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has reported.
The Magaramkent District of Dagestan. Photo: Adminmr.ru
08:40, 10 December 2016
Resident of Magaramkent District accused of aiding militants
The case against a Dagestani, accused of possessing ammunition for the members of the "Magaramkent" armed grouping, has been sent to the court.
Ruben Melikyan. Photo: OSCE/Vahram Baghdasaryan
06:25, 10 December 2016
Report on violations of humanitarian law in conflict zone released in Stepanakert
Ruben Melikyan, the Ombudsman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has prepared a report on violations of the international humanitarian law by Azerbaijan during the exacerbation of the Karabakh conflict in April this year. The paper presents evidence of torture and executions, including of civilians.
05:00, 10 December 2016
Sochi court marshals demand to evict family of "Olympic settlers" from boarding house
A court marshal has ordered the Martynov spouses to move out of the room in the "Neptune" boarding house, which was allocated to them from the reserve housing fund during the preparation for the Winter Olympic Games in 2014.
03:01, 10 December 2016
Parishioners report removal of guard from mosque in Makhachkala
After over a year, power agents have lifting the guarding of the mosque in Kotrov Street, but it has not yet resumed its work, said the congregation.
Zhalaudi Geriev in the courtroom. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
01:27, 10 December 2016
Defence explains protraction of Geriev's trial by manipulations with pressure statement
The court session on the case of Zhalaudi Geriev, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", was not resumed after the break. According to the presiding judge, one of the judges needed medical care. During the break, the brought to the court the original judgement on the refusal to investigate the Geriev's application about his kidnapping and use of violence during investigatory actions; and the defence believes that waiting for this document was the real reason of the delay.
22:19, 9 December 2016
Rights defenders urge Kadyrov to react to threat to Djalaldinov
Ramzan Kadyrov and Russian authorities must respond to Ramazan Djalaldinov's statements about the threats received by him from Chechen power agents, said the participants of the press-conference held in Moscow. Elena Milashina expressed her confidence that Djalaldinov is persecuted because of fear before Kadyrov; while Djalaldinov, a resident of the village of Kenkhi told how he decided to record a video appeal to President Putin.
Igor Stenin. Photo by Yelena Grebenyuk for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:57, 9 December 2016
Stenin's defence appeals against toughening his custody regime
The transfer of Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", who is serving his sentence in the Tambov Region, from the colony-settlement to the general-regime colony has no grounds and should be abolished, his defence has stated in the complaint against the court judgement.
The Hmeymin Airbase. Syria. Photo http://syria.mil.ru/
18:14, 9 December 2016
Power agents report sending 500 militaries from Chechnya to Syria
500 servicemen of the joint detachment of military have left Chechnya for Syria, a source from the republic's power agencies told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
A protest action against the construction of the road in "Bolshoi Utrish". January 2009. Photo from the website of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus"
17:14, 9 December 2016
Fedotov treats putting "EcoWatch" on list of "foreign agents" as attempt to blanket ecology problems
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed with the proposal of members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) to reconsider the inclusion of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) into the list of the so-called "foreign agents" and promised to speed up the work of the commission that deals with the complaints of Kuban farmers about raiding.
Ramazan Djalaldinov with an elderly woman in the village of Kenkhi. Screenshot of the video appeal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_oDJXutJJc
14:55, 9 December 2016
Djalaldinov prepared complaint to Bastrykin about threats received from Chechen power agents
Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the Chechen village of Kenkhi, who criticized the authorities, asks Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in his appeal to check several officials of the of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Chechnya.
Mother of Zhalaudi Geriev (to the right) at the court session. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
13:55, 9 December 2016
Trial of Geriev interrupted after withdrawal of panel of judges
The today's session of the court in Chechnya, which considers the complaint against the verdict to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, started with a petition to disqualify the presiding judge, whom the advocate Alaudi Musaev accused of lying.
Elena Milashina, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta". Photo RFE/RL http://pasmi.ru/archive/50109
12:50, 9 December 2016
Rights defenders report violent counteraction to discussion of corruption in Chechnya
Moscow has hosted a closed press conference on the problem of persecution of Chechen residents, who make public facts of corruption in the republic. Rights defenders presented the story of Ramazan Djalaldinov from the village of Kenkhi as an example, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
A police officer. Photo: Maxim Tishin / Yugopolis
11:10, 9 December 2016
Aunt of defendant in caliphate case confirms torture at police
The North-Caucasian Military Court has questioned three defence witnesses in the case of an attempt to create caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). An aunt of Akhmed Balkarov said that at the police station she heard cries of her nephew after his arrest.
A polling station in Dagestan. Photo http://tvoygorodpskov.ru/2016/09/271987-v-dagestane-otkrilis-1915-izbiratelnih-uchastkov.html
09:55, 9 December 2016
Head of Dagestani CEC states possible dismissals of PEC chairs
Dagestan continues checking applications on violations committed during the September elections, said Magomed Dibirov, the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Dagestan, not excluding further dismissals of chairs of Precinct Election Commissions (PECs) for their violations of electoral procedures.
Irina Starodubrovskaya. Photo from her family archive
06:10, 9 December 2016
Islamic reformation in Northern Caucasus triggers scientists' debates
The ongoing processes in Northern Caucasus are similar to those that took place during the Reformation, Irina Starodubrovskaya, the head of the scientific direction "Political Economy and Regional Development" of the Gaidar Institute, has stated at a conference in Moscow.
A uniform of an employee of the Migration Service. Photo http://cod57.ru/novosti/orlovskie-sotrudniki-migracionnoj-sluzhby-vyyavili-razyskivaemogo-prestupnika-6109.html
04:19, 9 December 2016
Kuban resident is separated from his wife and children for about two years because of migration service
In early 2015, Sudaba Abdullaeva, an Azerbaijani citizen, with her two young daughters, who have Russian citizenship, went home, after which she could not get back to the Krasnodar Territory to join her husband, because of the ban to enter Russia.
Magomed Khazbiev. Photo: screenshot of a video record of the interview of Magomed Khazbiev, Magas Life News Agency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ITP9c-8yk
03:49, 9 December 2016
Oppositionists state need of complete replacement of Ingush CCE staff
The Centre to Counter Extremism (CCE) of Ingushetia has become a punitive body, Magomed Khazbiev, a member of the public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel", believes. It is necessary to completely change the CCE staff, said Akhmed Bashir Aushev, one of the former laders of the movement, whose son suffered from the actions of Ingush power agents.
News
Relief funds for flood victims in Dagestan have raised over 550 million rubles.

A landslide destroyed a road in the Buinaksk district.

Flooding in Dagestan. April 2026. Photo: Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan Up to 1.5 million Dagestanis were affected by the flooding.

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.