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13:00, 5 April 2012
Human rights defenders ask Russian president to pardon political prisoners
On April 4, human rights activists and figures of culture sent an appeal to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a request to pardon those from the so-called "lists of political prisoners". On February 8, the organizers of the rally "For Fair Elections" conveyed the list of people whom they consider to be political prisoners to Mikhail Fedotov, the Chairman of the President's Council on Human Rights. Dmitry Medvedev instructed the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to study the sentences passed to the figurants of the list.
08:00, 5 April 2012
Oppositionists in Azerbaijan got a permission of holding a meeting on April, 8
The authorities of Baku suggested the civil movement for democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) to hold their meeting on April, 8, in a parking lot of a driving school in the settlement of Baiilovo, South-Western suburb of Baku. During the action of protest its participants will demand to carry out democratic reforms in the country.
23:00, 4 April 2012
Georgia: Christian Democrats offer to amend Constitution for Ivanishvili to take part in elections
Today, activists of the Christian-Democratic Movement have moved an initiative to amend the Constitution of Georgia in order to make it possible for the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the coalition "Georgian Dream" to take part in the parliamentary elections.
22:00, 4 April 2012
Gravestones used as foundations found in the capital of Chechnya
In Chechnya, in the process of building underground utilities in the Lenin District of Grozny, gravestones monuments – the so-called "churts" – that were walled into the concrete foundation of the former buildings of the Republic's Hospital.
21:00, 4 April 2012
In Armenia, court rejects Sukiasyan's appeal against CoEC's refusal to register him as candidate for deputy
Today, the Administrative Court of Armenia has dismissed the complaint of the oppositionist Khachatur Sukiasyan against the decision of the Constituency Election Commission (CoEC) No. 10 and upheld the refusal to register him as a candidate.
20:00, 4 April 2012
NAC: four militants liquidated in special operation in Nalchik suburb
Law enforcers of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed – in the course of a special operation, conducted in the outskirts of Nalchik, the village of Khasanya, – four suspected militants.
19:00, 4 April 2012
Chechnya: over 10,000 letters-appeals to militants gathered within the "Call of the Soul" action
In Chechnya, within the large-scale action "Call of the Soul", more than ten thousand children's letters-appeals to militants were gathered, asking them to return to peaceful life, said the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences.
18:00, 4 April 2012
All the casualties of special operation in Sergokala District of Dagestan identified
All the six militants killed during the special operation conducted on April 2-4 in Dagestan, have been identified; all of them were members of the Sergokala grouping, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (ANC) has reported today.
17:00, 4 April 2012
Volgograd authorities plan to erect monument to leaders of anti-Hitler coalition
As stated by Sergey Bozhenov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, in Volgograd, in preparation for the celebrating of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, it is planned to erect a monument to the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition.
15:00, 4 April 2012
Antonina Mayevskaya’s relatives in Sochi identified her dead body
Today relatives of murdered widow of a well-known cultural figure Joseph Mayevsky Antonina Mayevskaya identified her dead body in the morgue of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar region. Investigator Maxim Bogdanovich and attorney of Mayevskaya’s relatives Igor Kurochkin were present at the identification.
08:00, 4 April 2012
Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of religious extremism
Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of organization of a religious community “Tabligi Jamia” acknowledged an extremist one and participation in its activities, Astrakhan regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.
08:00, 4 April 2012
The personnel of a penal colony in Kalmykia are suspected of beating convicts from Chechnya
A criminal case on the fact of abuse of authority was initiated in Kalmykia against the personnel of a penal colony who have regularly been beaten up natives of Chechnya, representatives of the Apparat of Ombudsman of Chechen Republic informed the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
23:00, 3 April 2012
NAC: five militants killed in special operation in Ingushetia
According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), today in a special operation in the city of Nazran five militants were killed. One of the casualties has been preliminarily identified as the 23-year-old Salman Gardanov.
22:00, 3 April 2012
ECtHR refuses to find Russia guilty of violating rights of defrauded investor from Krasnodar
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the case "Kotov versus Russia" and refused to find the Russian Federation guilty of violating the rights of Vladimir Kotov, a defrauded investor – a resident of Krasnodar.
21:00, 3 April 2012
Action against energy drinks held in Tskhinvali
Today, the central square of Tskhinvali hosted an action, where the participants protested against the spread by the retail network of South Ossetia of the so-called "energy drinks", as well as against sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to minors.
20:00, 3 April 2012
Resident of Krasnodar Territory complains of torture by police
The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has started a check of the video appeal posted on the Internet by Sergey Medvesh, a resident of the village of Varenikovskaya, Crimea District, who claims that policemen had raped him with a bottle of vodka.
19:00, 3 April 2012
Georgian Armenians ask Tbilisi authorities to allocate land for memorial to genocide victims
In Georgia, the Armenian Diaspora has addressed the Mayoralty of Tbilisi asking to allocate a land plot for building a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. This was reported by the press service of the "Community of Georgian Armenians".
18:00, 3 April 2012
Residents of Azerbaijan demand fair distribution of help among flood victims
In Azerbaijan, villagers from Minbashi, Sabirabad District, have held a protest today with a demand of fair distribution of compensations allotted by the government to the victims of floods in 2010.
17:00, 3 April 2012
Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria says that kidnappers wanted to know militants' addresses from him
Aslan Guliev, a resident of the city of Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria, has informed rights defenders that he was kidnapped on March 14 by unidentified men in masks, who, according to his story, tortured him, demanding to talk about his connections with militants. Fearing for his life and health, Guliev asks for help in recovering his violated rights.
16:00, 3 April 2012
"Sova": two persons have perished in Russia this year as a result of racist attacks
Since the start of 2012, at least 32 people have suffered from racist attacks in Russia; two of them were lost. The nine regions, where such incidents have occurred, include the Volgograd and Rostov Regions, according to the Information-Analytical Centre "Sova", which runs statistics of manifestations of racism and radical nationalism.
News
A Rostov Region resident has been convicted in connection with a terrorist attack on a railway.

Eleven soldiers from the Rostov region were killed in Ukraine.

A UAV in flight. Illustration created by the Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program. 84 drones were destroyed in five regions of southern Russia.

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.