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Yuri Budanov (right) at the Argun Gorge during warfare in Chechnya, 2000. Photo by Tatiana Gantimurova for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 9 October 2012
The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) brought the case on the Yuri Budanov's murder to the Prosecutor's Office for approval of indictment. This was reported today by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the ICRF.
21:00, 9 October 2012
In the Rostov Region, staff members of the Inter-District Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) "Krasnosulinskiy" detained a man, suspected of vandalizing graves at the cemetery in the village of Vladimirovskaya.
20:00, 9 October 2012
At least 22 people became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus last week, October, 1, till October, 7, 2012. 14 out of them perished and eight got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other open sources.
19:00, 9 October 2012
Yesterday, October, 8, a resident of Rutul district appealed to the police of Dagestan reporting her daughter's obscure disappearance.
18:00, 9 October 2012
Residents of the settlement of Tsatanikh, Untsuklul district of Dagestan, unblocked the roadway at the entrance of the settlement of Gimry after Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs of the republic Magomed Ismailov promised to find Head of the settlement Shamil Saipulaev who disappeared on October, 6.
23:00, 8 October 2012
A group of climbers from North Ossetia, who have accomplished an ascent to one of unnamed peaks of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, fixed there a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kazbek Khamitsaev, Chairman of the Republic's Climbing Federation, announced the intention to submit an application for naming the mountain peak as "Putin Peak". However, the proposal sparked strong criticism of bloggers in North Ossetia.
22:40, 8 October 2012
In Dagestan, Murat Guliev, the head of the housing building cooperative (HBC) "Daman", is suspected of fraud and document forgery. According to investigators, Murat Guliev raised from real estate investors more than seven million roubles for the construction of an apartment building and disappeared.
22:30, 8 October 2012
In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, military men demanded that picketers from the village of Tsatanikh should unblock the highway. This was reported by the participants of the protest actions, whose number had been increased.
22:20, 8 October 2012
Investigators are carrying out inquiry on the circumstances of a road accident in the town of Volzhsky with the participation of a district police officer who knocked down a pedestrian and escaped from the scene of the crime, Natalia Kunitskaya, representative of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry in Volgograd region, reported.
22:10, 8 October 2012
According to a verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Armenia must pay a compensation of 31 thousand euros to oppositional activist Grigor Virabyan for torture he underwent from the police and violation of his right of fair trial.
22:10, 8 October 2012
Today, the victims in the case on the journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder her children Ilya Politkovsky and Vera Politkovskaya filed a motion to cancel the agreement with investigators, concluded by Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, ex-Chief of the Secret Department of the Chief Department of the Internal Affairs of Moscow.
22:00, 8 October 2012
The body of a policeman who disappeared in the evening of October, 7, was found in the suburbs of Buinaksk today, a representative on Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Dagestan reported.
22:00, 8 October 2012
On October 7, a picket took place in the Novopushkinsky Park of Moscow in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who shot dead in 2006 at entrance to her house. The picket was attended by about 100 persons. Since no loudspeakers are allowed at pickets, the protesters mainly spoke to each other.
20:00, 8 October 2012
Two persons perished as a result of a grenade explosion in the settlement of Kochubeeskoye, Stavropol region, a source in regional law enforcement bodies reported.
19:00, 8 October 2012
A resident of Akushinski district of Dagestan appealed to the police reporting his daughter's obscure disappearance.
18:00, 8 October 2012
Yesterday, October, 7, a conflict occurred in a merchandise market of Krasnodar as a result of which firearms were used. One person was killed and two more got wounded.
23:00, 6 October 2012
Workers of the glass factory in the city of Dagestanskie Ogni did not receive wages for three months. In October, the enterprise began to pay wages for July. This was reported by workers of the factory.
22:00, 6 October 2012
The ratio of parliamentary seats between the coalition "Georgian Dream" and the "United National Movement" Party will be 83:67. This preliminary information on distribution of parliamentary seats was reported on October 6 by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia.
21:00, 6 October 2012
A 3-year-old son of a resident of Moscow was slightly injured, allegedly as a result of shooting, committed by guests of the wedding party of Dagestani natives in the centre of the capital. This was reported by a representative of the press service of the Chief Department of Internal Affairs in Moscow.
20:00, 6 October 2012
Khati Radjabova, a resident of the village of Bondarenovka of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, appealed to the Dagestani Regional Public Organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) with a request to assist in the search for the wife of her son and her baby, whose fate is unknown to her since September 23. The woman suspects that the wife of her son may be kept at one of the police stations in Makhachkala.
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.