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18:00, 19 August 2010
Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdicts to young bloggers
Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has rejected the cassation complaint lodged by young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, convicted to 2.5 and 2 years of imprisonment on charges of hooliganism and causing bodily injuries.
17:00, 19 August 2010
Office and house of leader of "Circassian Congress" of Adygea searched
On August 18, agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB Department for the Republic of Adygea conducted searches in the house and office of Zaur Dzeukozhev, deputy chair of the Adyg Social Movement "Circassian Congress" and confiscated PC hard drives, documents relating activities of the "Circassian Congress" and several religious books.
16:00, 19 August 2010
Compensations are paid out to victims of Pyatigorsk terror act
Today, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Stavropol Territory has started payments from the regional budget of lump sum compensations to victims of the terror act in Pyatigorsk. The regional treasury has allotted 835,000 roubles for the purpose, while 7.4 million roubles more will arrive from the federal budget.
15:00, 19 August 2010
President of Meskhetian Turks arrested in Georgia
On July 26, in the city of Akhaltsikh (administrative centre of the Samtskhe-Dzhavakheti District of Georgia), Suleiman Barbakadze, a citizen of Russia and president of the "Vatan", international organization of Meskhetian Turks, was arrested. This was reported today by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
14:00, 19 August 2010
Volgograd: more first aid calls because of heat
The abnormally hot weather in Volgograd caused increase by 50-80 percent of the number of citizens' calls to the medical first aid service.
13:00, 19 August 2010
Exporters from South of Russia cannot sell grains because of embargo and transport fees
From August 15 on, Russia officially bans any export of grain crops; this decision resulted in material losses of most of the market actors. Exporters lost their market shares, and grain producers lost their profitable contracts. Rostov agrarians are going to hold their grains till the last moment, waiting for exports reopening. However, only financially sound enterprises can afford it.
12:00, 19 August 2010
25 terror acts committed against peaceful residents in Northern Caucasus in 15 months
After May 15, 2009, when the first terrorist-suicide bomber blew himself up in Chechnya after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, Northern Caucasus saw 25 terror acts against civilians committed in crowded places. As a result, at least 11 peaceful residents were lost and 159 more were wounded. From the start of 2010, 23 explosions were triggered and one terror act was committed by a suicide bomber.
11:00, 19 August 2010
Kabardino-Balkaria: unidentified persons open fire on group of tourists
Today at night, near Kendelen village, Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria, in a large forest, four unidentified persons in camouflage and masks came up to six tourists and opened fire from sub-machine guns.
10:00, 19 August 2010
Six residents of Chechnya are suspected of complicity to liquidated militants
On August 17, five persons were detained in the city of Grozny as suspects of helping the members of the armed underground, liquidated on August 8 in the Chechen capital. Another suspect was detained by operative agents in the Sunzha District of Chechnya.
09:00, 19 August 2010
In Armenia, added higher school vacancies helped to reduce corruption
This year's entrance exams to higher schools of Armenia have shown a reduced level of corruption in the sphere of education. The main reason was in increased number of vacancies for students by 6000. This was stated at a press conference by Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Science and Education of Armenia.
21:00, 18 August 2010
A man killed and two women wounded at shelling in Kabardino-Balkaria
As reported by a source in power bodies of Nalchik, a man was killed and two women - passengers of a fixed-route taxi - were wounded in a shelling.
19:00, 18 August 2010
79-year-old refugee from Abkhazia starts hunger strike at memorial in Tbilisi
Nino Tsindeliani, 79, a woman-refugee from Abkhazia, who remained homeless, has gone on hunger strike in Heroes Square in central Tbilisi, at the memorial of perished fighters for territorial integrity of Georgia.
18:00, 18 August 2010
In Georgia, two detainees go on hunger strike demanding release of political prisoners
On August 17, in the Gdlan isolation facility in Tbilisi, Melor Vachnadze, founder of youth social movement "Shemogviertdi" (Join Us), announced a protest hunger strike. Today, Vakhtang Maisaya, convicted for espionage, has joined him.
17:00, 18 August 2010
Resident of Chechnya is the main suspect of organizing explosion in Pyatigorsk
The investigation has established the main suspect in the case about the explosion in central Pyatigorsk. As reported by local law enforcement bodies, this is Alexander Kim, 42, a native of Chechnya.
15:00, 18 August 2010
TI notes Georgia's progress in combating corruption
On Tuesday, August 17, the Transparency International (TI) published its Corruption Perception Index (CPI). It is noted that Georgia is least corrupted from among all Russia's neighbours.
14:00, 18 August 2010
Two Ingush residents kidnapped in Stavropol, their relatives assert
On August 13 in Stavropol two residents of Ingushetia - Islam Evloev, 24, and Ahmed Gazdiev, 21, - were kidnapped; until now there whereabouts are unknown, their relatives assert.
13:00, 18 August 2010
Students with faked education certificates revealed in Grozny
In the course of the check conducted at the Chechen State University, employees of the local prosecutor's office revealed facts of using faked certificates on secondary education by entrants to the University. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a source in local law enforcement bodies.
12:00, 18 August 2010
Murder of high-ranking Dagestan MIA officer was ordered by his son, law enforcers say
The law enforcement bodies of Dagestan assert that they have solved the murder of Yunus Khulataev, deputy chief of the division of the investigatory department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Republic of Dagestan. His son - Gadjimurad Khulataev - was named as the crime customer; he had got "under the influence of extremists" and is already giving confessional evidences.
11:00, 18 August 2010
18 victims of Pyatigorsk explosion are still in hospitals
Today at 9:52 a.m., a special aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies took off from the airport of the Caucasian Mineral Waters to take four heavily injured victims of the Pyatigorsk explosions for treatment to Moscow.
09:00, 18 August 2010
After lifting CTO regime in Chechnya, 22 suicide bombers blew themselves up in Northern Caucasus
After May 15, 2009, when a suicide bomber blew himself up for the first time after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, as of today, under estimates of the "Caucasian Knot", the regions of Northern Caucasus saw 22 terror acts committed by suicide bombers. As a result of these explosions, 92 persons perished in total, and 414 more were wounded.
News
Analysts explained the significance of the decision in the Gubarev case.

Kadyrov secured Putin's support ahead of the next Chechen presidential election.

A still from Aishat Khizrieva's video message about leaving Russia: https://t.me/marem_group/1658 Khizrieva's escape sparked a social media debate about domestic violence in Chechnya.

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.