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18:00, 30 June 2011
In Makhachkala, court requests documents on distance from Russian Cemetery to residential blocks in construction
Today, the Kirov Federal Court of Makhachkala has held the first session on the claim of the local prosecutor's office about illegal construction of residential blocks near the so-called "Russian Cemetery".
Part of the exposition dedicated to Sozryko Malsagov at the State Museum of GULAG History, where on June 28, 2011, the French edition of Malsagov's book "The Hell Island". Photo by the press service of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Ingushetia at the President of the Russian Federation (www.postpredstvo.ru)
17:00, 30 June 2011
Book by native of Ingushetia on Solovki concentration camp published in Paris
The State Museum of GULAG History, located in Petrovka Street in Moscow, has hosted the presentation of the French version of the book, written by Sozryko Malsagova (1895-1976), a native of Ingushetia and an officer of the Russian Tsarist Army, and entitled "The Hell Island". The book was released in April this year in Paris by the publisher Francois Bourin Editeur. The book tells about the Soviet concentration camp, known as SLON (Special-Purpose Solovki Camp).
16:00, 30 June 2011
Alleged militants liquidated today in Dagestan identified
The names of the members of the armed underground, who were killed today in a special operation in Kizilyurt, have become known. They are Arthur Dalgatov, born in 1985, and his common-law wife Aminat Darbisheva, born in 1990, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.
15:30, 30 June 2011
Tbilisi Court sentences Okruashvili in absentia to two months in jail
The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced, under the motion of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, in absentia Irakli Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence and co-chair of the "Georgian Party", to two months of custody as a preventive measure of liberty deprivation.
Mountainous Ingushetia. Territory of the Djeirakh-Assin Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve. Photo by Beslan Bekov: sunja-edu.livejournal.com
15:00, 30 June 2011
Rumours about Umarov's stay in Djeirakh District of Ingushetia are directed against resort project, experts say
The information that the leader of North-Caucasian armed underground Dokku Umarov is hiding somewhere in the Djeirakh District of Ingushetia may be directed at disrupting the resort projects to be implemented in the area, said Ruslan Khautiev, a local political analyst.
14:00, 30 June 2011
MIA: one of sisters assassinated in Chechnya was pregnant
Chechnya continues investigating the killing of two sisters, the youngest of whom was 15 years old. The bodies of the girls were sent to examination, the local law enforcers assert. Their father who confessed of murdering one of the daughters by negligence is under threat of up to 20 years in prison.
11:00, 30 June 2011
Development of diving tourism started in Georgia
Development of diving tourism and realization of a project of underwater biological multiformity has started in Georgia.
10:00, 30 June 2011
A referendum on the status of the Russian language announced in South Osetia
On September, 11, a referendum on the status of the Russian language will be held in South Osetia. The respective edict of President Edward Kokoiti came into effect and was published on June, 29, in state mass media.
09:00, 30 June 2011
20 persons injured as a result of the explosion in Vladikavkaz are still staying in Moscow hospitals
There are currently 20 persons injured as a result of the explosion of a gas bottle in Moscow clinics, two of them in the resuscitation department.
23:00, 29 June 2011
A woman injured in gas explosion in Vladikavkaz died
Today, at 9:00 p.m., Albina Arkaeva, born in 1962, who received serious burning injuries in the explosion of gas cylinder in Vladikavkaz on 25 June, died in Moscow hospital, reported Irbek Doev, the spokesperson of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Moscow.
22:00, 29 June 2011
Rostov Region: rally against medical emergency service closure at Zverevo hospital
On June 28 about 400 residents of the city of Zverevo of Rostov Region started a rally against the closure of the emergency medical service at the central city hospital.
21:00, 29 June 2011
Chechnya: Petroleum College Director accused of bribery
The law enforcement authorities of Chechnya have instituted a criminal case against the director of the Petroleum College of the Grozny State Technical University, who is suspected of taking bribes.
20:00, 29 June 2011
Azerbaijan: Bloomberg photojournalist Diana Markosyan deported
On June 28 in the evening the authorities of Azerbaijan expelled from the country a Bloomberg employee, who was detained at Baku Airport, said a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the republic.
19:00, 29 June 2011
Rostov Region: court recognized publications of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist
In the city of Salsk of Rostov Region Judge Marina Fedyakova recognized a number of materials of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist and rejected the request of the defendant's lawyers to question a linguist witness and to make a repeated psycho-linguistic-religious examination.
18:00, 29 June 2011
Moscow's Court rejected material damage compensation to parents of children lost in Yeysk Spit
Today, the Tver Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the relatives of the schoolchildren lost in Yeysk Spit, containing demand of compensation for material damages. As the lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the families of the deceased, said, the court's decision would be appealed.
17:00, 29 June 2011
Dagestan: local resident reported his nephew's disappearance
Today Magomed Yusupov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about disappearance of his nephew Davud Israpilov, which occurred on June 24. According to Magomed Yusupov, earlier, Davud has been repeatedly summoned for questioning in the OVD (Interior Division) of the Tsuntin District.
16:00, 29 June 2011
Azerbaijan: opposition continues protests demanding democratic reforms
The Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) intends to continue protests demanding democratic reforms in Azerbaijan. This was announced on June 28 by Isa Gambar, a member of the Coordinating Council of the CMDPC, a leader of the party "Musavat".
15:00, 29 June 2011
Suspects in two foreign women's beating in Baku rejected political motives of their actions
The law enforcement authorities of Azerbaijan detained the fourth suspect in beating on 15 June in Baku of Amanda Erickson, an American journalist, and Celia Davis, a British human rights activist. This is Nazim Khuseinov, a resident of Babak District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). All four detainees said that they did not know who the girls were and that initially they wanted to get acquainted with them.
Picket on the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims with participation of rights defenders and residents of Chechnya who suffered from rights violations. Chechnya, Grozny, June 24, 2011. Photo by the press service of the Chechen Representative Office of the IRPO "Committee against Torture"
14:00, 29 June 2011
Questioning of "Dosh": Chechen residents hardly trust in local human rights organizations
Residents of Chechnya hardly trust in the official agencies, which activity is aimed at human rights protection, and out of 200 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the country only the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" faces the relative confidence of the population. These are the results of a questioning survey conducted by the Caucasian independent magazine "Dosh".
13:00, 29 June 2011
Georgian Parliament: opposition initiates investigation of pressure on journalists
The Parliament of Georgia established an initiative group to create a temporary parliamentary commission to investigate the facts of pressure on journalists. The Georgian MP Dzhondi Bagaturiya announced that at the press briefing on June 29.
News
Military operation in Ukraine. Still from a Russian Ministry of Defense video: https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=18838@morfVideoAudioFile The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,050.

Maria Smelaya. Still frame from a video from the YouTube channel "Ostorozhno Media" from April 10, 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnjbgxxzYoY Maria Smelaya's case highlights mothers' vulnerability in custody disputes.

Maria Smelaya was forced to give up custody of her child to the father.

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.