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14:00, 4 April 2009
Local resident kidnapped in Ingushetia
In the city of Malgobek (Ingushetia), a local resident Gapur Tankiev was kidnapped. Now, militiamen check the information, and victim's relatives are going to hold a rally.
13:00, 4 April 2009
Abkhazian athletes rejected visas by Spanish embassy in Moscow
Rafael Ampar, Chairman of the State Committee for Youth and Sports of Abkhazia, told journalists that the embassy of Spain in Moscow has refused to grant visas to Abkhazian mini-footballers who planned to debut in the annual Futzal Cup of Europe - Cup of Nations.
12:00, 4 April 2009
Brayza: new Azerbaijan-Armenia summit prepared
Another meeting of Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliev and Serzh Sargsyan will most probably take place on May 7-8 within the European Union summit under the Programme "Eastern Partnership" in Prague. This was stated on April 3 in Baku by Matthew Brayza, co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group from the American party and US Undersecretary of State.
11:00, 4 April 2009
Stavropol to host congress of Orthodox women of Russia's South
A congress of Orthodox women of the South of Russia will take place in Stavropol on May 12 under the motto "Mother's care of the youth" and rally together Orthodox women-believers of Northern Caucasus, Don and lower Volga regions.
10:00, 4 April 2009
Kapan Combine to resume its work in Armenia
One of the largest enterprises of Armenia - the Kapan Mining and Dressing Combine, which was stopped in mid-February, will gain its full capacity by the end of April.
08:12, 4 April 2009
Armenian authorities don't say open Armenian-Turkish border is impossible
Tigran Balayan, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, has not denied the information of the American edition The Wall Street Journal about possible forthcoming signing of the agreement to open the Armenian-Turkish border.
05:00, 4 April 2009
CEC of South Ossetia waits for candidates for parliament to be active
So far, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of South Ossetia has not received a single application for participation in elections to the regional parliament of the fifth convocation appointed on May 31. The deadline for submitting applications from candidates expires in 10 days.
Collective namaz. Source: www.assalam.ru
23:30, 3 April 2009
In Buinaksk, Dagestan, Salafites failed with their Friday namaz
The residents of the city of Buinaksk in Dagestan who profess Salafism (orthodox Islam trend) report that today they were not allowed to hold their Friday collective namaz. According to their story, the mosque where they planned to do it was closed, and the territory was cordoned by local militiamen.
23:00, 3 April 2009
Medvedev: CTO regime in Chechnya can be soon lifted
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said on April 2 when speaking at the London School of Economy that the CTO regime in Chechnya can be soon curtailed, although its separate elements will remain.
22:50, 3 April 2009
ICPO inspector's house shelled from grenade launcher in Ingushetia
In Troitskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons have attacked from a grenade launcher and firearms the house belonging to the inspector of the Investigatory Division of the ICPO for Sunzha District of the Russian Federation. This news has come from the ICPO itself.
22:00, 3 April 2009
CPJ: attempt to intimidate "Novaya Gazeta" should be investigated
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called Russian authorities to investigate the attempt to intimidate employees of the independent edition "Novaya Gazeta".
Minefield, Chechnya. Source: http://an222.photosight.ru
21:30, 3 April 2009
MoE sappers to demine arable lands in Chechnya
In the near future, a united detachment of the Ministry of Emergencies (MoE) of Russia will come to demine agricultural lands in Chechnya. Earlier, sappers of the Ministry already worked in the Chechen Republic for a month in 2007 and managed to clean over 60 hectares of territory from land mines, shells and other ordnances.
21:00, 3 April 2009
Abkhazia refutes any role of Russian militaries in murdering Gali District resident
Today in the morning, in the suburb of Nabakevi village, Gali District of Abkhazia, local residents found a man's body with gunshot wounds. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali ROVD.
20:00, 3 April 2009
Former defendant in Politkovskaya's murder case arrested again
Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, who was earlier acquitted on the murder case Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta".
19:00, 3 April 2009
Human rights activists to discuss violations of Gipsies' rights in Russia
On April 8 - the International Gipsies Day - at 11:00 a.m., the Sakharov Public Centre (57-6 Zemlyanoy Val) in St-Petersburg will host a press conference on the problem of human rights reaction to violations of the rights of Gipsies-residents of the Russian Federation.
The Dubai Marina, a residential district, is the world's second largest man-made marina. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org
18:00, 3 April 2009
Sulim Yamadaev's relatives say he is alive, Dubai police reports his death
Relatives of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion, who was attacked in Dubai on March 28, continue insisting that he is alive. The photo of his tomb that allegedly appeared in the Internet, in their opinion, means nothing. Meanwhile, Dakhi Khalfan Tamim, head of Dubai police, has once again confirmed that Yamadaev is dead.
23:30, 2 April 2009
Sarkis Atspanyan: I tried to warn President of Armenia about possible attempt
At the judicial session on April 1, activist of the opposition Sarkis Atspanyan, citizen of France and supporter of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, accused of a false denunciation with the aim to discredit a person, stated that he had tried to warn President of Armenia about a possible attempt and that it was for benefit of Robert Kocharyan and Armenian National Front "Dashnaktsutyun" (ANFD).
23:10, 2 April 2009
Sulim Yamadaev: "Caucasus is Russia's vulnerable place"
During the last year, Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), often criticized the incumbent Chechen authorities.
22:30, 2 April 2009
USA and Norway anxious about Azerbaijan's lifting restriction of term of presidency
The embassy of Norway in Baku has made a statement on the outcomes of the March 18 referendum on amending the Constitution of Azerbaijan, which remarks that lifting the restriction on the term for one person to be President is s step away from democracy. The US embassy has noted, in its turn, that the democracy in Azerbaijan has not rooted in yet.
22:00, 2 April 2009
Sulim Yamadaev's relatives insist that some other man was murdered in Dubai
Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev continue to deny the information about his death and insist that not the ex-commander of the "Vostok" special GRU battalion but some other man was assassinated in Dubai. However, they give no answer to the question why, if Sulim Yamadaev is alive, his brother or wife who are there with him cannot make a photo or a video of the wounded man to refute the rumours about his death.
News
Restrictions have been introduced at the Elbrus resort due to fog.

Rovshan Jabbarov. Photo: Meydan TV https://www.meydan.tv/ Azerbaijani activist Jabbarov was subjected to violence after protests in a prison colony.

Access to a Dagestani village is closed after a rockfall.

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.