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02:43, 2 November 2013
For recent 10 years, from 2003 till 2013, more than 3500 members of the armed underground of Northern Caucasus were killed, and nearly 8000 others were detained. This was reported by Sergey Chenchik, Chief of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
01:05, 2 November 2013
Starting from October 30, Azha Batyrkhanova, a resident of the Buynaksk District, cannot learn about the whereabouts of her daughter Zariyat Batyrkhanova, born in 1988. According to the woman, during the recent mobile phone conversation, her daughter has told her that she was detained by law enforcers and being brought to Makhachkala.
01:03, 2 November 2013
On November 1, four supporters of theologian Talekh Bagirzade were sentenced to the administrative arrests. Activists Bakir Suleimanov, Shakhriyar Abbasov, and Tabriz Sabirli were arrested for 15 days, and Abbas Guseinov was arrested for 30 days. This was reported by Elchin Bekhbudov, the leader of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture.
00:19, 2 November 2013
During the raid held on October 23, staff members of the special forces of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) used violence against 10 prisoners kept in a punishment isolation ward of the penal colony No. 2 located in the village of Chernokozovo of the Naur District of Chechnya.
19:40, 1 November 2013
Today in Baku, Talekh Bagirzade (Bagirov), accused of illegal possession of drugs, was sentenced to two years in prison. His defence intends to appeal against the verdict. According to Anar Gasymov, Bagirzade's advocate, the trial was held with flagrant violations.
Street in Stavropol. Photo by Alexander Nikolaev, http://www.flicr.com/photos/avn
18:41, 1 November 2013
A secret women's madrasa was found in Stavropol, where the organizers promoted extremism among female students, the Territorial Department of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has reported.
14:35, 1 November 2013
As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), four persons have been detained as suspects of committing grave crimes, including the kidnapping of entrepreneur Nauruz Cherkasov.
14:25, 1 November 2013
As reported by Beslan Matiev, the Minister of Public Health of Ingushetia, the patient Bogatyryov, 60, a resident of the village of Galashki, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, who was wounded in a shooting, is in serious but stable condition; there is no threat to his life.
Said Amirov. Photo: http://islamdag.ru
12:32, 1 November 2013
The defence of Said Amirov, Mayor of Makhachkala, who was dismissed from office, asks Veronika Skvortsova, Minister of Public Health, to intervene with the situation with his medical treatment at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and claims new charges with plotting a terror act are groundless.
Kaspiisk, Dagestan. Photo: Eldar Rasulov, http://www.odnoselchane.ru/
12:21, 1 November 2013
In Dagestan, in Kaspiisk, a 28-year-old resident of Makhachkala was detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting some members of the "Makhachkala" grouping. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), suicide bomber Naida Asiyalova, who committed the terror act in Volgograd, was a member of the "Makhachkala" grouping.
Improvised explosive device in the form of a "shahid belt". Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/
08:32, 1 November 2013
A powerful improvised explosive device (IED) in the form of a "shahid belt" was found in an abandoned private household on the outskirts of one of the villages of the Stavropol Territory. This was reported today by a source from the law enforcement bodies.
Government House of the Republic of Dagestan. Photo: Abu Ubaida, http://commons.wikimedia.org
07:49, 1 November 2013
At the Parliament of Dagestan, the faction Fair Russia Party prepared an appeal to the Prosecutor's Office against Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). MPs demand to institute a criminal case against him for inciting ethnic hatred. This was reported by Kamil Davdiev, the leader of the faction.
06:59, 1 November 2013
In the Sabunchu District of Baku, five supporters of defendant theologian Talekh Bagirzade, who came to the court building to support him, were detained. This was reported by eyewitnesses. Later, three of the detainees were released.
Relatives of Khasan Khubiev demanding to stop torture the detainee. Cherkessk, October 31, 2013. Photo by Maria Dzukaeva.
03:50, 1 November 2013
About 20 persons took part in a picket near the Division of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Cherkessk, demanding to let them entering an IVS (temporary detention facility). They have explained their actions by the fact that their detained relative Khasan Khubiev was subjected to beatings.
02:52, 1 November 2013
On October 31, in Astrakhan, near the monument "To Fighters for Soviet Power" in the Bratsky Park, a traditional action was held within the "Strategy 31". The action was attended by more than 20 persons, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
23:45, 31 October 2013
On October 31, in Volgograd, 15 people gathered for a rally against political repressions and for disbanding the Centre for Combating Extremism. The list of protesters' demands included release of all political prisoners and termination of repressions against "dissident political and civil activists."
22:33, 31 October 2013
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found violations of the rights of the applicants in the case of disappearance of five residents of Chechnya in 2001-2006; the relatives of the missing people have been awarded compensation in the total amount of 317,818 euros, says the decision of the court released today.
21:34, 31 October 2013
Yusup Lakaev, a native of Chechnya and a suspect of killing the first secretary of the Russia's Embassy to Abkhazia Dmitry Vishernev and his wife Olga Visherneva, has been put on the international wanted list, reports the investigating department of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Abkhazia.
12:56, 31 October 2013
In the morning of October 31, in the village of Komsomolskoe, Magomed Gadjiev, the former head of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, was shot dead by unidentified persons in his current workplace. His bodyguard was wounded, investigators report.
11:36, 31 October 2013
The capacity of one of the bombs detonated on October 30 in the centre of Makhachkala was 4 kilograms of TNT (trotyl) equivalent. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.
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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.

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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.