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21:00, 5 April 2010
Sign-in campaign in Internet for cancellation of Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code
An appeal to President of Russia with a demand to cancel Article 282 of the Criminal Code (CC) of the Russian Federation ("Kindling hatred or enmity and humiliation of human dignity") was placed in the Internet page of the Party "Homeland: Common Sense". The appeal already has some five hundred subscriptions, said Mikhail Delyagin, chairman of the organizing committee of the Party, at the press conference held at the Independent Press Centre.
20:00, 5 April 2010
Cherkasov: wrong treatment of Caucasians gives rise to terrorism in Russia
In the opinion of Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the board of the International Society "Memorial", one of the roots of terrorism in Russia is that residents of the Caucasus are treated not like other citizens of Russia, moreover, not like Muscovites. And in the opinion of political scientist Sergey Markedonov, today the war on terror is seen exclusively as a police action; but the problem cannot be solved by police operations only.
19:00, 5 April 2010
13 persons injured by terror act in Ingushetia
Under the latest data, as a result of the terror acts committed today in Karabulak, two persons were lost and 13 more wounded. President of Ingushetia asked the Kremlin to render material aid to the casualties and victims.
18:00, 5 April 2010
Shlegel: news on militants should just report their liquidation
Robert Shlegel, a Russian State Duma Deputy and a member of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, has brought to consideration of the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament a draft amendment to the law on the mass media, assuming a ban on any citing of terrorists' statements.
20:14, 3 April 2010
66 prisoners to be early relieved in Georgia
In Georgia, 66 inmates will be at large before term and welcome Easter in their families. The respective decision was made by the commission on conditional-early relief at its sitting on April 2.
19:00, 3 April 2010
Alekseeva is not going to pardon her attacker at the action in memory of terror victims
Today, the court has released under recognizance not to leave a muscovite Konstantin Pereverzev, who struck the famous human rights defender Liudmila Alekseeva at the action in memory of the victims of the terror act committed at the Park Kultury metro station. Pereverzev admitted his guilt and repented. But Alekseeva is not going to forgive him.
17:00, 3 April 2010
Armenians and Turks to discuss genocide's causes and implications in Ankara
The meeting of Armenian and Turkish intellectuals, forthcoming on April 24-25 in Ankara, will discuss the issues related to causes and consequences of Armenians' genocide in the Ottoman Turkey.
Georgia, Tbilisi, the square of Freedom, March 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
16:00, 3 April 2010
36 parties to run for local governments in Georgia
On April 3, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Georgia stopped accepting applications from the parties willing to take part in the elections to institutions of local self-government to be held on May 30. In total, the CEC received applications from 36 parties.
15:00, 3 April 2010
AI: Georgia bought torture appliances in Germany
The Amnesty International (AI) asserts that Georgia had purchased in Germany tools for torturing people. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia denies the accusations.
14:00, 3 April 2010
Dagestan: power agents search relatives of Jennet Abdurakhmanova
A special operation is on in the village of Stary Kostek, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Power agents are searching relatives of Jennet Abdurakhmanova, suspected of committing a suicidal terror act on March 29 at Park Kultury Moscow metro station.
13:00, 3 April 2010
Ombudsman of Armenia refuses to take part in FIDH forum
Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, stood against the offered format of his participation in the forum of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) to be held in Yerevan on April 6-8. He sent a letter to the organizers asking to exclude him from the list of participants, as "he would not be given a chance to express his viewpoint alternative to the authorities' one."
11:00, 3 April 2010
Insurance Fund: patients are happy with medical institutions of Chechnya
The Territorial Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance in the Chechen Republic has held a sociology poll and announced by its outcomes that the overwhelming majority (76 percent) of Chechen residents are satisfied with the medical aid available.
10:00, 3 April 2010
Business Centre of Italy opened in Sochi
It is expected that the new Business Centre will promote Italian-Russian business cooperation, growth of trade and expansion of contacts between the two countries.
09:00, 3 April 2010
Azerbaijani Ombudsperson reports to parliament, opposition is critical
On April 2, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan listened to the report of Elmira Suleimanova - the national Ombudsperson - for 2009.
23:50, 2 April 2010
Russia's ambassador to Armenia denies Caucasians' deportation from Russia
Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Armenia, has called not to put trust in rumours about deportation of Caucasus natives from Russia after the terror acts in Moscow metro stations Park Kultury and Lubyanka. President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev called not to offend people, when waging war on terror, by their nationalities or geographical origin.
23:30, 2 April 2010
In Dagestan, a militiaman's car shelled and a powerful bomb neutralized
On April 1 in the evening, in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified opened fire on the service car of the head Aksai settlement police station at the local ROVD (District Militia Division). And on the day of terror acts - on March 31 - a powerful bomb was neutralized in the Kizlyar District. In both cases there were no casualties and victims.
23:20, 2 April 2010
Russia's MoD has no plans to send recruits to Chechnya
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation does not plan to send its recruits to Chechnya. This was stated by Colonel Alexei Kuznetsov, head of the department of the press service and information of the Ministry, in his comments on the rumours that newly-drafted soldiers would be sent to the units deployed in Chechnya.
23:00, 2 April 2010
Baku hosts protest action against infringement of Azerbaijanis' rights in Iran
Today in Baku, at about midday, a group of activists of the World Congress of Azerbaijanis (WCA) has held a non-authorized protest action in front of the embassy of Iran in Azerbaijan. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the participants of the action came there to express their discontent with the actions of the authorities of Iran, who are damaging the ecology in the north of the country, where Azerbaijanis live. The point is in economic activities around Lake Urmia.
22:10, 2 April 2010
Mikhail Delyagin: there are several main versions of committed terror acts
Doctor of Economy Mikhail Delyagin, chairman of the organizing committee of the Party "Homeland: Common Sense", also shared, at the press conference at the Independent Press Centre, his vision of the versions of the terror acts committed on March 29 in Moscow metro and on March 31 in Dagestan.
22:00, 2 April 2010
Markedonov: Umarov is at war not only on Russia but also on the West
After the explosions in Moscow metro, mass media have repeatedly named the activities of terrorists as the actions of "Chechen separatists", which is wrong, as since 2004, after the terror act in Beslan, no "Chechen separatists" exist. This was stated by political scientist Sergey Markedonov, head of the division of interethnic relations of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, at the discussion held in Moscow on March 29: "Who has blown up Moscow and Kizlyar: Islamites, Separatists or Just Bandits?"
News
South Ossetia's losses in fighting in Ukraine have raised questions about the combatants' motives.

A student from South Ossetia has been arrested in Tbilisi on espionage charges.

The death of a South Ossetian soldier in the North Ossetian Military District sparked a debate on social media.

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.