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At the place of the terror act. Volgograd, December 30, 2013. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:26, 31 December 2013
The explosion in Volgograd trolleybus killed 16 people, including the suicide bomber, not 15, as reported earlier, the spokesman of the local Ministry of Public Health said today. Thus, the total number of casualties of the explosions on December 29 and 30 is 36 people.
13:10, 31 December 2013
The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports with reference to the latest data of power agents that the explosion of a police car in Khasavyurt on December 30 claimed two human lives.
Sochi, panorama of the Olympic objects in Imeretin Valley, 2013. Photo: sc-os.ru
12:13, 31 December 2013
The US Govt has offered its Russian counterpart a full support in ensuring security of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, said Caitlin Hayden, the press secretary of the US National Security Council.
Volgograd railway station after the terror act on December 29, 2013. Photo: http://www.volganet.ru/
10:02, 31 December 2013
107 million roubles have been transferred to the social care bodies of the Volgograd Region, engaged in payments to casualties' families and victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd. On December 30, financial aid was paid to 17 people, said the regional governor Sergey Bozhenov.
Volgograd, December 30, 2013. At the spot of the trolleybus explosion near Kachinsky market in Volgograd. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
08:39, 31 December 2013
The death toll of the trolleybus explosion in Volgograd has reached 16 people, including the suicide bomber. At night on December 31, a wounded man died in hospital, said a medical source from the Southern Federal District (SFD).
02:12, 31 December 2013
The mountain village of Akhshtyr, Adler District of Sochi, has been deprived for five years of reliable water supply and is cut off from public transport and other infrastructure because of the Olympic construction, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports.
The police detains members of the "People's Assembly" in Volgograd, organized in the context of recent terror acts. December 30, 2013. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
01:58, 31 December 2013
The police have detained about 30 members of the "People's Assembly" in Volgograd, organized in the context of recent terror acts. According to eyewitnesses, the rally was attended by about 200 people, but the police began to disperse and detain them.
Andrei Serenko, the coordinator of the "Club of Experts of Volgograd". Photo: http://fedpress.ru/
01:50, 31 December 2013
Terror act organizers are successful in the Volgograd Region because of the weakness of local power agents, who are unable to prevent suicide attacks, said Andrei Serenko, the coordinator of the "Club of Experts of Volgograd". In order to prevent terror acts, it is necessary to consolidate the society, said political scientist Ruslan Kurbanov.
At the place of the terror act in a trolleybus in Volgograd. Volgograd, December 30, 2013. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:30, 30 December 2013
The death toll of the two terror acts committed in Volgograd on December 29 and 30 includes 33 people, including the suicide bombers. The Volgograd Regional Administration has spread the list of those wounded which contains the names of 64 people.
Evgeny Vitishko. Photo http://svoboda.org/
16:30, 30 December 2013
In the Krasnodar Territory, the defence of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who was sentenced to penal settlement for damage to the fence of the so-called "summer cottage of the Governor" of the Krasnodar Territory, has challenged the court's decision. This was reported by Alexander Popkov, advocate of the sentenced ecologist.
At the spot of the explosion in Volgograd. December 30, 2013. Photo http://www.volganet.ru/
15:52, 30 December 2013
According to the recent information, 41 persons suffered in the explosion in the trolley-bus in Volgograd. Of them, 27 persons were hospitalized. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Health. According to the preliminary information, the explosion killed a 5-year-old child.
A special operation in the town of Chegem of Kabardino-Balkaria. December 30, 2013. Photo by Lyudmila Maratova for the "Caucasian Knot"
15:02, 30 December 2013
Suspected militants, who were killed on Monday during a special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria, were involved in the murders of two staff members of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as UFSIN). This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies of the republic.
Volgograd, December 30, 2013. Blown-up trolley-bus at the tram stop "Kachinsky market". Still photo of a video footage by Alexei Ulianov at Instagram, http://instagram.com/p/iiIokbBbsP
13:16, 30 December 2013
According to the preliminary information, an explosive device in a trolley-bus in Volgograd was activated by a male suicide bomber. This was reported by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
At the place of the terror act at the building of court marshals in Ordzhonikidze Street in Makhachkala, May 20, 2013. Photo: Ministry for Internal Affairs of Republic of Dagestan, http://05.mvd.ru/
11:47, 30 December 2013
On February 7, 2014, Sochi will host the opening ceremony of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. In the context of the ongoing conflict in Northern Caucasus, the "Caucasian Knot" is hereby publishing a chronicle of sabotage and terror acts committed in the pre-Olympic year in the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD).
Volgograd, December 30, 2013. Ambulance cars near railway station. Photo by the press service of the Volgograd regional government, http://www.volganet.ru/
07:05, 30 December 2013
Death toll in the terror act in Volgograd has reached 18 persons. At night of December 30, Andrei Zadorin, who was in critical condition, died in hospital. This was reported by a source from the health care institutions of the Southern Federal District (SFD).
Special operation in Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. December 27, 2013. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/
06:06, 30 December 2013
During the week from December 23 to December 29, 2013, the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus brought sufferings to at least 22 people; of them, 15 persons lost their lives, and seven more were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
Alexander Cherkasov. Photo by Magomed Tuayev for the "Caucasian Knot"
01:07, 30 December 2013
The case of Evgeny Vitishko has an obvious political context, the participants of the rallies in support of the Krasnodar ecologist held in various cities of Russia have stated. Alexander Cherkasov, the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", believes that the decisions of this sort taken in localities are contrary to the efforts undertaken by the federal centre to improve the country's image.
At the railway station in Volgograd after an explosion on December 29, 2013. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:26, 29 December 2013
One of the versions of the law enforcement bodies suggests that a suicide bombing at the railway station in Volgograd could be committed by a male suicide bomber. Earlier, Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the ICRF, has reported that, according to the preliminary information, the terror act was committed by a female suicide bomber, a native of Dagestan.
After the terror act committed on May 23, 2012, in Makhachkala. Photo by NAC, http://nac.gov.ru/
16:48, 29 December 2013
According to the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", during the "pre-Olympic" year from February 12, 2013, till December 29, 2013, 32 explosions were committed in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and the Southern Federal District (SFD).
At the spot of the terror act at the railway station in Volgograd. December 29, 2013. Photo: Russian Volunteers Union, https://twitter.com/souzdobro
15:19, 29 December 2013
The explosion committed on Sunday at the railway station in Volgograd became the third explosion since the beginning of the year. Earlier, the terror act was committed in the city bus, and there were attempts to blow up police buildings.
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.

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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.