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Screenshot of a video from the opening of a store in Makhachkala posted on the Telegram channel Tut Dagestan
23:01, 22 October 2022
The fashion show held in Makhachkala with the participation of two young men dressed as women is not propaganda of homosexuality, since its participants did not agitate anyone, lawyers believe.
23:57, 21 October 2022
The court of appeal did not grant the complaint filed against the decision to fine the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* 500,000 roubles for the lack of marking of a foreign agent.
A soldier. Photo: https://www.grozny-inform.ru
23:45, 21 October 2022
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that a new group of volunteers had left for the zone of the special military operation.
Screenshot of a video from the opening of a store in Makhachkala posted on the Telegram channel Tut Dagestan
18:15, 21 October 2022
The organizers of the fashion show involving young men in effeminate images had no plans to disturb the "morality guardians" and risk their safety, but after the resonance in social networks, the participants and visitors of the show have faced threats, Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, has informed.
A children's playground in the yard of an apartment block in Peter I Avenue in Makhachkala where the  developer is planning to build a multi-storey building. Screenshot of a video posted on Telegram
18:09, 21 October 2022
Residents of several apartment blocks in Makhachkala have recorded a video appeal to authorities asking them not to allow building another multi-storey building in their yard. The Mayoralty has assured that they will defend tenants' rights in court.
Kadyrov's children in the zone of the military operation in Ukraine. Photo by Artur Gichkaev / Grozny Inform news agency
18:05, 21 October 2022
Ramzan Kadyrov has announced the return of his daughter and three sons to Chechnya after their voyage to the special operation zone.
Ukrainian prisoners of war. Screenshot of the video posted on Kadyrov's Telegram channel Kadyrov_95. Faces are blurred by the "Caucasian Knot" in accordance with the explanations of lawyers about the inadmissibility of distributing video recordings with prisoners without their permission
17:55, 21 October 2022
If the video of the meeting of the head of Chechnya with Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) was recorded without their consent, then this violates the POWs' rights, and the transportation of them is unacceptable without the escort of the military police, lawyers pointed out.
A still of a report showing Ramzan Kadyrov's minor sons in a trench. Screenshot of the post on Kadyrov's Telegram channel Kadyrov_95
17:50, 21 October 2022
Three Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) have been brought to Grozny by decision of the children of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov has informed.
Screenshot of the post https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj6NL-PDGPA/?hl=ru
23:55, 20 October 2022
The “Grozny” ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company) posted a video report in which minor sons of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov are depicted staying in a trench. In their comments, social media users considered the video an element of PR steps for the leader of the republic.
Soldiers. Photo: Eduard Kornienko, Yuga.ru
23:47, 20 October 2022
The mobilization quota of Dagestan and the number of residents of the region already called up for the military service are not made public, so it is impossible to estimate the timing of the completion of the mobilization in the republic, analysts point out.
Roman Taganov. Photo courtesy of Yekaterina Taganova
17:41, 20 October 2022
The staff of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) has ignored the detainees' complaints about feeling unwell and rendered no help to on e of them even during his heart attack, Roman Taganov, an activist from Adygea, has stated.
One of Kadyrov's sons participated in hostilities. Screenshot of the video posted on Kadyrov's Telegram channel on October 19, 2022 https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/3013
17:34, 20 October 2022
Akhmat, Eli and Adam Kadyrov provided fire cover for the advancing Chechen fighters, Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, posting a video of his sons firing grenade launchers and a machine gun from behind a bush.
Girls in the streets of Grozny. Photo: https://www.grozny-inform.ru
16:00, 20 October 2022
In late September, Chechen companies began inviting women to interviews by 11% more often than earlier in the month, the "HeadHunter" group of companies has informed. Instagram* users have attributed this dynamics to men's mobilization.
A group of residents of Dagestan has gathered in Makhachkala near the store to demand an apology from the organizers of the show. October 19, 2022. Screenshot of the video https://t.me/ushanka05/4040
15:56, 20 October 2022
The organizers of the fashion show in Makhachkala should apologize to Muslims of Dagestan, a group of Makhachkala townspeople has stated. The store, at the opening of which the fashion show was held with the participation of young men in effeminate images, should not exist, a Russian State Duma MP from Dagestan has stated.
Soldiers. Photo by Mikhail Mordasov / Yugopolis
23:34, 19 October 2022
The case of sending to the front a resident of Novocherkassk, who apologized for damaging patriotic banners, was a continuation of the practice begun in Chechnya of sending men to the zone of the special military operation after their criticism of the mobilization, human rights defenders pointed out.
The children of the leader of Chechnya, who went to the zone of the special military operation, have been shown the trophies captured in Ukraine. Screenshot of the video posted on Kadyrov's Telegram channel Kadyrov_95
23:26, 19 October 2022
The children of the leader of Chechnya, who went to the zone of the special military operation, have been shown the trophies captured in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ramzan Kadyrov has assured that his sons are ready “to join the battle right now.”
Magomed Askhabov. Screenshot of the video by the "Kavkaz. Realii" https://d19wbtacbn3uyf.cloudfront.net/a/podveshivali-za-ruki-izgonyali-dzhinna-istoriya-magomeda-kotorogo-lechili-ot-gomoseksualjnosti-v-rehab-tsentre-v-dagestane/31941445.html
23:18, 19 October 2022
Two months have passed since Magomed Askhabov filed a complaint about being tortured when at the rehabilitation centre (rehab) in Khasavyurt, where he was forcibly kept and "treated" for his homosexuality, but there has been no reaction. Askhabov filed a complaint with the court.
The Lenin Komsomol Park in Makhachkala. Photo by the press service of the city administration
17:00, 19 October 2022
The coordination of the documents that allow the improvement of the territory adjacent to the kindergarten in the Lenin Komsomol Park has been cancelled, the Makhachkala Prosecutor's Office (PO) has stated in response to the appeal by Madina Ibragimova, an activist of the "City Is Ours" movement.
A damaged patriotic banner. Photo: https://obzor.io
16:54, 19 October 2022
The suspect of damaging banners in Novocherkassk can be prosecuted under a criminal article on discrediting the actions of Russian militaries, especially if his relevant statements are found on the Internet, Evgeny Chernousov, a lawyer, is sure.
Soldiers. Photo by Eduard Kornienko, Yuga.ru
16:50, 19 October 2022
One-time payments of 100,000 roubles will be paid to each family of those mobilized from Ingushetia, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, the head of the republic, has announced.
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.