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The Code of Administrative offences. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
19:06, 27 October 2022
The court has decided that reposting in social network of the video of the destruction and explosions caused by missile strikes is discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Memorial board with the names of the Dubrovka terror act victims. Photo by Alexander Stepanov for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:51, 27 October 2022
Over the past 20 years, the former hostages and relatives of those who perished in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre still have no information about the course of the inquiry and results thereof; therefore, there is no hope for the completeness and objectivity of the inquiry, participants in the commemorative event in Moscow have stated.
A square in Makhachkala. Photo: Alla Kyadryavtseva http://wikimapia.org
18:41, 27 October 2022
Both pro-governmental non-commercial organizations (NCOs) and the oppositional ones have opposed the amendments to the Constitution of Dagestan, journalists have pointed out. In their opinion, the protest against the amendments has united diverse forces in the republic.
The Southern District Military Court. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the "Caucasian Knot"
06:01, 27 October 2022
The Southern District Military Court sentenced Isa Ersimikov to six years of imprisonment for an attempt to provide a mobile phone to members of an illegal armed formation.
The mobilized. Photo by Leonid Efremov https://www.e1.ru/text/world/2022/10/26/71766635/
15:37, 26 October 2022
Two villagers, mobilized in Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory) and sent to a military unit in the Stavropol Territory, have refused to take part in the special military operation (SMO) because of their religious beliefs; and investigators are looking for a criminal offense in this refusal, Pavel Chikov, a human rights defender, has informed.
Vladimir Vladimirov at the meeting with the conscripts. Screenshot of the video posted on the Telegram channel of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory https://t.me/VVV5807/791
15:33, 26 October 2022
Relatives of those mobilized have to buy equipment and medicines for the conscripts, Telegram users have complained in their comments to the report of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory on re-equipping the fighters of one of the battalions.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by Ramzan Musaev / Grozny Inform news agency
15:28, 26 October 2022
Muslims are "needed by the state and the president" and should not look for excuses from participating in hostilities, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. He has announced a jihad against the "Satanist democracy", promising "not to defend, but only to attack."
A report showing Kadyrov's underage sons taking part in the hostilities. Screenshot of the video www.grozny-inform.ru
15:23, 26 October 2022
The videos about the participation of Ramzan Kadyrov's children in hostilities in Ukraine is intended to touch upon primitive ideas about justice and masculinity, since Kadyrov's model of power, like the Stalin's one, rests on an attempt to rally people around some idea, Dmitry Oreshkin has pointed out.
Screenshot of a video of beating up the mobilization opponent in Makhachkala https://t.me/thelawyersays/124
15:15, 26 October 2022
There are no violations of the service discipline in actions of the law enforcers, who hit the immobilized anti-mobilization protester in Makhachkala. It follows from the answer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to Arsen Magomedov, a lawyer.
Ismail Isaev (on the left) and Salekh Magamadov. Screenshot https://ren.tv/news/v-rossii/800000-v-groznom-zaderzhali-dvoikh-predpolagaemykh-posobnikov-bandy-biutukaeva
23:57, 25 October 2022
In Pyatigorsk, a court has upheld the verdict to Ismail Isaev and Salekh Magamadov brothers, convicted in Chechnya for aiding and abetting a militant.
Mobilized residents of Astrakhan, who now stay in North Ossetia, have asked Igor Babushkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, to provide them with sleeping bags. Screenshot of the video https://t.me/astmkru/207
23:51, 25 October 2022
Mobilized residents of Astrakhan, who now stay in North Ossetia, have asked Igor Babushkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, to provide them with sleeping bags. The head of the region promised to provide the mobilized people with sleeping bags “in the near future.”
A colony. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
15:53, 25 October 2022
The administration of the colony located in the Stavropol Territory would not appoint a medical examination to Zevri Abseitov, convicted for taking part in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir"*, despite the his suffering from hypertension, as well as pain in kidneys and joints, his wife, Fatma Abseitova, has stated.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: https://www.grozny-inform.ru/
15:48, 25 October 2022
Residents of Chechnya should "stand in lines" and sign up en masse as volunteers to participate in the special operation in Ukraine, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the republic, has stated.
Akhmed Dudaev told about editing the video showing Kadyrov's children participation in battles. Screenshot of the video posted on Dudaev's Telegram channel https://t.me/akhmeddudaev/1113
15:43, 25 October 2022
The video showing Ramzan Kadyrov's sons fighting was compiled from several videos, Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Press Minister, has stated, calling it "the usual editors' work."
More than 100 people gathered in central Makhachkala. October 24, 2022. Screenshot of the video https://t.me/dagestanRD/24276Б
15:30, 25 October 2022
More than a hundred people gathered in Makhachkala after activists and independent media professionals were not allowed to discuss the amendments to the Constitution of Dagestan. Without a public discussion, a draft amendment unacceptable to the society can be adopted, activists have pointed out.
A solo picket in Makhachkala. October 24, 2022. Photo from the Telegram channel of the newspaper “Chernovik”
23:58, 24 October 2022
Today, in Makhachkala, journalists Magomed Magomedov and Magdi Kamalov have held two solo pickets. The protestors demand to stop the persecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev.
One of the young men who apologized for dancing at the entrance to Grozny. Screenshot of the post on Instagram* https://www.instagram.com/p/CkBwWWSBKml/
23:55, 24 October 2022
Public apologies from young people for a man dancing in a pink dress at the entrance to Grozny were expected, Instagram* users noted.
A car of the Russian Investigative Committee. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
18:05, 24 October 2022
Investigators have refused to arrest the law enforcers suspected of beating up a 14-year-old Volgograd schoolboy; and gave no answer at all to the petition demanding to remove them from service, Alyona Maksaeva, an advocate, has stated.
Departures of volunteer groups to Ukraine. Screenshot of the video posted on Ramzan Kadyrov's Telegram channel https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/3027
18:02, 24 October 2022
Another group of volunteers has left Chechnya for Donbass, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. In the video posted by him, some of the fighters introduced themselves as residents of Astrakhan, Sochi and Stavropol Territory.
Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation, Yuga.ru
17:52, 24 October 2022
Valeria Gerasimova and Elizaveta Shkarupa from Krasnodar have been fined by 40,000 roubles each for making a pacifist inscription on the asphalt, the "OVD-Info"* outlet has informed.
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.