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    Meeting of Valery Gerasimov and Joseph Dunford, chiefs of general headquarters of Russia and the United States, Baku. Photo provided by the US Chiefs of Staff Committee, http://haqqin.az/news/92765
    04:22, 17 February 2017
    Meeting of Valery Gerasimov and Joseph Dunford in Baku shows level of trust to Azerbaijan, political analysts report
    At a meeting in Baku held on February 16, Valery Gerasimov and Joseph Dunford, chiefs of general headquarters of Russia and the United States, respectively, agreed on joint measures to improve the safety of the military activities, reduction of tension and risks of incidents. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD).
    Builder Pavel Solovyov beaten by policeman lies in city hospital No.3 in Khosta, Sochi, May 15, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the 'Caucasian Knot'.
    02:28, 17 February 2017
    Court reduces compensation to builder beaten by policeman in Sochi
    On February 16, the Krasnodar Regional Court made a decision concerning a complaint filed by Sergey Kuznetsov, a former policeman in Sochi, sentenced for beating builder Pavel Solovyov, and reduced the amount of compensation earlier assigned to the builder from 650,000 down to 350,000 roubles.
    Banner calling on residents to vote at referendum. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the 'Caucasian Knot'.
    02:04, 17 February 2017
    NKR’s CEC would not disclose list of international observers until referendum day
    In the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced the decision not to disclose the list of foreign observers at the constitutional referendum until its very day. According to the CEC, prior to the referendum, the main propaganda activities rest with the political forces supporting or opposing the adoption of the new Constitution.
    Policemen disperse opposition protest action, Baku, December 10, 2012. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the 'Caucasian Knot'.
    17:27, 16 February 2017
    ECtHR upholds complaints of 11 citizens of Azerbaijan
    The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found a violation of the rights of the eleven Azerbaijani citizens, arrested in the course of opposition’s actions in 2010-2014, and obliged the country’s authorities to pay compensation to them totalling to 138,870 euros.
    Faig Amirov. Photo: RFE/RL
    17:23, 16 February 2017
    Court leaves Faig Amirov in custody
    Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected the appeal against the refusal of the district court to transfer Faig Amirov, Financial Director of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper, under house arrest.
    Khachatur Kokobelyan. http://ru.aravot.am/2013/04/18/155018/
    15:57, 16 February 2017
    Two opposition election blocs formed in Armenia
    Today, the electoral list of the bloc "Free Democrats" – "Freedom" has been headed by Khachatur Kokobelyan, the leader of "Free Democrats". Gagik Tsarukyan, the founder of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party (PAP), is in the lead of the list of the bloc PAP – "Alliance".
    Alim Khan, emir of Bukhara, 1911, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, http://ru.wikipedia.org
    15:35, 16 February 2017
    Discussion on Caucasus’ colonialism compares Kadyrov with Emir of Bukhara
    The issues of colonial practices of the Caucasus and Central Asia were discussed at the sitting on "Caucasus and Central Asia: Colonialism Factor in Imperial and Soviet Epochs", which took place on February 15 within the regular scientific-practical seminar "Caucasus in the Past and the Present (Society and Politics, Economy and Culture)”.
    Village of Andi of the Botlikh District, Dagestan. Photo by Magomedgadji Murtazaliev.
    14:43, 16 February 2017
    CTO legal regime in Dagestani village lifted
    Law enforcers have completed measures to search for members of the armed underground in the village of Andi of the Botlikh District. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).
    Correctional colony. Photo: http://www.elista.org/socium/v_ik-1_kalmykii_zaderzhali_dvuh_zhenwin_s_posylkoj/
    12:20, 16 February 2017
    Relatives of inmate who died in Elista colony treat list of figurants as incomplete
    The Elista City Court plans to hold the first session on the death of the inmate Dmitri Batyrev in the colony, who, according to investigators, received at least 60 blows with a rubber truncheon. The prisoner’s dock contains seven employees of the local department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (know as UFSIN); five of them are accused of the inmate’s death; and two others – of beating inmates in 2012. The family of Batyrev believes that investigators failed to reveal all those guilty of his death.
    10:21, 16 February 2017
    Native of Dagestan arrested in Moscow on charge of sponsoring IS
    Shamil Nurmagomedov, commercial director of one of the Moscow Region companies, a native of Makhachkala, accused of sponsoring the terrorist organization "Islamic state" (IS), banned in Russia, was arrested by the court's decision. Shamil Nurmagomedov tried to return home his brother, who stayed in Syria. This was reported by the defendant's defence.
    Loading of humanitarian aid on IL-76 plane to be transported from Armenia to Syria. Screenshot of video: https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/video/20170214/6407542/il-76-vezet-gumanitarnuyu-pomoshch-bratskoj-sirii.html
    07:22, 16 February 2017
    In Latakia, Armenian schoolchildren receive humanitarian aid from Yerevan
    In Syrian Latakia, the Russian troops have begun to distribute the Armenian humanitarian aid. One of the first institutions, which will receive the aid, will be a school at an ancient church, in which 400 Armenian children study.
    Presentation of documentary "Abandoned Villages of Dagestan". Photo by Ilyas Kapiev for the 'Caucasian Knot'.
    04:56, 16 February 2017
    Authors of film about abandoned villages raise problems of mountainous Dagestan
    On February 14, the conference hall of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University in Makhachkala hosted a presentation of the documentary film "Abandoned Villages of Dagestan" shot by the Dagestani Historical and Geographical Society (DagHGS).
    02:52, 16 February 2017
    Zaur Dadaev's advocate reports shelling of his car in Moscow
    A car belonging to the advocate of Zaur Dadaev, defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, was shelled. This was reported by the defender himself.
    Zhalaudi Geriev and advocate Alaudi Musaev. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the 'Caucasian Knot'.
    23:42, 15 February 2017
    Check of application on Geriev’s kidnapping resumed for the fifth time
    Today, the Investigating Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has cancelled its earlier refusal to open a criminal case against the power agents, who had kidnapped Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, threatened him with death and planted drugs on him, said the advocate Alaudi Musaev.
    Tumsu Abdurakhmanov. Photo is provided to the 'Caucasian Knot' by Abdurakhmanov.
    23:40, 15 February 2017
    HRC "Memorial" asks GPO to interfere in case of Abdurakhmanov, native of Chechnya
    The Chechen Prosecutor's Office ignores complaints of Tumsu Abdurakhmanov, a resident of the republic, about his unlawful persecution by the Chechen police, Alexander Cherkasov, the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", said in his appeal to the General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) of Russia.
    Destroyed houses of forced migrants, Baku, March 2012. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the 'Caucasian Knot'.
    20:37, 15 February 2017
    Azerbaijan: by protests, internally displaced persons achieve restoration of benefits
    Azerbaijani authorities have realized the error of their decision to pay allowances to internally displaced persons (IDPs) instead of providing them with utility benefits, the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have stated in their comments on the President's decision to restore the benefits.
    Pinchas Goldschmidt (left) and Ramzan Kadyrov. Collage prepared by the 'Caucasian Knot', http://chechen.er.ru, Conference of Rabbis of Europe.
    18:52, 15 February 2017
    Kadyrov mistakenly reported about apologies of Russian Chief Rabbi
    Ramzan Kadyrov has received from the Moscow Jewish Religious Community a video record of the statement of Pinchas Goldschmidt, who apologized for his words about Muslims-terrorists, Olga Esaulova, the spokeswoman of the community, told the "Caucasian Knot". Kadyrov himself, when speaking about Goldschmidt’s apologies, mistakenly called him the Chief Rabbi of Russia.
    Alexei Volchenko. Photo: Nikita Tatarsky (RFE/RL)
    17:17, 15 February 2017
    Krasnodar farmers report detention of Alexei Volchenko
    According to Oleg Petrov, a farmer, today, Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the "Polite Farmers” movement, was detained by law enforcers. "I managed to call him and talked to him for a few minutes, he said that he’s suspected of bribing a medic," Oleg Petrov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
    Policeman. Photo: http://www.riadagestan.ru
    16:46, 15 February 2017
    Whereabouts of Said Saipudinov, resident of Dagestan, established
    Said Saipudinov, a resident of the Makhachkala neighbourhood of Shamkhal, whose kidnapping was reported by his relatives on February 13, is kept at one of police divisions, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
    Village of Tsotsi-Yurt blocked by law enforcers, Chechnya, January 11, 2017. Photo by the 'Caucasian Knot' correspondent.
    16:05, 15 February 2017
    Chechnya: detainees’ relatives have no information about them for over a month
    Relatives of the young people, detained in January in the Kurchaloi and Shali Districts of Chechnya, state that they have no information about their whereabouts and fate. The police refused to specify the number of detainees and stated the ongoing investigation.
    News
    The commemorative events marking the end of the Caucasian War included Abkhazia and Syria.

    An Abkhaz official was hospitalized after an attack.

    Russian children are allowed to travel to Abkhazia and South Ossetia with birth certificates.

    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.