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12:13, 27 December 2013
To monitor the ecological situation in Khopyor Region, an independent commission of experts, which included scientists and experts from several cities of Russia, was created. This was reported by Grigory Rudoy, Mining Director of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "UGMK-Holding" engaged in nickel mining.
12:13, 27 December 2013
The Novosibirsk Regional Court has postponed till January 16 the court session on the case against the "Novosibirsk Jamaat" grouping that presumably funded Caucasian militants. This was reported by Anna Rastopchina, an official from the Novosibirsk Regional Court.
Sochi airport. Photo by Roman Bykov / Yugopolis
11:57, 27 December 2013
For the period of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the "Aeroflot" Airlines set tariff for round-trip tickets for economy flights Moscow-Sochi at 5000 roubles. This was reported today by the press service of the "Aeroflot" Airlines. The action will last from February 5 to March 17, 2014.
04:21, 27 December 2013
Rizvan Khasbulatov, a resident of Makhachkala, has claimed that he was beaten at the police station after being detained at an Islamic cafe on October 14. According to him, he appealed to the investigating authorities to complaint about beating; however, the facts stated in the complaint were not actually investigated.
Rovshan Agaev. Photo: RFE/RL http://rus.azattyq.org/
00:54, 27 December 2013
Zaur Gasanov, who attempted self-immolation in protest against the demolition of the cafe owned by him, was driven to despair by bureaucratic arbitrariness and lack of a fair justice. This was stated by members of political parties and public organizations of Azerbaijan.
21:45, 26 December 2013
Relatives of the convicts who serve their terms in Corrective Colony No. 2, located in the village of Chernokozovo, Naur District of Chechnya, report a riot staged by the inmates.
14:31, 26 December 2013
In Sochi, about a hundred pensioners held a rally on December 25, demanding from the city authorities to remove the spontaneous dump in Parallelnaya Street and free the pass along Sevastopolskaya Street from the parked motor vehicles.
14:10, 26 December 2013
In Azerbaijan, users of the Facebook have appointed an action for December 28 in connection with the attempted self-immolation of Zaur Gasanov, a Category II invalid and veteran of the Karabakh War. The action under the slogan "Stop burning down veterans!" is planned in Fountain Square in downtown of Baku. Gasanov is in critical condition, doctors say.
Rushan-Khazrat Abbyasov. Photo: http://www.muslim.ru
13:34, 26 December 2013
A murder of a person is a crime regardless of the kind of his or her activity, both from the position of the Russian laws and the position of Islam. This was stated by Rushan-Khazrat Abbyasov, the head of the administration of the Russian Council of Muftis (RCM), when he commented on the murder of a female healer in Kabardino-Balkaria.
Big Ice Dome in Sochi. Photo by Nina Zotina, Yuga.ru
12:10, 26 December 2013
Vitaly Mutko, the head of the Russian Ministry of Sports, has announced that he will resign in case of poor performance of the Russian national team at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi by his fault. However, the Minister has clarified that when talking about failure, he implies not poor athletic performance, but problems with training of the athletes, participating in the Olympic Games.
Mutsalaul village in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Photo: http://www.odnoselchane.ru/
05:35, 26 December 2013
In the village of Mutsalaul of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified persons committed an armed attack on a private house. As a result, an 11-year-old girl was killed, and her mother and a man, who were in the house, were wounded. This was reported today by an official from the Chief Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Dagestan.
At the construction site of the Samur water intake. Dagestan. Photo: http://flnka.ru/
05:08, 26 December 2013
Residents of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, who protest against the construction of the Samur water intake refused to take part in the meeting of the republic's government. The protestors claimed that officials should visit the place where the problem occurred.
04:08, 26 December 2013
On December 25, Mansur Adjigisiev, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, died at the City Hospital of the city of Georgievsk. He was detained on suspicion of illegal possession of arms and received medical treatment under arrest at the Georgievsk City Hospital.
02:08, 26 December 2013
In the town of Kotovo of the Volgograd Region, car owners held a flash mob to protest against rise in prices of gasoline and diesel fuel. The protest action was attended by 16 car owners.
The poster in support if Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko. Photo: http://oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com
00:17, 26 December 2013
On December 25, a number of Russian cities, including Novosibirsk, Moscow, Krasnodar, Sochi, and Voronezh, hosted actions rallies in support of Evgeny Vitishko, a Kuban activist and ecologist, who was sentenced in the case of the "Tkachov's summer cottage".
23:30, 25 December 2013
On December 25, the 42-year-old Zaur Gasanov, a Category II invalid of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and a father of five children, committed self-immolation in central Baku opposite the building of the Azerbaijani Trade Unions Confederation. In this way he expressed his protest against confiscation of his cafe. Policemen managed to extinguish the fire. Zaur Gasanov was hospitalized in grave condition, said his father.
20:12, 25 December 2013
Nelly Modenova, a resident of Nalchik, has filed a lawsuit to the city court demanding from the Ministry of Finance to compensate the damage she suffered on April 6, 2012, when her apartment was burnt during a special operation, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has informed today.
19:18, 25 December 2013
The names of the men who were killed today in Buynaksk in a shootout with the police are known, said the spokesman for the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). They were members of the "Buynaksk" grouping, said the press service of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
Participant of a solo picket held in support of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko. Sochi, December 25, 2013. Photo by David Khakim.
17:53, 25 December 2013
Today, four activists, by changing each other, held solo pickets in support of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko. The poster, which the picketers passed over to each other, read: "Freedom to Evgeny Vitishko!" and bore the five Olympic Rings decorated with barbed wire.
14:24, 25 December 2013
Today, the Rostov Regional Court has passed an acquittal in the criminal case against Vladislav Zhuravlyov, the former deputy mayor of Novocherkassk, who had been earlier sentenced to probation by the Novocherkassk City Court for intolerant remarks. Mr Zhuravlyov himself told it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
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.