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22:20, 30 January 2012
In Georgia, women-prisoners interrupt their protest hunger strike
Today, in Georgia, a group of prisoners of the Tbilisi women's colony stopped their hunger strike to protest against transfer of children under three years old to children's homes.
22:10, 30 January 2012
Resident of Karachay-Cherkessia kills suspect of road accident, where his sister died
A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, without waiting for trial on case of a road accident that killed his sister, stabbed with a knife a suspected perpetrator of the road accident. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Republic's Investigatory Committee.
22:00, 30 January 2012
Defence of Arakcheev, convicted for murdering three Chechen residents, demands his case reconsideration
Defence of Sergey Arakcheev, ex-officer of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a colony for murdering three Chechen residents in January 2003, asks the General Prosecutor's Office to reopen the case, since new reasons for its reconsideration have appeared.
21:00, 30 January 2012
An environmental picket passed off in Stavropol
On January, 29, activists of non-governmental organizations, scientists and ecologists held a picket in Stavropol "Healthy life-style is our people's happy future". At the action the participants called for maintenance of the springs in the forests of the city and elimination of pollution of water storages in order not to harm the residents' health.
20:00, 30 January 2012
Almost 20 educational institutions in Rostov region totally closed because of cold
19 schools and kindergartens in Rostov region were totally closed, seven more institutions stopped functioning in part. The reason was that the temperature in these buildings dropped under admissible level.
19:00, 30 January 2012
Parents of the lost members of power ministries in Kabardino-Balkaria called for the authorities to take over the control of the situation in the republic
Parents of lost servicemen of law enforcement bodies called for the authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria to take over the control of the situation in the republic, provide people with jobs and eliminate corruption. On January, 28, they held their first organizational meeting in the town of Baksan. About twenty persons took part in it.
Dagestan, Municipal Formation "Bezhtin Precinct", December 4, 2011, elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Courtesy by the RIA "Dagestan"
18:00, 30 January 2012
Installing web-cameras in Dagestan will not help solve the problem of ballot rigging, some local observers consider
Part of local observers in Dagestan where installation of web-cameras started at the polling stations for the election of President of Russia are sure that the cameras will not help solve the problem of ballot rigging during voting. In their turn, the authorities state that the systems of video surveillance will make the election more transparent.
23:00, 28 January 2012
Participants of unauthorized protest action detained in Georgia
Near the building of the Parliament of Georgia, the police detained seven participants of an unsanctioned oppositional action in memory of the killed employee of the "United Bank of Georgia" Sandro Girgvliani. The protesters tried to block traffic in Rustaveli Avenue.
22:00, 28 January 2012
Two children injured by explosion in Makhachkala
Two children suffered as a result of two explosions in Makhachkala, the spokesperson of the Dagestani MIA has reported.
21:00, 28 January 2012
Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of breaking ceasefire
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated that today and on January 27 the Armenian Armed Forces repeatedly violated the ceasefire regime. At the same time, the Armenian MoD has claimed that on January 22-28 they registered about 150 cases of ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani party.
Barbed wire and surveillance camera over the prison wall. Courtesy of the press service of the UFSIN (Department of the Corrective Service) of Russia for Arkhangelsk Region
19:00, 28 January 2012
Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, goes on hunger strike in jail
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about the 17-day-long hunger strike of Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his term in the Kamchatka Territory, from his grandmother Minovsi Almurzieva. According to her story, Alaudin Almurziev is hunger-striking against violation of his rights in the colony.
Activists of the youth movement "Dalga" (Wave) at the French Embassy in Azerbaijan during protest action against adoption of the law on criminalization of denial of Armenian Genocide by French Senate, Baku, January 27, 2012. Courtesy of the IA "Turan"
18:00, 28 January 2012
Forum of Azerbaijani Intellectuals initiates a mass rally in Baku
The Forum of Azerbaijani Intellectuals (FAI) is initiating a mass protest rally against adoption by the French Senate of the law on responsibility for denial of the Armenian Genocide; in the coming days the FAI plans to send an application to the city mayoralty.
17:00, 28 January 2012
Dozens of settlements in Azerbaijan remain without electricity as a result of snowfall
From January 27 on, due to heavy snowfalls in the northwest of the country, 18 villages and one township in the Balakan District are suffering from power outage.
16:00, 28 January 2012
"United Abkhazia" nominates 11 candidates for MPs
The city of Sukhumi has hosted the congress of the pro-government party "United Abkhazia", where 11 candidates were nominated to run for the parliamentary elections.
15:00, 28 January 2012
In Volgograd Region, Uzbek workers get their salary debts
According to the Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office, on January 27, the 188 workers from Uzbekistan, who spend their winter in tents, received in full their salary debts.
14:00, 28 January 2012
North Ossetia: large families will get land for construction free of charge
On January 27, the North-Ossetian MPs adopted – in the second and final readings – the Law "On Free Provision of Land Plots into Ownership of Large Families".
12:00, 28 January 2012
Yerevan to be capital of Bologna Process for three years
In June 2012, Armenia will be the ninth country, entrusted with the responsibility for organizing the Bologna process for the next three years, said Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Sciences of Armenia.
23:00, 27 January 2012
Ingush SEZ signed
The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Republic of Ingushetia have signed an agreement to create a special economic zone (SEZ) for tourism and recreation in the territory of the Djeirakh and Sunzha Districts of Ingushetia.
22:50, 27 January 2012
Former Deputy Mayor of Rostov-on-Don accused of fraud and abuse of power
Alexander Kuryanov, a former Deputy Mayor of Rostov-on-Don for housing and municipal services, is a figurant of two criminal cases. He is accused of a fraud and abuse of service powers.
22:30, 27 January 2012
Kalmykia starts installing web cameras at polling stations
It is planned that equipment for video surveillance over the procedures of voting and vote count at the forthcoming Russian presidential election on March 4 will be installed at 253 polling stations of Kalmykia. The installation and connection works are carried out by the "Rostelecom".
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Aliyev recalled the conditions of the peace agreement with Armenia

The contents of Ruben Vardanyan's final statement at the Baku Military Court have been published.

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....

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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.