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People came to support the Jehovah's Witnesses* from Elista. June 5, 2024. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
23:48, 5 June 2024
About 30 people from different regions have come to the debate session on the case of three Jehovah's Witnesses* from Elista, accused of extremist activities.
A gavel. Photo: Fyodor Obmaykin / Yugopolis
22:35, 5 June 2024
The inquiry into the case of Kadi Gadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, whom investigators treat as a cell member of the extremist organization "Union of Rus' Slavic Forces"*, is over.
Sergey Sopnev. Screenshot of a video by the "Caucasian Knot" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Q5tHtPcGQ
19:24, 5 June 2024
A court concluded that an investigation into the case on a car hitting Sergey Sopnev, a resident of the Predgorny District, who as a result got his leg amputated and became disabled, was conducted ineffectively and led to a violation of the victim’s rights.
Pavel Prokudin, screenshot of a video by the MIA for the Volgograd Region press service
18:51, 5 June 2024
The court has fined Pavel Prokudin, a Volgograd blogger, by 60,000 roubles under administrative charges of discrediting the Russian Army and petty hooliganism.
16:20, 5 June 2024
In Sochi, a court imposed a fine on pensioner Elena Yanmurzina in a criminal case for attempting to spoil ballots at a polling station.
Alina Alekseitseva. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". Screenshot of the video posted on May 4, 2024, on the Telegram channel of the human rights project "Caucasus without Mother"
23:52, 4 June 2024
Alina Alekseitseva, the wife of a Chechen resident, has complained to human rights defenders that he was beating her and their children. Earlier, the man's other wife, Maria Smelaya, made similar complaints.
Rinat Kiramov. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". Photo: https://memopzk.org/figurant/kiramov-rinat-ildusovich/ included into the register of foreign agents
21:57, 4 June 2024
Rinat Kiramov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk, who is serving his sentence for extremism, has complained that his cellmates had tortured him for several days, demanding that he slander other believers.
21:09, 4 June 2024
Employees of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) have detained Alexei Gaun, a Volgograd resident, for unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, when he tried to undergo a medical examination after being seriously wounded in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.
A pre-trial prison. Photo: https://f-atlas.ru/catalog/object/sizo3novorossiysk/
18:52, 4 June 2024
The consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Yuri Mikhailov, who was HIV infected while being kept at the Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, was again postponed due to the fact that SIZO bosses failed to provide the documents requested by the court.
18:09, 4 June 2024
The pensioner is accused under the criminal article on discrediting Russian militaries.
23:49, 3 June 2024
An author of the study “Forcibly Married” indicated that when she and her colleagues were preparing the study they had to operate only with the information on early marriages released by the “Rosstat” (Federal State Statistics Service), although in many cases, only a religious marriage is being concluded.
Soldiers, photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
22:44, 3 June 2024
Alexei Motorny from the Rostov Region was detained and forcibly sent to the special military operation zone, despite a heart attack he suffered, claimed his spouse Svetlana. The woman is seeking her husband’s return home.
Marina Melikhova. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfX7E6Lt4Zo
21:47, 3 June 2024
Activist Marina Melikhova, who was sentenced for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, was released from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on June 1, the “OVD-Info”* reports.
Themis statue. Photo: Maxim Tishin / Yugopolis
18:08, 3 June 2024
Even if the court rules to leave a child with the mother, fathers from North-Caucasian regions often kidnap their children and take them to their homeland, from where it is then difficult to return them, human rights defenders have in their comments on the story of Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident.
17:55, 3 June 2024
A court in Volgograd has fined Stanislav Terentiev, a former editor-in-chief of the "Kolokol" (Bell) newspaper, finding him guilty of publicly displaying Nazi symbols. Stanislav refused to plead guilty and appealed against the court ruling.
The Code of Administrative Offences of Russia. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
23:38, 2 June 2024
A court in Kizlyar (a city in Dagestan) has fined Saadula Zakaryaev, a local resident, for violating the rules of organizing a rally after he had posted an invitation in a social network for his subscribers to take part in filming a video about cars.
21:38, 2 June 2024
The expertise, on the basis of which the court found Salikh Osmanov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of attempted sabotage, was conducted with gross violations, the complaint lodged against Osmanov's verdict asserts. He has accused law enforcers of fabricating the case against him.
Marina Melikhova. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfX7E6Lt4Zo
18:51, 2 June 2024
Marina Melikhova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), remains at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although her prison term has expired, her advocate has stated demanding from the SIZO to release Marina.
23:55, 1 June 2024
Oksana Voronina from Tikhoretsk and Yulia Vaganova from Sochi have been fined for their comments in social networks, which were treated by the court as discrediting the Russian Army. Yuri Boretsky, a Sochi resident, was ordered to pay a fine for his statements made during a conversation with his colleagues.
Girls in wedding dresses. Photo https://mtdata.ru/u20/photo02AB/20433138874-0/original.jpg
23:53, 1 June 2024
The problem of early and forced marriages in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is still there, although there are no reliable statistics on this issue. The problem is rarely brought into the public sphere amid girls' confidence in their own defencelessness, absence of working laws and gender discrimination characteristic of the patriarchal structure inherent in these republics.
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.