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A rally in support of Ukraine in Baku. February 27, 2022. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:41, 10 April 2022
Since February 24, 2022, a total of 6163 citizens of Ukraine have arrived in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Migration Service has informed.
Artyom Verdiev. Screenshot of the post on the Telegram channel of the head of the Derbent District, April 9, 2022 https://t.me/glava_derbent_rayona/106?single
12:37, 10 April 2022
Artyom Verdiev, a military serviceman-native of the village of Belidji, has perished in Ukraine, the head of the Derbent District has informed. Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the death of at least 73 natives of Dagestan has been officially confirmed.
The entrance to the Frolov farm. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:35, 10 April 2022
A crater with a diameter of about three meters has formed in place of liquidation of the ammunition that fell into the building of a resident of the Frolov farm; villagers are afraid to talk about the incident, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has found out.
A queue of trucks at the "Kazbegi" checkpoint. Georgia, 2020. Photo: lovetano.com
23:23, 9 April 2022
Irakli Garibashvili, the Georgian Prime Minister, has treated the allegations that the country is smuggling sanctioned goods to Russia, including military goods, put forward by the Ukrainian authorities, as slander.
Participant of a protest action in Azerbaijan. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:17, 9 April 2022
The Baku Mayoralty has forbidden the Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity Party (ADPP) to hold a picket near the Russian Embassy with a demand to stop the special operation in Ukraine. The city authorities have explained the refusal by restrictions on holding mass events during the pandemic.
Bekhman Verdikhanov. Screenshot of the video https://www.1tv.ru/shows/chasovoy/vypuski/tihookeanskiy-flot-morskoy-desant-chasovoy-vypusk-ot-03-10-2021
12:43, 9 April 2022
Bekhman Verdikhanov, an officer from Derbent, who perished in the special operation in Ukraine, received the above order for his courage and bravery. Since the outbreak of hostilities, the authorities have confirmed the death of at least 72 militaries from Dagestan in Ukraine.
Gyulmira Aslanova, the wife of Polad Aslanov, a journalist, at a protest action. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWOkpKJ25aY
12:38, 9 April 2022
Gyulmira Aslanova has held a protest action in front of the Azerbaijani presidential administration. She spoke out against beating up her husband, Polad Aslanov, a journalist, in the colony where he serves his prison term, and demanded to ensure his safety.
The OSCE mission in Nagorno-Karabakh. Pierre Andrieu (France), an ambassador. October 27, 2015. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:28, 9 April 2022
France and the United States intend to stop communicating with Russia on the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh within the format of the Minsk Group of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated.
Muratbek Kilimov and Ramil Azhimov. Screenshot of the post in the district administration group on the "VKontakte" social network, April 8, 2022 https://vk.com/regionvol?w=wall-201034668_318
10:31, 9 April 2022
On April 8, the contract servicemen, Muratbek Kilimov and Ramil Azhimov, were buried in the villages of the Volodarsky District. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 13 residents of the Astrakhan Region have perished there.
The village of Khramort. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
10:31, 9 April 2022
Should Nagorno-Karabakh authorities and Russian peacemakers provide security guarantees, the evacuated residents of the Khramort community plan to return to the village in order to engage in farming without fear of being shelled by Azerbaijani militaries.
An office of the “International Memorial”* Photo: https://hrdco.org/tag/mezhdunarodnyj-memorial/ * The organization is included by the Russian Ministry of Justice in the register of NCOs performing the functions of a foreign agent
23:53, 8 April 2022
At the request of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the “International Memorial”* (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”) was excluded from the list of legal entities, although the liquidation of the organization has not been completed, human rights defenders report.
Daud Muradov. Screenshot https://doshdu.com/v-rossii-skonchalsja-chechenec-deportirovannyj-iz-francii/
23:47, 8 April 2022
The authorities of France expelled Chechen natives to Russia at the slightest suspicion, and the mass deportation was stopped only with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, says Pascal Chaudot, the head of the “Chechen Committee” in France.
Nikol Pashinyan. Photo by the press office of Armenian Prime Minister
23:44, 8 April 2022
A court cancelled the sentence of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, convicted in 2010 on the charge of riots.
Vitaly Dedyushko, a native of the Prigorodny District. Screenshot https://t.me/Alan_Gagloev15/23
23:40, 8 April 2022
Vitaly Dedyushko from the Prigorodny District and Ruslan Kozaev from the Alagir District perished in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the special military operation, the authorities have reported about at least 31 perished natives of North Ossetia.
The Lugar laboratory in Georgia. Screenshot of the video https://sputnik-georgia.ru/interview/20180920/242181133/Laboratoriya-dvoynogo-naznacheniya-Giorgadze-nazval-zakazchikov-iz-SShA.html
15:59, 8 April 2022
By stating that US biologists are developing biological weapons in Georgia, Moscow is trying to put pressure not on Washington, but on Tbilisi, analysts assert.
Leyla Chemurzieva. Screenshot of the video by the user Ayub Musiev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR2d79Jtuc4
15:29, 8 April 2022
Masked law enforcers broke into the home of Leyla Chemurzieva, a resident of the city of Nazran, and took her away to some unknown place. An improvised explosive device (IED) was planted on Leyla, her sister insists.
The Pervomai District Court in Krasnodar. Photo by the court's press service
13:51, 8 April 2022
A court in Krasnodar has raised the preferential category for the parents of the militaries who perished during the first Chechen war, giving them the right to receive increased payments; the court has also ruled to pay them the underpayment for previous years.
Akop Badalyan, Ovsep Khurshudyan, Togrul Djuvarli, Natig Djafarli. Screenshots of the videos: https://www.aravot-ru.am/2022/02/12/376691/; https://www.7or.am/ru/news/view/4088/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAC2dEZRtmw; https://haqqin.az/news/207092
13:45, 8 April 2022
The meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Brussels was an attempt to avoid the conflict escalation, but the agreements reached there will give no guarantee of the end to provocations on the border, Akop Badalyan and Ovsep Khurshudyan believe.
The administration staff of the town of Krasny Sulin which documents refugees from the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics (LPR and DPR). Photo by Sergei Snezhin for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:36, 8 April 2022
The administration staff of the town of Krasny Sulin has to work without breaks and days off documenting refugees from the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics (LPR and DPR).
The flags of South Ossetia and Russia. Photo: cominf.org https://www.grozny-inform.ru/news/politic/131615/
13:13, 8 April 2022
It is high time for South Ossetia to join Russia, as this will increase residents' security and improve their living conditions. However, in economic terms, this will entail the loss of possible benefits of the republic's statehood, residents of Vladikavkaz have noted.
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.