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10:49, 11 August 2008
Volgograd gathers humanitarian help for South Ossetian refugees
On August 10, all the districts of Volgograd opened points for gathering humanitarian help intended for peaceful residents of South Ossetia. Already in the next few days, Volgograd plans to send medicines for the victims in the South-Ossetian conflict zone.
20:35, 10 August 2008
Casualty count of war in South Ossetia goes up
So far, neither of the parties of the conflict that has burst out in South Ossetia has failed to present complete data on their casualties in the tragic events, however, the count of warfare victims from the first days of fights in the region is in thousands.
23:51, 9 August 2008
Georgian tanks and infantry invade Tskhinvali
The infantry of Georgia has entered the capital of South Ossetia, and several Georgian tanks have broken through the defence line and also entered Tskhinvali. South Ossetian fighters show resistance to the invasion. The city is shelled.
21:45, 9 August 2008
Russia to allot 10 billion roubles for restoring houses in South Ossetia
Tonight, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has arrived to Vladikavkaz and met leaders of North Ossetia to discuss the matters of rendering assistance to South Ossetia in the context of the events in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. Mr Putin has ordered to allot 10 billion roubles for restoration of dwelling houses in South Ossetia.
18:41, 9 August 2008
Abkhazia starts forcing Georgian troops out of Kodori Gorge
President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has made a decision to start driving Georgian armed forces out of the upper section of the Kodori Gorge. Christian Bzhaniya, President's official spokesman for media, has announced this at a briefing.
17:35, 9 August 2008
Residents of North Ossetia collect things for South Ossetian refugees
Today, the Ministry for Matters of Youth, Physical Culture and Sports of North Ossetia has started to collect things for refugees from South Ossetia. People are mostly bringing children's clothes.
16:29, 9 August 2008
Georgian capital accepts refugees from South Ossetia
Today, refugees from South Ossetia have started to arrive to Tbilisi. The capital's Mayoralty asserts that they can accommodate all of them.
13:18, 9 August 2008
Tskhinvali residents have no potable water, electricity and gas
Because of huge destructions, Tskhinvali now experiences sharp shortage of potable water and absence of gas and electricity. Periodic bombardments of Tskhinvali prevent to organize evacuation of wounded persons, women and children, and to count total victims of combat clashes in the city.
12:02, 9 August 2008
Shamba: international mediators lull vigilance of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Making his comments on the outcomes of the extraordinary UN Security Council sitting held in New York on the situation in South Ossetia, Sergey Shamba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, has stated that international intermediaries, who had been assuring that Georgia would not apply force, lulled the vigilance both of Ossetians and Abkhazians.
10:52, 9 August 2008
Hackers attack Georgian and Ossetian websites
A great number of websites run by Georgian and Ossetian information agencies have suffered from hackers' attacks within the latest 24 hours. In the evening on August 8, the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia was also cracked.
22:52, 8 August 2008
Kokoity: over 1400 persons fell victims of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia
Tonight, President of the non-recognized republic Eduard Kokoity has reported that over 1400 persons were victims of Georgian troops' attack on South Ossetia.
21:48, 8 August 2008
Saakashvili: Georgian troops keep whole South Ossetia under control
As of 9:00 p.m., the governmental troops of Georgia had complete control over the territory of South Ossetia and all the settlements, except for the high-mountainous Dzhava village, as President Mikhail Saakashvili announced tonight in his TV address to the nation.
17:40, 8 August 2008
"Memorial" calls on to stop war in South Ossetia
Being an OSCE member, Georgia shall settle conflicts peacefully, and recovery of its territorial integrity cannot be a pretext for repudiating these obligations, therefore, combat operations in South Ossetia should be immediately stopped, runs a special statement of the International Society "Memorial" issued in the context of recently aggravated situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.
17:03, 8 August 2008
Over thousand Dagestan volunteers ready to go to South Ossetia
Today in Dagestan, the city of Khasavyurt has hosted a mass rally in support of South Ossetia. Volunteers are being signed up, and residents are gathering humanitarian assistance for the Ossetian people.
16:58, 8 August 2008
Abkhazia holds spontaneous rally on warfare in South Ossetia
A spontaneous rally organized by the Movement named "Abkhazian Mothers for Peace and Social Justice" against the new war triggered in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone took place in Sukhum.
16:35, 8 August 2008
Events in South Ossetia remind Chechnya residents of their recent past
The start of broad-scale warfare between Georgia and South Ossetia has reminded Chechen residents of the tragedy in the mid and late 1990s came to Chechnya. In the opinion of many people, no country leaders' intentions and plans are worth a single human life.
15:11, 8 August 2008
Several villages in South Ossetia wiped out
Today in the morning, while leaving South Ossetia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was a witness of an attack of a SU-25 strike fighter, which shelled a Russian tank column in the area of Dzhava village. One armoured troop-carrier was damaged. The aircrafts also tried to blow up the bridge in the area of Gufta village; however they missed the target and struck apartment houses.
14:28, 8 August 2008
"Chernovik" newspaper office searched in Dagestan
Today, representatives of law-enforcement agencies blocked the office of the Dagestan weekly "Chernovik" (Blueprint) and started a careful search thereof.
23:24, 7 August 2008
South Ossetia announces war with Georgia
The South Ossetia authorities report that Georgia has started war against South Ossetia. The Georgian government claims that it was forced to cancel the previous unilateral moratorium on fire actions and to open response fire due to incessant shelling of Georgian villages by South Ossetia units.
18:22, 7 August 2008
Sappers in Chechnya cut off gas supply from the village of Bamut
Soldiers of Federal armed forces have exploded a landmine they found in the village of Bamut, Achkhoy-Martan district, Chechnya. The explosion has resulted in damaging the gas pipeline.
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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.