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18:00, 28 April 2012
Documentary by Bulgarian TV journalist Tsvetana Paskaleva "Wounds of Karabakh" presented in Yerevan
In Yerevan, the Cafesjian Centre for the Arts has hosted a screening of the documentary "Wounds of Karabakh" by the Bulgarian TV journalist Tsvetana Paskaleva; the film tells about disasters of the Karabakh War.
17:00, 28 April 2012
Figurant of Kuschevskaya massacre case Sergey Tsepovyaz pleads guilty
Sergey Tsepovyaz, accused of concealing the killing of 12 people in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, has fully admitted his guilt. His case will be considered under a special procedure, said Vladimir Markin, the spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
16:00, 28 April 2012
In Sochi, residents of Gagarin Street demand immediate actions to save their house
The meeting of tenants of No. 66 in Gagarin Street of Sochi has stated that their house is collapsing because of the construction of the road parallel to Kurortny Avenue. The tenants threaten to block the highway, should the authorities fail to take immediate measures.
14:00, 28 April 2012
In Volgograd, tenants of hostel in emergency condition hold picket demanding to provide them with housing
On April 27, residents of the hostel located at No. 9a Zholudev Street in the Traktorozavodsky District of Volgograd, held a picket trying to draw attention of the authorities to the disastrous state of their house. The action was about 10 persons strong.
13:00, 28 April 2012
Georgia: Ivanishvili's movement prepares mass action in late May
The political coalition named "Georgian Dream" and headed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili plans to start the election campaign by a large action in Tbilisi on May 26-27.
12:00, 28 April 2012
ICRF plans to exhume members of Chudakov family killed in the Rostov Region
The bodies of the family members of Dmitry Chudakov, the commander of Nizhny Novgorod special troops, killed in 2009 in the Rostov Region, will be exhumed for further examination.
11:00, 28 April 2012
In Adygea, defence of Bersirov family appeals to ECtHR
The defenders of the Bersirovs, whose family members died in autumn of 2008 in a road accident near Maikop, have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a demand to nullify the decision to stop the criminal case and collect from the Russian Federation a moral compensation in the amount of two thousand euros. This was reported by Rafael Bersirov, a relative of the perished family members.
10:00, 28 April 2012
ICG: Azerbaijan makes progress in treating IDPs
In recent years, Azerbaijan has made progress in satisfying the needs of approximately 600,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) forced out of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions by ethnic Armenians almost twenty years ago, says the report of the International Crisis Group (ICG) "Burden of Azerbaijani IDPs: Search for Solution".
Barack for IDPs from North Ossetia, Ingushetia, refugee camp in the village of Ali-Yurt, September 24, 2011. Photo by Malika Batsaeva for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:50, 27 April 2012
Residents of TAC in Ingushetia are prescribed to abandon the territory
In the morning on April 25, the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) in the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia was visited by a group of local officials, who demanded from the tenants of "Promzhilbaza" to free the territory within three days. The residents are in shock and assert that they have nowhere to go. The officials, in their turn, claim that the tenants who have the refugee status will not be evicted.
23:20, 27 April 2012
Kabardino-Balkaria: local resident asserts that he confessed of keeping grenade under power agents' torture
Nuraed Erizhokov, a resident of the city of Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkaria, has addressed human rights defenders asking to help to restore his rights violated by power agents. The man alleges that policemen planted a grenade into his pocket and then tortured him into confession of complicity with militants and possession of weapons.
23:10, 27 April 2012
Sochi residents rally demanding to stop Olympic construction
On April 26, the village of Razdolnoye in Sochi hosted an assembly of about one hundred citizens, who demanded to stop the Olympic and commercial construction in their territory.
23:00, 27 April 2012
In Kabardino-Balkaria, GIBDD inspectors are suspected of beating driver and his wife
The investigatory authorities have initiated a case against an inspector of the GIBDD (traffic police) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria and his colleague from the city of Perm, who are both suspected of beating a resident of Nalchik and his wife. This was reported by the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the ICRF.
22:40, 27 April 2012
Journalist Khadidja Ismaylova accuses Baku Prosecutor's Office of violating her rights
Investigators not only fail to hold inquiry into the fact of intrusion into the privacy of Khadidja Ismaylova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty, but have also committed such intrusion themselves, said the journalist's advocate Adil Ismaylov. The journalist herself does not rule out that investigatory authorities may be associated with criminals.
22:10, 27 April 2012
Father of Kartoev brothers killed in 2010 in Ingushetia seeks to get their bodies for burial
Umatgirey Kartoev, a resident of Ingushetia, has come to Moscow hoping to meet Mr Uschakovskiy, Senior Investigator of the Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), and seek assistance in receiving the bodies of his four sons, who were killed on March 2, 2010, during a special operation in the village of Ekazhevo.
Residents of Yerevan District Arabkir at a rally of the RPA (Republican Party of Armenia) with President Serzh Sargsyan, Yerevan, April 14, 2012. Photo: © PanARMENIAN Photo/Tigran Mehrabyan
22:00, 27 April 2012
OSCE/ODIHR fixes violence during election campaign in Armenia
On April 27, the observatory mission of the OSCE/ODIHR (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) published the second interim report on the parliamentary elections in Armenia that covers the period of April 3-25. According to the report, despite the fact that the campaign is generally calm, a number of incidents with application of violence there were registered.
19:00, 27 April 2012
Mayor of Novoshakhtinsk suspected of abuse of authority
Investigators are carrying out inquiry concerning Igor Sorokin, Mayor of the town of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, who, according to local Public prosecutor's office, infringed upon the town's independent water supply for the population, regional department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.
18:00, 27 April 2012
A local resident Timur Danilin disappeared in Dagestan, his relatives report
Relatives of resident of Dagestan Timur Danilin report inaction of law enforcement bodies who are not searching for the missing man who, in their opinion, may be kept in the police department of Navolaksky district.
23:50, 26 April 2012
Volgograd: GIBDD inspector accused of setting up network of illegal gambling clubs
In Volgograd, four local residents, including a state GIBDD (road traffic police) inspector, are accused of organizing a network of underground gambling clubs in the city.
23:30, 26 April 2012
Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya gets repayment of salary debts in excess of 53 million roubles
For three months of this year, the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic revealed - in the course of checks for compliance with the labour legislation of municipal utilities, and entities of construction, educational and medical sphere - about five thousand violations. 32 officials were brought to administrative responsibility. However, at some enterprises of the republic salary debts range from several months to several years.
23:20, 26 April 2012
Nizhnevartovsk: Chechen natives state protraction of inquiry into their beating by local OMON fighters
In the city of Nizhnevartovsk, natives of Chechnya claim that last September they were beaten by local OMON (riot police) agents. Six weeks after the incident, a criminal case was initiated on this fact, which is still under investigation. According to the victims, their attempt to achieve identification of the attackers turned into mockery on them; and their advocate was repeatedly threatened.
News
Bilyajari Station. Baku, May 3, 2026. Photo: APA https://ru.apa.az/infrastruktura/v-armeniyu-tranzitom-cerez-territoriyu-azerbaidzana-otpravleno-8-vagonov-s-udobreniyami-obnovleno-649408 A train carrying fertilizers has been sent from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

Five wagons of Russian grain were shipped via Azerbaijan to Armenia.

Human rights activists helped secure Murtazov's flight to Armenia.

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.