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23:00, 15 September 2011
Azerbaijani MoD refutes loss of its drone over Nagorno-Karabakh
The drone (spy unmanned aircraft), which crashed down in Nagorno-Karabakh, had nothing to do with Azerbaijan, said the local Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was reported in a special statement of the Ministry.
22:50, 15 September 2011
RwB: freedom of press in Dagestan and Chechnya is no better
Human rights defenders believe that over the past two years the situation with the freedom of the press in Northern Caucasus, has worsened. This was stated on September 14 at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow at the press conference "Northern Caucasus: Journalists and Rights Defenders in Danger".
22:40, 15 September 2011
WWF lifts objections to construction of ski resorts in Northern Caucasus
The Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" and the World Wildlife Fund-Russia (WWF) have signed an agreement on cooperation in the area of nature protection in Northern Caucasus.
22:30, 15 September 2011
Two residents of Volgograd Region diagnosed with anthrax
The Regional Department of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has reported that two residents of the village of Semichny, Kotelnikov District of the Volgograd Region, were hospitalized with the diagnosis of anthrax.
22:10, 15 September 2011
Escherichia coli detected in dry rations given out to children who got poisoned in Anapa
As reported today by Oleg Tushmalov, the head of the Moscow Interregional Investigatory Department for Transports of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the dry food kits, which had been given to the children who returned from a summer camp in the Krasnodar Territory and were hospitalized en route, the coliform bacillus was detected.
22:00, 15 September 2011
In Anapa, 15 armed men attack a private hotel; some of them wounded
In the village of Utrish, located near the city of Anapa, 15 armed youngsters opened fire at a hotel with tourists.
World champion of 2011 in freestyle wrestling Zamira Rakhmanova. Photo: dagstadion.narod.ru
21:00, 15 September 2011
Zamira Rakhmanova from Dagestan wins world championship in wrestling
At the World Championships in Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Women's Wrestling, held in Turkey, Zamira Rakhmanova, an athlete from Dagestan, has won the gold medal. This is the first Russian gold medal in women's wrestling since 2002.
20:00, 15 September 2011
A movement "Parents of Volgograd for Children's Rights" accuses deputies of ignoring the townsmen's appeals
Members of a non-governmental pressure group "Parents of Volgograd for Children's Rights" appealed to deputies of the municipal and regional Dumas asking for aid in solving the problem of the lack of places in kindergartens of Volgograd. 36 legislators ignored the activists' request.
19:00, 15 September 2011
Two schoolchildren in Rostov region perished as a result of poisoning with gas for lighters
On September, 14, two schoolchildren aged 12 and 13 in the town of Shakhti, Rostov region, perished after breathing in butane through polyethylene bags.
18:00, 15 September 2011
Defense of the defendants on the case of "Urvan jama'at" in Rostov insists on the defendants' being not privy to extremism
On September, 14, the parties of the case of "Urvan jama'at" (Kabardino-Balkaria) spoke in a debate in North-Caucasian military circuit. The defendants and their attorneys asked the court to re-qualify a number of clauses in the case and also not to impose life imprisonment.
23:10, 14 September 2011
Deputy head of Stavropol administration is suspected of abuse of power
Vladimir Elichev, Deputy Head of Administration of the city of Stavropol and Director of the Town-Planning Committee, is suspected of abuse of power. As reported by the press service of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) operative agents believe that Elichev had broken the order of granting land plots, owned by the municipality, in favour of some particular company.
23:00, 14 September 2011
Inspectors find fight against extremism in Islam to be the main version of attempt on Imam in Chechnya
The Chechen Prosecutor's Office is investigating the attempt to blow up the car of the religious figure undertaken in the city of Argun. Law enforcement bodies are searching the persons involved in preparing the crime.
Shot-down drone. Photo from official site of Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh (http://nkrmil.am/main/am/newsMore370.html)
22:40, 14 September 2011
Nagorno-Karabakh reports destruction of Azerbaijani drone over its territory
Today in the morning, an Azerbaijani drone was shot down in the Askeran direction of the contact line with Azerbaijan over the territory of Karabakh. This was stated by the press service of Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan does not confirm this information.
22:30, 14 September 2011
In Armenia, rights defenders state violations of Armenian refugees' rights
The network of the civil society "Refugees and International Law" has issued an open letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan on suspicion of embezzlement by responsible officials of the funds allocated to build houses for refugees.
22:10, 14 September 2011
"Rospotrebnadzor": pupils got poisoned in Veshenskaya because of sanitary violations
In the course of a sanitary-epidemiological investigation held at the Veshenskaya secondary school of the Rostov Region, the regional "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) division has established that the school had broken the sanitary and anti-epidemic regime and rules of children's nutrition.
22:00, 14 September 2011
Armenia: lawyers and rights defenders offer to establish the institute of Military Ombudsperson
As believed by the participants of the conference "Situation in the Armenian Army", the establishment of the institute of Military Ombudsperson can improve the situation in the Armed Forces of Armenia.
21:00, 14 September 2011
Baku rights defenders and reporters state suppression of civil activism in NAR
The absence in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of civil activism and violations of human rights have been stated by rights defenders and journalists from Baku, who visited the NAR on September 12. They spoke about it on September 13 at the press conference held in the Azerbaijani capital at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).
20:00, 14 September 2011
A policeman in Krasnodar region committed suicide
At night of September, 11, local policeman Evgeny Tereshenko committed suicide in the stanitsa of Leningradskaya, Krasnodar region, by shooting in his head from a Government-issue Makarov.
19:00, 14 September 2011
Residents of Karachay-Cherkessia complain of infringement of their religious freedom
Residents of Khabez district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia state that policemen regularly come to their houses, carry out searches without explanation of the reason and take them to police department where they are interrogated, their fingerprints are taken and the policemen take written statements from those interrogated that they are not Wahhabis.
18:00, 14 September 2011
Human rights activists report kidnapping of a resident of Gudermes district of Chechnya
On September, 2, armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms in the capital of Chechnya kidnapped a resident of Gudermes district of the republic and carried him away in an unknown direction, "Memorial" Human Rights Center reports.
News
Magomed Magomedov. Screenshot from the Charodinsky District Administration's Telegram channel, February 11, 2026, https://t.me/mo_charodinskiy_rayon/13825 A fighter from Dagestan was killed in a military operation.

A man with a smartphone. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program. A government VPN procurement highlights the problem of accessing messaging apps in Dagestan.

Kurban Dalgatov. Photo provided to the "Caucasian Knot" by Dalgatov's relatives. The sentence against the security officer in the case of Dalgatov's death has been upheld.

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.