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15:00, 24 January 2009
16 persons convicted for March riots in Erevan pardoned in Armenia
Serzh Sargsian, president of Armenia, has pardoned 16 prisoners convicted for taking part in mass riots in Erevan on March 1, 2008.
12:00, 24 January 2009
Youth parliament to be formed in Ingushetia
Yunus-bek Evkurov, president of Ingushetia, has announced that a youth parliament is to be formed soon in Ingushetia.
11:00, 24 January 2009
Chechen parliament intends to raise compensation amounts for repression victims
Members of the Chechen parliament intend to request from the federal center that the monetary compensation to the republic's residents who are victims of political repressions should be considerably increased.
09:00, 24 January 2009
More than 2 000 people dismissed in Azerbaijan due to crisis
The world economic crisis has affected the labor market in Azerbaijan and resulted in the dismissal of more than 2 thousand people. This has been announced by Fizuli Alekperov, Azeri minister of labor and social protection.
08:00, 24 January 2009
Storm left western Georgia without illumination
The toughest storm during the last 10 years in western Georgia brought down hundreds of trees, damaged the roofs of hundreds of houses and buildings and broke power transmission lines. More than 200,000 residents were left without illumination. According to preliminary information, two fishermen are missing in the town of Poti.
07:00, 24 January 2009
Swimming race in ice-cold water held in Volgograd
The II international Russian championship in 71 km marathon swimming race in ice-cold water is to open today in Volgograd. It will last for two days. It is expected that more than 100 best marathon swimmers from Russia, CIS and other foreign countries will take part in it.
18:00, 23 January 2009
Olga Trusevich claims Markelov accepted cases other lawyers refused to undertake
Stanislav Markelov accepted politically motivated cases which other lawyers refused to undertake because they were afraid to be knocked out of the system. This was stated today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during the funeral of Markelov at Moscow Ostankino cemetery by Olga Trusevich, member of "Memorial" human rights center.
00:00, 23 January 2009
European Court on Human Rights considers three complaints of Chechen residents
On January 22, the European Court on Human Rights considered three more complaints of Chechen residents which relate to the disappearance of five young people and execution of one man during the period from October 2002 to April 2004.
00:00, 23 January 2009
Musayev claims that defendants' complaint was sent to the officer investigating case of Politkovskaya murder
The complaint about torture and beatings of Ibraghim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs, defendants accused of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, was considered by investigating officer Petros Garibian who was investigating the case itself. Garibian found no facts of violence or humiliation with regard to Makhmudovs.
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00:00, 23 January 2009
Mitrokhin claims difficulty of appealing against the court ruling on the murder of Babaev in Dagestan due to threats to witness
Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the party " Yabloko", claims that not all persons guilty of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of Dagestan " Yabloko", have been brought to justice. However, it is difficult to appeal against the court ruling because the key witness for the prosecution was threatened in the court room.
00:00, 23 January 2009
Hearing of the case of Leila Yunus in Azerbaijan postponed till January 26
Today, the Nasimin district court of Baku, chaired by Shakhin Abdyllaev, started a preliminary hearing on the suit by Ramil Usubov, head of Azeri MoI, against Leila Yunus, director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy.
00:00, 23 January 2009
Apaev claims corruption has permeated all spheres of life in Chechnya
The scale of corruption in the Chechen Republic is so serious that it will require drastic measures and serious efforts from the authorities, states Aslambek Apaev, expert of Moscow Helsinki Group on North Caucasus. Some local residents agree with him.
23:00, 22 January 2009
Court refuses to take Makhmudov brothers out to the place of Politkovskaya's murder
On Wednesday, the Moscow Regional Military Court rejected the petition of the defendants in the case - brothers Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - to take them out to the scene of the crime.
22:00, 22 January 2009
Advocate Musaev presents new proofs in support of innocence of persons suspected of murdering Politkovskaya
The interrogation of the defendants in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case - Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - is over. Both brothers refuse to admit their guilt and cannot recollect what they were doing on the murder day. Advocate Murad Musaev tried to prove insufficiency of one of important evidences of the guilt of his clients - the detailed printout of Makhmudovs' telephone conversations on the day of murder. Mr Musaev told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
21:00, 22 January 2009
Activist of "Mothers of Dagestan" challenges detention of her sister Dinara Butdaeva
On January 22, Gyulnara Rustamova, an active member of the human rights NGO "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she had lodged a complaint to the Kizil-Yurt Court against illegal actions of local guards of public order towards her sister Dinara Butdaeva, who was detained, as reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, on January 11 by militiamen from the Kizil-Yurt OVD (Interior Department).
19:00, 22 January 2009
Guys with cudgels attack the march in memory of Markelov and Baburova
An unauthorized march of anarchists in Novosibirsk in memory of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasiya Baburova assassinated in Moscow ended in a fight.
19:00, 22 January 2009
Supreme Court of Dagestan sentences Farid Babaev's killer to 16 years of imprisonment
Today Ibram Garunov, Judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, has announced his verdict to Rasil Mamedrizaev, a resident of Miskindzha village, Dokuzparin District of Dagestan, suspected of murdering Farid Babaev. The court has supported the prosecution and appointed a punishment in the form of 16 years of tight security colony.
17:00, 22 January 2009
ATC's accident in Ingushetia: eyewitness' comment
A driver who happened to be an eyewitness of the collision of an armoured troop-carrier (ATC) with two VAZ passenger cars in Ingushetia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by telephone that a slippery road and inaccurate ATC's driving were the causes of the accident.
22:00, 21 January 2009
Azerbaijani police detain protesters against ban on foreign radio stations
Today in Baku, the police have detained a group of activists from the youth organization of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, who tried to hold an unauthorized protest action in front of the office of the National Television and Radio Board (NTRB) of Azerbaijan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that the action was held in protest against suspension from January 1, 2009, of broadcasting in local frequencies of radio stations Liberty, Voice of America and BBC.
19:00, 21 January 2009
Dagestan: public prosecutor asks 16 years of tight security for Babaev's killer
In Dagestan, the public prosecutor demanded 16 years of imprisonment in a tight security colony for Rasil Mamedrizaev, who was found guilty yesterday, on January 20, by jurymen of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party.
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A fighter from Stavropol was killed in a military operation.

An anti-corruption lawsuit against Ruslan Tsalikov has been filed in court.

A fighter from Stavropol Krai was killed in Ukraine.

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.