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22:00, 14 January 2009
Case on beating Azerbaijani citizen by militiaman in Nizhni Novgorod sent to court
The criminal case initiated on beating Emil Dadashov, a citizen of Azerbaijan, by a militiaman of Nizhni Novgorod has arrived to the Nizhniy Novgorod District Court.
20:00, 14 January 2009
Human rights activist from Chechnya asks Russian President to get into the case of former militant
Aslambek Apaev, expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, has addressed his open letter to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev. The pretext was in the litigation against Abubakar Mezhiev, a resident of the Chechen Republic.
20:00, 14 January 2009
European Court satisfies claims of three Armenian citizens
Today, on January 14, the European Court on Human Rights has passed a decision to satisfy claims of Zhora Sapeyan, Sarkis Amiryan and Maxim Gasparyan. The Republic of Armenia shall pay three thousand euros to each claimant as compensation.
18:00, 14 January 2009
In Kalmykia, colony inmates complain of beating
The inmates of Corrective Colony OL 27/3 (light-security camp), located in Kalmykia, are beaten by employees of the Republic's Department of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement (the so-called "UFSIN") on a regular basis. This was reported by public figure Valery Badmaev who referenced the prisoners themselves.
21:00, 13 January 2009
"Freedom House": democracy in Armenia is regressing
In the 2009 report "Freedom in the World" of the international human rights organization "Freedom House", published on January 12, Armenia is named a partially free country. The "Freedom House" notes that Armenia exhibits regress in the area of democratic freedoms.
21:00, 13 January 2009
President of Chechnya disbelieves Budanov's repentance
President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that he does not trust in Yuri Budanov's repentance, when making his comments on the decision of the court on conditional early relief (CER) of former colonel convicted for murdering a Chechen girl.
20:00, 13 January 2009
Trial on the claim of Azerbaijani MIA head against human rights activist Yunus postponed
The preparatory session of the Nasiminskiy District Court of Baku on the claim of Ramil Usubov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against human rights activist Leila Yunus, due to take place today, on January 13, was re-appointed on January 23.
19:00, 13 January 2009
Eyewitness doubts that it was gas explosion in Nazran
Vakha Chapanov, editor-in-chief of the IA "Maximum" and an eyewitness of the today's explosion in Nazran of the building of the Department of Court Marshals of Ingushetia, has expressed doubt that utility gas was the reason of the tragedy.
Source: photo of CK correspondent
18:00, 13 January 2009
Charitable Women's Hospital ousted in Dagestan
From the start of this year, the Charitable Women's Hospital, located in Makhachkala at No. 3 Ermoshkina Street, was to abandon all the occupied premises, as prescribed by the decision of the Arbitration Court of Dagestan signed by Judge R. Khanbekov.
23:00, 12 January 2009
Russia's UFSIN: radical Islam grows popular in prisons of Kabardino-Balkaria
Ahmed Abidov, head of the Russian Corrective Administration (the so-called "UFSIN") for Kabardino-Balkaria, said in his speech at the parliamentary session that spread of religious extremism in the region as a whole and in prisons, in particular, is one of the most acute problems.
22:00, 12 January 2009
President of Armenia pardons 9 convicts for disorders in Yerevan
President of Armenia Serzh Sarkisyan has pardoned nine convicts accused of participating in mass disorders in Yerevan on March 1, 2008.
21:00, 12 January 2009
Court takes office away from the Movement "For United Georgia"
Today, the Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the demand of the Prosecutor's Office to transfer the building in Tbilisi housing the head office of the oppositional political movement "For United Georgia" into the state management.
20:00, 12 January 2009
Ilgar Mamedov: suspension of foreign radio stations deprives Azerbaijanis of objective information
Suspension in the new year of broadcasting of western radio stations has actually deprived citizens of Azerbaijan of the last source of objective information. This statement was made by independent political scientist Ilgar Mamedov, co-founder of the public association named "Republican Alternative - REAL".
19:00, 12 January 2009
124 complaints sent to European Court from Rostov Region
The number of complaints sent from the town of Zverevo, Rostov Region, to the European Court on Human Rights, has already reached 124. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the municipal duma of Zverevo.
18:00, 12 January 2009
"Voice of Beslan" to lodge another complaint against Russia to Strasbourg
The All-Russia Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" plans to continue investigating the terror act committed in September 2004. In February, the organization will send another initiative group of 60 persons to Strasbourg to register a new complaint against the state.
22:00, 10 January 2009
Armenian army to be reformed in 2009
This year, the Ministry of Defence of Armenia plans to reform the national army by changing its structure.
20:13, 10 January 2009
Georgia-USA Cooperation Charter causes constrained emotions in Georgian politicians
Most of Georgian political parties has welcomed signing the Georgia-USA Strategic Partnership Charter, however, they have warned the society against increased expectations from the document, and also expressed discontent with the non-transparent procedure of its drafting and adoption.
19:00, 10 January 2009
Armenian opposition complains of inmate beaten in prison
Arman Musinyan, press secretary of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), has declared today that on December 23 ten persons in masks and camouflage came into the cell of inmate Vardges Gaspari, attacked him and started beating him.
18:00, 10 January 2009
Brayza: nobody recognizes Abkhazia and South Ossetia except for Russia, Nicaragua and HAMAS
The USA will always recognize the territorial integrity of Georgia, and there are no chances that the States will ever recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, so far recognized only by Russia, Nicaragua and HAMAS, as Matthew Brayza, the US under secretary of state, has declared today.
17:12, 10 January 2009
In Turkey, Prosecutor's Office starts investigation against those who apologised for genocide of Armenians
The Turkish Public Prosecutor has launched an investigation against a group of Turkish citizens who published in one of Turkish websites a public apology to the Armenian nation for the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
News
Alipat Sultanbegova, an activist. Photo: SOTA https://t.me/sotaproject/54465 Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 20-26, 2023

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 12-18, 2022

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 29-September 4, 2022

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.