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Rally participant holds Kadyrov’s portrait. Photo by Magomed Megomedov for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
11:36, 29 February 2016
On February 28, Grozny hosted the so-called "Civil Forum" in support of Ramzan Kadyrov, organized by direct subordinates of the Chechen leader.
Gadji Narutdinov. Photo: http://www.dagestanpost.ru/novosti/28234-bloger-iz-dagestanskogo-bujnakska-soobshhaet-ob-izbienii-ego-deputatami-gorodskogo-sobraniya
09:02, 29 February 2016
On January 9, Gadji Nurutdinov, who calls himself a "young blogger", wrote on his Facebook page that he had been beaten. Gadji Nurutdinov states that a group of people, including four deputies of the City Council, was involved in the beating. However, investigators refuse to bring them to responsibility.
The Yarovs family, residents of apartment building No. 70 in Izmailskaya Street, Krasnodar. Photo: http://bloknot-krasnodar.ru/news/v-krasnodare-mnogodetnye-semi-prosyat-ne-snosit-ikh-714778
06:00, 29 February 2016
Tenants of the residential building have claimed that because of the court's decision on the demolition of the building in No. 70 in Izmailskaya Street, they will be deprived of their only housing and will be left in the street. Meanwhile, all the tenants have the documents on registration of their property rights.
Chegem Gorge. Photo: Eugeny Trisko, http://www.flickr.com
05:01, 29 February 2016
A resident of North Ossetia has filed a complaint to the police of Kabardino-Balkaria. The man has claimed that his son was kidnapped by unidentified persons, who demanded a ransom. However, the message appeared to by false, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.
01:05, 29 February 2016
During the week of February 22-28, 2016, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
18:27, 28 February 2016
Today, in Stepanakert, officials from the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, soldiers and local residents have laid flowers at the monument to victims of the Sumgait pogroms in memory of the events of 1988.
06:28, 28 February 2016
The Russian Congress of Peoples of the Caucasus (known as RKNK) has proposed to bring to criminal and administrative liability those persons who justify acts of repression against the peoples of Russia and hinders their rehabilitation.
Raid of ‘Peoples’ Control’ in Sochi, February 27, 2016. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
06:07, 28 February 2016
Members of the movement "People's Control of Sochi" have inspected a number of objects, concerning which they received complaints from local residents. The materials of the recorded violations will be brought to the Prosecutor's Office, the activists report.
01:56, 28 February 2016
On February 27, the "Civil Society Platform" addressed Azerbaijani people and the authorities of the country with the appeal. It is dated to the 20th anniversary of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan and the forthcoming visit to Baku of top-ranking members of the European Commission.
Moscovite Mikhail takes part in the rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov with poster saying: ‘Vova, go to Ramzan yourself!’, Sakharov Prospect, Moscow, February 27, 2016. Photo by Grigory Shvedov for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
00:46, 28 February 2016
On February 27, in Moscow, according to the organization "White Counter", more than 24,000 people came to a rally-march in memory of Boris Nemtsov. The police have reported that the rally was attended by 7500 people.
The rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov. Moscow, Sakharova avenue, February 27, 2016. Photo by Grigory Shvedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
21:12, 27 February 2016
43 persons – members of the "RPR-PARNAS" and "Yabloko" Parties, and civil activists – have gathered today in Lenin Square in Volgograd to hold a picket "Year after murder of Boris Nemtsov". They demanded a fair inquiry into his assassination.
One of the group of the law enforcers who supervised the action in memory of Nemtsov held in Sochi. February 27, 2016. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
20:09, 27 February 2016
The commemoration action of Boris Nemtsov, held in his hometown, was supervised by law enforcers and officials from the Mayoralty. The action ended without incident.
The participants of the rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Saint Petersburg. February 27, 2016. Photo by Arseniy Vesnin, Twitter.com/ars_ves
19:26, 27 February 2016
The rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov gathered three thousand people in Saint Petersburg, said the organizers. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported two thousand participants.
18:53, 27 February 2016
Members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) have filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office that they were not allowed twice into the SIZO (pre-trial prison) to visit Mukhammad Magomedov, an activist of the public organization "Union of the Just".
The participants of the action in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Rostov-on-Don. February 27, 2016. Photo by the PARNAS party's branch in Rostov-on-Don
18:05, 27 February 2016
Today, a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Rostov-on-Don gathered about a hundred participants. The action sparked interest in townspeople, who photographed the demonstrators and stopped to listen to their speeches.
The participants of the march in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. February 27, 2016. Photo: Dasha Volya, Facebook.com
15:59, 27 February 2016
The slogan "Kadyrov is Russia's disgrace" was announced at the Moscow commemoration rally of Boris Nemtsov. The participants expressed their dissatisfaction with investigators' failure to question the head of Chechnya in the case of Nemtsov's murder.
12:37, 27 February 2016
The Chechen officer Ruslan Mukhudinov, accused of organizing the murder of Boris Nemtsov, has been declared wanted by the Interpol, said an advocate of the family of Boris Nemtsov. The defender of Mukhudinov has not confirmed this information, saying he did not know about the request sent to the Interpol.
A participant of the picket in sympathy with the workers from the "Sedin" Factory. Moscow, December 30, 2015. Photo: Rotfront.su
07:44, 27 February 2016
Problems of the Krasnodar-based "Sedin" Factory can be solved only through nationalization, said Alexei Kuznetsov, Deputy Chief Designer of the enterprise. Workers intend to put forward this demand to the Russian President's plenipotentiary office for the Southern Federal District (SFD).
The building of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Photo: Georgianpress.ru
05:56, 27 February 2016
The political pressure on judges and selectivity of justice have particularly manifested themselves in Georgia at the trial of Gigi Ugulava, while the issue of the freedom of expression was raised in the course of legal battles around the "Rustavi 2" TV Channel, says the report of the Amnesty International (AI).
The police cordon at the protest action in Yerevan. June 1, 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
03:36, 27 February 2016
In 2015, Armenian authorities repeatedly resorted to violent dispersal of peaceful rallies; and organizers of such actions were detained and criminally prosecuted on dubious charges. This is stated in the annual report of the Amnesty International (AI).
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.