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23:46, 27 February 2024
UN Special Rapporteur on Russia urges to stop criminal prosecution of Oleg Orlov*
The criminal prosecution of human rights defender Oleg Orlov* is politically motivated, states United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation Mariana Katzarova. The UN Special Rapporteur has also called for the release of all political prisoners.
Nikita Zhuravel. Screenshot of the photo posted on the Telegram channel "Chechnya Segodnhya" (Chechnya Today) on November 2, 2023 https://t.me/chechnyatoday/14249
20:43, 27 February 2024
Nikita Zhuravel sentenced to imprisonment for burning Koran
In Chechnya, a court found Nikita Zhuravel guilty and sentenced him to three years and six months of imprisonment for burning the Koran.
A spontaneous memorial in memory of Alexei Navalny. Screenshot of the video posted on the Sota Telegram channel https://t.me/sotaproject/75322
19:51, 27 February 2024
Makhachkala residents organize spontaneous memorial to Navalny
Residents of Makhachkala organized a spontaneous memorial in memory of Alexei Navalny near the monument to the victims of repression and laid flowers there.
Oleg Orlov* in a courtroom. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
18:17, 27 February 2024
Rights defender Oleg Orlov* sentenced to 2.5 years in jail
The court has sentenced Oleg Orlov*, a human rights defender, to 2.5 years of freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Army.
18:11, 27 February 2024
Spouses from Krasnodar accused of extremism for leaflets with Alexei Navalny*
In Krasnodar, law enforcers accused spouses Sergey Albov and Alina Albova of extremism after they had posted leaflets with the image of Alexei Navalny*. The court sentenced Sergey Albov to two days of arrest and dismissed the case against his wife.
A resident of Krasnodar detained for shooting at a wedding party. Screenshot of the video posted on the Teleram channel of Irina Volk, the Russian MIA Spokesperson https://t.me/IrinaVolk_MVD/608
16:45, 27 February 2024
Krasnodar resident publicly apologizes for shooting at wedding party
The police have released a video with an apology from a resident of Krasnodar detained for shooting at a wedding party. The young man has explained his actions as an attempt to follow the Caucasian traditions.
Turkish flags. Photo by Şinasi Müldür from Pixabay
23:56, 26 February 2024
North-Caucasian natives complain about pressure in Turkey
More than 30 families of political emigrants from the republics of Northern Caucasus have been detained in Turkey, Djokhar Dudaev's nephew among them, the Diaspora sources have reported worried about the pressure on the detainees.
Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Klim Voroshilov (from left to right), late 1930s. Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/
22:16, 26 February 2024
KBR resident complains to ICRF against Stalin for committed deportation
The reason for deporting Caucasian nations in 1944 was in their ethnicity, while the then USSR Constitution guaranteed equality; this was stated by Oleg Kelemetov, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in his application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
Oleg Orlov*. February 26, 2024. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
21:47, 26 February 2024
Public prosecutor requests court to sentence human rights defender Oleg Orlov* to imprisonment
A public prosecutor requested court to sentence human rights defender Oleg Orlov*, accused of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, to two years and eleven months of imprisonment.
Anna Tsomartova. Photo from her personal account on the VKontakte social media
18:15, 26 February 2024
Father of girl missing in Dagestan asks Putin to help with searching her
Anna Tsomartova, an athlete, was last seen in the FSB sanatorium in Kaspiysk, after which she disappeared, Nikolai Tsomartov, her father, has stated in his petition posted on the Change.org website. He has asked Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to help with the inquiry.
Boris Goncharenko (on the left) and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=362891449914551&set=a.113632768173755 (the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia)
17:40, 26 February 2024
Those accused of setting fire to military commissariat in Kuban declared political prisoners
The project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has recognized Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) building in the town of Goryachy Klyuch, as political prisoners. The charge of terrorism is unjustified, human rights defenders have stated.
Nikolai Zimirev. Photo from his personal account on the VKontakte social media
16:50, 26 February 2024
Activists announce disappearance of Sochi resident after arrest
Nikolai Zimirev, a resident of Sochi who has attracted law enforcers' attention with an action in memory of Alexei Navalny, has not been in contact for five days after his detention. Today, the district court released information about an administrative case against Zimirev.
23:14, 25 February 2024
Verdict to Kuban woman of financing terrorism upheld
The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has found no grounds to overturn the verdict to Olga Petrova, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), who was sentenced to seven years for financing terrorism.
Flowers at the memorial complex laid by the Sochi townspeople on February 23. Photo by Kristina Romanova for the "Caucasian Knot"
21:24, 25 February 2024
Sochi residents try making Navalny's memorial at WW II victims' memorial
After the death of Alexei Navalny, Sochi townspeople began leaving in his memory at the memorial complex, where official events are held on the Fatherland Defender Day. After that, authorities moved the February 23 celebrations to another place; and the memorial was surrounded by a fence allegedly for repairs.
20:58, 25 February 2024
Adygea head and senators from Dagestan and KBR come under Australian sanctions
Australia has imposed sanctions on Murat Kumpilov, the head of Adygea, and on Ilyas Umakhanov and Arsen Kanokov, the senators (members of the Russia's Federation Council) from Dagestan and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accordingly.
Law enforcers. Photo by the press service of the Russian MIA
17:53, 25 February 2024
Rights defenders claim non-transparent inquiries into kidnappings in Chechnya
Case files of people's forced disappearances in Chechnya are classified; and even relatives of those kidnapped have no legal ways to find out details or achieve an efficient investigation, human rights defenders have pointed out, adding that appeals to international structures yield no results.
A rally in memory of the victims of deportation held in Grozny. Screenshot of the video posted on Magomed Daudov's Telegram channel https://t.me/s/MDaudov_95
16:36, 25 February 2024
Rally in memory of victims of deportation held in Grozny without Kadyrov’s participation
In Grozny, Chechen officials and MPs held a rally in memory of the victims of the Stalin’s repressions. The event took place without the participation of Ramzan Kadyrov, who limited himself to a post in the Telegram channel on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Vainakh people.
Kurban Dalgatov. Photo: https://t.me/abd_shml/348
14:31, 25 February 2024
Investigators report 13 defendants in case on Dalgatov’s death
The Makhachkala police department is engaged in finalizing the charges to be brought against thirteen detainees in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov.
A rally in Nazran whose participants honoured the memory of the victims of the Vainakh deportation. Photo by the press service of the Republic of Ingushetia
23:31, 24 February 2024
Participants of rally in Nazran honour memory of victims of deportation of Vainakh
In Nazran, hundreds of people came to a mourning meeting on the 80th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of Ingush and Chechens to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Participants of the action to honour the deportation victims, held in the Novolaksky District of Dagestan. Screenshot of the video posted on the Instagram* (the activities of the Meta Company, owning Instagram, are banned in Russia) account "Auh media" on February 23, 2024 https://www.instagram.com/p/C3rl19XscMi/
22:16, 24 February 2024
Participants of the action in Dagestani Novokuli honour deportation victims
Every Chechen family suffered from deportation, participants in the action held in the Novolaksky District of Dagestan have stated. According to their stories, the memory about the Vainakhs' deportation and about victims thereof is transferred from generation to generation.
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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.