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18:12, 22 August 2009
Georgia is ready to accommodate Guantanamo inmates
Georgia has expressed its readiness to accept prisoners from the American base in Guantanamo within its territory. This information was disseminated today by some Georgian and American media.
18:00, 22 August 2009
Evkurov interrupts treatment and returns to Ingushetia
Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who interrupted his rehabilitation course at a sanatorium near Moscow, has arrived in his republic. He made this decision because of aggravated situation in Ingushetia.
12:00, 22 August 2009
In Azerbaijan, court accepts NGO's suit against Ministry of Justice on the fourth try
On August 21, after a triple rejection, the Yasamal District Court of Baku has accepted the claim of the NGO "Centre for Election Monitoring and Teaching Democracy" (CEM&TD) against the Ministry of Justice.
Ingushetia, Nazran. Photo by www.venividi.ru/user/183, Artem Rusakovich
11:00, 22 August 2009
Power agents hold exercises at hospital in Ingushetia, human rights activists are indignant
Human rights activists have condemned the actions of power agents of Ingushetia under a simulated evacuation from the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Nazran. The training alert was announced there on August 21; however, at first, only law enforcement bodies knew about it, while ordinary people took the mess for the reality and were strongly frightened.
10:00, 22 August 2009
Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office forces 25 TB patients into treatment
Employees of the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, have revealed 25 local residents sick of tuberculosis. They had evaded examination and treatment; therefore, now they will be forced into treatment.
Ingushetia, refugee camp. By Magomedov Said for "Caucasian Knot"
09:00, 22 August 2009
In Ingushetia, 11 evicted families manage to get back to their barracks
Eleven families, ten of them being forced migrants from the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia and Chechnya, who had been earlier evicted by the decision of the Malgobek District Court from their barrack-type houses in Yuzny settlement of the Malgobek District, received a chance to get back into their barracks. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a member of the Public Commission of Human Rights at the President of the Republic.
08:00, 22 August 2009
Georgia: trial on Mukhrovani revolt postponed till September 1
The trial of the defendants in the case on the military revolt in Mukhrovani has been postponed from the earlier appointed August 21 to September 1.
06:00, 22 August 2009
Isaeva: arson in office of "Mothers of Dagestan" has to do with organization's activities
The arson in the Makhachkala-based office of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights was caused by the work of this NGO. Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the "Mothers of Dagestan", said that this was a sort of a warning to employees that they interfere with someone.
03:00, 22 August 2009
Ecologists who blocked highway in Sochi fined
On August 21, the magistrate court fined the ecologists detained at blocking the construction in Sochi of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway by 500 roubles each.
23:50, 21 August 2009
Seifutdin Kaziakhmedov's killer established in Dagestan
The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has stated that Seifutdin Kaziakhmedov, head of the department for investigation of especially important cases of the investigatory department for Dagestan, was killed by Omar Ramazanov, leader of the "Makhachkala Jama'at" who was liquidated on June 12 in the course of a special operation in Makhachkala.
23:10, 21 August 2009
Medvedev offers changes in the existing system of power in the Caucasus
On August 19, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev expressed his extreme discontent with the system of power existing in Northern Caucasus and offered to optimize the structures of interdepartmental interaction by involving staff from other regions for this purpose.
23:00, 21 August 2009
MIA: suicide bombers who made explosions in Grozny identified
As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, local law enforcement bodies have identified the today's suicide bombers, who committed explosions in central Grozny.
22:30, 21 August 2009
Today, President Evkurov returns to his republic
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has decided to interrupt his post-injury rehabilitation course and fly to the republic today because of the aggravation of the situation there.
22:10, 21 August 2009
Moscow categorically rejects any involvement of Chechen separatists in HPP explosion
The Kremlin has called "idiotic" the version about involvement of militants under command of their leader in Northern Caucasus Doku Umarov in the accident at the Sayan-Shusheno Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) and refused to make any comments.
22:00, 21 August 2009
In Rostov Region, miners-pensioners picket the railway
In the Rostov Region, miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo continue their protest action by picketing the North-Caucasian Railway. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, a deputy of the City Duma of Zverevo.
Photo of "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 21 August 2009
Ecologists who blocked Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway will spend the night in Sochi KPZ
Ecologists Andrei Rudomakha and Suren Gazaryan, detained in the construction site of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway in Sochi, will spend this night in the remand cell (known as "KPZ"). Their mobile phones were taken away.
19:00, 21 August 2009
IRFS: responsibility for Novruzali Mamedov's death is on Azerbaijani authorities
The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has made the statement, in which it imposed the political responsibility for the death on August 17 in custody of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), on the authorities of the country.
Commemoration evening dedicated to the memory of Natalya Estemoriva, Prague, the 22d of July, 2009. Photo by http://picasaweb.google.cz/provozucet
18:00, 21 August 2009
Estemirova's killers not established, witnesses fear to evidence
More than a month after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the investigation still has no idea of the organizers and executors of the crime. Witnesses are afraid to evidence on the case.
23:40, 20 August 2009
Action in support of "SOS Tekhut" activist held in Yerevan
In Yerevan, at the building of the investigatory department of the Erebuni community, an action took place in support of Mariam Sukhudyan, a young woman and an activist of the Movement "SOS Tekhut", accused by Armenian law enforcers of a false denunciation of a former teacher of special school No. 11 of Nubarashen.
23:30, 20 August 2009
Krasnodar Territorial Court re-rejects Nemtsov's claim on Sochi election
Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court has rejected the cassation complaint of the oppositional politician Boris Nemtsov against the refusal of the subordinate court - the Tsentralny District Court of the city of Sochi - to cancel the outcomes of the election of the Mayor of Sochi.
News
Military operation in Ukraine. Still from a Russian Ministry of Defense video: https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=18838@morfVideoAudioFile The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,050.

Domestic violence. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in Photoshop. Human rights activists have recorded a surge in requests for assistance in the North Caucasus.

The court seized more than 80 substations in Dagestan from Magomed Kaitov.

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.