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Sochi. December, 2009. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 18 January 2010
Dmitri Medvedev orders to be tough in supervising expenditures on Sochi Olympiad
Today, at the meeting with top managers of the Russian Federation Audit Chamber, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev demanded to be very tough in controlling the expenditures on building the Olympic objects in Sochi.
20:00, 18 January 2010
Examination proves involvement of "Neva-Express" train explosion figurants in two other terror acts
The persons who tried to derail the "Neva-Express" train in August 2007 had to do with at least two more explosions in Russia. These are the results of the examination held within the investigation of the criminal case about the terror act and presented in the verdict of the Novgorod Regional Court passed of the train explosion case.
19:00, 18 January 2010
Special agencies are in search of relatives of Aushev's widow
Russian special agencies are engaged in searching the four relatives of the widow of the assassinated Ingush oppositionist Maksharip Aushev, who disappeared in the end of last December in St Petersburg. However, so far, nothing is known about their whereabouts, a source in power agencies said.
18:00, 18 January 2010
Another criminal case initiated against Major Dymovskiy
As reported by Sergey Kucheruk, head of the GUVD (Interior Department) of the Krasnodar Territory, the second criminal case was opened against former Militia Major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy; this time, as he said, - under Article 303 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - forgery. Mr Kucheruk gave no details, but promised that more criminal cases will follow.
Homiletic activities of Jehovan's Witnesses. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
21:00, 16 January 2010
Human rights defenders urge Russia's authorities to stop oppressing Jehovah's Witnesses
Activists of civil society made a statement calling the Russian authorities to stop the practice of persecuting the religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses and other "non-title" religious communities in Russia and protect believers against illegal oppressions.
20:00, 16 January 2010
"Triple" from Belarus refuses to build biathlon complex in Sochi
The Belarusian Company "Triple" has given up its plans of building a biathlon complex in Sochi for Olympiad-2014. As reported by the "Gazprom" and "Sochi-2014" Organizing Committee, the reason of demarche was Russia's refusal to grant export oil discounts to Belarus.
19:51, 16 January 2010
Vladikavkaz residents again demand to close "Electrozink"
Today in Vladikavkaz, members of the initiative group "Electrozink. What do we breathe in?" have held another picket with a demand to decommission the "Electrozink" metallurgy factory.
17:00, 16 January 2010
MC of Abkhazia refutes forcing Georgians to Abkhazian army
Vakhtang Tsugba, Military Commissar (MC) of Abkhazia, rejects statements about forced recruitment of young Georgian nationals to the Abkhazian army. This was stated by Mr Tsugba in the context of the information disseminated by Georgian sources that an Abkhazian soldier Lekso Bzhaniya asked for political asylum in Georgia complaining of his violent recruitment.
16:00, 16 January 2010
Russian Orthodox Church asks not to overblow scandal around slip of tongue on Karabakh
Hieromonk Phillip (Ryabykh), deputy head of the Department of Foreign Church Relations, believes that the reaction to his words, which caused misunderstanding in Azerbaijan about three temples of the Moscow Patriarchy working in Armenia, including one in Nagorno-Karabakh, is obviously "exaggerated".
S. Markelov at Siberian social forum in 2008. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
13:00, 16 January 2010
Moscow authorities sanction human rights activists' pickets in memory of Markelov and Baburova
On Friday, January 15, the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow allowed human rights activists to hold two pickets on January 19, the first anniversary of murders of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.
12:00, 16 January 2010
Human rights activists state violations of Chechnya residents' rights by GIBDD employees
Members of Chechen NGOs report violations of citizens' rights and facts of extortion by employees of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (known in Russia as "GIBDD"). They note that the problem is especially topical at the road police posts located in the administrative borders with Ossetia and Dagestan.
11:00, 16 January 2010
Azerbaijani embassy to Russia is dissatisfied with Zhirinovsky's statement on Karabakh
As reported by Elkhan Polukhov, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan, the embassy of Azerbaijan to Russia has sent a note of protest to Russia's MFA in the context of the statement made by the vice-speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky about possible recognition by Moscow of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh.
10:00, 16 January 2010
Dudaev Street in Riga to be renamed this year
The street named in honour of Dzhokhar Dudaev in Riga will be renamed in 2010, said Nil Ushakov, Mayor of the Latvian capital. In his opinion, the street should bear a neutral name.
09:00, 16 January 2010
Dutch Internet edition sacks journalist for refusal to admit Armenians' genocide
The Dutch Internet edition named "De Dagelijksestandaard" has dismissed one of its journalists for denying the fact of the genocide of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey and for his qualification of 1915 events as deportation.
23:30, 15 January 2010
Jehovah's Witnesses prepare complaint to Strasbourg against judicial bans in SFD
A suit to be lodged to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the context of a breach of the Constitution of the Russian Federation as regards the freedom of worship. The pretext was the oppression of Jehovah's Witnesses by law enforcement bodies of the South federal District (SFD). This was stated by Gregory Martynov, press secretary of the administrative centre of this religious organization.
23:20, 15 January 2010
US and Norwegian embassies demand investigation of attack on their diplomats in Nakhichevan
On Thursday, January 14, the embassies of the USA and Norway in Baku made a joint statement in the context of the incident with their employees on January 12 in the village of Bananyar, Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan.
23:10, 15 January 2010
Intigam Aliev: the civil society of Azerbaijan should rely on its own forces
On January 14, the Coalition in Support of Civil Society in Azerbaijan held debates in the office of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) on the problems of NGOs. The debate points were in the problems of NGO registration and the latest changes in the legislation, enabling to restrain the activity of the civil society. According to Intigam Aliev, chairman of the Society of Legal Education, the civil society of Azerbaijan, actually deprived of any international support, should rely on its own forces.
Soviet armor in Baku in the morning of the 20th of January, 1990. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
23:00, 15 January 2010
Karabakh and Azerbaijani historians differently view Armenian pogroms in Baku in 1990
Armenian pogroms in Baku in January 1990 are among most convincing arguments of impossibility for Nagorno-Karabakh to be a part of Azerbaijan. This is stated in the comment of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh on the 20th anniversary of these events, which deserve, in the opinion of Irina Grigoryan, head of the Stepanakert Resource Centre, their official estimation. Azerbaijanis believe that Armenian pogroms in Baku were provoked by Soviet special agencies.
Dagestan, Makhachkala. Dahadayev street blocked by law enforcement officers. January 13, 2010. Photo by Ruslan Alibekov/NewsTeam
22:00, 15 January 2010
Makhachkala residents are angry with power agents blocking central streets
Today, the centre of Makhachkala is again blocked by KamAZ trucks; traffic is absolutely blocked in the vicinity of the central square, which houses the buildings of the President's Administration and the Government of Dagestan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB and the Supreme Court of the republic.
21:00, 15 January 2010
Figurants in the case of "Neva-Express" explosion in 2007 acquitted from charge of terrorism
Residents of Ingushetia Salambek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev, accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2007, have been acquitted under the article of "terrorism". The court found them guilty of illegal circulation of explosives.
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The hunger strike of the defendant in the Toplum TV case has led to the postponement of the court hearing.

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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.