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Action-march, dated to the International Day of the Blind. Anush Torchyan, the initiator of the action and a member of the scientific and cultural public organization of invalids ''Forte''. Yerevan, Armenia, November 13, 2011. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:00, 14 November 2011
On November, 13, a procession under the slogan "You need not see, you should just look" organized by non-governmental organization "The Need for Public Information and Knowledge" and scientific and cultural organization "Forte" timed to the International Day of the Blind passed off in the capital of Armenia.
23:00, 12 November 2011
The Prosecutor's Office of the Astrakhan Region has revealed violations in the actions of the Volga-Caspian territorial department of the "Rosrybolovstvo" (Russian Federal Fishing Agency) in placing a state order on purchase of a Toyota Land Cruiser car.
22:00, 12 November 2011
Today, the capital of Armenia has launched the Second International Conference on Talysh Studies; the event will last for two days.
21:00, 12 November 2011
It is reported by the press service of the Investigatory Department for the Astrakhan Region of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation) that in Astrakhan a lawyer is suspected of a fraud by using his official position and inciting a person to suicide.
20:00, 12 November 2011
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan has reported that on November 11, in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the positions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces were exposed to automatic and machinegun fire.
19:00, 12 November 2011
The Tbilisi Mayoralty is holding an action named "Plan your city budget" with involvement of residents of the Georgian capital. The aim of the action is to define the priorities of the city budget for 2012 with account of residents' opinions.
Armenia, Yerevan, September 21, 2011, Deputy Head of the Central Police Department is convoying Levon Barsegyan to the police car. Courtesy of azatutyun.am (RFE/RL)
18:00, 12 November 2011
Levon Barsegyan, the head of the "Asparez" Journalistic Club from the second largest Armenian city of Gyumri, filed a lawsuit to the administrative court demanding to treat the actions of the policemen, who prevented the protest action in the morning on September 21 in downtown Yerevan, as illegitimate.
17:00, 12 November 2011
Most of the complaints addressed to the Ombudspersons working in the regions of Northern Caucasus deal with violations of citizens' rights by law enforcement bodies, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian President for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said at his meeting with the Ombudspersons, who work in the NCFD.
16:13, 12 November 2011
Late in the evening on November 11, two activists of the "Left-Wing Front" were detained on charges of hooliganism.
16:00, 12 November 2011
In the evening on November 11, in the village of Yanikoy, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, entrepreneur Akhmad Gegraev was killed.
15:00, 12 November 2011
After the searches conducted at the Geneva-based offices of the companies belonging to the Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev and in the office of the Football Club "Xamax", purchased by him in May this year, police inspectors also searched his house.
13:00, 12 November 2011
In the course of a special operation conducted in the Shali District of Chechnya, law enforcers killed Rukman Ediev, which, according to the local MIA, was an active member of the armed underground in the republic.
Rostov Region, city of Zverevo, a picket of pensioners, former mine employees, against abolition of privileges on utility bill payment, March 2009. Photo by the Left-Wing Front of the Rostov Region, www.lefdon.rf
12:00, 12 November 2011
Pickets with demand to revise the existing tariffs on utilities will be held in Rostov-on-Don near the city administration by residents of the city of Zverevo.
Campaigners of the "Song for Democracy". Avaz Zeinalov (centre), editor-in-chief of the "Khural" newspaper, Baku, October 21, 2011. Courtesy of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, www.irfs.az
11:00, 12 November 2011
In Azerbaijan, the organizers of the campaign "Song for Democracy" have sent an appeal to Catherine Ashton, High EU Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, who plans to visit Baku next week.
10:00, 12 November 2011
The players of the Lithuanian national football team have disregarded the recommendations of their Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and flew to the capital of Chechnya in the same charter flight with their upcoming opponents – the second national Russian team. However, not a single fan of the Lithuanian team has come to Grozny.
23:50, 11 November 2011
Adam Gadagatl, the former head of the operative division of the UFSIN (Department of the Russian Federal Correction Service) for Adygea, was found guilty of an especially large embezzlement committed by an organized group of persons through the use of one's office position, the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic reports.
23:50, 11 November 2011
In the murder case of the 19 year-old girl in Karachay-Cherkessia, her two elder brothers were found guilty; they were sentenced to 13 and 9 years of imprisonment in a high security colony, the Republic's Supreme Court has reported.
23:50, 11 November 2011
On November 10, Roland Kelekhsaev, the unregistered South-Ossetian presidential candidate and the leader of the oppositional "People's Party", submitted an application to the Prosecutor's Office about his beating.
23:40, 11 November 2011
Ruslan Akharashev, a resident of Chechnya, will be tried on charges of abducting back in 1997, the sister of the former head of the republic Doku Zavgaev.
23:40, 11 November 2011
The Hollywood actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, who is staying for two weeks in Chechnya at the invitation of Ramzan Kadyrov, said on air of Chechen television that the head of Chechnya had agreed to hold his fight with Somluck Kamsing, the 1996 Olympic boxing champion, in Grozny.
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.