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10:34, 2 July 2013
Three suspected militants to face trial in Chechnya
Three residents of the Sunzha District of Chechnya will face trial on suspicion of plotting a terror act against law enforcers. The Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office completed the investigation of the criminal case against Makhmud Madaev, 22, Yusup Ektumaev, 20, and Kemran Karsamov, residents of the village of Assinovskaya, Sunzha District of Chechnya.
The village of Dylym in Kazbek District of Dagestan. Photo: official site of Kazbek District administration, http://kazbekovskiy.ru/
09:28, 2 July 2013
Residents of Kazbek District of Dagestan demand to change local power
Residents of the Kazbek District of Dagestan have held a rally to demand resignation of Abdul Makhachev, the head of the district administration, and his management, as well as to dissolve the local assembly of deputies as an ineffective representative body.
07:08, 2 July 2013
Muslims from Samtatskaro in Georgia complaint about oppressions by Orthodox population
The Muslims living in the village of Samtatskaro, Dedoplistskaroy District of Georgia, report about threats they receive from local residents and the rising religious conflict. In the opinion of Tamta Mikeladze, a lawyer from the NGO "Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia", the situation in Samtatskaro is still tense.
02:39, 2 July 2013
Zaur Gurbanly, arrested in Azerbaijan, need surgery, says his mother
The health condition of Zaur Gurbanly, a youth activist of the public movement "Nida" (Shout) and a blogger, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), continues deteriorating. He needs a surgery, his mother Sakina Gurbanova told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
23:59, 1 July 2013
Rally of residents of Khosta District of Sochi demand to stop building a high-rise
About 50 persons who took part in a protest action held in the Khosta District of Sochi demanded to stop building a 12-storey house in Yaltinskaya Street, as they believe that the construction is illegal.
Zaur Gurbanly. Photo ttp://www.radioazadlyg.org/
22:33, 1 July 2013
Baku court dismisses complaint against Zaur Gurbanly's arrest
The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by Zaur Gurbanly, a blogger and an activist of the "Nida" public movement, against the court ruling to extend his arrest by three months more. His advocate believes that investigators are deliberately protracting the transfer of the case to the court.
21:18, 1 July 2013
Barnov: voting for president of Georgia to take place on October 31
The presidential election in Georgia will be held on October 31 this year. The earlier announced date – October 27 – was wrong, said Andro Barnov, the head of the Georgian presidential administration.
Residents of TAC "Promzhilbaza" in Ingushetia go on endless hunger strike. Karabulak, 1 july 2013. Photo courtesy of hunger-strikers
18:58, 1 July 2013
Residents of TAC "Promzhilbaza" in Ingushetia go on endless hunger strike
On Monday, the refugees from Chechnya, living in Ingushetia since the 1990s, went on an endless hunger strike demanding solution of their housing problems. In total, 21 persons have declared their intention to take part in the protest.
17:59, 1 July 2013
Saakashvili decrees to hold presidential election in Georgia on October 27
In Georgia, the 2013 presidential election will be held on October 27, Manana Mandjgaladze, the press speaker of the President of Georgia, has reported. On Monday, Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree with the date of the next presidential election, she said at a briefing in Tbilisi.
17:26, 1 July 2013
Volgograd: investigators checked within the trial on GIBDD bribes
At the trial dealing with bribes in the GIBDD (Road Safety Inspectorate), the statement of the regional FSB on telephone calls was added to the case files. The state prosecutor also said that her report in relation to some investigators of the Investigating Department for the Volgograd Region of the ICRF had caused a procedural check.
14:11, 1 July 2013
Solo picketer Evgeny Zakharov released from police in Sochi
Evgeny Zakharov, a member of the initiative group for protection of greenery of the resort city, who was detained during his action near the Sochi administration, is back at large. Law enforcers have no claims to him, said Lieutenant Colonel Victor Biryuchenko, the head of the division of district policemen of the Tsentralny District of Sochi.
The Cherkessk City Court. Photo http://cherkessky.kchr.sudrf.ru/
13:39, 1 July 2013
Sentencing of ex-deputy police chief of Cherkessk postponed until July 8
The announcement of the verdict to Ruslan Rakhaev, the former deputy police chief of the city of Cherkessk, scheduled for July 1, did not take place. It is expected that the court will announce its decision on July 8 at 2:30 p.m., the Cherkessk City Court has reported.
Sochi. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the “Caucasian Knot”.
07:33, 1 July 2013
Sochi: builders of Olympic facility turn to ICRF on unpaid wages
The construction teams, involved in assembling the equipment of the Olympic Transport Directorate in Sochi, sent an application to the Investigating Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a complaint about the delay of payment of salaries by the boss of the LLC "Sochiprofstroy-15.06".
New apartments in Grozny. Photo: http://mgkhs.ru/
06:51, 1 July 2013
Chechnya plans to resettle residents of 76 emergency and dilapidated houses
Till the end of this year, Chechnya will resettle residents of 76 houses, recognized as emergency and dilapidated ones; later, 160 other multi-family houses will also be resettled, said the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of Chechnya.
16:58, 30 June 2013
Convict for blowing up "Neva-Express" Train dies in Ekaterinburg colony
Tarkhan Kartoev, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, convicted on charges of blowing up the "Neva-Express" Train, has died in Penal Colony No. 2 (IK-2) of Ekaterinburg. "The telegram was signed by Major V. Mikheev. My son had stayed in the IK-2 for just a week. Today, with my nephew we fly to Ekaterinburg, where my son had been convoyed," Umatgiri Kartoev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
16:34, 30 June 2013
Circassian organizations protest against Abkhaz conference held by European Parliament
According to activists of a number of Circassian organizations, on 28 June in Brussels for the fault of the Abkhaz delegation, the Day of Circassian Culture at the European Parliament was disrupted. According to their story, instead of that Day, another event – the conference "Abkhazia and Europe – Ways to Mutual Understanding and Rapprochement" – was held.
Participants of the project "Strengthening of Women's Capacity for Building Peace in Southern Caucasus" completed by the human rights organization "Centre of Civil Initiatives" in Nagorno-Karabakh. From left to right: the head of the Stepanakert rehabilitation center Vardan Tadevosyan; the chief of the target group in Shushi Anait Tovmasyan; the head of the "Centre of Civil Initiatives" Albert Voskanyan. Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, June 29, 2013. Photo by Marta Altunyan, http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/blogs/929/posts/15113
12:35, 30 June 2013
"Centre of Civil Initiatives" completes project on strengthening peacemaking role of women in Southern Caucasus
On June 30, in Nagorno-Karabakh, the human rights organization "Centre of Civil Initiatives" completed a three-year inter-regional project "Strengthening of Women's Capacity for Building Peace in Southern Caucasus" which was launched in March 2010 under the auspices of the Caucasian representative office of the international organization named CARE.
Participants in the rally "Derbent is Russia's southern outpost!" held in Moscow, June 29, 2013. Photo http://flnka.ru/
06:46, 30 June 2013
Participants in the rally "Derbent is Russia's southern outpost!" in Moscow demand to cancel renaming Sovietskaya Street
On June 29 in Moscow, about 300 participants of the rally "Derbent is Russia's southern outpost!" passed a resolution demanding from the administration of the city of Derbent to cancel the decision of the assembly of deputies of the city to rename Sovietskaya Street into Geidar Aliev Street.
02:58, 30 June 2013
Sochi: advocate of builder Demerchyan complains to the court about investigator's inaction
The advocate of the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, who claimed that he had been tortured by the police in Sochi, has filed a complaint against inaction of the investigator, who is examining the incident. The investigator Artyom Semenets, in his turn, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that all his actions were in compliance with the law.
Moscow, June 29, 2013. "Derbent is Russia's Southern Outpost" rally at the Yauzsky Vorota square. Photo: https://twitter.com/FLNKARU
22:11, 29 June 2013
Pickets within the campaign "Derbent is Russia's Southern Outpost" held in cities of Russia
On June 29, Dagestan hosted, within the campaign "Derbent is Russia's Southern Outpost", solo pickets against renaming Sovietskaya Street in the city of Derbent into Geidar Aliev Street. Within the campaign, a 500-person-strong rally took place in Moscow.
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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.