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"Country of Udekhe", film frame. Photo: "Country of Udekhe".
03:37, 25 November 2016
In Sukhumi, the 10th North-Caucasian Open Film and TV Festival "Kunaki" has been closed. The main prize of the festival went to Ivan Golovnyov, the director of the 26-minute film "Country of Udekhe", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
15:13, 24 November 2016
At inspecting the house, where the militants killed today in Nazran were hiding, law enforcers found a hideout with weapons, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported. According to a law enforcement source, the casualties were the father and son Iliev. The fact that they had released a woman was confirmed by Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the Ingush leader.
Mustafa Gadjibeili. Photo: http://minval.az/news/23942
15:07, 24 November 2016
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaint lodged by the Azerbaijani journalist Mustafa Gadjibeili against inhuman treatment towards him. The ECtHR has decided to pay him a compensation of moral harm in the amount of 10,000 euros, and other 3000 euros to compensate his judicial costs.
Varvara Karaulova. Photo: RFE/RL
13:23, 24 November 2016
Varvara Karaulova was questioned in the presence of her advocates; nobody put any pressure on her, said Sergey Aguzarov, the head of the team of investigators, thus denying the defendant's words that she had given her confessions under investigator's persuasion.
Law enforcer during CTO. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/kontrterroristicheskie-operacii/v-kbr-unichtozhen-bandit-prichastnyy-k-rasstrelu.html
11:30, 24 November 2016
Today, at 6:30 a.m. Moscow time, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime was introduced within a part of the territory of the city of Nazran. Law enforcers cordoned off a private house in Abadiev Street. Two militants who were blocked in the house refused to surrender and were killed in the shootout. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.
Advocate Elchin Sadygov. Photo: https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2016/11/05/v-azerbaydzhane-presleduyut-advokatov
10:48, 24 November 2016
Advocates of activists and oppositionists have claimed repeated loss by the "Azerpost" of the correspondence sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). An official of the state-owned "Azerpost" denied the suggestions of deliberate nature of the above practice.
Zhalaudi Geriev. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the 'Caucasian Knot'.
05:04, 24 November 2016
The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya on its own initiative has decided to send to the investigating authorities a complaint of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, about his kidnapping and use of violence against him. The consideration of his appeal against the sentence has been postponed for the period.
Rafig Tagi. Photo: http://minval.az/news/123457265
02:36, 24 November 2016
Democratic society activists have marked the fifth anniversary of the death of Rafig Tagi, a writer and a publicist, by a commemoration action at his grave.
Zaurbek Sadakhanov. Photo: http://www.yabloko.ru/regnews/ingushetiya/2014/05/25
02:33, 24 November 2016
In the case on the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, the judge prevented the defence from clarifying the situation with pressure on Zarina Isoeva, a prosecution witness, who claimed receiving threats with demands not to testify at trial. This was stated by advocate Zaurbek Sadakhanov.
Members of art group "Counterstrike" Artak Gevorkyan and Herbert Gevorkyan, Yerevan, August 11, 2015. Photo: http://rus.azatutyun.am/a/27183636.html
02:18, 24 November 2016
In Yerevan, the court has found Herbert Gevorkyan, a member of the art group "Counterstrike", guilty of disobedience to the lawful demand of the police and sentenced him to a fine of about 111 US dollars. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the activist.
01:40, 24 November 2016
Residents of the village of Mesker-Yurt believe that the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by itself will not return their sons, brothers, and husbands, who disappeared in 2002 during a special operation carried out by soldiers. The villagers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the government should continue the investigation.
20:49, 23 November 2016
Zarina Isoeva, a concierge, who is a witness in the murder case of the politician Boris Nemtsov, has stated that in May-June this year, she received threats with a demand not to testify at the trial.
19:48, 23 November 2016
According to the results of the nationwide research project "Sober Russia" and the Expert-Analytical Centre of the Public Chamber, published today, the leader is Chechnya with 12.8 points; then come Ingushetia (14.51) and Dagestan (15.11).
Banner at miners’ rally in Gukovo. Photo by Valery Lyugaev for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
16:55, 23 November 2016
Today, Sergey Mochalnikov, an official from the Russia's Ministry of Energy (MoE), has suggested the authorities of the Rostov Region to turn to the country's leadership for help in paying wage debts to "Kingcoul" miners.
14:14, 23 November 2016
The inmates of the colony, located in the village of Kochubeevskoe, Stavropol Territory (known as IK-2), fail to receive the due medical care, are kept in poor conditions and get miserable wages for their work, the prosecutor's office has stated, demanding from the Territorial Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) to force the colony bosses to eliminate all the revealed violations.
Advocate Alaudi Musaev at the court hearing on Geriev’s case. Photo by the ‘Caucasian Knot’ correspondent.
11:30, 23 November 2016
The today's session of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic, which considered the complaint against the sentence to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, began with the defence's motion, which demanded to disqualify the whole court composition. The motion was rejected.
Fikret Faramazoglu. Photo: http://www.contact.az/docs/2016/Social/112100175395en.htm?73#.WDVNlbKLSUk
10:32, 23 November 2016
On November 22, at the preparatory court hearing in the case against journalist Fikret Faramazoglu, the court dismissed the defence motions to close the criminal case and change the pre-trial restriction measure.
CTO. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/kontrterroristicheskie-operacii/v-kbr-unichtozhen-bandit-prichastnyy-k-rasstrelu.html
08:20, 23 November 2016
Elbert Kharsiev, a figurant in the case of a group of young people, who had plotted terror acts in Ingushetia and Moscow, had a grenade planted on him during a search, said his father.
Russian forces base in Ochimchira, Abkhazia. Photo: © Sputnik. Velery Melnikov, http://sputnik-abkhazia.ru/world/20161116/1019880229/coglashenie-sabxaziej-ob-obedinennoj-gruppirovke-vojsk-utverdil-sf.html
06:27, 23 November 2016
The US does not recognize the legitimacy of the agreement on the joint grouping of forces, concluded between Russia and Abkhazia. This was stated by John Kirby, US State Department Spokesman.
Elena Masyuk. Photo: http://president-sovet.ru/members/58/multimedia/
06:25, 23 November 2016
At her blog on the website of the Human Rights Council under the Russian President (HRC), Elena Masyuk, a member of the HRC, has reported that the Tver Court of Moscow has registered a claim filed by human rights defenders to cancel the results of the elections to Public Oversight Commissions (POCs).
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.