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Detention of the participants of the protest action "Million Mask March". Yerevan, November 5, 2013. Photo: PanARMENIAN Photo/Hrant Khachatryan
09:37, 4 January 2014
In Yerevan, Vage Mkrtchyan, the third arrested participant of the "Million Mask March" has joined the hunger strike earlier announced by Shant Harutyunyan and Liparit Petrosyan, as Ruzanna Badalyan, Harutyunyan's wife, told reporters.
Photo: www.dagpravda.ru
06:25, 4 January 2014
The Prosecutor's Office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sent to court a criminal case against Zhantemir Temirkanov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs).
01:05, 4 January 2014
The international organization "Reporters without Borders" (RWB) has issued a release, which expresses its serious concern about the criminal prosecution of journalists Sergey Reznik and Alexander Tolmachov from Rostov-on-Don, who criticized the authorities.
23:54, 3 January 2014
Muslims of the Volgograd Region report that there was no aggression against them after the terror acts committed in Volgograd. The Union of Muslims of the Volgograd Region has called young Islamists to take part in patrolling the streets with the aim to maintain the public order, said Abdulla Khadji, the chairman of the Union.
21:33, 3 January 2014
Special agents have established that the package, found in the territory of the Shopping Centre "MoryeMall" (Sea Mall) in Sochi, which caused an emergency evacuation of the visitors and employees of the Mall, contained no explosives.
Flowers at the place of the terror act committed in Volgograd trolleybus. Volgograd, December 30, 2013. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:29, 3 January 2014
As reported by the Ministry of Public Health (MPH) of the Russian Federation, four hospitalized victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd are in extremely critical condition; in total, 65 victims are still in hospitals of Moscow and Volgograd.
18:18, 3 January 2014
In Sochi, the mountain Olympic village was opened in the territory of the ski resort "Rosa Khutor". One of the key objects of the 2014 Winter Games is ready to receive 2600 athletes and sports officials.
Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/soussi62
17:05, 3 January 2014
Three residents of the Malokarachay District of Karachay-Cherkessia are suspected of abducting a minor girl, the press service of the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.
Ski jumping complex "Russian Hills" in Sochi. Photo http://www.gornaya-karusel.ru/
14:13, 3 January 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Sochi planning to hold total inspection of readiness of Olympic facilities and infrastructure, said his press secretary Dmitry Peskov, adding that special attention will be given to problem objects.
Entrance to Embassy of Russia in Berlin. Photo: Doug, http://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb
14:12, 3 January 2014
All the major Russian missions abroad have opened special "Olympic visa windows", where visas for foreign guests of the Winter Olympics in Sochi can be draw up on the day of address, said Vladimir Titov, a Deputy Foreign Minister.
Makhachkala, Dagestan. Photo: Abashilov Marat, http://www.odnoselchane.ru/
06:39, 3 January 2014
Anastasia Dulevskaya, a native of Samara, detained on January 2, has been released, said an activist of the DRPO "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy). Currently Dulevskaya is at home.
Stavropol. Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/nick_touz
05:52, 3 January 2014
The Oktiabrskiy District Court of Stavropol has started the preliminary hearing of the criminal case initiated against Magomed-Bashir Archakov, born in 1993, a 4-year student of the Institute for Construction, Transports and Engineering, accused of incitement of interethnic hatred and enmity.
00:56, 3 January 2014
As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies, the person killed on January 2 in the city of Khasavyurt was identified as Marat Shikhshaidov; Aisha Idigova, who was also killed in the same operation, was his civil law wife.
19:58, 2 January 2014
As reported by the regional government, the number of hospitalized victims of the terror act has increased to 46, while the count of grave patients has dropped to three.
18:43, 2 January 2014
More than 700 people were detained for various offenses during the operation "Vikhr Anti-Terror", conducted in Volgograd after the terror acts, said the MIA of the Volgograd Region.
16:22, 2 January 2014
Two persons blocked in a flat of apartment block in Khasavyurt were killed, said the law enforcement spokesman of Dagestan.
Police detains youth activists at the protest action in Baku on December 29, 2013. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
15:45, 2 January 2014
The five young activists arrested for taking part in the December 29 unsanctioned protest in Baku have stopped their hunger strike at the insistence of their parents, said Tural Abbasly, a board member of the "Musavat" Party. According to his story, the health condition of the arrested Orkhan Eyubzade became worse.
14:08, 2 January 2014
The celebrations of the New Year in Chechnya pass without any major incidents, said the local MIA. However, in the context of recent explosions in the Southern Federal District (SFD), policemen and rescuers are in the high alert regime.
On the streets of Sochi on the eve of New Year. January 31, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko by "Caucasian Knot"
13:33, 2 January 2014
Sochi streets were practically empty on December 31, 2013, and January 1, 2014, seeing only police patrol units cruising through the city, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. Sochi residents explain their reluctance to leave home by fear of terror acts.
10:25, 2 January 2014
As reported by Alla Akhpolova, the press secretary of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), after the explosions Volgograd and Pyatigorsk, law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia were put into the strengthened regime of service.
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.