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22:00, 20 April 2013
Unidentified criminals tried to blow up ROVD head's car in Dagestan
In the Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan, on the road next to the car of the head of the ROVD (District Interior Division), an explosion was triggered. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties, said a source from the investigatory authorities.
21:00, 20 April 2013
United Caucasian Forum in Dagestan postponed indefinitely
The 5th Caucasian Forum, due to take place in Makhachkala on April 21-23, 2013, has been postponed at the request of the Dagestani authorities and public organizations, as Kheda Saratova, a member of the board of the United Caucasus Forum, told the "Caucasian Knot".
20:00, 20 April 2013
Residents of Volgograd Region hold picket demanding more affordable health care
A picket "against destruction of Russian health care system" was held today in Volgograd. Residents of the Volgograd Region residents demanded from those in power to preserve and expand access to health care.
19:00, 20 April 2013
Magomedov: Gimry residents can return home after power agents settle there
The decision to set up a permanent operative group of power agents in the Dagestani village of Gimry was made after a meeting of the Government Commission and a group of local residents. Once this group is deployed in the village, residents will be able to return to their homes, said the head of the village administration Aliaskhab Magomedov.
18:00, 20 April 2013
Araik Petrosyan, suspected of killing the head of Proshyan, left in custody
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the complaint of the defence Araik Petrosyan, a suspect of killing the head of the village of Proshyan, and left him under arrest. The court hearing took place against the backdrop of a protest action of local residents.
17:00, 20 April 2013
Supreme Court of Chechnya upholds verdict of woman who tried to sell baby
In Chechnya, the verdict has been upheld against Aksana Dashkaeva, a 42-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was sentenced earlier by one of the Grozny District Courts to ten years of imprisonment in a general security colony for kidnapping and attempted sale of an eight-month baby.
16:31, 20 April 2013
Relatives of Tsarnaev brothers deny their commitment to radical Islam
The brothers Johar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of organizing a terror act in Boston on April 15 that killed three people, were not the adherents of radical Islam, said their mother Zubeydat Tsarnaeva, and their uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev and their aunt Maret Tsarnaeva.
16:00, 20 April 2013
Azerbaijan: 19 life-long convicts go on hunger strike
On April 18, in Azerbaijan, a group of inmates who are serving their life sentences in the Gobustan Prison went on a hunger strike, demanding to reconsider their cases.
15:00, 20 April 2013
Local resident Yusup Adjiev shot dead in Khasavyurt
In Dagestan, on April 19, after the Friday prayer, Yusup Adjiev, a resident of Khasavyurt and one of public leaders of the Kumyk nation, was shot dead.
07:00, 20 April 2013
Mother of resident of South Ossetia, convicted in Georgia, goes on hunger strike
In Tskhinvali, Lyudmila Usovich, a local resident, went on a hunger strike. She is the mother of Georgy Zasseev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who is serving his life sentence in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia.
05:00, 20 April 2013
Armenia: preliminary investigation into attempt on Paruir Airikyan is over
The Investigatory Department of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has completed a preliminary criminal investigation into the attempt on former presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan.
23:00, 19 April 2013
TCA dismisses lawsuit against the Mayoralty, demanding to adapt public transport for invalids
On April 18, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal (TCA) considered the complaint against the court's decision on the claim of Category II invalid Koba Nadiradze, demanding to adapt public transport in the capital of Georgia for disabled people. As reported by Nikoloz Legashvili, who was Nadiradze's advocate, the court dismissed the appeal.
22:00, 19 April 2013
Georgian policemen detained for abuse of power
The head of the military police department in Senaki and two military policemen, dismissed from service for misconduct, were detained on April 18 by the prosecutor's office of Adzharia; one more employee was put on the wanted list.
Sergey Gadjikurbanov, a figurant in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case. Courtesy of the press service of the Moscow City Court http://mos-gorsud.ru
21:00, 19 April 2013
Defendants in Politkovskaya's murder case insist on trial by jury
The defence of the suspects accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya insists on a jury trial, hoping for "a fair consideration of the case," said Alexei Mikhalchik, an advocate of one of the defendants.
Former Minister of State Property and Land Resources of Kabardino-Balkaria Khabdulsalam Ligidov. Courtesy http://pravo.ru
20:00, 19 April 2013
New criminal case opened against four KBR officials
The police have found new facts of illegal activities of a number of former officials of the administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), suspected of illegal alienation of national assets.
19:00, 19 April 2013
Special operation in Arshty was disrupted by Ingush party, Chechen power agents assert
On April 18, in Ingushetia, search of Dokku Umarov was continued, but because of the actions of the Ingush party the secret special operation to capture him was disrupted, said a high-ranking law enforcement official of Chechnya.
New Hampshire State troopers canvas a neighborhood in Watertown, Mass., April 19, 2013. Photo: Sally Vargas, Talk Radio News Service, http://www.flickr.com/photos/talkradionews/8664228538
18:00, 19 April 2013
US police detain sister of Tsarnaev brothers
Today, in the state of New Jersey, the police detained a sister of the Chechens, suspected of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the US media report referring the FBI.
Central bus terminal in Stavropol. Photo by komradtip7, http://ru.wikipedia.org
17:00, 19 April 2013
Suspect of killing journalist Akhmedilov detained in Stavropol
The second suspect of killing Malik Akhmedilov, an employee of the Dagestani newspaper "Hakikat", was detained in Stavropol on April 18, according to the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). According to investigators, two residents of Dagestan are suspected of killing the journalist.
23:50, 18 April 2013
Mamedov's advocates reject expert conclusion of Ministry of Justice
On April 17, in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, at the trial of Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", the court listened to the experts, authors of the linguistic examination of the texts written by Mamedov, and of the forensic and technical examination of the carriers used to record the texts. The defence disagreed with the experts and demanded to exclude their opinions from the case files.
23:30, 18 April 2013
In Baku, court refused to change Akhundov's custody for home arrest
On April 17, the Nasimi District Court of Baku under the chairmanship of Judge Elnur Akhmedov considered the appeal lodged by Rashadat Akhundov, a board member of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout), asking to change his custody for home arrest. The court rejected the motion and left him behind bars.
News
A protester in Tbilisi holds a sign in support of Anastasia Zinovkina. Photo screenshot: MO SE / Facebook. Supporters of European integration at the Georgian parliament supported Anastasia Zinovkina.

A still from Zinovkina and Gribul's court hearing in Tbilisi. Photo: Publika / https://publika.ge/sasamartlom-ar-daakmayofila-shuamdgomloba-saapelacioshi-zinovkina-gribulis-saqmis-tarjimnebis-dakitkhvaze/ The court refused to re-examine the translators in the Gribul and Zinovkina case.

A Georgian citizen has been released in South Ossetia.

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.