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Picketer from Astrakhan in Pushkin Square in Moscow on December 7, 2010. Poster: "Criminals in power - end of the state". Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:20, 9 December 2010
Picketers in Moscow complain of illegal inspectors' methods used in Astrakhan Region
The residents of the Astrakhan Region, who held a picket on December 7 in Pushkin Square, wanted to draw the attention of the President of the country and the public to the situation in the region. Irina Butyrina said, in particular, that her minor son was beaten by militiamen.
22:10, 9 December 2010
Opposition activist Felix Gevorgyan is at large in Armenia
During the last presidential election Felix Gevorgyan was the head of the election headquarters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leader of the opposition and a presidential candidate, in the Yerevan community "Achapnyak"; later he was convicted within the case of dispersal of mass opposition actions on March 1, 2008. Now, he has been early released from the Erebuni Prison.
21:00, 9 December 2010
Opposition in Georgia is forming Committees of civil disobedience
On Wednesday, December, 8, a deliberative body of the Representative People's Assembly in Georgia held its first session where a decision of preparing large-scale actions of civil disobedience was taken.
19:00, 9 December 2010
Thirteen people got injured in a road accident in Rostov region
Thirteen people got injured in a road accident in Rostov region where a bus collided with a car.
18:00, 9 December 2010
Militiamen accused of tortures in Rostov region are under investigation
An investigation is in process in Rostov region concerning the militiamen accused of using tortures against a suspect. For the benefit of the investigation concrete information on the case is currently kept in secret.
23:40, 8 December 2010
In Dagestan, five MIA officers detained as bribery suspects
On December 7, in the outskirts of the village of Korkmaskala, Kumtorkalin District of Dagestan, officers of the criminal investigation division of the Kumtorkalin ROVD (District Interior Division) were detained at the moment of obtaining 200,000 roubles of bribe for releasing of a woman suspected of a crime.
23:20, 8 December 2010
MIA: farm belonging to Tsapok's mother in Kuschevskaya illegally detained citizens of Ukraine
Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Southern Federal District (SFD) has confirmed the fact of illegal detention of citizens of Ukraine at the firm "Artex-Agro", headed by Nadezhda Tsapok - mother of Sergey Tsapok, suspected of organizing the massacre in Kuschevskaya village.
23:10, 8 December 2010
"Georgian Times" stopped in Georgia
The decision to close the "Georgian Times" was taken today by the managers of the newspaper. The publication is owned by Malkhaz Gulashvili, leader of Georgian Orthodox radicals.
23:00, 8 December 2010
Rostov Region: 35,000 ask Medvedev to raise salaries of university teachers
The trade union of the Southern Federal University (SFU) in Rostov-on-Don has sent an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev with a complaint about low salaries of teachers and a request to address the problem.
22:50, 8 December 2010
New Muslim organization founded in Russia
The Muftiate of the Stavropol Territory took part in Moscow in the inaugural conference, which today has created a new centralized religious organization of Muslims - the Russian Association of Islamic Accord (All-Russian Muftiate).
22:30, 8 December 2010
Yerevan Mayor beats President's servant and resigns
Armen Arzumanyan, press secretary of the President of Armenia, has confirmed the fact of assault and battery of Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan against Aram Kandayan, a staff member of the protocol department of President Serzh Sargsyan's administration. According to the latest information, the Mayor has resigned.
22:20, 8 December 2010
In Dagestan, father of detainee on suspicion of burning down a shop states innocence of his son
Zainudin Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, has appealed to human rights organizations, the prosecutor's office and interior minister asking to restore violated rights of his family members. According to his story, his sons were illegally detained by law enforcement officers, who had also tortured the detainees.
22:10, 8 December 2010
Sydoruk: this year, number of terror acts in Northern Caucasus doubled
Today, at the working meeting of law enforcement bodies in Vladikavkaz, Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy General Public Prosecutor of Russia, said that the number of terror acts committed this year in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), has increased by 100 percent as compared with the same last year's period.
22:00, 8 December 2010
ECtHR condemns Russia for custody conditions in SIZO of Rostov-on-Don
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaints of two women from Rostov-on-Don on torturous detention conditions at the local pre-trial detention facility (known as SIZO) justified and ruled that Russia should pay out compensation to them in the sum of 50,000 euros.
20:00, 8 December 2010
Experts are concerned about seismic situation in Yerevan
Overload of the center of Yerevan with high-rise buildings can result in seismic risks because an increase of the number of high-rise buildings in the center of the city in case of an intensive earthquake may cause "domino effect". This was reported to the journalists by Alvaro Antonyan, Director of Seismic Service of Armenia.
20:00, 8 December 2010
Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia: a resident of Abkhazia accused of terrorism acknowledged his guilt
Gogita Arkania, resident of Gali district detained on accusation of terrorism, has acknowledged his guilt at the same time accusing Russian major Evgeny Borisov of organizing acts of terror in the territory of Georgia. This was reported by representatives of Georgian Ministry of Interior Affairs.
18:00, 8 December 2010
A member of "Memorial" Human Rights Center beaten up in Moscow
On December, 7, an assault upon Bakhrom Khamroev, member of Russian "Memorial" Human Rights Center, took place in Moscow.
23:50, 7 December 2010
Inspectors reject the version of poor-quality fuel in Tu-154 of "Dagestani Airlines"
The investigation has rejected the version that the crash of the Tu-154 of the "Dagestani Airlines" at the Domodedovo Airport on December 4 was caused by low-quality fuel, put into the aircraft fuel tanks at the stay at the Vnukovo Airport. As reported by the Airport, the Transport Department of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) has allowed using the earlier sealed up vessel of fuel for fuelling other aircrafts.
23:40, 7 December 2010
Residents of Dagestan discuss technical condition of local aircrafts
The crash of the aircraft of "Dagestani Airlines" on December 4 is actively discussed on local blogs and forums. Dagestani Internet users note that they would prefer to fly by aircraft of other airlines, but this is not possible.
Zalimkhan Akhmedov, Deputy Commander of the Tu-154 Squadron. Makhachkala, December 6, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:20, 7 December 2010
Pilots of "Dagestani Airlines" reject the version of crew error
The pilots of the company deny that the reason for the emergency landing of the Tu-154 aircraft in the Domodedovo Airport on December 4 was the fault of the crew.
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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
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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.

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