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23:10, 30 December 2009
Georgian Ombudsman's report for 2009 will be ready by March
The report of the Ombudsman of Georgia for 2009 will be prepared by March next year, as it is stipulated by the legislation. Now, the parliament of Georgia has accepted to consideration the Ombudsman's report for the first half of this year.
23:00, 30 December 2009
Kalandadze: Russia's charges of Georgia on cancellation of air flights are groundless
The official Tbilisi finds Russia's accusations addressed to Tbilisi for delay of the planned New Year Tbilisi-Moscow flights groundless. This was stated by deputy minister of foreign affairs of Georgia Nino Kalandadze.
Sochi. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:20, 30 December 2009
Felling plane-trees suspended in Sochi
Residents of Sochi have promised to hold a protest actions if the felling of the trees separating apartment houses from the carriageway continues.
22:10, 30 December 2009
Ombudsman of Chechnya complains of inspectors' passiveness in searching kidnapped persons
The inactivity of the investigatory bodies in searching the missing and kidnapped residents of Chechnya provokes protest actions. This is asserted by the Ombudsman of Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiev in his letter to Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russia, where he asked Mr Chaika to interfere.
22:00, 30 December 2009
Orlov: list of authors of critical statement about "Memorial" in Chechnya was forged
The statement of Chechen NGOs criticizing the work of the HRC "Memorial" is nothing more but a vivid confirmation of impossibility for human rights activists to work in this republic. Oleg Orlov, head of the Centre, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
21:10, 30 December 2009
In Dagestan, figurants of the "execution list" may get state protection
Today, Zubair Omarov, inspector of the investigatory committee for especially important cases under the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, has invited two figurants of the "execution list" and explained that the issue of their status of witnesses under state protection may be solved soon after the New Year holiday.
20:00, 30 December 2009
Ingush student kidnapped from "Novokuznetsk-Kislovodsk" train
On December 29, a resident of Ingushetia, who was on his way home from his student's session in the train "Novokuznetsk-Kislovodsk", was kidnapped by unidentified persons. His sister assumes that power agencies have to do with this kidnapping.
Dagestan, Makhachkala. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
19:00, 30 December 2009
HRC "Memorial": another kidnapping in Dagestan
According to data of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", where statistics is run on kidnappings in Dagestan, in 2009 there were 17 kidnappings in the territory of this republic. Human rights activists note that the figure is far from being final. One of latest incidents recorded by the organization took place at night on December 25 at about half past midnight in the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District.
Azerbaijan, Baku. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
18:00, 30 December 2009
Azerbaijani public treats detection of drug on imprisoned journalist as provocation
Activists of the civil society are indignant with the statement of the spokesman of the Penitentiary Service that as a result of a search heroin was found on Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper, who is serving his prison term.
23:50, 29 December 2009
Kerimli: 2009 was a lost year for Azerbaijan from democracy progress perspective
The year of 2009, same as its predecessors, was lost from the viewpoint of democratization and people's prosperity growth. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Ali Kerimli, leader of the Party of the National Front of Azerbaijan (PNFA), in his comments on 2009 totals.
23:20, 29 December 2009
Trial in Dubai on Sulim Yamadaev's attempt to resume in January
The next session of the court on the case dealing with the attempt on Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev committed in March in Dubai will take place on January 7, 2010. This was stated by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
23:00, 29 December 2009
Court extends custody of Markelov's suspected killer till April 19
The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended by 3.5 months the custody of Nikita Tikhonov, accused of killing advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasia Baburova.
22:10, 29 December 2009
Major Dymovskiy asks prosecutors to postpone interrogation
The former employee of the UVD (Interior Department) of Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy, in whose relation a criminal case was opened, was summoned today for interrogation to the prosecutor's office, but he asked there to postpone the investigatory action.
22:00, 29 December 2009
Pshikhachev: wrong Koran and Islam interpretation exists in Northern Caucasus
As stated by Shafig Pshikhachev, plenipotentiary of the Moslems' Coordination Centre of Northern Caucasus (MCC NC) located in Moscow, Northern Caucasus faces the need to liquidate the illiteracy displayed in perversed understanding of the Koran and principles of Islam. This was announced at the press conference held in Russian capital on the outcomes of the year.
22:00, 29 December 2009
Volgograd Ombudsman helps invalid with his unemployment benefit
A jobless Volgograd invalid of 56 spent half a year to prove his right to his unemployment benefit. Finally he succeeded in the court with legal support of the Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region.
20:00, 29 December 2009
Defendants in 2007 "Neva-Express" train explosion case to have their last plea on January 11
Today, upon the end of judicial pleadings in Novgorod at the trial on the first attack on the "Neva-Express" train in 2007, a break was announced till January 11, 2010, when the defendants will have their last plea.
Armenia, Yerevan. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org
19:00, 29 December 2009
Armenia: parents of March 1, 2008, victims accuse authorities of concealing the truth
In their open letter, parents of the ten persons who fell victim on March 1, 2008, during disorders in Yerevan accuse the country's ruling coalition and the members of the interim parliamentary commission of complicity to the crime and of an attempt to hide the circumstance of the events and blanch over the assassins.
18:00, 29 December 2009
Khadizhat Dobrieva asks human rights defenders to find Aushev's relatives who disappeared in St Petersburg
Ms Dobrieva, a relative of assassinated oppositionist Maksharip Aushev, has addressed human rights activists for help in searching her brothers and nephews, who disappeared in St Petersburg. She has filed respective applications to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran (Ingushetia) and Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr".
23:50, 28 December 2009
Refugees from Georgia and Chechnya tried to leave Poland to stay in Western Europe
Ivona Kalishewska, an employee of the Polish edition "Kaukaz.net", asserts that the recent attempt of refugees from Georgia and Chechnya, accommodated in Polish refugee centres, to cross the German border had nothing to do with their "hard residence conditions" in Poland.
23:30, 28 December 2009
Law enforcers of St Petersburg have no information about disappearance of Maksharip Aushev's relatives
The law enforcement bodies of St Petersburg know nothing about disappearance in their city of relatives of the human rights activist from Ingushetia Maksharip Aushev, who was shot dead in October. The missing persons are Ali Dzhaniev, a brother of Maksharip's widow, and her uncle - Yusup and Yunus Dobriev. The latter was well-known among St Petersburg Moslems for his humanitarian activity.
News
A teenager was sentenced for plotting a terrorist attack in Sunzha.

Thousands of people attended the funeral of a child who drowned in Ingushetia.

A fighter from Ingushetia was killed in the SVO zone.

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.