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23:49, 26 August 2011
Mission of international observers is pleased with organization of presidential election in Abkhazia
Observers from IS-EMO and “Research Foundation for problems of democracy in the countries of CIS” consider that voting on the day of election of President of Abkhazia was organized at a high level and the process was going on without technical failures.
23:00, 26 August 2011
Suspect of organizing Politkovskaya's murder arrested by court
The Basmanny Court of Moscow has sanctioned the arrest of former militia officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a suspected (by the investigation) organizer of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta".
22:00, 26 August 2011
Armenia shows amendments to the Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations"
The Armenian Ministry of Justice has presented amendments to the Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations", which assumes, inter alia, criminal liability for forced involvement of people in non-traditional religious organizations, groups and sects, and introduces the term "soul fishing" (proselytizing).
21:00, 26 August 2011
Trial on Baksan HPP attack questions witnesses
On August 25, at the trial, where the attack on the Baksan Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) is considered, witnesses were questioned, including employees of the plant and operative agents.
20:00, 26 August 2011
Ministry of Education: Chechnya sees acute shortage of teachers
Chechnya suffers from deficit of educational institutions and lacks teachers. By the new school year the Republic's schools have more than 800 vacancies, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source from the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Chechnya.
19:00, 26 August 2011
Dagestan: son who ordered murder of his father, Colonel of Justice, sentenced to 15 years of high security
The Supreme Court of Dagestan has sentenced Gadjimurad Khulataev, 19, accused on ordering the killing of his father – Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Yunus Khulataev – to 15 years of high security colony.
18:00, 26 August 2011
Nationalists rally in Moscow against release of Rasul Mirzaev
On August 25 the Moscow police suppressed an attempt of nationalist-minded young people to organize an unauthorized march to the building of the Zamoskovoretskiy Court, which considers the case of Rasul Mirzaev, the world champion in mixed martial arts, accused of involvement in the death of student Ivan Agafonov.
15:00, 26 August 2011
Deputy Mayor of Novocherkassk suspected of fomentation of interethnic animosity suspended from office
Novocherkassk city court suspended Head of municipal Administration Vladislav Zhuravlev accused of fomentation of interethnic animosity from office for the period of investigation.
14:00, 26 August 2011
Armenian opposition broke off negotiations with the authorities until release of their activist
Armenian National Congress broke off its participation in the dialogue with the authorities of Armenia and will return to the negotiating table only after alteration of preventive punishment for activist Tigran Arakelyan. This was reported by Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of ANC, leader of the delegation of oppositionists at the negotiation.
13:25, 26 August 2011
The court on the case of disturbances in Manezhnaya square declined all the motions of the defense
All the motions of the defense party entered on August, 25, at a preliminary session on the case of organization of disturbances in Manezhnaya square of Moscow last December were declined today. The first hearing of the case on the merits was appointed for September, 7.
21:00, 25 August 2011
Dagestan: protesters demand release of Kizlyar residents detained by power agents
On August 26 a protest action will be held at the building of the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, where people will demand to release three residents of the Kizlyar District, detained under suspicion of helping militants.
20:00, 25 August 2011
In Georgia, experts differ in opinions on need to change articles on espionage in the Criminal Code
Georgian experts are not unanimous regarding the unconstitutional nature of Article 314 of the Criminal Code (espionage).
19:00, 25 August 2011
Azerbaijan: six opposition activists detained on April 2 convicted
The Sabail District Court of Baku has announced its sentence to six oppositionists accused of violating public order during the unsanctioned rally on April 2. The defendants were given from 1.5 to 3 years of imprisonment.
18:00, 25 August 2011
Foreign observers at election in Abkhazia promise to attend every polling station
The foreign observers who have arrived in Abkhazia have promised that they will be able to control the course of the presidential election.
Kurban Magomedov, Deputy Director of the Buzai Ibragimov Special Olympic Reserve School, Makhachkala, August 24, 2011. Photo by "Caucasian Knot"
17:00, 25 August 2011
Athletes and coaches urge not to stir up ethnic conflict from the case of Dagestan sambo champion Mirzaev
Sport officials, coaches and athletes believe that only the court should define the guilt of Rasul Mirzaev, the world champion in sambo, who was arrested in the case of the death of a student Ivan Agafonov.
Fans in the stalls of Rashid Aushev Stadium during football match 'Angusht" (Nazran) and "Fayur" (Beslan), Ingushetia, Nazran, August 21, 2011. Photo by Alan Tskhurbaev: http://www.m.kavkaz-uzel.ru/blogs/posts/8817
16:00, 25 August 2011
Tedeev: North-Ossetian footballers happy with reception in Ingushetia
On August 21 the Rashid Aushev Stadium in Nazran hosted a football match in the southern zone of the second division of Russian championship between "Angusht" (Nazran) and "Fayur" (Beslan). In the first-ever football match between Ingushetia and North Ossetia not on the neutral pitch "Fayur" beat "Angusht" 2:0.
15:00, 25 August 2011
The court declined a lawsuit of a resident of Volgograd who demanded recurrence of direct election of Head of the city
Volgograd regional court dismissed the case on the lawsuit of Alexander Galuzo who demanded adoption of the decision of announcement of direct election of Head of Volgograd.
14:00, 25 August 2011
Prosecutor General’s of Azerbaijan accuses a publisher of a newspaper of corruption and nonpayment of taxes
A criminal charge was brought in Azerbaijan against Shirin Jafari, constitutor of the newspaper “Giundem Khabar” (“News of the Day”). He is accused of tax evasion and abuse of authority. The investigation is being carried out by Directorate of struggle against corruption under Prosecutor General based on an appeal of Press Council.
13:00, 25 August 2011
The court in Moscow accepted a lawsuit of eviction of the Section of the interests of Georgia from the house in Ostozhenka street
The Court of Arbitration in Moscow registered the lawsuit of “Ostozhenka Business center” limited company of eviction of Consular Department of the Section of the interests of Georgia with the Embassy of Switzerland in Russia from the mansion in Ostozhenka street, No 26/1. This was reported by a representative of the court.
12:00, 25 August 2011
Mass searches in the houses of Jehovah's Witnesses going on in Taganrog
Today operative groups of the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Federal Security Service are carrying out searches in ten houses of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and the neighbourhood.
News
Renaming streets in Makhachkala has complicated flood victims' efforts to receive compensation.

A state of emergency has been declared due to the threat of a landslide in the Laksky District.

Roads to two villages in Dagestan are blocked after rockfalls.

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.