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21:40, 26 January 2012
Azerbaijan: deputy chair of Islamic Party sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment
Today, the Sumgait City Court, chaired by Judge Zeigyam Guseinov, has finished the trial of Arif Ganiev, Deputy Chair of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA).
21:40, 26 January 2012
NGO holds action in support of the unemployed at the parliament of Georgia
The action "Empty Pots", organized by the NGO named "Union of Unemployed for Employment", was held near the building of parliament in Tbilisi.
Project "Grozny: Nine Cities". Women at a metal detector for screening spectators of the Victory Day Parade, May 9, 2010. Photo by Olga Kravets, borrowed from the page of the project http://strana.lenta.ru/russia/grozny.htm
21:30, 26 January 2012
Internet users raise over 7500 US dollars on multimedia project about Grozny
For more than two years, photojournalists Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko have been making photos of the capital of Chechnya; their works are forming the multimedia project "Grozny: Nine Cities". To have the project finished, a fundraising campaign was launched on the Internet.
21:20, 26 January 2012
A broadcasting station in Azerbaijan enacted a ban on French songs
In connection with adoption of a bill on criminalization of denial of genocide by the Senate of France, broadcasting station Media FM in Azerbaijan removed songs performed by French singers and all the songs in the French language from the air today.
21:10, 26 January 2012
A man in Dagestan killed one of his abductors and escaped from prison
Two residents of Derbent kidnapped a resident of the same town and were keeping him by force in a cellar of a gym for the purpose of extortion of two million rubles from him. The kidnapped mad managed to escape and he did it by means of killing one of the abductors, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.
21:00, 26 January 2012
"Ecological Watch": discharge of treacle into the Black Sea registered in the neighbourhood of Temriuk
Discharge of treacle into the water area of the Black Sea occurred near the settlement of Volna, Temriuk district of Krasnodar region, at a sea terminal of "Food Ingredients" limited company, "Ecological Watch on North Caucasus" reports.
20:00, 26 January 2012
About 180 Uzbek workers in Volgograd region cannot return home
About 180 workers from Uzbekistan in Volgograd region have to spend the winter in tents in an open field being unable to go home because they have not received their salary.
19:00, 26 January 2012
A local resident who disappeared in Ingushetia found in Moscow
Adam Gagiev, resident of the settlement of Ekazhevo, Nazran district, who disappeared in Ingushetia on January, 5, was found in a social rehabilitation center in Moscow.
18:00, 26 January 2012
Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Armenia went on a hunger strike
Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Yerevan went on a hunger strike. The protestors sentenced to life imprisonment for murders demand reconsideration of their criminal cases.
Participant of torch march of nationalists on the anniversary of Manege Square riots in Moscow after the murder of the football fan Yegor Sviridov, Volgograd, December 11, 2011. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:50, 25 January 2012
Remizov: shortening prison terms of figurants in Volkov's won't repeat Manege Square riots
The mitigation of sentences to those guilty of murdering Yuri Volkov adopted by the Russian Supreme Court will not lead to mass protests, said Mikhail Remizov, President of the National Strategy Institute. Fans of the "Spartak" FC also believe that shortening of the terms would not cause any broad social response.
Dmitry Pankov, Aslan Cherkesov's advocate, speaks at the session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Moscow, January 24, 2012. Photo by Yulia Buslavskaya for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:50, 25 January 2012
Aslan Cherkesov's relatives outraged by Supreme Court's decision on his case
Relatives of Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Nalchik, convicted to twenty years in prison for murdering Yegor Sviridov, are outraged by the decision of the Supreme Court of Russia to mitigate his term by two months only. Cherkesov's relatives and fellow-countrymen do not exclude new protest actions in his support.
Participants of the roundtable on "Russia's Interethnic and Inter-Confessional Challenges", held on January 24, 2012, in Moscow at the RIA "Novosti". Photo by Karina Gadjieva for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:40, 25 January 2012
Solution of Russian interethnic problems starts with studying their roots, debaters on Putin's article on national issue believe
Russia needs an authority to deal with interethnic relations; and in order to solve national problems, we should first find their roots - these are the ideas expressed by public activists, including those from the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations (RCCN), who took part in the roundtable on "Russia's Interethnic and Inter-Confessional Challenges", held on January 24 in Moscow at the RIA "Novosti".
Anna Sevortyan, Director of the Russian Office of the Human Rights Watch at presentation of the HRW's annual report "Human Rights Worldwide", Moscow, January 23, 2012. Photo by Tatiana Gantimurova for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:30, 25 January 2012
Situation in Northern Caucasus is key point in Russia's chapter of HRW's global human rights report
The chapter on Russia of the report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on human rights situation in the world highlights - along with concerns about the last December's parliamentary elections - a worry about the continuing human rights violations in Northern Caucasus. According to Tatiana Lokshina, the deputy head of the Moscow HRW office, the report point to the fact that little has changed here since early 1990s.
23:20, 25 January 2012
Dagestan: organizers of rally against lawlessness of power agents refuse to hold it
An official letter stating the refusal to hold a rally against power agents' lawlessness scheduled for January 27 in Makhachkala was sent to the Ministry of Justice of Dagestan by the organizer - Saadula Abusupyanov.
23:10, 25 January 2012
Another protest action staged in Baku at the French Embassy
Opposition activists of the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) held a picket near the French Embassy to Azerbaijan. It was the third protest action in Baku over the past two days against the adoption by the French Senate of the bill that assumes criminalization of denial of the genocides, recognized as such by the laws of the country, including the Armenian Genocide.
23:00, 25 January 2012
Georgia's MIA: policemen who dispersed the rally duly punished
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reacted to the "World Report 2012: Georgia", published by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and dealing with the dispersal of the protest action in Tbilisi on May 26, 2011, and absence of proper inquiry into the incident. Shota Utiashvili, the head of the information-analytical service of the MIA, has reported about an objective inquiry and punishment of those guilty.
22:50, 25 January 2012
Grozny residents complain of forced eviction
Residents of the township of Voikova, Oktiabrskiy District of Grozny, report about forced eviction and demolition of their houses. According to the city authorities, this is caused by the large-scale reconstruction undertaken in the township.
Building of the Sochi Branch of the Russian Geographic Society in Kurortny Avenue in Sochi. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:40, 25 January 2012
Members of Sochi Branch of Russian Geographic Society speak against closing it
The members of the Sochi Branch of the Russian Geographic Society (RGS) have appealed to Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister and the head of the board of trustees of the Society, asking not to close the Branch. This was reported by Yulia Naberezhnaya, an RGS member.
22:40, 25 January 2012
Body of deceased resident of Dagestan has signs of torture, relatives assert
Today, a resident of Kaspiysk Raziyat Musaeva has announced that during examination of the bodies of her sons Muslim and Malik Musaev, and of her brother Gadji Gadjiev their relatives found signs of torture on the body of her younger son.
Revenko family in their garage adapted for living, Sochi, December 24, 2011. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:30, 25 January 2012
Sochi authorities agree to provide housing to head of Revenko large family after his employment
The Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov has offered to provide a two-room flat to the large family Revenko, who are forced to live in a garage at the cemetery after their house was demolished, when a road junction was built. The authorities promise to grant a flat, provided a family member gets employed by the municipal service.
News
Georgian authorities have responded to the idea of ​​launching trains from Russia via Abkhazia.

Tatyana Pimenova. Photo courtesy of Tatyana Pimenova to "Caucasian Knot." A large family from Tuapse considered the investigation into their complaint to the prosecutor's office to be a formality.

The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded the seizure of Anna Minkova's assets.

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.