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18:00, 31 August 2009
Kadyrov's civil suit against head of "Memorial" to be considered on September 10
The consideration of the claim on defence of honour and dignity lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, leader of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has been postponed till September 10. Mr Orlov said that before the start of today's hearing, he had submitted a petition asking to postpone the trial, and the judge accepted his arguments and re-appointed the consideration. He added to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the reason was that he had no advocate.
23:00, 29 August 2009
Georgian opposition to announce its plans in September
As stated by Eka Beseliya, Secretary General of the Movement "For United Georgia", the opposition would announce its further tactics of its confrontation with President Mikhail Saakashvili in September.
22:00, 29 August 2009
CTO regime lifted in Prokhladnenskiy District of Kabardino-Balkaria
As of 10:00 p.m. on August 29, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Karagach village, Prokhladnenskiy District of Kabardino-Balkaria, introduced on August 28, was cancelled, as reported by the operative headquarters of the republic.
21:00, 29 August 2009
Initiation of criminal case against head of HRC "Memorial" to be decided on August 31
On Monday, August 31, the Moscow GUVD (Chief Interior Department) will decide whether to open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The request to initiate a criminal case against Mr Orlov was submitted by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.
19:12, 29 August 2009
Nurgaliev: suicide bomber who blew himself up in Ingushetia not identified yet
It is not obviously possible to identify the body of the militant-suicide bomber, who committed the terror act in Nazran, as the explosion was "of very high power", as stated today by Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. In his opinion, it is too early to assert that the terror act was made by Said Buryatskiy.
19:00, 29 August 2009
REN TV disagrees with the fine imposed by Georgia
The REN TV Russian Channel finds the fine that was imposed by Georgia for its broadcasting in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as the Channel is not broadcasting "in any of these three countries." This was reported by Anton Nazarov, head of the press service of the REN TV.
17:00, 29 August 2009
ICR press secretary tells details of her detention
Fatima Tarasova, press secretary of the Islamic Committee of Russia (ICR), who was detained in the course of the rally of relatives of kidnapped persons on August 26 in the capital of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" about the circumstances of the incident.
16:00, 29 August 2009
About 20 percent of Russian credit has reached Armenian enterprises
As stated on August 28 by Tigran Davtyan, Minister of Finance of Armenia, 38.6 billion drams (about 102.6 million US dollars), or about 20 percent of the Russian credit have been already invested into the economy of Armenia.
12:00, 29 August 2009
Georgia treats presence of Russian frontier guards in Abkhazia's waters as piracy
Giorgiy Bokuchava, head of the transport administration of Georgia, making his comments today on the statements that Russian frontier guards will defend ships sailing to Abkhazia, has treated such actions as piracy.
11:00, 29 August 2009
Edelev: Said Buryatskiy's self-explosion in Nazran is disinformation
The information about the death of Said Buryatskiy as a suicide bomber at the building of the Nazran GOVD is disinformation, Arcadiy Edelev, Deputy Interior Minister of Russia, believes.
10:00, 29 August 2009
Azerbaijani Ombudsperson does not exclude amicable agreement on bloggers' case
On Friday, August 28, Elmira Suleimanova, Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan, had a meeting at the Baku pre-trial prison with young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism. According to Ms Suleimanova, she had applied to respective bodies on settling the case by amicable agreement of the parties, and this "issue remains in the focus."
23:40, 28 August 2009
Krasnoyarsk: skirmish between natives of Azerbaijan and China bursts out and brings victims
On August 26, in Krasnoyarsk, in the Southern marketplace, a skirmish took place with participation of Azerbaijani natives. According to the militia, three persons received light wounds, one of them was hospitalized. Under informal information, one person was lost.
23:20, 28 August 2009
In Rostov, militiaman who knocked down 11 persons is tried
On August 27, the Leninskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don started consideration of the case opened against a former militiaman, who knocked down by his car 11 persons standing at a bus stop.
Magomed Evloev. Photo by www.ingushetia.org
23:00, 28 August 2009
Inspector who issued statement on Evloev's delivery was told to keep silent and not to "ruffle"
The inspector who made a decision to force Magomed Evloev, an oppositionist and owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", to the police station on the day of his murder, on August 31, 2008, was ordered to keep silent and not to take any actions. This is stated in the explanatory note of Lieutenant of Justice Zhambulat Shankhoev, an inspector of the investigatory division at the Nazran OVD.
22:10, 28 August 2009
Armenian prisoners show their works at exhibition in Yerevan
A selling exhibition of creations made by about 50 inmates of criminal-corrective establishments of Armenia, organized with the help of the "Foundation for Helping Convicts", acting under the Ministry of Justice, is on now in the Armenia capital.
22:00, 28 August 2009
Russian ICPO and Chechen MIA report differently about Shali suicide bombers
The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia reports that suicide bombers came up to a police squad in the centre of Chechen city of Shali and triggered their bombs. However, the MIA of Chechnya asserts that the militants blew themselves up in the course of a special operation aimed to detain them.
21:00, 28 August 2009
Abkhazia refutes Georgian MIA's statements about shelling of Ganmukhuri
Zurab Marganiya, head of a frontier detachment of the Abkhazian State Security Service, has stated that the Abkhazian party has nothing to do with the incident in Zugdidi District.
20:00, 28 August 2009
CTO regime lifted in Dagestan capital
As reported by the PR Group of the FSB Department for Dagestan, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the Primorskiy District of Makhachkala, has been cancelled with the end of special actions.
19:00, 28 August 2009
President of Georgia pardons 238 prisoners
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has signed a decree on pardoning 238 prisoners. As reported at today's press conference by Dmitri Shashkin, Minister of Punishment Enforcement, Probation and Legal Aid, 169 prisoners will be set free.
18:00, 28 August 2009
Three could-be militants liquidated in CTO in KBR
In an armed clash near Karagach village, Prokhladnoe District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced tonight, three IAF (illegal armed formation) members are killed and one law enforcer wounded, as reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.
News
Pro-European protests in Tbilisi have continued for 523 days in a row.

March in Tbilisi. Screenshot of Mo Se's photo from May 3, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4297407353907337&set=pcb.4297408117240594 A march demanding medical treatment for children took place in Tbilisi.

Participants in a march in Tbilisi demanded freedom of the 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.