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Special operation. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/
16:28, 3 July 2015
Power agents report blocking militants' base in Dagestan
A large summer base of militants was blocked in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, said a local law enforcement source.
An aircraft MiG-29. Photo oert van Breda at nl.wikipedia https://ru.wikipedia.org
16:24, 3 July 2015
MiG-29 crashes in Krasnodar Territory
A fighter aircraft MiG-29 has crashed down near the aerodrome Kuschevskaya in the Krasnodar Territory. There are no victims and no damage.
Firearms. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/
14:18, 3 July 2015
Resident of Stavropol Territory convicted for attack on Chervlyonnaya
A court in Chechnya has sentenced Alaudin Menlibaev, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, finding him guilty of the attack in 1999 on the village of Chervlyonnaya, committed under command of Khattab.
13:47, 3 July 2015
Investigators admit abuse of power by police at dispersal of protesters in Yerevan
The Special Investigation Service of Armenia has declared the unlawful use of force against protesters on June 23, and the institution of a criminal case in this context.
The police are alert to suppress the protest action of the villagers of Chereshnya, July 1, 2015. Photo by Anna Gritsevich for the "Caucasian Knot"
09:28, 3 July 2015
Sochi court requests video records from place of detention of Kimaev and Gritsevich
On July 2, the Adler District Court of Sochi began considering the case of disobeying the police in relation to the ecologist Vladimir Kimaev and Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The court granted the defence's motion to watch the video from the place of detention of the journalist and the ecologist.
Special equipment in the streets of the city. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/nakmessage/2015/07/02/v-khode-kto-v-nalchike-neitralizovany-dvoe-banditov.html
08:18, 3 July 2015
CTO regime introduced in Kizilyurt District of Dagestan
Today, at 3:00 a.m. Moscow time, in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, law enforcement bodies started their counterterrorist operation (CTO). The legal CTO regime was introduced at 3:00 Moscow time, the operative headquarters of Dagestan has reported.
The participants of the protest action in Yerevan. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
03:01, 3 July 2015
About 100 protesters spent the night in Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan
According to coordinators of the protest action against the increase of electricity tariff, last night about 100 protesters stayed in Yerevan, in Bagramyan Avenue.
Nina Dubovaya in her land plot full of debris from the illegal construction works. Sochi, July 2015. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
02:09, 3 July 2015
Court decision to return land plot to pensioner Dubovaya in Sochi upheld
The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal complaints against the decision of the District court of Sochi, which had granted the petition lodged by pensioner Nina Dubovaya about return of her land plot.
21:20, 2 July 2015
Yerevan hunger-strikers hospitalized
Arutyun Arutyunyan and Ayk Parikyan stopped their hunger strike against the increase of the electricity tariff in Armenia; both activists were taken to hospital.
Vyacheslav Starodubets has held a solo picket in Makhachkala trying to attract authorities' attention to the investigation of his case. July 1, 2015. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
20:43, 2 July 2015
Dagestani authorities promise to control inquiry into attack on Starodubets
The beaten and kidnapped blogger Vyacheslav Starodubets has stopped his series of solo pickets in Makhachkala. According to his story, officials from the administration of the head of Dagestan promised to help in the investigation of his criminal case.
Alexei Grazhdankin, Deputy Director of the "Levada Centre". Photo: http://www.levada.ru/sotrudniki
17:45, 2 July 2015
Sociologists fix increased optimism towards economic problems of Northern Caucasus
The squeezing of North-Caucasian problems out of focus of public by the anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian rhetoric has led to increased positive attitude towards the situation in Northern Caucasus. This was the comment of "Levada Centre" experts on the outcome of their social poll, conducted on June 19-22.
The spectators with the Azerbaijani flag at the I European Games. Baku, June 2015. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:14, 2 July 2015
European Games step up criticism of Azerbaijan for human rights violations
Azerbaijani experts and local residents have different opinions on the value for the country of the recent First European Games held in Baku. Some believe that the Games boosted the country's international reputation and promotion of its tourism potential; while others point out huge expenses and increased criticism for human rights violations.
Bottles with water and flowers in the school No. 1 gym. Beslan, September 3, 2015. Photo by Emma Marzoeva for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:45, 2 July 2015
ECtHR finds violations of the right to life of Beslan terror act victims
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted to consideration the complaints of most of the applicants, who suffered from the terror act with hostage taking in Beslan in 2004. According to the lawyer Sergey Knyazkin, who is representing the applicants' interests of the, the consideration should help to identify the mistakes that led to massive children's deaths.
The fire in the flat where the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) is located. Grozny, December 15, 2014. Photo by Akhmed Aldebirov for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:46, 2 July 2015
Fire experts state that fire in JMG office in Chechnya was caused by arson
In December 2014, the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders in Chechnya, was set on fire in three places – this is evidenced by fire-technical expertises, carried out under the criminal investigation.
Barricade of the garbage cans. Baku, June 1, 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:19, 2 July 2015
Policemen drive their special equipment away from Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan
Special equipment, including water cannons, has been removed from Bagramyan Avenue in central Yerevan, where activists protest against the increase of the electricity tariff. However, the police said that the equipment may be brought back to the place of protest.
The GOVD (City Interior Division) of Derbent. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
07:46, 2 July 2015
Detention of advisor Yaraliev has to do with struggle of influential groups for major posts in Derbent
So far, law enforcement bodies have not presented charges to Elkhan Kazimov, an adviser to the Mayor of Derbent, detained on June 30, said a source from the GOVD (City Interior Division). The detention of Kazimov may have to do with the struggle of different groups for key positions in the leadership of the city, said Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief of the RIA "Derbent".
Chereshnya villagers gathered at the meeting to find out why the garbage dump was arranged in the village. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
07:07, 2 July 2015
Chereshnya villagers state threat of epidemics because of dump arranged by authorities in village centre
The protests of residents of the village of Chereshnya against the garbage dump arranged in the village centre gave no results. The villagers who tried to block the passage of KamAZ trucks were pushed off by the police. The authorities say that the garbage dump is temporary.
Special equipment in the streets of the city. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/nakmessage/2015/07/02/v-khode-kto-v-nalchike-neitralizovany-dvoe-banditov.html
03:52, 2 July 2015
Relative of Nasyr-Kort casualties states their non-involvement in IAFs
Ali Aliev, a resident of Nasyr-Kort, and his wife Leyla Alieva, who were killed during a special operation in Nazran, were not involved in illegal armed formations (IAFs), said Aliev's brother Magomed Aliev. He called rights defenders to help to bring the participants of the special operation to justice.
23:55, 1 July 2015
Baksan resident states oppression of his son in colony
Musabi Berkhamov, a resident of the city of Baksan, has sent his complaints about violations of the rights of his son, Anzor Berkhamov, in a colony located in the Kurgan Region, to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the republic's Ombudsperson.
23:28, 1 July 2015
Opinions of rights defenders on Bogatenkova's actions differ
Valentina Melnikova, the secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, has stated that there were violations in the work of human rights activist Lyudmila Bogatenkova, who has been sentenced today. On the other hand, Sergey Krivenko, a member of the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights, asserts that not a single fact confirming Bogatenkova's guilt was proved at the trial.
News
Pro-European protests in Tbilisi have continued for 523 days in a row.

March in Tbilisi. Screenshot of Mo Se's photo from May 3, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4297407353907337&set=pcb.4297408117240594 A march demanding medical treatment for children took place in Tbilisi.

Participants in a march in Tbilisi demanded freedom of the media.

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.