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20:46, 29 June 2013
Residents of TAC "Promzhilbaza" in Ingushetia ready to go on hunger strike on July 1
The forced migrants from Chechnya who live in Ingushetia have declared their readiness to start a hunger strike in protest against the unfair, in their opinion, distribution of certificates for purchase of housing.
20:23, 29 June 2013
Sochi police demand to bring builder Demerchyan to liability for slander
The Sochi police have sent an application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) asking to bring the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, who had claimed being tortured at the police station of the village of Blinovo, to liability for slander.
19:19, 29 June 2013
Boris Nemtsov: increased cost of Sochi Olympics is a result of corruption and theft of budget funds
The reasons for the increased cost of Olympic facilities and the rising expenses for the Olympics-2014 are in the corruption and Olympic-scale of fund embezzlement, said Boris Nemtsov, a co-chairman of the Party "RPR-Parnas", who presented in Sochi his report "Winter Olympics in Subtropics".
16:58, 29 June 2013
Magomedov, ex-MP of Dagestan put in custody on suspicion of helping militants
The court has granted the petition of the investigation and put the former Dagestani parliamentarian from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Magomed Magomedov, who was detained on suspicion of organizing mass riots with the aim of helping militants during a special operation. in custody.
Yadigar Sadygov. Photo: http://minval.az
15:59, 29 June 2013
Azerbaijan: adviser to the head of "Musavat" Party Yadigar Sadygov arrested for two months
On June 29, the Lankaran District Court of Azerbaijan ruled to restrict the freedom of Yadigar Sadygov, an advisor to the head of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, who is accused of hooliganism, by a two-month-long arrest. His defence intends to appeal against the ruling at the appeal instance.
12:39, 29 June 2013
Mayor of Karachaevsk put on federal wanted list
Soltan Semyonov, the incumbent Mayor of Karachaevsk, was put on the wanted list, Sergey Shuvaev, Senior Assistant to the Head of the Investigating Department for Karachay-Cherkessia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
11:27, 29 June 2013
Businessman's house blown up in Khasavyurt
At night on June 29, in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, four unidentified masked men armed with submachine guns blew up the house of a businessman; nobody suffered in the incident, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.
Foundation stone of the future monument to fallen journalists. Makhachkala, July 2012. Photo by Aida Magamedova for the “Caucasian Knot”.
03:32, 29 June 2013
Dagestan announces contest on design of monument to perished journalists
The Union of Journalists of Dagestan has announced an international contest on the design of a monument to fallen journalists.
00:56, 29 June 2013
31 educators to be sacked in Dagestan for USE violations
As stated on June 28 by Evgeniy Semchenko, the head of the department for assessing the education quality of the "Rosobrnadzor" (Russian Federal Supervisory Service in Education and Sciences), more than 30 officials from education bodies and schools of Dagestan will be dismissed for violations during the unified state examination (USE).
19:39, 28 June 2013
Participants of rally in front of Armenia's GPO demand release of convicted ANC activists
On June 28, 40 persons took part in a protest action held in front of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia demanding immediate release and acquittal of the four young activists of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), now kept in custody.
MP Levan Bezhashvili, the "United National Movement" party. Photo http://www.heretifm.com/
14:16, 28 June 2013
Georgia: parliamentary minority declares political boycott
The parliamentary faction of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party in Georgia stops its work in the supreme legislative body of the country and starts its political boycott in protest against the detention of senior officials of Tbilisi Mayoralty, said the MP Levan Bezhashvili.
Checkpoint at Abkhazia and South Ossetia border in Nabakia village, May 15, 2013. Photo by Angela Kuchuberia for the “Caucasian Knot”.
11:18, 28 June 2013
Lortkipanidze: disruption of Geneva discussions was caused by attempt of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to change format
In the course of the talks in Geneva on security in Southern Caucasus, delegates of the conflict regions made an attempt to leave one working group and continue working in another one. The co-chairs banned the precedent and stopped the security working group, said the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, explaining the disruption of the talks.
10:09, 28 June 2013
Transparency International demands to check Chief Architect of Yerevan for abuse of powers
Law enforcement bodies of Armenia are preparing to launch inquiry into activities of Narek Sarkisyan, the Chief Architect of Yerevan, after the statement of the anti-corruption centre of the Transparency International about his possible misuse of powers.
Complex "Grozny City". Central is Phoenix Tower (former Olympus Tower). Grozny, Chechnya, June 11, 2013. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot".
09:51, 28 June 2013
Engineers promise to restore skyscraper in "Grozny City" by late September
The 145-meter tower of the complex "Grozny City", which was damaged by fire in April, will be restored with the use of new fire-resistant decoration materials by September 30, the city administration reports.
Marina Dubrovina, lawyer of Nikolai Yarst, at a press-conference in Sochi, June 27, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the “Caucasian Knot”.
04:21, 28 June 2013
Inquiry into Yarst's case in Sochi is run with violations, advocates assert
The journalist Nikolai Yarst, accused of drug possession, is not guilty of the incriminated offence, while the inquiry into his case is accompanied by violations, the Yarst's advocates Alexander Popkov and Marina Dubrovina said at the press conference held in Sochi.
03:15, 28 June 2013
Advocate: inquiry into the case of ex-office manager of president of Azerbaijan is accompanied by ECHR violations
The court in Baku dismissed the complaints of the former office manager of the president of Azerbaijan Akif Muradverdiev, filed by his defence in connection with his freedom restriction, the conducted searches and investigators' refusal to provide information. According to the advocate Fuad Agaev, the court decisions gave sufficient grounds for filing a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
02:48, 28 June 2013
"Pravozaschita" turns to prosecutor's office on forcing Buynaksk residents to give DNA assays
Zarema Bagautdinova, a representative of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) for the Buynaksk District, has addressed the Public Prosecutor of Dagestan asking him to react to the fact of forcing 23 residents of Buynaksk to give their saliva for collecting DNA samples.
Human right activist Magomed Mutsolgov. Photo by Ruslan Mutsolgov.
02:07, 28 June 2013
Issues of encroachment on human honour and rights to be discussed by conference scheduled in Ingushetia
On June 29, the city of Magas will hold a conference against encroachment on human honour and rights, which will be organized by the republic's administration and Muftiate. One of the topics to be discussed at the forum will be the issue of bride abduction.
00:59, 28 June 2013
Unloading dock in Volgograd Region was burned down intentionally, its defenders are sure
The fire in the unloading dock, located near the farmstead of Bobry in the Sredneakhtubinsk District of the Volgograd Region, which was recognized as cultural heritage, was caused by arson, the activists who fought for the preservation of the building are sure. They now prepare a series of rallies to demand to find and punish the arsonists.
20:31, 27 June 2013
Adviser to "Musavat" head detained in Azerbaijan on suspicion of hooliganism
On June 27, Yadigar Sadygov, an advisor to the chairman of the opposition "Musavat" Party, was detained by police in the city of Lankaran in southern Azerbaijan on suspicion of committing acts of hooliganism. The "Musavat" finds the accusations fabricated and politically motivated.
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The court extended the house arrest of Samvel Karapetyan.

Employees of "Araratcement" achieved the reopening of the enterprise.

Vardanyan's wife asked Pashinyan to help in visiting prisoners in Baku.

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.