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20:25, 22 August 2008
Gergiev: capital of South Ossetia resembles Stalingrad
Conductor Valery Gergiev, head of the Mariinsky Theatre, said on August 21 after the concert-requiem performed by his orchestra in Tskhinvali that now the capital of South Ossetia resembles the post-war Stalingrad by the scale of its ruins.
10:45, 21 August 2008
Russian inspectors see no traces of mockery on bodies of Georgian soldiers
The Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office has stated that all the Georgian militaries perished in South Ossetia from fragmental and bullet wounds. The Chairman of the Committee Boris Salmaksov has asserted that under their information the bodies of Georgian soldiers have no other damages.
10:42, 21 August 2008
Over 500 refugees returned to South Ossetia during the last day
According to the Ministry for Emergencies, more than 500 refugees, 150 children among them, have returned to South Ossetia during the last 24 hours from the temporary accommodation centres located in the south of Russia.
10:37, 21 August 2008
HRW calls Russia to clear Georgia of unexploded bombs
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called Russia to urgently clear the Georgian territory of unexploded bombs, which are a threat to the peaceful population.
10:32, 21 August 2008
Human rights activists stand for international tribunal to consider crimes committed during North-Caucasian conflicts
Members of some Chechen, Ingush and Russian human rights organizations have addressed Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin in the context of his comments on the events in South Ossetia, inviting him to recollect the recent events in Chechnya.
10:29, 21 August 2008
Abkhazia and South Ossetia ask Russia to recognize their independence
Abkhazia has sent an application of the republic's president and parliament to Russia asking to recognize its independence, President Sergey Bagapsh has announced. Leader of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has also prepared an appeal to President of Russia with a request to recognize the independence of his republic.
10:25, 21 August 2008
Russia hands 63 peaceful residents of South Ossetia over to Georgia
Today, as a result of negotiations between Georgian officials and Russian militaries, 63 peaceful residents of Georgian villages of South Ossetia have been released.
10:22, 21 August 2008
Danielyan: beatings of journalists evidence that Armenian authorities disregard the PACE resolution
Beating of Grach Melkumyan, acting head of the Yerevan office of Radio Liberty, same as beating of Lusine Barsegyan, journalist of the "Aikakan Zhamanak" newspaper, demonstrate that nothing changes in Armenia, and the authorities pay no attention to the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
10:19, 21 August 2008
UN Security Council fails to adopt resolution on Georgia
Again, the Security Council of the United Nations could not adopt the resolution on Georgia. This time, a number of Council members refused to support the draft resolution on situation in Georgia, which was brought to consideration by the Russian delegation.
10:08, 21 August 2008
Georgia and South Ossetia accuse each other of ethnic cleanings
After Russia had launched its armed operation in the context of the intervention of Georgian troops into Tskhinvali, residents of the villages controlled by Georgia started to report about facts of revenge by residents of South Ossetia, complaining about nationality-motivated murders of Georgians. Observers remark that the victims of this short but severe war from both parties had lived through ethnically motivated sufferings.
12:49, 20 August 2008
Committee to Protect Journalists demands from Georgia to unblock Russian-language TV Channels
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asks the government of Georgia to unblock the broadcasting of Russian TV Channels and web-sites in the territory of Georgia.
12:46, 20 August 2008
Azerbaijani Appeal Court considers the case about attack on journalist Halil
Today, the Baku Appeal Court in Azerbaijan, presided by Gail Mamedov, held a preparatory session on the case about Sergey Strekalin's attack on Agil Halil, journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper, committed on March 13 this year.
12:43, 20 August 2008
Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria asks to return property of her husband killed in special operation
Elena Tengizova, a resident of Nalchik, has addressed the Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov with a request to return the car and other property confiscated during a search conducted after death of her husband Anzor Tengizov who was killed in a special operation.
12:14, 20 August 2008
Khatazhukov: world community must recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
The war in South Ossetia has shown that Russia lacks forces to ensure safety of the peaceful population, therefore, the world community must recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, asserts Valery Khatazhukov, chairman of the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria.
12:10, 20 August 2008
Authorities of South Ossetia report about 1492 casualties of Georgia's attack
According to updated information of South-Ossetian authorities, the attack of Georgia took away lives of 1492 residents of South Ossetia.
12:06, 20 August 2008
Investigatory Committee counts 133 lost peaceful residents of South Ossetia
133 persons from among civilian population of South Ossetia have been recognized as casualties of the Georgian aggression. Apart from these 133 victims many burial places have not been studied yet.
11:58, 20 August 2008
Student kidnapped in the capital of Chechnya
In the evening on August 18, Tamerlan Nasipov, 19, a fifth year student of the State Grozny Oil Institute (SGOI), was kidnapped by a group of armed persons in masks from his house in the Leninskiy District of the city of Grozny.
11:56, 20 August 2008
In Armenia, head of local Radio Liberty service beaten
On August 19, Grach Melkumyan, head of the Radio Liberty service in Armenia, was beaten in the centre of Yerevan. People at the Radio office convinced that the attack is directly related to the journalist's professional activities.
11:52, 20 August 2008
Georgia: local residents return to Gori
Indications have appeared evidencing the beginning of withdrawal of Russian troops from Gori. Thus, last night Russian forces closed two checkpoints in the city, as the correspondent of the Tbilisi bureau of Radio Liberty reports.
11:40, 19 August 2008
President of Czechia finds Georgia responsible for conflict in Caucasus
The aggravation of situation around South Ossetia has taken place for the guilt of Georgian politicians, said President of Czechia Vaclav Klaus in his interview published on August 18 in the Prague-based newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".
News
Nurlan Gahramanly. Photo from the Meydan TV website https://www.meydan.tv/ru/article/po-delu-mejdan-tv-zaderzhan-zhurnalist-nurlan-libre/ The deteriorating condition of a journalist on hunger strike in Baku has alarmed his relatives.

More than 130 Russian citizens were evacuated from Iran to Azerbaijan in one day.

A witness in the Anar Mammadli case did not confirm the investigation's version of events.

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.