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Professor Anatoly Kudakin (to the left), Deputy of Sochi City Council Konstantin Gergishan / Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
06:50, 16 December 2015
Ecological Council of Sochi reports on negative effects of Olympics
In Sochi, activists of the Public Ecological Council have discussed the problems remaining after the Winter Olympic Games. According to the activists, the city has suffered from large-scale construction of various facilities, inefficient garbage collection, and imported pests.
Magomed Orudjev (to the left). Photo: http://dagpravda.ru/rubriki/politika/14632/
05:44, 16 December 2015
Orudjev's sentence results from his conflict with Dagestani Prosecutor, experts believe
Political analyst Albert Esedov sees no connection between the criminal case against Magomed Orudjev, who used to be the Prosecutor of the Soviet District of Makhachkala, and the criminal case against Said Amirov, the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala.
The strike of truck drivers against the "Platon" system in Stavropol. Photo by Eduard Kornienko, YUGA.ru https://www.yuga.ru
03:38, 16 December 2015
Volgograd truckers announce huge losses during protest action against "Platon"
The strike of truck drivers and entrepreneurs with the demand to abolish the "Platon" system has brought a lot of losses. This was stated by participants of the protest action in Volgograd, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
The federal highway "Kavkaz" between Khasavyurt and Toturbiykala. Photo by Murad Muradov for the "Caucasian Knot"
00:38, 16 December 2015
80 truckers keep striking near Khasavyurt
Drivers of 70-80 heavy vehicles continue truckers' strike in the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt. Protestors report no obstacles from the police.
Darya Polyudova at the Oktiabrskiy District Court of Krasnodar on December 21, 2015. Photo: https://twitter.com/plaxog
23:53, 15 December 2015
AI calls on to acquit Darya Polyudova
The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has launched a campaign in support of Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova.
22:18, 15 December 2015
IS unit leaders still stay in Northern Caucasus, experts assert
Reporter Orkhan Djemal and political analysts Akhmet Yarlykapov and Ruslan Martagov cast doubt on the FSB Chief's statements about the killing of 20 leaders of the "Islamic State" (IS) in Northern Caucasus. According to the reporter and the political analysts, the most authoritative and influential leaders of the IS have survived.
Azerbaijani soldiers during the war, 1992-1993. Photo: Ilgar Jafarov https://ru.wikipedia.org/
21:09, 15 December 2015
ICRC updates list of missing persons who disappeared during Karabakh conflict
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has presented to the parties to the Karabakh conflict an updated list of the persons disappeared in the conflict zone prior to the introduction of the ceasefire regime in 1994.
Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group. Photo: Ilya Pitalev (RFE/RL)
19:09, 15 December 2015
Rights defenders treat law on ignoring ECtHR’s decisions as unconstitutional
The law signed by Russia's president a that allows the Constitutional Court (CC) to recognize decisions of international courts unenforceable is dangerous and violates citizens’ rights, believe Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and Olga Gnezdilova, an activist of the project named "Stitching Russian Justice Initiative".
Law enforcers. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/
18:25, 15 December 2015
NAC states links of person killed in Nalchik with militants
The resident of Baksan, who was killed in a shootout with power agents in Nalchik, was raising money to finance the armed underground and was on the federal wanted list on suspicion of robbery, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).
Law enforcers. Nalchik. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/"
17:39, 15 December 2015
Russian SC starts studying appeals in the case of attack on Nalchik
The Russian Supreme Court (SC) is to consider the appeal complaints lodged by 48 out of 52 convicts in the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005.
The militants who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS) declared a terrorist organization in Russia. Photo from the site of the IS declared a terrorist organization in Russia and some other countries
16:32, 15 December 2015
At least four persons regarded IS leaders in Northern Caucasus
Rustam Asilderov, Gasan Abdullaev, Aslan Byutukaev and Zalim Shebzukhov are, according to information published in 2015 with reference to Russian power agents, were treated as leaders of North-Caucasian militants who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS).
Vladimir Tskaev's funeral. The village of Koban, North Ossetia, November 4, 2015. Photo by Emma Marzoeva for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:08, 15 December 2015
Soslan Sitokhov accused of abuse of office
Investigators have charged Soslan Sitokhov, the head of the criminal investigation section of the Iriston ROVD (District Interior Division) of Vladikavkaz, arrested in the case of the death of a detainee Vladimir Tskaev.
Law enforcers. Photo: NAK information center http://nac.gov.ru/
15:33, 15 December 2015
ICRF states that Nalchik detainee was not involved in shootout
In the shootout with power agents in Nalchik only a resident of Baksan was killed by return fire. The other man – the detained resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) – was not shooting at law enforcers, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.
Akhmednabi Ahmednabiyev at the press conference on journalists' safety. Makhachkala, January 14, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Svistunova for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:00, 15 December 2015
Sakharov Award to be handed over on Journalists’ Commemoration Day
Today, Russia marks the Commemoration Day of the journalists who perished in the performance of their professional duties. In Moscow, this day is timed to summing up the contest for the Sakharov Award "For Journalism as a Deed".
The law enforcers during the special operation in Nalchik. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/content/4022.html
11:54, 15 December 2015
Suspected militant killed in Nalchik
In Nalchik, a resident of Baksan was shot dead during a shootout; another resident of the city was detained. None of the police officers was injured, said a law enforcement source of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Bullet holes in a mirror in the flat of the leader of the armed underground of KBR who had sworn to the IS after the police raid. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/nakmessage/2015/11/11/v-nalchike-neitralizvan-prisyagnuvshii-ig-bandglavar-boevikov-kbr.html
11:32, 15 December 2015
Bortnikov: 20 of 26 IS leaders in Northern Caucasus killed
The FSB boss Alexander Bortnikov has stated that out of 26 leaders, who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS) in Northern Caucasus, 20 were killed in 2015. According to his story, in 2015, in total, 156 militants were neutralized in Russia.
The young men who set the ziyart of Saint Yangulbi-Sheikh Khadzhi Dokhtukaev on fire. Photo: http://grozny-inform.ru/news/society/66542/
03:57, 15 December 2015
Chechnya: 11 residents of Mairtup detained after arson of ziyarat released
Eleven young people were detained for their acquaintance with suspects of setting a ziyart on fire in the village of Kurchaloy, but released a few days later, local residents report. The staff of the Kurchaloy ROVD (District Interior Division) has left this information without comment.
Valery Brinikh. Photo: http://president-sovet.ru/presscenter/news/read/2578/
01:32, 15 December 2015
Ecologist Brinikh files complaint to ICRF against power agents
In Adygea, the ecologist Valery Brinikh has appealed to the Investigating Department (ID) for Adygea of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) against the actions of law enforcers when holding their operative- search activities within the criminal case against him.
The entrance to the North-Caucasian District Military Court, Rostov-on-Don. Photo by Oleg Pchyolov for the "Caucasian Knot"
00:33, 15 December 2015
Two persons convicted in Rostov-on-Don for attempting to join IS
The court has sentenced Albert Minatullaev, a resident of Dagestan, and Askar Abdumuslimov, a resident of the Kirov Region, to four years in prison after finding them guilty of trying to join the "Islamic State” (IS).
Armed law enforcers in Nardaran. Photo: Famil Mahmudbayli, RFE/RL
23:38, 14 December 2015
Law enforcers refuse to report on fate of detainees, Nardaran residents assert
Residents of the village of Nardaran claim their failure to obtain the information about the number and the fate of the people detained during the special operation conducted in the village.
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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.