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22:50, 19 June 2012
Within four days, 49 returnees from Syria arrive in Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria
On June 18, a group of 10 returnees arrived from Syria in Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria. In total, on June 15-18, 49 returnees came to the republics in three groups. On the coming days, other 42 persons are expected to come to Russia from Syria.
22:40, 19 June 2012
Armenia: figurant in case of officer Nazaryan's death claims that charges against him were fabricated
The trial in the case of death of contractor officer Artak Nazaryan began the process of interrogation of the defendants. At the court session, held on June 18, Vaagn Airapetyan answered the questions of the parties and called the charges against him fabricated. Interrogation of the defendants will be continued on June 26.
22:20, 19 June 2012
Relatives of Dagestani resident believe that power agents are involved in his kidnapping
Relatives of allegedly kidnapped Murad Ilyasov do not exclude that law enforcement agents may be involved in his disappearance. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a son of Murad Ilyasov.
22:10, 19 June 2012
In Tuapse, court starts debates at trial of ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko
Judge of the Tuapse District Court announced debates in the case against ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko, who were accused of damaging a fence around the so-called summer cottage of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory. Public prosecutors demanded to sentence Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko to three years of conditional sentence.
22:00, 19 June 2012
Dagestani resident claims investigators' refusal to give out body of his nephew, killed in special operation in Shamkhala
Officers from the Investigatory Committee of the Kirov District of Makhachkala do not give permission for giving out from morgue the body of Iskhaq Magomedov, who was killed, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), on June 10 during a special operation, conducted in the village of Shamkhala. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Ramadan Akhmedov, the uncle of the killed man.
21:00, 19 June 2012
Abkhazian refugees hold protest in Georgia
In front of the Georgian Ministry for Affairs of Internally Displacement Persons, refugees from Abkhazia held action, demanding to create normal conditions for accommodation and provision of new apartments.
10:00, 19 June 2012
Ingush policeman becomes Hero of Russia
The title of the Hero of the Russian Federation was awarded to Ruslan Nalgiev, a former policeman from Ingushetia, for his actions during the terror act at the Nazran GOVD (City Interior Division) on August 17, 2009.
09:00, 19 June 2012
Ingushetia: prosecutor assistant accused of creating IAF denies his earlier evidences
On June 15, the Supreme Court of Ingushetia held another session on the case of Ali Dobriev, 26, an employee of the Prosecutor's Office, accused of creating an illegal armed formation (IAF). The defendant said that he had evidenced against himself under the pressure of the investigation.
08:00, 19 June 2012
Krasnodar Territory: three policemen suspected of knocking evidences out of suspect
On June 15, based on an application of a local resident, the Investigatory Division for the Severny District initiated a criminal case on the fact of abuse of service duties by three local policemen, said the press service of the Investigatory Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
23:50, 18 June 2012
Regular soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh
Aram Gyulnazaryan, a 19-year-old regular soldier, was killed in shelling of Karabakh fighting positions, committed by Azerbaijan. This is reported by the Division of Information and Propaganda of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh. In its turn, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) accused Armenia of violating the ceasefire in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
23:40, 18 June 2012
State Duma Deputy suspected of beating policemen at rally in Rostov-on-Don
Policemen filed a complaint to the investigatory authorities of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Rostov Region, asking to institute criminal proceedings against Vladimir Bessonov, the State Duma Deputy, who caused them bodily harm during an unsanctioned rally, held in Rostov-on-Don in December 2011.
23:30, 18 June 2012
Relatives of Dagestani convicts ask to transfer them from colony of Yamal-Nenets District to homeland
Relatives of the Dagestani residents, who serve their terms in the penal colony No. 8 of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, ask to transfer the convicted persons to serve their terms to their homeland or in the geographically nearest republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
23:10, 18 June 2012
In Dagestan, three attacks on businessmen committed
Last night and in the evening of June 17, in Dagestan, three attacks on businessmen at once were committed; one businessman was killed. This is reported by the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
23:00, 18 June 2012
Georgian Control Chamber suspects ruling party of bribing voters
The Service to monitor financial activities of political associations of the Georgian Control Chamber appealed to the Prosecutor's Office with a recommendation to check information on the ruling party's financing of medical services to the population of the city of Samtredia.
22:30, 18 June 2012
Ex-Prosecutor of Rostov Region appeals to ECtHR
Valery Kuznetsov, ex-Prosecutor of the Rostov Region, who seeks reinstatement in office, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the District Court's refusal to consider the case in the Rostov Region rather than in Moscow.
Volunteers and employees of the "Bolshoi Tkhach" Nature Park at rest, Adygea, June 10, 2012. Courtesy of the participants of the action "Clean forest, clean springlet"
22:10, 18 June 2012
Adygea: 28 persons hold five-day ecological action
28 persons became the participants in the five-day ecological action "Clean Forest, Pure Spring", which ended on June 15 in Adygea in the territory of the "Bolshoi Tkhach" Natural Park. The number of the participants included 16 volunteer students and teachers of the Maikop State University, senior schoolchildren of the secondary school No. 4 of the farm yard of Shaumyan of the Maikop District; they cleaned tourist camping areas and equipped springs.
22:00, 18 June 2012
In Tuapse, court rejects ecologist Suren Gazaryan's self-defence
In Tuapse, on the case against ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko, accused of damaging a fence around the so-called summer cottage of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, the court dismissed the Suren Gazaryan's motion to challenge lawyer Oleg Kochubin and to conduct self-defence. Besides, the judge dismissed the ecologist's motion to challenge the composition of the court. At present, the court session pronounced a break till 2:00 p.m.
21:00, 18 June 2012
In Ingushetia, three residents of Sunzha District disappeared
On June 11, in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, under unascertained mysterious circumstances, three residents of the village of Arshty Bai-Ali Makhauri, Bekkhan Zhukalaev, and Islam Bazgiev disappeared. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". On the next day, burnt body of Bekkhan Zhukalaev was found the on the outskirts of a village.
20:00, 18 June 2012
The Cossacks of Volgograd region set outposts as a sign of protest against the plans of developing deposits of nickel
The Cossack outposts with slogans "Down with nickel!", "We did not vote for nickel!" went on patrol along the sectors of Moscow highway, Novonicolaevsky and Novoanninsky districts of Volgograd region and Borisoglebsk district of Voronezh region.
Fence of the "Kingdom Palace" of Jehovah's Witnesses with inscription "Orthodoxy!!!" made by attackers; Rostov Region, Volgodonsk, June 10, 2012. Courtesy of the press service of the Management Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
19:00, 18 June 2012
Jehovah's Witnesses report assaults at their prayer houses in Volgodonsk and Sochi
Two assaults at prayer houses where representatives of religious community Jehovah's Witnesses hold their meetings were registered in the South of Russia, i.e. Sochi and Volgodonsk, Grigory Martynov, representative of Management Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Russian Federation, informed the "Caucasian Knot" today. There were no victims.
News
A new temporary plaque has been installed on Anna Politkovskaya's home.

The eleventh installation of the plaque. Photo: SOTAvision* / Telegram A banner about vandals of memorial plaques has been reinstalled on Anna Politkovskaya's house.

Girls install a plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house. Still from RusNews video: https://t.me/rusnews/80078 A sign pointing to neo-Nazi vandals has disappeared from Politkovskaya's home.

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.