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Policemen pushing rights defender Sergey Basmanov into a car a few minutes before the start of the protest action "Sochi for Honest Elections!", Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, December 10, 2011. Photo by Semyon Simonov for the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 10 December 2011
Human rights defender Sergey Basmanov detained at protest rally in Sochi
Today, opposite the railway station in Sochi, a rally of people discontented with the results of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation was held. During the protest action, the human rights defender Sergey Basmanov, Director of the organization "Defence of Citizens' Rights and Interests", was detained.
Action of dissenters with the outcomes of the Russian State Duma elections, Volgograd, December 10, 2011. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:19, 10 December 2011
Volgograd hosts rally against election fraud
In Volgograd, the action of citizens, who consider the outcomes of the elections to the State Duma held on December 4 to be falsified, passed without incidents. Policemen and Cossack patrols were on duty around the perimeter of the square at a large distance. No state officials came out to meet the protesters.
18:00, 10 December 2011
Yerevan hosts picket in defence of Yashin and Navalny
Today, in Yerevan, in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, a protest action was held. The protesters urged the Russian authorities to release opposition members detained during the protest actions after the elections to the State Duma.
15:00, 10 December 2011
In Dagestan, Idris Yusupov detained for participation in rally against arbitrariness of power agents
In Makhachkala, law enforcement agents have just detained Idris Yusupov, a local resident, participation in a rally against kidnapping and arbitrariness of power agents, which was held in the capital of Dagestan on November 25. Idris Yusupov himself denied his participation in the rally.
13:09, 10 December 2011
"Mothers' Alert" from Chechnya fails to come to rally in Moscow
The Chechen regional public organization "Mothers' Alert", which has earlier declared its participation in the rally "For Fair Elections" on December 10 in Moscow, was unable to participate in the protest action due to lack of money to purchase tickets to Moscow, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Zainab Mezhidova, the head of the organization.
Supporters of Alla Djioeva in Theater Square of Tskhinvali, December 9, 2011. Photo by Maria Kotaeva for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:00, 10 December 2011
Alla Djioeva to be nominated for presidential election in South Ossetia in March
Alla Djioeva, ex-candidate for the presidency in South Ossetia, intends to nominate herself for the election on March 25; she is ready to cooperate with Vadim Brovtsev, and she intends to seek the release of political prisoners. This was reported by Alla Djioeva to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Young people at a rally against kidnappings, Dagestan, Makhachkala, November 25, 2011. Photo from the archive of Ruslan Gereev
22:50, 9 December 2011
Dagestan: 12 percent of pupils and students support militants, public opinion poll shows
The radical methods used by militants are supported by 12 percent of pupils and students of Dagestan, regarding them as the key to solving the existing local problems. These are the results of the social opinion poll conducted in November by the monitoring group for the youth environment of the Republic of Dagestan. Experts believe that many people in Dagestan view the "Forest Jamaats" as the only alternative to the ruling corrupt power and treat the specialized religious education as a barrier to radicalization.
22:50, 9 December 2011
Attempt on Sofa Esmurzieva, Deputy Minister of Public Health, undertaken in Ingushetia
An armed attack was committed in Nazran, Ingushetia, on Sofa Esmurzieva, Deputy Minister of Public Health; with a gunshot wound in her leg she was taken to hospital in Vladikavkaz.
22:50, 9 December 2011
Rights defender Tamara Karastelyova will be buried today in Novorossiysk
Tamara Karastelyova, Director of the Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee (NHRC) and human rights defender died on December 3 in Georgia, where she lived for the last two years and took her treatment of acute leukaemia.
22:50, 9 December 2011
Dagestan hosts festival of children with disabilities
On December 7, Makhachkala held the sixth cultural and sports festival of children with disabilities under the motto "From victories in sports to victories in life".
22:40, 9 December 2011
Next court session on massacre in Kuschevskaya scheduled for December 12
The next court session on the case of Andrei Bykov, one of the figurants in the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya will take place on December 12. The official representative of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has confirmed that Bykov's case is considered in special order.
22:40, 9 December 2011
Court extends custody of suspect of murdering Yuri Budanov
The Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till February 26, 2012, the arrest of Magomed Suleimanov, accused of killing former colonel Yuri Budanov.
Doctor of Philosophy and Candidate of Psychology Alexei Nagovitsyn and Victor Zhenkov, advocate of Alexander Kalistratov, the head of the Altai Branch of Jehovah's Witnesses, at the press conference in the Independent Press Center in Moscow, November 7, 2011. Courtesy of the http://hro.org
22:40, 9 December 2011
Jehovah's Witnesses fix over 1000 facts of oppressing them in Russia during two years
Within the two years that have elapsed after the Russia's Supreme Court upheld the sentence of the Rostov Regional Court on recognition of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and a number of their publications to be extremist, the religious organization has documented and published on the Internet reports about more than 1000 incidents involving violations of the rights of believers of this confession in Russia.
22:40, 9 December 2011
Ingushetia: at trial of Guliev and Nalgiev witnesses' protocols are announced
On December 8, at the court session, where the case of the former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, accused of torturing detainees and committing other crimes, is considered, interrogation protocols of witnesses and victims were announced.
22:40, 9 December 2011
Investigation on threats to employees of "Khural" newspaper launched in Azerbaijan
The Baku police have started an inquiry on the application of journalists of the "Khural" newspaper about the threats coming to them from unknown persons. Avaz Zeinalov, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper remains in custody on charges of bribe-taking.
22:30, 9 December 2011
Melnikov: GPO spreads Chechen experience of fighting militants' helpers over other regions of Northern Caucasus
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation is actively disseminating the experience of fighting militants' supporters in Chechnya, as the most efficient, among the power agents in all other regions of Northern Caucasus, Artyom Melnikov, the head of the GPO Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today.
22:20, 9 December 2011
Ankvab spoke out in defense of the rivers of Abkhazia against constructors of Olympic objects
Without a damage to the environment of Abkhazia delivery of building materials for construction of Olympic objects is possible only from the area of the Kodor river (Ochamchira district), President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab declared promising to disallow industrial delivery of inert materials from other rivers.
22:10, 9 December 2011
Deputy Head doctor of Budennovsk hospital fined for beating up a journalist
On December, 8, Magistrate's court of Budennovsk, Stavropol region, acknowledged Deputy Head doctor for security in the local hospital guilty of beating up a journalist who was shooting an episode of rape of a child in the hospital.
20:00, 9 December 2011
The circumstances of death of an observer from KPRF at the election of State Duma are under investigation in Krasnodar region
On December, 6, Sergey Babenko, observer from KPRF at the past parliamentary election, was found dead in a private house in the settlement of Shkolnoe, Belorechensky district of Krasnodar region. Deputies of State Duma demanded a thorough investigation of the circumstances of his death.
18:00, 9 December 2011
Homeless people in Rostov are taught computer literacy
A complex social center rendering aid to homeless persons in Rostov-on-Don (CSC) has organized courses of computer literacy for maladjusted citizens living in the center.
News
23 drones were shot down over Kuban.

A school desk named after Rafik Ragimov. Screenshot from the Primorsko-Akhtarsky District Administration's Telegram channel, February 13, 2026, https://t.me/ahtari_rayon/25272?single Two soldiers from Kuban were killed in the SVO zone.

Deposits of stale fuel oil discovered in Anapa

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.