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21:45, 7 December 2012
Employment service of Maikop helps migrants from Syria with employment by sending its specialists to Repatriation Centre
On December 4, the Repatriates Adaptation Centre in Maikop, the capital of Adygea, was for the first time visited by the mobile unit of the city employment centre. Two specialists held a reception session. They received 28 migrants from Syria, introducing them to the available country's bank of vacancies.
18:00, 7 December 2012
About 25 supporters of former Prime Minister Merabishvili rally in front of the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia
About 25 supporters of the former Prime Minister of Georgia are holding a spontaneous picket outside at the building of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, demanding to provide an advocate to Vano Merabishvili.
17:28, 7 December 2012
YouTube is still unavailable in Chechnya because of the film "Innocence of Muslims"
In Chechnya, Internet users are not able to open the websites hosting the film "Innocence of Muslims".
17:20, 7 December 2012
Gamsakhurdiya's defence hopes to reduce the term claimed for Tsotne
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent with reference to Keti Bekauri, the advocate of Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya, the son of the first president of Georgia, who is accused of attacking an athlete, the defence hopes to reduce the expected imprisonment term for Tsotne from 13 years to 5 years after the charges of espionage and conspiracy have been lifted.
16:59, 7 December 2012
Residents of Kaspiysk report detention of the congregation in one of the mosques of the town
On December, 6, about ten parishioners were detained in one of the mosques of Kaspiysk, Dagestan, a local resident informed the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
16:12, 7 December 2012
The court sanctioned placement of the defendant on the case of Politkovskaya’s murder in the investigative isolation ward
The court took into custody in one of the investigative isolation wards of Moscow ex-militiaman Sergey Khajikurbanov, defendant on the case of murder of journalist of “Novaya Gazeta” Anna Politkovskaya shot down on October, 7, 2006.
15:46, 7 December 2012
Organizers of a meeting against corruption in Dagestan renounced holding it and submitted a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice
A meeting in support of the resolution of the Independent Congress of the peoples of Dagestan planned on December, 7, in Makhachkala failed. The organizers of the action unable to coordinate it with the Ministry of Justice of the republic decided "not to set up” the participants. Officials of the Ministry of Justice of Dagestan state that they did not prohibit the action and received no official notification from the organizers of the meeting.
15:18, 7 December 2012
The opposition is going to hold an action of protest in front of the Parliament of Azerbaijan on December, 10
Mayor’s office of Baku did not authorize a picket in front of the building of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan planned by oppositional civil movement for democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) on December, 10. However, representatives of the opposition declared their intention to hold the protest action in spite of the authorities’ prohibition.
15:11, 7 December 2012
Unidentified people in North Ossetia kidnapped resident of the settlement of Maiskoye Ahmed Buzurtanov
In the evening of December, 6, unidentified people in the settlement of Maiskoye, Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, forced Ahmed Buzurtanov, trainer of “Kaloy” wrestler’s club, into a car and carried him away in an unknown direction, local residents reported.
19:54, 6 December 2012
Tbilisi court releases Akhmed Chataev on bale
The Tbilisi City Court has released the citizen of Russia Akhmed Chataev, who was detained in the course of a special operation conducted in Lopota Gorge, under the bale of 5000 laris, as the "Information Centre Kakheti" reports.
19:11, 6 December 2012
In Georgia, espionage and plot charges lifted from Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya
Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya, the son of the first president of Georgia, has been released from accusations of espionage in favour of Russia and a plot, aimed at dethroning the legally elected power. This was reported by her lawyer Keti Bekauri.
18:41, 6 December 2012
Convicts' relatives complain about mass beatings in colony in Kalmykia
In the course of arrival on December 4 of a new group to Colony "Salyn IK-1" in Kalmykia, about 20 prisoners were beaten; their relatives report. The colony itself and the republic's UFSIN (local Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service) deny any information about beating the inmates.
18:29, 6 December 2012
Rostov region: colony staff accused of beating inmate
Five former and current employees of the Correction Colony No. 10 located in the Rostov Region, suspected of beating an inmate, have seen charges of abusing their service duties, as reported by the Investigatory Department for the Rostov Region of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation (ICRF).
18:15, 6 December 2012
Azerbaijan to set up united prisoners' defence centre
In Azerbaijan, prisoners often become victims of fabricated charges, illegal court judgements and poor treatment by prison administrations. This was stated on December 6 by the participants of the public hearings, organized by the "Public Alliance– Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners". The result of the hearing was the idea to coordinate the efforts of all public committees acting in defence detainees' and convicts' rights.
17:57, 6 December 2012
Trial on recognition of "International Tribunal for Chechnya" as extremist begins
Today, the Dzerzhinsk City Court of the Nizhni Novgorod Region has started considering a civil case on the claim lodged by the Public Prosecutor of Nizhni Novgorod on recognition of the monograph "International Tribunal for Chechnya" to be extremist, said the press service of the court.
17:22, 6 December 2012
A witness recognized Temerkhanov as Budanov’ murderer
Eyewitness of the crime Maria Minakova described ex-colonel Yuri Busanov’s murder as a dark-haired tall man of an average build in Moscow city court today. Anatoly Zatserenko, another witness of the murder, recognized defendant Yusup Temerkhanov in court.
17:02, 6 December 2012
Journalists of the TV and radio company in Nalchik where the killed Gekkiev had worked earlier received threats from gunmen
Journalists of the TV and radio company in Kabardino-Balkaria where Kazbek Gekkiev killed in Nalchik had worked earlier received threats from gunmen. Several days before Gekkiev’s murder gunmen in Dagestan also spoke of “execution lists” for journalists.
16:18, 6 December 2012
251 convicts pardoned in Georgia
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili pardoned 251 convicts, Chairperson of the Committee for clemency with the President Elena Tevdoradze told the journalists today.
16:00, 6 December 2012
The court in Karachay-Cherkessia fined “Jehovah's Witnesses” to 50 000 rubles
On November, 20, the Magistrate of Urup district of Karachay-Cherkessia fined local community of “Jehovah's Witnesses” in the settlement of Kurdjinovo to 50 thousand rubles acknowledging them guilty of mass distribution and storage of printed matted included into the federal list of extremist materials.
22:18, 5 December 2012
Azerbaijan: opposition forms coalition in support of democratic presidential election
In Azerbaijan, the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber"(CMDPC) has supported – after public hearing on December 4 on 2013 presidential election – the memorandum on electoral reform. However, some of the debaters expressed doubt on the possibility to change the situation in the country through elections and spoke in favour of protest actions with the aim to force the authorities to start democratic reforms.
News
Karabakh politicians convicted in Baku demanded that the Armenian authorities pay attention to their problems.

Ulviya Ali. Photo: https://jam-news.net/ru The President of the Voice of America* called for the release of Ulviya Ali.

Azerbaijani opposition figure Yagublu has been placed in the prison's medical center.

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.