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Police cars in Nalchik. Photo: the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Kabardino-Balkaria https://07.mvd.ru/
17:01, 21 November 2014
In the course of an operation aimed to liquidate an underground gambling club in the city of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) arrested seven men who, according to policemen, hampered their actions and behaved aggressively.
Rafig Dashdamirli. Photo from his personal page at https://www.facebook.com/
16:03, 21 November 2014
Senan Dashdamirli, a son of Rafig Dashdamirli, the head of the organizational division of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested in Baku on charges of illegal drug dealing. The young man and his father have rejected the accusation, saying that it was politically motivated.
Flag of Abkhazia. Photo by Nina Zotina, http://www.yuga.ru/
15:04, 21 November 2014
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Russian-Abkhaz treaty was in process since this August. On October 13, a draft document entitled "On Cooperation and Integration" drafted by the Russian party was delivered to the Abkhaz counterpart, which said that it should be corrected.
The village of Kyakhulay. Photo http://magnum-dag.ucoz.ru/
15:00, 21 November 2014
The conflict of the leaders of community councils of Tarki villages with supporters of Nabiyula Karachaev that burst out during a meeting in Makhachkala Mayoralty will be settled within the Tarki Jamaat, Gamzat Khangishiev, a public figure of Karaman, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Azerbaijani civil movement "Republican Alternative" with the escort, September 20, 2013. Photo http://www.radioazadlyg.ru/
14:12, 21 November 2014
Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Azerbaijani civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), who is serving his prison term in Colony No. 2, was placed into the medical unit of the colony. His colleagues and advocate are concerned about his state of health and the lack of official information about the reasons thereof.
Velibeg Veliev. Photo Фото: http://kavkazpro.ru/rozysk/rozysk-rd/%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2-%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B3-%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87/
13:01, 21 November 2014
As reported by the information centre of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), as a result of a special operation conducted in Derbent, Velibeg Veliev, the leader of Suleiman-Stalsky militant grouping, who had been on the wanted list on suspicion of exploding policemen's cars, was killed.
Traffic in the street of Grozny. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Cuacasian Knot"
07:36, 21 November 2014
Residents of the city of Grozny and two districts of Chechnya – the Shali and Vedeno Districts – complain about systematic large-scale power outages. Energy officials explain them by emergencies, while residents associate them with the authorities' desire to save power resources.
A wheelchair invalid near the hard-to-reach stairway. Photo by Nikolai Bravilov, http://bezformata.ru/content/Images/000/023/943/image23943730.jpg
05:56, 21 November 2014
Nalchik is not equipped for wheelchair invalids, state members of the NGO "Republic Is Common Cause" after holding an action "Accessible Environment", during which they tried to drive along city streets in their wheelchairs.
Chernobyl veterans. KBR, Nalchik, 2013. Photo by Luiza Orazaeva for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:33, 20 November 2014
55 residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), received a refusal of the republic's Supreme Court (SC) to pay them compensations as assigned by the courts of the first instance.
Frontline of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
21:27, 20 November 2014
As reported by the Ministry of Defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the venue of the recent crash of the Mi-24 helicopter is under constant fire of Azerbaijani militaries; therefore, the Karabakh party cannot get there and find out the fate of three members of the crew.
The building of the administration of Makhachkala. Dagestan. Photo: Al-Gimvraviy https://ru.wikipedia.org
20:20, 20 November 2014
The Thursday meeting of Karaman representatives with officials from the administration of Makhachkala ended in a fight, in which Magomedamin Magomedov, the leader of the public council of the village of Tarki was injured, said Gamzat Khangishiev, the co-chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations.
Improvised explosive devices. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/
18:56, 20 November 2014
On Thursday, November 20, law enforcers found a cache in Dagestan with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with total power of 50 kilograms of TNT, reports the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).
Rauf Mirkadyrov. Photo: RFE/RL
18:11, 20 November 2014
The advocates of the Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov report that their client is illegally kept in custody despite the expiry of his arrest term. They are not allowed to visit him and fear that he may be pressed.
14:14, 20 November 2014
Amendments to the legislation on NGOs that assume that foreign donors may provide grants to the country's public associations only under a permit of the government have come into force in Azerbaijan. Mirvari Gakhramanly, the head of the Organization of Oil Workers' Rights Protection, said that the country has eliminated chance for independent NGOs to exist.
The village of Tarki. Dagestan. Photo bagatyrovkazim http://wikimapia.org/
13:23, 20 November 2014
The composition of hunger-strikers has changed in Karaman: only Ibragim Yahyaev from the "second shift" continues his protest. The rest of them, who were hunger-striking since November 17, were replaced by other people. Now, the so-called "waiting list" of those ready to join the action includes more than 120 people.
Improvised explosive devices. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/content/3034.html
13:00, 20 November 2014
Three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ranging from 5 to 10 kg of TNT equivalent were found and defused on Thursday near the federal highway "Kavkaz" in the territory of the Nazran District of Ingushetia.
Detention. Photo nac.gov.ru
06:10, 20 November 2014
A local resident, suspected of aiding militants, was detained in Nazran. He helped them with money, showed places, where they could hide from power agents and worked for them as a driver, investigators assert.
Law enforcers at the special operation. Photo nac.gov.ru
00:36, 20 November 2014
The absence of large-scale persecution of residents for their religious beliefs by law enforcement bodies is a major reason for stability in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) – this is the opinion of most participants in the discussion "KChR's Experience in Harmonizing Inter-Confessional Relations".
Gldani Prison No. 8, located in Tbilisi. Photo: drugoi, http://fototelegraf.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gldanskaya-turma-tbilisi-12.jpg
19:23, 19 November 2014
In the course of their regular monitoring visit to Gldani Prison No. 8, located in Tbilisi, employees of the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia found two beaten prisoners. The Ministry of Corrections knows nothing about the incident.
The defendant, Azerbaijani citizen Shakhbaz Guliev. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:56, 19 November 2014
Starting November 14, the office of the public Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) in Baku is the venue of a hunger strike aimed to draw international attention to the detention in Nagorno-Karabakh of Azerbaijani citizens Dilgama Askerov and Shakhbaz Guliev, and the trial of them.
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.