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15:10, 26 June 2007
South Ossetia: decree of Georgian leader contradicts the Viennese Convention
Several days ago, the Georgian party announced that this April President M. Saakashvili signed a decree on denouncement of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Georgia on cooperation in restoring the economy in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, and in returning refugees home, dated December 23, 2000. South Ossetia and Russia think this decree to be illegitimate.
12:21, 26 June 2007
Brinikh: Sochi National Park is being seized under pretext of Olympiad preparation
Valery Brinikh, head of the Maikop City Public Organization of the All-Russia Wildlife Protection Society and a member of the Board of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus, has expressed this opinion in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
11:33, 26 June 2007
PACE holds up Azerbaijan as a model of tolerance to Jews
Deputy Samed Seidov, head of Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE, declared that today at the debates in PACE's Democratic Group on the topic of anti-Semitism, Azerbaijan was mentioned as a good example of tolerance in relation to Jews.
16:48, 25 June 2007
Public prosecutors searching human rights activists' houses trying to find Ulman
Chechen Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev has stated that the Office of Public Prosecutor is putting pressure on representatives of the victims in Ulman's case thinking that they have kidnapped and are detaining the convicted special fighters announced into search.
14:34, 25 June 2007
Timur Muzaev: fight of Russian nationalists with Caucasian natives in Moscow was a provocation
On June 22 late at night in the vicinity of the Slavyanskaya Square in the centre of Moscow mass collisions burst out between the members of nationalist and fascist groupings and Caucasian natives.
12:26, 25 June 2007
Minasyan: Georgia blocks Armenia's social and economic programs in Dzhavakh
The Armenian population of Samtskhe-Dzhavakhetia is convinced that social and economic problems of the region stem basically from discriminative policy of Georgian authorities.
11:22, 25 June 2007
Greenpeace: preparation for Sochi Olympics threatens the "West Caucasus" reserve
The authorities of Russia are planning, under pretext of getting ready for possible 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, large-scale construction projects in the immediate proximity to the borders of a World Heritage Object - the "West Caucasus" reserve.
00:45, 24 June 2007
Forced migrants evicted from their homes in Chechnya
The administration of the Oktiabrskiy District and power agencies of Chechnya have commenced compulsory eviction of forced migrants out of their homes.
20:05, 22 June 2007
Widows of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria are under pressure
It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that officers of law enforcement bodies are exerting pressure on the widows of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria.
17:45, 21 June 2007
Strasbourg condemns Russia again for murdering and torturing residents of Chechnya
The European Court for Human Rights has found Russia guilty of murders and tortures of Chechen residents. Today in Strasbourg, the RF (Russian Federation) authorities lost the case "Bitieva and Kh. versus Russia." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," whose lawyers represented the applicants' interests at the European Court.
22:34, 20 June 2007
Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship adjudges 120,000 roubles from tax inspectorate
The Arbitration Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region has found unjustified the tax claims to the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship (ORChD) in the sum of 120,000 roubles.
23:01, 19 June 2007
"Caucasian Knot" is laureate of Gerd Bucerius Prize for journalism
The "Caucasian Knot" Internet Edition has become a laureate of the prestigious international journalistic Prize named after Gerd Bucerius.
22:08, 19 June 2007
Relatives of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria intend to complain to the European Court
The advocates of the parents of the militants-casualties of the October 13, 2005, events in Kabardino-Balkaria should present, before July 24, to the European Court for Human Rights their objections to the answers of the Russian Government.
21:09, 18 June 2007
Liquidation of Maiskiy settlement is negatively perceived in Ingushetia
The action of forced resettlement of the residents of the Maiskiy refugees' camp conducted yesterday by employees of power agencies of North Ossetia caused a wide resonance in Ingushetia.
19:06, 12 June 2007
A bill on how to return Meskhetians is ready in Georgia
The Parliament and the Ministry on Refugees' Matters of Georgia have jointly developed a bill aimed to bring the Muslim Meskhetians who were evicted in the 1940s to various Asian countries back home.
14:25, 11 June 2007
"Disagreement March" in Moscow will be guarded by 2000 militiamen
In Moscow, during the today's meeting of the oppositional coalition "The Other Russia" safety will be ensured by more than two thousand militiamen, a spokesman of Moscow's GUVD (Chief Interior Department) has told today.
18:29, 7 June 2007
The right of citizens for judicial defence and its enforcement discussed in Volgograd
The Volgograd human rights NGOs, with support of M. A. Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, held a round table "On Enforcement of Citizens' Right for Judicial Defence in the Volgograd Region."
16:22, 7 June 2007
People in Kabardino-Balkaria condemn cremation of militants' bodies
Yesterday, it became known in Kabardino-Balkaria that the bodies of the militants who perished during the events on October 13-14, 2005, had been cremated right a year ago.
14:02, 7 June 2007
Prosecutor-General's Office has investigated the attack on capital of Kabardino-Balkaria in 2005
The investigation into the criminal case of the militants' attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in October 2005 is over. The fact was declared today to the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia for the South Federal District.
20:54, 6 June 2007
Court in North Ossetia refused to initiate a case against Beslan operative headquarters
The Leninskiy District Court of Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia), having considered today the complaint of the victims who challenged the refusal of the Public Prosecutor's Office to initiate criminal cases against the members of the operative headquarters in charge of rescuing the hostages in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004, has confirmed the legality of the Office's position.
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Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI. Participants in the screening of a film about Yuri Shchekochikhin praised his work as a journalist and politician.

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.