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05:45, 2 August 2015
Head of oppositional MeydanTV accuses Azerbaijani authorities of putting pressure on his relatives
In Azerbaijan, relatives of Emin Milli, the executive director of the online channel MeydanTV, who is abroad, have sent a collective appeal to the country's president, in which they condemn Milli for his critical attitude to the authorities' policies; the director himself believes that his relatives did it under pressure.
03:47, 2 August 2015
Villagers of Baranovka in Sochi complain about shortage of drinking water
In the village of Baranovka, located in the resort city of Sochi, a gathering of citizens was held, who demanded from the LLC "Sochivodokanal" to immediately solve the problem of public drinking water outages.
Detail of Hermes Cavaliers du Caucase scarf. Photo by Lyudmila Maratova for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.
02:48, 2 August 2015
French company makes scarves with Circassian patterns
The French company 'Hermes', engaged in production of fashion clothes, has made a line of scarves "Caucasian Horsemen". To start the line, employees of the company visited Nalchik and studied objects of national culture of Kabardians.
The police cars in the streets of Yerevan during the protest action against the increase of electricity tariff. July 2015. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
02:08, 2 August 2015
Yerevan activists call police to refuse using force against them
The movement "Arise, Armenia!" has condemned the actions of policemen, who prevent protesters against the increase in electricity tariff from occupying the mosaic stone carpet in the middle of the Republic Square in Yerevan. Activists have called the police to promote the peaceful picket.
21:45, 1 August 2015
Activists in Armenia put forward new demands to authorities
The civil movement "Arise, Armenia!" has released a statement, which calls for resignation of the Commission on Regulation of Public Services and nationalization of Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Electric Grids of Armenia".
20:37, 1 August 2015
Young man from Dagestan detained on Turkish-Syrian border
Turkey's militaries have detained a law student from Dagestan in the Turkish province of Hatay, when he was going to cross the Syrian border with his three companions.
19:25, 1 August 2015
Two Yazidis go on hunger strike in central Yerevan
Sashik Sultanyan, the head of the public organization "Centre for Interethnic and Intercultural Cooperation", and Rustam Bakoyan, the head of the humanitarian organization "Shams", are holding a three-day hunger strike in front of the Yerevan Office of the United Nations.
Photos of the policemen. Inscription below: "Urgent sale". Yerevan, July 16, 2015. Photo by Rimma Sargsyan, an activist of the initiative group "No to robbery!"
14:10, 1 August 2015
Activists in Yerevan blame policemen of disseminating abusive photos
Policemen pasted in central Yerevan photos of leaders of the movement "Arise, Armenia!" with inscription "Grant Eaters", activists have complained.
The Beslan Airport. Vladikavkaz. Photo by the user tazik http://wikimapia.org/
11:54, 1 August 2015
Izmailov family moves reconciliation condition with instigators of brawl at Beslan Airport
Relatives of Izmailov brothers, who were beaten up at the Beslan Airport, are ready to conclude a truce with the families of the initiators of the brawl, provided all the participants of the incident, including airport security guards, are fairly punished.
10:56, 1 August 2015
"Yabloko" activists urge to deliver Kuashev's murder case to federal level
Activists of the "Youth Yabloko", who held solo pickets on July 31 in Moscow, believe that the inquiry into the murder of the journalist and rights defender Timur Kuashev has no prospects in Kabardino-Balkaria; it should be transferred to the federal level.
Ilgar Mamedov. Photo: the Federal Lezghin National Cultural Autonomy http://flnka.ru/
09:35, 1 August 2015
Situation with human rights in Azerbaijan is the worst for the last 20 years
Local civil society activists have assessed the human rights situation in Azerbaijan as the worst in the last 20 years. Activists of the "Committee for Civil Society Protection" (CCSP) have decided to appeal to the country's authorities to take measures to restore the rights of political prisoners, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
POC members in Rostov region interrrogate the cellmate of the detainee who had died. The special detention centre of Novocherkassk in Rostov region, July 31, 2015. Photo by Yuri Blokhin
03:09, 1 August 2015
POC sees no Novocherkassk police's guilt in detainee's death
Employees of the special detention centre of Novocherkassk, where a detainee died, acted professionally, said the members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC). At the same time, as they noted, the ambulance arrived at the centre only 20 minutes after it was called.
23:50, 31 July 2015
Witnesses in Amirov's case state his nephew's alibi
Yusup Djaparov, Said Amirov's nephew, could not participate in the shelling of a shopping centre in Kaspiysk, because at that time he was in Moscow, his two friends told the court.
Mukhammad Cherkesov, the head of the "Adyge Khase" of Karachay-Cherkessia. Photo: On Kavkaz an information and analytical site http://onkavkaz.com/news/88-cherkesskaja-mobilizacija-v-krizis.html
23:12, 31 July 2015
Circassian activists criticize check of pupils' participation in mourning action
The police have questioned schoolchildren in the Sochi aul (village) Bolshoi Kichmay about the reasons for their participation in the mourning ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War. This is another proof of the authorities' attempts to erase the memory about the tragic events of the war, Circassian activists assert.
21:29, 31 July 2015
Protesters in Moscow demand to investigate murder of Timur Kuashev
Activists of the "Youth Yabloko" have held a series of solo pickets at the buildings of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), demanding to investigate the murder of Timur Kuashev, a journalist and social activist from Kabardino-Balkaria.
Sagid Murtazaliev (to the right). Photo http://flnka.ru/
20:41, 31 July 2015
Power agents confiscated only documents about his illness from Murtazaliev's office
In the course of a search conducted in the office of Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the branch of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) in Dagestan, suspected of financing terrorism, law enforcers behaved correctly and confiscated only Murtazaliev's sick leave and medical card history, said the PFR spokeswoman.
20:26, 31 July 2015
Dagestani resident accused of links with militants
Investigating authorities of Dagestan have completed the inquiry into the case of a 25-year-old resident of the Untsukul District, accused of participation in an illegal armed formation (IAF).
Guns. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/
19:07, 31 July 2015
Service work of police colonel thought to be main version of his murder in Nalchik
The criminals were nicely familiar with the layout of the house of Takhir Guziev, the chief of staff of the Cherek ROVD (District Interior Division), who was shot dead in Nalchik; therefore, they manage to quickly find him in the household, investigators believe.
Girls in the streets of Grozny. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:49, 31 July 2015
Chechen girls are prosecuted for extorting money from IS recruiters
Three girls from Grozny, who, according to investigators, opened fake accounts to enter into correspondence with recruiters of the "Islamic State" (IS) and received money from them, have been put under recognizance not to leave.
18:30, 31 July 2015
Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya takes up inquiry into disappearance of 17-year-old girl
The criminal investigation into the disappearance in winter of 2014 of Seda Kanaeva, a 17-year-old resident of Grozny in now conducted under supervision of the local Prosecutor's Office.
News
Bilyajari Station. Baku, May 3, 2026. Photo: APA https://ru.apa.az/infrastruktura/v-armeniyu-tranzitom-cerez-territoriyu-azerbaidzana-otpravleno-8-vagonov-s-udobreniyami-obnovleno-649408 A train carrying fertilizers has been sent from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

Five wagons of Russian grain were shipped via Azerbaijan to Armenia.

Analysts assessed the development prospects of the Middle Corridor

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.