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19:43, 3 August 2023
Convicted Konstantin Fokin filed to court a claim against the Federal Penitentiary Service and demanded to pay him 500,000 roubles in compensation for moral damages for poor conditions in a Volgograd SIZO (pre-trial prison). The court refused to consider the claim, as the statute of limitations had been missed.
The village of Tukhchar. Photo: Takhirgeran Umar https://ru.wikipedia.org/
16:51, 3 August 2023
More than a hundred young people gathered at night on the border between Dagestan and Chechnya after a domestic conflict between two persons, and the situation required the intervention of the police, sources reported.
Handcuffs, photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
23:35, 2 August 2023
The Stavropol Territorial Military Court has sentenced a contract soldier to six years in colony, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.
Salman Tepsurkaev with his wife Elizaveta. Photo from personal archive https://thenewtab.io/ne-nadeyus-kogda-nibud-najti-ego-mogilu/
22:38, 2 August 2023
The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has obliged the first-instance court in Grozny to correct the violations committed when considering the complaint of the widow of Salman Tepsurkaev about the refusal to recognize her as a suffered party; however, the latter didn't do it.
The convicts in Vladimir Tskaev's death case in the courtroom. Screenshot of the video by the Russian state news channel "Rossiya" https://alaniatv.ru/verhovnyj-sud-rso-a-smyagchil-prigovory-shesti-osuzhdyonnym-po-delu-tskaeva/
21:37, 2 August 2023
The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has softened the conditions and terms of arrest for former law enforcers Alan Khokhoev, Georgy Tsomaev, Shota Maisuradze and Soslan Sitokhov, accused within the case of the death of Vladimir Tskaev, a citizen of Vladikavkaz, which occurred after he was questioned at the police station.
20:13, 2 August 2023
When commenting on the news about the forgiveness of blood feud after a road traffic accident in the Sheikh-Mansurovsky District of Grozny, Ruslan Kutaev has pointed out that reconciliation of blood feud enemies after a fatal road traffic accident often occurs under pressure from the authorities, but enmity may continue in such cases.
Subbotnik (volunteer unpaid work on Saturday) in the so-called "English Castle" in Chechnya. Photo by the "Chechnya Today" news agency https://chechnyatoday.com/news/365829
17:19, 2 August 2023
More than five hundred people from thirty departments took part in a series of subbotniks (volunteer unpaid work on Saturdays) in the “English Castle,” the Mayor of Grozny reported. Social media users questioned the voluntary decision of city residents to take part in cleaning up the destroyed building.
Zarema Musaeva in the courtroom. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:54, 1 August 2023
Zarema Musaeva, convicted in the case of attacking a law enforcer, has stated that she hopes for the Russian Supreme Court (SC), from which she expects a positive decision on her complaint against the court verdict passed in Grozny, the "Novaya Gazeta" outlet has informed.
Diana Tsipinova. Photo https://legal.report/advokata-opravdali-po-delu-o-primenenii-nasiliya-k-policzejskim/
20:42, 1 August 2023
Diana Tsipinova, an advocate from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who has been charged with assaulting a law enforcer, will not be able to work in her profession, if the court finds her guilty. In the past 10 years, cases of persecuting advocates for their professional activities have become more frequent, Tsipinova's colleagues have pointed out.
19:54, 1 August 2023
Murat Baimurziev, a resident of Ingushetia, has fallen victim to a malefactor, who had rented a truck from him and refused to return it. The courts sided with Baimurziev' and law enforcers are protracting the inquiry into the case, Pavel Misharin, an advocate, has informed.
Diana Tsipinova. Photo: Andrei Sabinin https://capost.media
23:50, 31 July 2023
An officer of the prosecutor’s office filed an appeal against the verdict to Diana Tsipinova, an advocate from Kabardino-Balkaria, who was acquitted in a case on an attack on a law enforcer. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria on its Telegram channel with reference to a post of the “Advokatskaya Street”*.
22:11, 31 July 2023
A court in Adygea has refused to release a local resident, who complained of torture and beatings at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), under house arrest. Information about torture has not yet been confirmed, the court has explained.
Gennady Pagiev. Screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/CvSobkwuVB9/
21:35, 31 July 2023
Gennady Pagiev, a resident of the city of Vladikavkaz, has recorded a video appeal from the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine addressed to Sergey Menyailo, the head of North Ossetia, in which he complained that the bank was unreasonably taking away the housing from his wife and children.
Idris Yusupov. Photo from the Telegram channel of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet
19:50, 31 July 2023
In Makhachkala, the journalists Idris Yusupov and Magomed Magomedov have held solo pickets demanding the release of Abdulmumin Gadjiev.
The Criminal Code and handcuffs. Photo: Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
18:11, 31 July 2023
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the verdict on Major Maxim Bespalov from North Ossetia, who was sentenced to five years and eight months in a penal colony on charges of leaving his military unit without permission.
A criminal case. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
22:27, 30 July 2023
The court has fined a resident of Makhachkala, finding him guilty of non-informing law enforcement bodies that his acquaintance was participating in hostilities in Syria on the side of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.
21:10, 30 July 2023
Rasul Madagov, an elderly resident of Chechnya, has complained about the policeman who hit him, but investigators found no signs of a crime in policeman's actions and accused Madagov of a false denunciation. The court sentenced Madagov to corrective labour conditionally.
Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister of Press and Information of Chechnya, talks to a local resident Aslan who reposted information about the mass deaths of soldiers of the "Sever-Akhmat" regiment. Screenshot of the video https://t.me/akhmeddudaev/2068
19:18, 30 July 2023
Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister of Press and Information of Chechnya, has publicly reprimanded a local resident named Aslan for reposting unreliable information about the mass deaths of soldiers of the "Sever-Akhmat" regiment near Artyomovsk. Aslan announced his readiness to apologize on television.
Anton Kuznetsov (on the left) talks to the advocate after the court session. Volgograd, July 27, 2023. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:50, 30 July 2023
The Volgograd Regional Court denied Anton Kuznetsov, a member of a pacifist religious community, the right to alternative civilian service. The young man, who was forcibly sent to a military unit, has been refusing to take up arms and take an oath for more than six months.
22:15, 29 July 2023
The court of appeal cancelled the third acquittal of two natives of Dagestan, accused in a murder of Sergey Saiputdinov, an employee of the “Chernomortransneft”. One of the defendants claimed that law enforcers tortured him, including in Chechnya, in order to force him to confess to the murder.
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.