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Camp for internally displaced people from Nagorny Karabakh and adjacent territories. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
09:00, 6 February 2010
Feature film on Karabakh War shot in Nagorno-Karabakh
In Nagorno-Karabakh, the first in the region's history feature film about the Karabakh War - "House which Shot" - was made. It is planned that it will launch the cycle of feature films based on real facts.
07:00, 6 February 2010
Unique zoo to be built in Azerbaijan
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has defined the winner of the tender, held on designing, building and further development of the Zoological Park, intended to house endangered animal species. The German-Turkish company will build a zoo in the territory of more than 200 hectares.
23:50, 5 February 2010
Two levels of unfinished house collapse in the capital of Adzharia
Four persons, including two children, suffered in Batumi, when two floors of the 14-storey building, which is in construction, cracked down at night on February 4.
Sochi. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:40, 5 February 2010
Felling boxtrees near Sochi continues, ecologists assert
When the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) mission was in Sochi, Red Book trees were still cut down along the joint road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana. This is stated by the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus.
23:30, 5 February 2010
Three TB patients died this year in Karachai-Circassia
The phthisiology service in Karachai-Circassia is in a pitiable condition. It is recognized by Khusei Kurdanov, Minister of Public Health. He marks that conditions in the republic's TB clinic are below all sanitary standards.
23:10, 5 February 2010
Settlement for residents of landslide zone in Ingushetia to be finished by end of February
All the building and communication works for commissioning of the cottage settlement of 507 houses in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia for resettled residents of the landslide zones will be over this month and the houses will be turn-key ready, said President Yunus-Bek Evkurov.
23:00, 5 February 2010
Orthodox human rights defenders indignant with actions against Prayer Crosses in Adygea
The Human Rights Centre of the World Russian People's Council has expressed its indignation with the "continuing acts of vandalism against Prayer Crosses installed in the territory of Adygea."
22:20, 5 February 2010
South Ossetia-Russia visa-free regime to start in March
The agreement on mutual visa-free travels between citizens of South Ossetia and Russia will be in force since March 2010. This was stated by Murat Dzhioev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.
22:00, 5 February 2010
In Azerbaijan, bloggers' case reappointed to February 12 because of snowfall
The consideration of the appeal complaint filed by young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade was again postponed by the Baku Appeal Court today. The reason was a strong snowfall that prevented their transportation to the trial.
21:00, 5 February 2010
Dagestan: bad weather leaves 10,000 without electricity
Snowfalls and wire icing in the north of Dagestan crushed down power line supports made of reinforced concrete. Ten thousand residents remain without electric power, while specialists promise to completely restore supplies by February 8-9.
19:00, 5 February 2010
Prosecution asks 10 years for figurant in Politkovskaya's case
The prosecution has demanded to sentence Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, who was acquitted in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case but accused of extorting 350,000 US dollars from the main prosecution's witness in this case, to 10 years of imprisonment.
Chechnya, Novye Aldy. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/9447726
18:00, 5 February 2010
In Moscow, film "Aldy. With No Limitation Period" shown to public
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of "zachistka" (clean-up) in the Chechen village named Novye Aldy, where 56 peaceful residents were murdered on February 5, 2000, Moscow hosted a press conference dedicated to the anniversary of those tragic events. During the event a documentary entitled "Aldy. With No Limitation Period", based on video evidences and video documents, was demonstrated.
23:50, 4 February 2010
Chechnya to hold action "Clean Water"
Chechen ecologists plan to hold a broad-scale operation in the districts of the republic scale operation "Clean Water", aimed to prevent pollution of water bodies. The responsibility for observance of the nature protection legislation will be assigned to heads of municipal formations.
23:20, 4 February 2010
In Azerbaijan, editor-in-chief of "Themis-007" sentenced to corrective works
On February 3, the Yasamal District Court of Baku satisfied the claim of Ramil Usubov, head of the MIA of Azerbaijan, to Eyub Kerimov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Themis-007".
23:00, 4 February 2010
Abkhazian leader: attitude to national minorities shows country's level of democracy
In Abkhazia, there is understanding that attitude to national minorities is among basic parameters of a country's development level as a democratic state. This was stated by President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh on February 3 in Sukhumi, in the course of his meeting with Knuth Vollebek, OSCE Supreme Commissioner on National Minorities.
22:20, 4 February 2010
Witness in Nalchik attack case opens details on how defendants are convoyed
Today, at the court session, where the attack on law enforcement bodies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, evidences of Mohammed Mirzoev, a lawyer of the Bar of Kabardino-Balkaria, were heard. At the moment of the events, he worked as an operative agent of criminal investigation at the 1st OVD of Nalchik and was engaged in delivering defendants from the investigatory insulator to the UBOP (division for fighting organized crime) for interrogations.
22:00, 4 February 2010
Quality of health services in Chechnya: polls and reality
The territorial Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance (FMMI) of the Chechen Republic has summed up a sociology poll, conducted in 2009 in treatment-and-prophylactic establishments (T&PEs). According to these data, over 60 percent of respondents-hospital patients expressed their satisfaction with the quality of services.
21:20, 4 February 2010
In Moscow, Azeri student beaten for forum statements on Nagorno-Karabakh
On January 23, Ali Aslanly (Aslanov), a 1st year student of the Russian State Medical University (RSMU), was hospitalized to the in neurosurgery ward of Pirogov Hospital No. 33 in Moscow after he was beaten by his classmates. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has found out that the conflict burst out because of the debate in the Internet of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.
20:00, 4 February 2010
Power agents accuse Dymovskiy of links with drug business
Militia Major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy, who placed his video appeal in the Internet with criticism of the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was subsequently accused of a swindle, can now face another criminal case, this time - on charges of drug dealing.
19:00, 4 February 2010
Strasbourg Court demands from Russia to urgently find the resident kidnapped in Chechnya
The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded from Russia to present the inquiry materials of the criminal case on Islam Umarpashaev, kidnapped in Chechnya, and inform about the course of investigation of other similar cases in the republic.
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.