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22:50, 20 May 2010
Mutsolgov: implementation of results of Medvedev's meeting with NGO leaders will improve situation in Northern Caucasus
Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", "was almost completely satisfied" with the meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev and his Plenipotentiary in Northern Caucasus Alexander Khloponin, although the human rights activist was not given the floor. According to his version, those colleagues who were given the floor had problems with the timetable - only three minutes were given to every speaker, - therefore, half of the participants failed to speak.
Butyrskaya Prison, Moscow. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
22:10, 20 May 2010
New charges presented to blogger Dudko detained in Moscow
Alaudin Dudko, who is known in the Internet under nickname ingushetiya_ru and who is now kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) Butyrka in Moscow on suspicion of drug and explosive storage, was presented new charges - under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Excitation of hatred or enmity and humiliation of one's dignity." Mikhail Kriger and Anna Karetnikova, members of the public observation commission for detention places, who visited Mr Dudko in the SIZO, report about poor blogger's health condition after beating and because of unsatisfactory custody conditions.
22:00, 20 May 2010
Azerbaijan: journalist Fatullaev asks to attract an independent SAP
On May 19, the Garadag District Court of Baku continued the trial on the new case of the earlier convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev, this time accused of illegal drug storage. At the trial, the defendant asked to invite Gusein Guseinov, an independent SAP (substance abuse professional), as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
22:00, 20 May 2010
Parents of suspected killer of Dagestan MIA head: Rezanov has alibi
The parents of Lieutenant Andrei Rezanov, serviceman of the 33rd Separate Mountain Motor-Rifle Brigade of the Ministry of Defence, accused of murdering the head of the MIA of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, state that their son has alibi.
20:00, 20 May 2010
Two detained citizens of Georgia released
Two citizens of Georgia detained by the Russian military on the Georgia-South-Ossetia border on 18 May are released, the Sachkhere district militia department reports.
19:00, 20 May 2010
Zanikoeva: combating corruption in Kabardino-Balkaria does not affect top officials
There is a problem with the execution of anticorruption legislation in Kabardino-Balkaria. On 18 May, this was discussed by the roundtable participants with the public engagement in the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria. As it was stressed by the deputy chairman of the Republic's Supreme Court Leila Zanikoeva, combating corruption affects only the lower- and middle-level officials, and does not reach the top ones.
European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/1980897
18:00, 20 May 2010
European Court held that Russia was to pay 100.000 euro in respect of the death of a Chechen citizen
Today, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg fined Russia for 100.000 euros, acknowledging that the Russian authorities were responsible for the death of a Chechen Walid Dzhabrailov in 2003.
23:50, 19 May 2010
Moscow City Court refused to release figurant of "Neva-Express" explosion case
The Moscow City Court has found lawful the extension till November 28 of the custody of Timur Kartoev, accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009, having upheld the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow.
23:00, 19 May 2010
Terror act in Grozny was aimed at high-ranking MIA employees, inquiry believes
The self-made land mine that blew up in Grozny in the evening on May 17 was remotely triggered, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source in the Chechen militia. According to his version, law enforcement bodies of the republic continue searching organizers of this terror act, which killed Lieutenant Colonel Lom-Ali Khadjiev, head of the operative search of the Republic's MIA, and wounded two more high-ranking militia officers.
22:50, 19 May 2010
Experts: armed forces of Armenia were illegally involved in events on March 1, 2008
The fifth report prepared by the two members from the opposition of the Factfinding Group about events on March 1, 2008, says that the armed forces of Armenia were illegally involved in the events that took place in Yerevan two years ago. According to the report, the secret order of the ex-Minister of Defence AN-0038 of February 23, 2008, was completely contradictory to the Constitution and the Law of Armenia "On Defence".
22:20, 19 May 2010
Resettled Imereti residents go on hunger strike
Today, ten residents of the Imereti Lowland, whose houses get into the Olympic construction zone, dissatisfied with the actions of the "Olympstroy" and local authorities, have gone on hunger strike.
22:00, 19 May 2010
Gannushkina: Medvedev is pleased that human rights activists in the North Caucasus has not gone underground
At the meeting with human rights activists, President Dmitry Medvedev was convinced that the human rights movement in the North Caucasus exists, Svetlana Gannushkina, chairman of the Civic assistance committee, board member and head of Migration and Law network of Human Rights Centre "Memorial", a member of Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
22:00, 19 May 2010
Azerbaijan: rights defenders worry of growth of detainees' and inmates' torturing
Today, activists of the Azerbaijani civil society have handed their appeal over to international organizations and expressed their concern of the expanded practice in recent years to torture defendants and inmates. The text of the appeal was drawn up on May 15.
21:00, 19 May 2010
Shevchenko invited Medvedev to reduce the number of checkpoints in the North Caucasus
Dmitry Medvedev intends to consider the possibility of eliminating unnecessary checkpoints in the North Caucasus, a Public Chamber member Maxim Shevchenko stated, following today's meeting of the Presidential council on civil society institutions.
The president of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with the representatives of human rights organizations. Moscow 19, 2010. Photo by www.kremlin.ru
20:00, 19 May 2010
NGO leaders had their say on the situation in the North Caucasus at the meeting with Medvedev and Khloponin
Today in the Kremlin, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with the activists from non-governmental organizations. During this meeting, Medvedev backed out of a creation of the council of elders in the North Caucasus and specified the problems of his particular concern in the region. At the meeting, the human rights activists, who were engaged in monitoring of human rights violations in the region, presented their reports - previously posted in the "Caucasian Knot", voicing criticism of the government actions in the North Caucasus.
18:00, 19 May 2010
Ingushetia: resident of Plievo village reports her son's kidnapping
Lyubov Tsechoeva, a resident of the Plievo Municipal District of Nazran, told about illegal actions of power agents against her family.
23:30, 18 May 2010
Litigation on murder of Abashilov, head of the SRTC "Dagestan", starts in Dagestan
Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan started considering the criminal case on the murder of Magomedgadji Abashilov, Director of the State Radio and Television Company (SRTC) "Dagestan", committed on March 21, 2008, in Makhachkala, with interrogating the victims and prosecution's witness. The trial is held with participation of a board of jurymen.
Ingushetia, Nazran. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:00, 18 May 2010
Residents of Ingushetia believe that power agents should be the first to remove tinted glasses from their cars
Not everybody in the republic supports the recent appeal of the Russian MIA Department for Ingushetia urging to apply extreme measures to those drivers whose cars have excessively tinted windows.
22:40, 18 May 2010
Leaflets with threats addressed to alcohol and drug traders disseminated in Dagestan
Leaflets appeared in the territory of Makhachkala and other Dagestan cities containing threats to alcohol and drug dealers, fortune tellers, and owners of gambling halls and saunas.
22:10, 18 May 2010
Georgia: lawyers demand criminal prosecution of policemen
Georgian lawyers have addressed the Prosecutor's Office asking to open a criminal case against the policemen, had not allowed the protesting lawyers to set up their tents in front of the Parliament building. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from lawyer Vakhtang Gagnidze, one of the protesters.
News
A Chechen resident was criticized for posting ads on social media. Still from the video "Emergency in Grozny" https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpK4pfjKcT/ A Chechen resident was publicly reprimanded for selling window tinting.

A new group of fighters was sent from Grozny to the SVO zone.

Analysts explained the significance of the decision in the Gubarev 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.