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13:02, 21 November 2008
Trial on Nalchik attack: candidates for jurymen polled
Today, in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the proceedings on events of October 13, 2005, the prosecution asked questions to candidates for jurymen. A break was made in the trial till November 28, when the defence and prosecution should present their motivated challenges.
14:06, 20 November 2008
Kramer: USA wait for Azerbaijan to pardon convicted journalists
The States as a whole are satisfied with the progress in their relations with Azerbaijan, but Washington has some questions which are causing concern. Among them is the situation with the freedom of speech. This was discussed yesterday, on November 19, at the press conference in Baku, which was given by David Kramer, under Secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labour.
14:02, 20 November 2008
Rostov Military Court denies complaint of soldier's father against decision of NCMD Prosecutor
The Rostov Garrison Military Court has rejected the complaint of Valery Markaryan, father of a mandatory service soldier, against the decision of the Military Public Prosecutor of the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD), who had reversed the inspector's decision to initiate a criminal case against officer Alexei Gvozdkov. The latter, according to Markaryan, incited him to bribery for making the verdict to his son more lenient.
13:59, 20 November 2008
Armenia: Smbat Aivazyan, ex-minister of state revenues, sentenced to two years
On Wednesday, November 19, the general court of Yerevan communities Kentron and Noek-Marash convicted Smbat Aivazyan, a member of the Board of the "Republic" opposition party and former minister of state revenues, to two years of imprisonment and fined him by 300,000 drams (about 1000 US dollars).
13:57, 20 November 2008
Trial on Anna Politkovskaya's murder case interrupted till early December
The Moscow Regional Military Court has announced a break in considering the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", till December 1.
13:53, 20 November 2008
On March 1, snipers were at work in Yerevan, opposition says
During the press conference on November 20, Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of the centre of the Armenian National Congress, promulgated an audio record of the interview of Samvel Nikoyan, chairman of the ad hoc parliamentary commission to a foreign journalist, where he said that during the events on March 1 snipers were used in the capital of Armenia.
13:48, 20 November 2008
Trial on attack on Nalchik continues choosing jurymen
Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued selecting reserve jurymen for the case on the attack of militants on Nalchik in October 2005.
13:46, 20 November 2008
Doctor convicted in Sofia Kulivets' case commits suicide in Krasnodar SIZO
Today at night, at the investigatory detention facility (SIZO) of Krasnodar, doctor Vladimir Pelipenko, sentenced to eleven months of imprisonment in the case of newborn Sofia Kulivets, whose arm was amputated, has committed suicide.
13:41, 20 November 2008
Dagestan: independent journalist beaten
Today, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in the editorial office of the popular independent weekly "Novoe Delo" (Res Nova), an attempt was made on Gadzhimurat Sagitov, deputy editor-in-chief for development and organizational work.
13:36, 19 November 2008
Student from North Ossetia killed in mass fight in Moscow
On November 17, during a fight in a Moscow-based higher school between natives of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, a student from North Ossetia was killed. The capital's militia marks a sharp growth in the number of interethnic conflicts among students.
13:33, 19 November 2008
Aseev: human rights activists concerned of "spy scare" in South Ossetia
More and more persons in South Ossetia have been recently accused of treason. However, according to Vissarion Aseev, a public figure and human rights activist from North Ossetia, none of these cases has been brought to the court.
13:28, 19 November 2008
Anna Politkovskaya's case will be considered behind closed doors
The process on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the closed regime. The court had to make this decision after the jurymen refused to appear in the courtroom in the presence of the press, although no threats against them ever arrived.
13:26, 19 November 2008
Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan analyses how law enforcers' combat kidnappings
The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has analysed the results of the work of the law enforcement bodies of the Republic after 10 months of 2008 in fighting against kidnappings. Under the Office's information, in 2008, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic received 158 messages on kidnappings, of them the majority - 106 applications related to kidnapping of girls with the aim of forced marriage.
13:21, 19 November 2008
Public figures join hunger strike of political prisoners in Armenia
Eight members of the "Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners" have stated that they join the protest action of 28 political prisoners who had announced a one-day hunger strike as a protest action against the "hypocritical and inconsistent policy of the Council of Europe."
13:17, 19 November 2008
HRC "Memorial" to hold press conference "Safety and Human Rights in Dagestan"
On November 24, at 12:15 a.m., the Independent Press Centre will host a press conference of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial": "Safety and Human Rights in Dagestan".
13:16, 19 November 2008
"Mothers of Dagestan" deny contacts with militants
Today, the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Department for Dagestan continued interrogating Gyulnara Rustamova, one of the leaders of the human rights public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights". This was announced by Svetlana Isaeva, chairperson of the organization.
13:13, 19 November 2008
Sochi: judge in "black realtors" case is against public in courtroom
In Sochi, jurymen are hearing the case of the so-called "black realtors". Seven persons are in the prisoners' dock, including three militiamen and a notary. The information that arrived from the Centre for Defence of Citizens' Constitutional Rights and Freedoms to the "Caucasian Knot" runs that although the court sitting passes in the open regime, judge Klimov is by all ways preventing the public from being present in the courtroom.
12:58, 18 November 2008
Amnesty International: 24,000 Georgians cannot return to South Ossetia
About 24 thousand Georgians who earlier lived in South Ossetia and pre-border territories and who had been forced out of their houses as a result of the recent warfare, cannot return to their residences.
12:53, 18 November 2008
Death of recruit investigated in Stavropol Territory
The Military Investigatory Department for the Circassian Garrison has initiated a criminal case on the fact of the death of Anton Shalamov, a soldier at mandatory service in the military unit of the city of Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol Territory), who was recruited from the Saratov Region.
12:49, 18 November 2008
Board of jurymen on Anna Politkovskaya's murder case formed
Today, the Moscow Regional Military Court has formed the board of jurymen on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya; the consideration of the case began on November 17. In total, 12 main and 8 reserve jurymen have been chosen.
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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.