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22:40, 10 February 2010
Employee of Chechen MIA who shot his colleagues by mistake to face trial
In Chechnya, the law enforcer, who shot dead his two colleagues in summer of 2009, when he took them for militants, will face justice. He is under threat of a criminal punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to seven years.
Astrakhan. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
22:00, 10 February 2010
In Astrakhan, 7 out 19 earlier detained STSI inspectors arrested
On February 9, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan authorized arrest of 7 out of 19 servicemen of the local battalion of the Road-Post Service (RPS), suspected of regular extorting bribes from motorists. Now, 11 of them are in custody (four inspectors were taken to the SIZO (pre-trial facility) on February 8 and 7).
21:20, 10 February 2010
Azerbaijan: student sacked for publication on corruption
Elmin Badalov, editor of the "Polygon" information agency, was dismissed from his 4th year of the Petro-Mechanical Department of the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA). He believes that he was sacked for political reasons. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that Badalov himself told about it on February 8 at a press conference held at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).
21:00, 10 February 2010
Armenian Ombudsman promises to personally deal with Pashinyan's case
A special working group was formed in the office of the Armenian Ombudsman with the aim to deal with the case of the well-known journalist Nikol Pashinyan, an activist of the opposition, who was convicted to seven years of imprisonment. Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan promised to personally deal with the case.
Magomedsalam Magomedov (left). Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 10 February 2010
Magomedsalam Magomedov promises to consolidate the society of Dagestan
Today, Deputies of the National Assembly of Dagestan have voted for vesting Magomedsalam Magomedov with the powers of the President of the republic. In his programme speech the new head of Dagestan promised to consolidate the society and not to persecute his opponents.
Chechnya, Grozny. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
19:00, 10 February 2010
UMG of human rights activists to continue its work in Chechnya
The incident that happened on February 7 and related with detention of lawyers of United Mobile Group (UMG) - members the created in the end of the last year Public Commission on Chechnya, is convincingly demonstrating that the principles of legality, presumption of innocence and personal immunity are nothing for practical work of some bosses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic. This is the opinion of I. A. Kalyapin, head of the headquarters of the UMG.
18:00, 10 February 2010
Orlov: Kadyrov's slander case was to be stopped in near future
The criminal case on slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov opened against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was to be stopped soon because of absence of crime elements. This was stated by Mr Orlov himself in his comments on the Chechen leader's recall of his claims against human rights activists and journalists.
23:50, 9 February 2010
Along of general drop of criminality, Karachai-Circassia saw more grave crimes in 2009
In 2009, Karachai-Circassia registered 4749 crimes, that is, by 11.4 percent less, than in 2008 (5361 registered crimes). This was stated by Senior Adviser of Justice Ruslan Hadjimusov, first deputy head of the ICPO at the Prosecutor's Office of Karachai-Circassia in his 2009 report to the Collegium of the Investigatory Department (ID) for Karachai-Circassia of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation on the measures aimed to increase the efficiency of investigatory bodies.
23:30, 9 February 2010
Chechnya will try head of village administration
The head of the administration of one of the villages of the foothill Kurchaloy District of Chechnya is accused of illegal reception by his relative of a large sum of money for building a house.
23:10, 9 February 2010
Electricity failed for several hours in the capital of Azerbaijan
Today at midday, the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, settlements of the Apsheron Peninsula, and adjacent cities of Khyrdalan and Sumgait, lost their electricity supplies. Traffic in Baku metro and railways was stopped. All state bodies, including the President's administration, got de-powered.
23:00, 9 February 2010
Human rights activists demand investigation of their colleagues' detention in Chechnya
The international human rights organizations Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, Civil Rights Defenders and Front Line have demanded from the Russian authorities to hold inquiry into the fact of detention of three human rights activist in Chechnya and bring those guilty to responsibility.
22:20, 9 February 2010
Astrakhan: bosses of GIBDD inspectors, suspected of bribe-taking, sacked
Militia General-Major Gregory Kulik, Head of the UVD (Interior Department) of the Astrakhan Region, has ordered to dismiss from office Militia Captain Kirsanov, a squadron commander of the Special Battalion (SB) of the Road Patrol Service (RPS)-1, his deputy Militia Captain Milov and Militia Lieutenant Colonel Barninkov, commander of the SB of the RPS-1. The order was caused by detention of the employees of Squadron 1 of the SB of the RPS-1 of the Astrakhan Regional STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, know in Russia as "GIBDD"), suspected of bribery.
22:00, 9 February 2010
Chikirov: incident with Khripun in South Ossetian-Georgian border is a provocation
The Frontier Department (FD) of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia has announced the reasons, which forced warrant officer Khripun to desert on December 21 from his post of frontier control. According to Colonel Dmitri Chikirov, deputy head of the above Department, Khripun's flight across the border was a provocation of Georgian special services.
South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/20211461
21:20, 9 February 2010
Hammarberg goes to South Ossetia to release Ossetians detained in Georgia
In February, Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights, will visit South Ossetia. One of the main topics will be debates on release of the Ossetians, considered as missing or detained by the Georgian party.
21:00, 9 February 2010
Evkurov calls militants to surrender and promises lenient verdicts
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has addressed members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) with an appeal to surrender in exchange for lenient administrative and criminal punishments.
20:00, 9 February 2010
Organizers of rally in support of Major Dymovskiy in Novorossisk receive threats
Threats are arriving to mobile phones of the applicants for a rally in demand of a fair trial of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee of Human Rights (NCHR) and Dymovskiy's official representative.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru
19:00, 9 February 2010
Kadyrov recalls his suits against Orlov, Alekseeva and journalists
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has recalled, after his mother's appeal, his suits against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Liudmila Alekseeva, chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and a group of Moscow journalists. Alvi Karimov, Kadyrov's press secretary, denies that the mother asked to stop prosecution of human rights activists under Kadyrov's request.
18:00, 9 February 2010
Dagestan to vote on Magomedsalam Magomedov on February 10
On February 10, an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of Dagestan will take place to vote on Magomedsalam Magomedov, nominated by Russian President Medvedev to the post of the republic's president. It is expected that Alexander Khloponin, Mr Medvedev's plenipotentiary for the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District), will present the nominee.
23:50, 8 February 2010
PACE co-Rapporteurs to present their report on Azerbaijan in June
Andres Herkel (Estonia) and Joseph Grekh (Malta), co-Rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for Azerbaijan, are now in this country. Today, they have met Eldar Azizov, chief executive of the city of Gyandzha.
23:40, 8 February 2010
Volgograd militiamen are accused of beating a detainee
A criminal case is opened in Volgograd against militiamen from a PPS (patrol and post service) squadron, who are suspected of beating a detainee. This is reported by the regional department of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office).
News
A student from South Ossetia has been arrested in Tbilisi on espionage charges.

A Georgian citizen detained by security forces in South Ossetia has been released.

Valeria Kichigina. Screenshot from the Telegram account @valerafzlln. A Russian journalist has been convicted for reporting on the results of the Five-Day War.

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.