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19:00, 2 August 2010
In Sochi, mayoralty employees donate one-day salary to fire victims
Bureaucrats of the city will donate their one-day salaries into the assistance fund to victims of forest fires in Russia.
18:00, 2 August 2010
Change of militants' leaders may activate their actions in Northern Caucasus, experts believe
Dokku Umarov, leader of the armed underground in Northern Caucasus, has declared his resignation as "Amir of Imarat Kavkaz", created by him in autumn of 2007, and transfer of the powers to his successor. Experts believe that the change of power among militants may result in sharp increase of separatists' activity in the region.
20:00, 31 July 2010
School of Koran experts to open in Chechnya in August
A school of hafizes (readers of the Koran by heart) will open on August 23 in Ramzan Kadyrov's family village - Khosi-Yurt (Tsentoroi). The school will be named after Zelimkhan, senior brother of President Kadyrov, who died in 2004.
20:00, 31 July 2010
OMON motorcade shelled in Dagestan with victims
Today, unknown persons blew up and shelled a column of OMON (special militia) vehicles in Dagestan. Under preliminary data, 12 militiamen were wounded. The incident happened near the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District.
19:00, 31 July 2010
Picket against monetization of privileges held in Elista
Today, in Elista, near the building of the Kalmyk State University, opposite the House of Government of Kalmykia, a picket was held against the republic's law on monetization of privileges coming into effect from August 1.
18:00, 31 July 2010
ICPO: seven wounded in mass fight in Dagestan
As reported by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) the Russian Federation, seven persons were wounded in the mass fight on July 30 in Dagestan.
17:00, 31 July 2010
Police disperses oppositional protest action in central Baku
In Baku, the police have dispersed a joint protest action of the oppositional parties "Musavat" and the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), held with the demands of the freedom of assembly, ensuring the democratic character of the parliamentary elections to be held on November 7 and account of the national interests of Azerbaijan at negotiations on Karabakh settlement.
16:00, 31 July 2010
North Ossetia to hold first national-cultural contest of Ossetian beer
The first nationwide contest of Ossetian beer "Iron Bagany-2010" is aimed towards revival of the traditions of house brewing and attraction of the population's interest to the national historic heritage, the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of North Ossetia has announced.
Park of live butterflies in Rostov-on-Don, Rumyantsev's swallowtail butterfly. July 31, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
15:00, 31 July 2010
Rostov-on-Don opens largest in Russia park of butterflies
As stated by Sergey Trifonov, director general of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Barbos" - the Rostov park of live butterflies, the park opened in Rostov-on-Don is the first in the south of Russia and the largest in the country. In the first two days of its work, the park was visited by about 500 persons.
14:00, 31 July 2010
Adygea: case of Karachai-Circassians accused of extremism sent to court
In Maikop, the capital of Adygea, a group of students-natives of Karachai-Circassia, accused of offending and beating a Russian guy will soon face the trial.
12:00, 31 July 2010
Residents of South Ossetia address for help to other countries in house rebuilding
The residents of South Ossetia, who suffered in the August 2008 conflict, have addressed the authorities of other countries with a request to help in restoring the destroyed housing. According to their story, similar appeals to the leadership of the republic and Russia were fruitless.
11:00, 31 July 2010
Mosque opened in Sochi after reconstruction
On July 30, a mosque restored on public donations, was opened in aul Tkhagapsh, Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, as reported by Tatiana Katanidi, specialist of the department for interaction with law enforcement bodies and public organizations of the administration of Sochi.
23:40, 30 July 2010
Oleg Orlov's case sent to court
As reported by the human rights defender himself, the investigation of the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", for slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is over.
23:30, 30 July 2010
Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova treats beating of leader of Ex-Combatants' Union of South Ossetia as "mob law"
The beating of Timur Tskhovrebov, chairman of the public organization "Union of Ex-Combatants of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO)", is categorically contradictory to those democratic values, pursued by South Ossetia, said Lira Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova, director of the Resource Centre of South-Ossetian NGOs and chair of the association of women of South Ossetia for democracy and defence of human rights.
23:20, 30 July 2010
Dagestan lawyers demand safety guarantees from MIA and Prosecutor's Office
On July 29, the Board of the Bar of Dagestan disseminated a statement listing the facts of violence applied to lawyers in the republic and demanding to guarantee their safety and access to their clients. The statement was sent to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Magomedov and Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Andrei Nazarov.
23:10, 30 July 2010
Ella Pamfilova's retirement accepted
President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has accepted retirement of Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Human Rights Board under the President. This was reported by the Kremlin's press service.
23:00, 30 July 2010
"Rosprirodnadzor" reveals violations in Sochi Olympic objects
The "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Supervision) made checks of the construction progress of Olympic objects in Sochi and revealed 25 violations of the nature protection legislation, on which fact administrative cases were initiated.
22:00, 30 July 2010
Parties of Geneva Debates on stability in Transcaucasia admit failure of talks
Experts are unanimous that the 12th round of Geneva Debates on safety and stability in Transcaucasia was not in much different from the previous ones in its futility.
22:00, 30 July 2010
Militiaman killed in Ingushetia
In the city of Malgobek (Ingushetia), tonight a car was shelled, and an agent of the OBEP (Division for Fighting Economic Crime) of the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division) was killed.
21:40, 30 July 2010
A woman wounded by explosion in Makhachkala beach
Today in the morning, an explosive device was triggered in the beach of the capital of Dagestan and wounded a woman.
News
Armenian politicians began their campaign for votes before the start of their campaign.

Azerbaijan's Parliament. Screenshot of the photo from Report? https://report.az/ru/vneshnyaya-politika/azerbajdzhan-priostanavlivaet-sotrudnichestvo-s-evroparlamentom The Azerbaijani Parliament has suspended relations with the European Parliament.

Three Strong Armenia representatives arrested in voter bribery case

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.