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15:00, 17 April 2010
Youth of Nagorno-Karabakh holds action in memory of victims of Armenians' genocide
Nagorno-Karabakh has started a series of actions devoted to the 95th anniversary of the genocide of Armenian people which falls on April 24, 2010.
13:00, 17 April 2010
Sochi International Airport to start servicing passengers on April 19
The Sochi International Airport will be commissioned in the testing mode on April 19, 2010, said Anatoly Pakhomov, Sochi Mayor.
12:00, 17 April 2010
In Georgia, Labourites give their quotas in electoral commissions to other parties
The Labour Party of Georgia does not take part in municipal elections, but plans to redistribute its quotas in electoral commissions among other opposition parties. In particular, the "Alliance for Georgia", the National Council and the "Party of Industrialists" will benefit.
11:00, 17 April 2010
Audit Chamber revealed violations in spending budget money by Ingushetia
The Audit Chamber of Russia has made a check in Ingushetia and revealed violations in use of budget funds. In particular, contracts worth 208.8 million roubles were concluded without tendering.
10:00, 17 April 2010
Stavropol Territory boosts efforts to defend children's rights
On April 16, the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Stavropol Territory of the ICPO and the regional representative on children's rights (Children's Ombudsperson) signed a cooperation agreement in the sphere of prevention of crimes against children, and defence of their rights and interests.
09:00, 17 April 2010
Liudmila Alekseeva is against severe punishment of her offender
The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) Liudmila Alekseeva will not insist on conviction of the hooligan who attacked her to imprisonment.
Dagestan, winter prayer at the central mosque of Makhachkala. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:00, 16 April 2010
Mufti of Dagestan finds it unnecessary to cancel the law on Wahhabism
The clergy of Dagestan calls "to adhere to true religion, and finds strange the demands of certain officials and human rights activists to cancel the law on Wahhabism," said Ahmad-Hadji Abdullayev, Mufti of the Republic of Dugestan, in his address to the people of Dagestan and Russia.
Azerbaijani banner on the embassy building in Paris (France). Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
22:00, 16 April 2010
ECtHR obliges Azerbaijan to pay a fine of over 30,000 euros
Under four last year's decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the government of Azerbaijan was fined by 30,725 euros.
South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 16 April 2010
In South Ossetia, witnesses are interrogated at Margieva's trial
On April 15, a court session took place in the city of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, on the case of Fatima Margieva, an activist of the People's Party accused under Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal purchase and keeping of firearms, ammunition and explosives").
Maksharip Aushev shortly before his death in his office in Nazran. October 12, 2009. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 16 April 2010
Relatives of Ingush residents kidnapped in St Petersburg hope for help of ECtHR
Since early April this year, the case about kidnapping on December 27, 2009, in St Petersburg of four relatives of Maksharip Aushev, assassinated Ingush human rights activist, is in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). In the meantime, the relatives of the kidnapped persons are still in the dark about their fate.
19:00, 16 April 2010
Power agents report detention of suspects of Moscow metro terror acts
According to a source in Moscow power agencies, several persons have been detained as suspects of preparing and executing terror acts in Moscow metro on March 29. The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation does not confirm this information.
18:00, 16 April 2010
Chechnya: three servicemen killed by explosions
Yesterday, on April 15, two explosions were triggered in the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, as a result of which, as reported by law enforcement bodies of the republic, three servicemen were lost and one more wounded.
23:20, 15 April 2010
ICPO: Chuvashov and Markelov were killed from different guns
The information widespread earlier that Federal Judge Eduard Chuvashov and lawyer Stanislav Markelov were shot dead with one gun has nothing to do with reality. This was stated by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.
23:00, 15 April 2010
Georgia demands inquiry of murder of its citizen by Azerbaijani frontier guards
On Wednesday, April 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia made a statement demanding to investigate the murder of a minor shepherd by frontier guards of Azerbaijan. Under the version of the Georgian party, the casualty had crossed the border by occasion, while the Azerbaijani party asserts that the violation of the border was deliberate and was accompanied by threats addressed to frontier guards.
Activist Evgeni Zakharov at the picket demanding "Stop building terrorism in city-resort Sochi!" and "Green zones – to the city!" Sochi, Plane-Tree Alley, April 11, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:30, 15 April 2010
Sochi residents are on round-the-clock watch in Plane-Tree Alley
While the number of commercial construction sites and erected fences in Sochi goes up, the city dwellers are holding their day-and-night defence of the general-use green zones in the Plane-Tree Alley.
From left to rights: Dmitri Chernyshenko, Director General of Sochi-2014 Organizing Committee; Dmitri Kozak, Russian Vice-Premier of the Government of the Russian Federation; Jean-Claude Killi, Chairman of IOC Commission; Gilbert Felly, IOC Executive Director. Sochi, April 15, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 15 April 2010
IOC marks Russia's success in preparing Sochi Olympiad
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) welcomes the successes reached by the organizers of the 2014 Winter Olympiad in Sochi, marking that all works are under the schedule.
21:00, 15 April 2010
Opposition blocks Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi demanding release of political prisoners
Today the opposition, which holds a rally in front of the building of Georgian, made a half-an-hour blockade of traffic in the Rustaveli Avenue, demanding to stop politically-motivated prosecutions of citizens and release - after April 16 - all political prisoners.
20:00, 15 April 2010
Dagestan: bus of Caspian frontier squad blown up
In the Dagestan city of Kaspiisk, an explosive was triggered under the bottom of the bus of the Caspian frontier squad.
19:00, 15 April 2010
Defendants in Nalchik attack case disrupt litigation again
Today, the judicial session at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, which considers the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, was again disrupted by the defendants who disagreed to replacement of an advocate.
23:50, 14 April 2010
People in Chechnya give blood for victims of terror acts in Moscow, Dagestan and Ingushetia
On April 13 activists of the "Centre of Spiritual and Moral Upbringing and Development of Chechnya" and Patriotic Club "Ramzan" held an action, together with regional branch of the Russian Red Cross, under the motto "Save Life" and donated blood for victims of terror acts in Moscow, Dagestan and Ingushetia.
News
Activists called on EU representatives to pay attention to Armenia's problems

The Central Election Commission of Armenia denied registration to the leaders of two electoral lists.

Bilyajari Station. Baku, May 3, 2026. Photo: APA https://ru.apa.az/infrastruktura/v-armeniyu-tranzitom-cerez-territoriyu-azerbaidzana-otpravleno-8-vagonov-s-udobreniyami-obnovleno-649408 A train carrying fertilizers has been sent from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

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.