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23:00, 21 April 2012
Parade of 5000 Cossacks held in Krasnodar
Public events dated to the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Law "On Rehabilitation of Repressed Nations", which covered Cossacks, were held on April 21 in Krasnodar.
22:00, 21 April 2012
Searched conducted in two auls of Krasnodar Territory, eyewitnesses report
Several buses with special agents have arrived this morning in two auls (villages) located in the Krasnodar Territory near the city of Armavir.
21:00, 21 April 2012
Beverages from Georgia return to Russian market
After a 6-year-long embargo, Georgian drinks get back to the Russian market, namely, the lemonade "Zedazeni" produced by the recently opened "Georgian Beer Company", said its Commercial Director Kakha Paichadze.
20:00, 21 April 2012
Oleg Shein announced conditions of his quitting the hunger strike
The ex-candidate for Mayor of Astrakhan Oleg Shein has announced the conditions, under which he will quit his hunger strike: he will stop it immediately upon release of four protesters. Mr Shein has emphasized that the main reason to stop the hunger strike was the statement of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) about revealed violations during the election of the city Mayor.
19:00, 21 April 2012
About a hundred persons come out to protest in Kabardino-Balkaria
In the city of Baksan, about a hundred people blocked a bridge on the federal highway. One of the protesters has explained that people were outraged with the fact that they could not get the body of the local resident, who was shot dead last night.
18:00, 21 April 2012
Georgian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili founds a new party
Today, the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the oppositional coalition "Georgian Dream", has founded a new party – "Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia".
17:00, 21 April 2012
Azerbaijan amends Electoral Code
On April 20, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan adopted amendments to the country's Electoral Code (EC).
16:00, 21 April 2012
Dagestan: NGO forum offers to set up call centre for power agents' victims
The participants of the forum "Dagestan to Dagestani people" have proposed to set up a special call centre for victims of actions of power agents. The forum was attended by about 300 delegates, who represented public organizations from all over the country.
15:00, 21 April 2012
In Sochi, HRW experts fix human rights violations in preparation for the Olympics
Experts of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) have noted violations of migrant workers' rights; these migrants are engaged in preparing Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics. They also fixed violations related to alienation of land plots and resettlement for construction of Olympic objects and infrastructure, violations of the freedom of speech, and pressure on journalists and civil activists.
13:00, 21 April 2012
"Armavia" presents new Yerevan-Milan flight
On April 19, the "Armavia" Airline completed a flight Yerevan-Milan-Yerevan, where 50 Italian tourists were the passengers.
23:40, 20 April 2012
In Azerbaijan, Oktai Gyulalyev, activist of "Kura" office, accused of inciting to riots
In Azerbaijan, Oktai Gyulalyev, the coordinator of the headquarters of the civil organization "Kura", whose term of administrative arrest had completed, was charged of a crime. In particular, the civil organization activist is charged of "inciting to riots". The court decision left him under arrest again.
Sochi residents at a rally against violations at alienation of property during Olympic resettlement, August 28, 2011; posters reading: "Olympic judicial practice is illegal!" and "Hello, Olympiad, bye, the house!" Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:30, 20 April 2012
In 2011, SFD was at top by number of complaints filed with Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin
On April 18, Vladimir Lukin, Ombudsman in the Russian Federation, presented at the Council of Federation, a report on the results of 2011: the Ombudsman received 11.9 percent of the total number of complaints from the Southern Federal District (SFD), 5.5 percent from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). The greatest number of complaints from citizens of the Russian Federation was devoted to violations of civil rights and freedoms.
23:20, 20 April 2012
ICRF: criminal case of failure to ensure security at "Domodedovo" Airport closed
Criminal prosecution against representatives of the services of the "Domodedovo" Airport, which, according to the investigators' assumption, failed to take measures to prevent the terror act in January of 2011, was terminated. This was reported by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
Picket against construction of car park in the territory of Children's Centre in Sochi, April 19, 2012. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:20, 20 April 2012
Sochi hosts picket against construction of parking lot in Children's Centre territory
On April 19, in Sochi, in No. 26 in Constitution Street, near the Children's Centre, a picket in defence of the territory from the developers was held. The picketers demanded to stop the construction works.
23:00, 20 April 2012
CEC admits violations but denies falsifications at Astrakhan elections
Vladimir Churov, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), has reported that 60 percent of electoral precincts committed violations at the election of Mayor of Astrakhan. However, according to the CEC Chairman, all violations were of procedural nature and they did not affect the outcome. Oleg Shein, ex-candidate for the position of Mayor of the city saw, treated the statement made by Vladimir Churov as "a positive development."
22:50, 20 April 2012
Zagalav Somoev: situation with "Nastoyaschee Vremya" weekly raises issue of freedom of speech in Dagestan
In Dagestan, attempts of unlawful administrative pressure on the "Nastoyaschee Vremya" (Present Time) weekly newspaper bring into question the existence of freedom of speech and the policy of democratization in the republic. This was stated by Zagalav Somoev, the representative of the UN Human Rights Committee.
22:40, 20 April 2012
Azerbaijani human rights activists prepare video message to performers at "Eurovision-2012"
Today, members of the public campaign "Sing for Democracy", which is held to draw attention to the problems of human rights in Azerbaijan on the eve of the song contest "Eurovision-2012", has adopted a video message to the performers of the international contest.
22:20, 20 April 2012
In Astrakhan, four persons detained at protest action in support of political hunger strike
Supporters of Oleg Shein, the member of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, the ex-candidate for the position of Mayor of Astrakhan, were detained by police in Astrakhan, when they were trying to lay a wreath to the building of the regional state-owned TV and Radio Company.
22:10, 20 April 2012
Yerevan hosts rally organized by oppositional ANC
In Yerevan, in Freedom Square, at 6:40 p.m. local time, the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) began a sanctioned rally. At present, the rally gathered several thousand people. Candidates for deputy from the ANC called on the audience to come to the parliamentary elections to be held on May 6.
22:00, 20 April 2012
Nalchik resident, who claimed that police beat his son, reports on search of his house
At present, in Nalchik, people in masks carry out a search of the house belonging to Muradin Berov, who earlier reported that officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria beat his son. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" by Muradin Berov himself.
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.

Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport has not closed its investigation into the AZAL plane crash.

Five wagons of Russian grain were shipped via Azerbaijan 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.