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20:00, 28 December 2011
Armenia will cancel daylight-saving time regime change in summer and winter and change its time zone
The time regime used in Armenia is out of keeping with its geographical position and time zone, Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan told the journalists on December, 27. He also promised that Armenia would cancel daylight-saving time regime change in summer and in winter.
19:00, 28 December 2011
IODHRA reports pressure on human rights activists in Azerbaijan
Obstacles in the activities of NGOs and the work of human rights activists who bear pressure were discovered in 2011 in Azerbaijan, annual report of International Observatory for Defense of Human Rights Activists runs.
18:00, 28 December 2011
The relatives of two young people in Ingushetia report their disappearance
Relatives of Abubakar Musaevcih Yevloev and Isa Ruslanovich Bulguchev, residents of Ingushetia, reports their disappearance in the afternoon of December, 26. In their opinion, the young men were kidnapped.
22:50, 27 December 2011
Dagestani SC considers rights defender's complaint against head of Republic's IC and General Prosecutor
On December 26, in Makhachkala, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan considered the complaint of the human rights defender Nasrudin Rasulov, the lawyer of the public organization "Fighter for Justice", against Savrulin, the head of the Investigatory Committee in the Republic of Dagestan, and Nazarov, the Republic's Public Prosecutor.
Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the Autonomous non-commercial organization "MASHR". Photo by www.mashr.org
22:40, 27 December 2011
Magomed Mutsolgov: decrease in number of murders in Ingushetia is partly due to authorities' efforts
According to the annual monitoring of human rights and freedoms in the territory of Ingushetia, conducted by the organization "MASHR", in 2011, the number of murders in the republic in comparison with previous year decreased twofold from 160 murders in 2010 down to 80 in 2011. According to human rights defenders, that fact is partly connected to efforts of the regional authorities.
22:30, 27 December 2011
Another supporter of Djioeva detained in Vladikavkaz
Today, Genry Kachmazov, the administrator of the website "Uasamonga" and another activist of the North-Ossetian election office of Alla Djioeva, the ex-candidate for the presidency of South Ossetia, was arrested in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by Elina Marzoeva, a staff member of the headquarters.
22:30, 27 December 2011
In Dagestan, detainee complaints of refusal of medical examination after torture
Gabibula Shakhbanov, a resident of Kaspiisk, detained in Dagestan, is not allowed to meet his second lawyer at the temporary detention facility (IVS), where he is being kept; transfers for him are not accepted, and the detainee, who claimed beatings by power agents, is not allowed to undergo a medical examination. This was reported by Murad Magomedov, the Gabibula Shakhbanov's lawyer.
Nadezhda Gogoleva, Principal of the school No. 74. Astrakhan, July 3, 2011. Photo by Vyacheslav Yashchenko for "Caucasian Knot".
22:20, 27 December 2011
ICRF: Nadezhda Gogoleva, Astrakhan school Principal, suspected of excess of power
Representatives of the Chamber of Control and Accounts suspect Nadezhda Gogoleva, Principal of the school No. 74, of excess of power. The inspection of the school revealed a number of violations in financial and economic issues. This was reported by the press service of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Soviet District of the city of Astrakhan.
22:20, 27 December 2011
Head of NGO "Psou" reports attempt of her detention after rally in Sochi
At the railway station "Goryachy Klyuch" (Hot Spring), two men in police uniform tried to get Natalia Kalinovskaya, Chair of the Territorial Public Self-Administration "Psou", off the train. According to Natalia Kalinovskaya, it may be related to her speech on the rally held on December 24 against falsification of the elections to the State Duma.
22:10, 27 December 2011
Ramzan Kadyrov decorated with "Golden Brush"
Laureates of the award "Golden Brush-2011" have been announced in Russia; it is given for most unreasonable budget expenditures. The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov became one of the award winners. The reason for awarding was the fact that this spring, the state procurement website placed information on buying expensive cars of foreign brands for the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
22:00, 27 December 2011
Court sentences Andrei Bykov to 20 years of imprisonment for participation in massacre in Kuschevskaya
The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Andrei Bykov, one of the persons, accused of participation in massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, to 20 years of imprisonment.
21:10, 27 December 2011
Azerbaijani businessman from Sheki, who tried to kill himself, complains of pressure
The entrepreneur Alovsat Mutallimov from the city of Sheki in northern Azerbaijan, who tried to set himself on fire on December 15 in protest against violation of his rights, continues to experience pressure. This was reported by Irada Javadova, the chair of the NGO "Public Association for Human Rights Education".
The family of Revenko and their neighbour Nadezhda Chubenko after demolition of their houses. Sochi, Makarenko street. August, 2011. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for "Caucasian Knot".
21:00, 27 December 2011
Sochi: after house demolition, large family moves to garage in cemetery
The large family of Revenko from Sochi is forced to live in a garage in the cemetery after demolition of their house, which was done to break the ground for building a road junction.
20:10, 27 December 2011
The court in Georgia partially granted the lawsuit of those injured during dispersal of a meeting of journalists
City court of Tbilisi partially granted the lawsuit of the persons injured during dispersal of an oppositional meeting of journalists and obliged the Ministry of Interior Affairs to undo harm to them.
20:00, 27 December 2011
The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia: policemen accidentally killed a driver who refused to stop
Tonight members of power ministries attempted to stop a car of a sixty-year-old resident of Ingushetia Ruslan Ozdoev near one of the supplementary posts set at the entrance of the town of Karabulak. Representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic state that the man disobeyed their demand and was unintentionally killed during persecution and firing at the tyres by one of the bullets which supposedly ricocheted from a bumper.
19:00, 27 December 2011
A citizen of Georgia who was pulled into a turbine of "Su-25" perished in Azerbaijan
On December, 26, technician from Georgia Yury Kulachkov perished in one of the military units of Azerbaijan. According to the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, he was pulled into a working turbine of an attack aircraft "Su-25".
18:00, 27 December 2011
A warrant officer shot down a soldier in Azerbaijan
Soldier of Inner Troops of Azerbaijan Kyanan Namazov was shot down by warrant officer of the military unit Hikmet Azizov. According to preliminary data, the shot was accidental.
17:00, 27 December 2011
An activist of "Public Chamber" movement arrested in Nakhichevan
On December, 26, Zeinal Bagirzade, Head of regional branch of civil movement for democracy "Public Chamber", was arrested for a term of three months for accusation of forgery of documents in Nakhichevan autonomous republic (NAR). This was the judgment of Nakhichevan city court.
Botlikh village. Photo by Dmitry Chernov, chedeal.livejournal.com.
22:50, 26 December 2011
Dagestani Prosecutor's Office finds violations in MoD's activities in Botlikh
Magomed Abdullaev, the deputy of the Botlikh village assembly, received a letter from the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, stating that in the course of the works in the Botlikh District, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a number of mistakes.
22:40, 26 December 2011
Novorossiysk hosts picket against election violations
In Novorossiysk, the Krasnodar Territory, participants of a picket against violations at the elections to the Russian State Duma decided to publish on the Internet all facts of manipulations at voting and non-compliance with the Law "On elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation".
News
A fighter from Stavropol was killed in a military operation.

A state of emergency has been declared in Pyatigorsk due to water supply problems.

A Stavropol resident has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term in connection with an attack on Dagestan.

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.