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20:00, 12 April 2010
Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev find verdict to his attempters fair
The relatives of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok" (East) of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who became - one year ago in the United Arab Emirates - a victim of an attempt, welcomed the verdict passed in Dubai to Ramzan Kadyrov's groom Makhdi Lorniya, a native of Iran, and businessman from Tajikistan Maksudzhon Ismatov, who were convicted today to 25 years of imprisonment each.
19:00, 12 April 2010
Missing Zeinap Daurbekova released in Ingushetia
The mother of a large family Zeinap Daurbekova, who was detained by power agents on April 8, is at large. As reported by her relatives, yesterday, on April 11, employees of the FSB handed Zeinap over to local militiamen, and the latter brought her home.
18:00, 12 April 2010
Sochi commemorates Poles who perished in air crash
The Rome-Catholic Church in Sochi held, at plenty of parishioners present, a requiem service on the Poles who perished in the air crash near Smolensk. Members of the Polish Diaspora in Sochi plan to start a book of condolences, to be sent later to the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Russia.
22:00, 10 April 2010
Head of criminal investigation blown up in Kabardino-Balkaria
Tonight in Kabardino-Balkaria an attempt was made on Zuber Shukaev, head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). He died a bit later in hospital.
19:00, 10 April 2010
Azerbaijan: number of refugees from Chechnya goes down
The number of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan has reduced from 12 to 2 thousand persons, as reported by Ali Gasanov, Chairman of the State Committee on Work with Refugees and Forced Migrants.
17:00, 10 April 2010
"National Council of Georgia" nominates Zviad Dzidziguri for Tbilisi Mayor
Zviad Dzidziguri, leader of the Conservative Party of Georgia, has won the preliminary election (primaries) as the united candidate from the inter-partisan oppositional association "National Council of Georgia".
16:00, 10 April 2010
Khazbiev's brothers are under recognizance not to leave Ingushetia
On April 9, Makhmud, Ali and Berd – brothers of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev – were summoned for interrogation to the MIA of the republic as suspects in the case about beating of Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov. After interrogation, they signed recognizance not to leave till the end of the investigation.
15:00, 10 April 2010
Lawyer beaten in Dagestan is unconscious and in resuscitation
Lawyer Sergey Kvasov was beaten in central Makhachkala on April 9 by five unidentified persons in masks. He is still unconscious and kept in the resuscitation ward.
14:00, 10 April 2010
Chechnya to celebrate anniversary of CTO cancellation
April 16 is one year from the date of cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced in the territory of the Chechen Republic back in 1999. This anniversary will be marked in the region as a national holiday.
11:00, 10 April 2010
Residents of Ingushetia report kidnapping of large-family mother
An application has arrived to the human rights organization "Mashr" and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" from Ashet Daurbekova, a resident of Plievo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, about kidnapping of her daughter-in-law, mother of four children.
10:11, 10 April 2010
Vladikavkaz opens monument to victims of terror
On April 9, an opening ceremony took place in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, of the monument to victims of terror. As noted by the well-known sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin, author of the monument, his work is first of all dedicated to the victims of the terror act in Beslan.
09:00, 10 April 2010
Scientists of Southern Caucasus have no general view on regional history
Despite the attempts of the scientists of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia to generate some common scientific view on the history of the countries of Southern Caucasus, the idea remains non-realized yet. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent heard this opinion in the interview given by Aidyn Aslanov, deputy chair of the Society of Historians of Azerbaijan.
07:00, 10 April 2010
Dagestan: fight grows into skirmish, three persons lost
As a reported by a spokesman of the press service of the MIA of Dagestan, in the Dagestan city of Kizlyar, as a result of a fight, which grew into shooting, three persons were shot dead.
23:50, 9 April 2010
Isa Yamadaev said that in attempt on him blanks were used
Isa Yamadaev, brother of ex-MP Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev, said that he had known in advance about the attempt on him, which was planned in July 2009; and then operative agents replaced the cartridges in the pistol of the failed gunman Khavazh Yusupov for blanks.
23:50, 9 April 2010
ECtHR unites claims lodged by victims of Dubrovka terror act
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized eligible two groups of complaints that arrived from the victims of the terror act in Theatrical Centre in Dubrovka in Moscow and united two claims into one proceeding.
23:30, 9 April 2010
FSB: militants liquidated in Ekazhevo were involved in Karabulak terror act
The militants liquidated as a result of the operation conducted in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo have been identified. According to the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), they are Korigov, Adam Magomedovich and Tsaloev, Ahmed Alikovich.
23:00, 9 April 2010
Russian militaries ban doctors to examine Perevi residents
Georgian doctors were stopped by Russian militaries at a block post and could not get into Perevi village, Sachkher District, where they wanted to conduct medical examination of the villagers; therefore, they were forced to do it and spread medicines in the neighbouring village of Dzhriya, controlled by the Georgian party.
22:20, 9 April 2010
LDPR demands bringing terrorists' relatives to material liability
Today, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, vice-speaker of the Russian State Duma from the faction of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and the group of MPs from this party brought into the State Duma draft amendments to the law "On Counteracting Terrorism", suggesting to impose legislative responsibility for the damage caused by terror acts on terrorists' family members who live together with them.
22:00, 9 April 2010
Terrorist-suicide-bomber blows herself up in Ingushetia
In the course of a special operation in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, a woman suicide-bomber rushed to the militia cordon and fatally wounded a militiaman from her pistol. This was reported by law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia.
Commemoration rally of assassinated human rights defender Natalia Estemirova. Poster on the left runs: "Natalia Estemirova fought against kidnappings in Checnya." Moscow, August 24, 2009. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 9 April 2010
FIDH Forum participants worry that frequently under pretext of war on terror human rights are restrained
Dictator regimes make use of war on terror as a pretext for neutralizing human rights activist and political opponents. Struggle against terrorism is used for destruction of democratic freedoms. This was a conclusion made by the participants of the Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) within the discussion on the topic of observance of human rights in the context of fighting terrorism.
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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.