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Captured Azerbaijani soldiers. Screenshot:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVSoBw8LWU
22:08, 20 December 2021
Today, a video depicting capture of two Azerbaijani soldiers has been posted on YouTube. The soldiers were taken prisoner in the area of the Ishkhanasar village, reports Daniel Ionnisyan, a coordinator of the Union of Informed Citizens. The Ministries of Defence of Armenia and Azerbaijan did not comment on the information.
Farmer Mikhail Shevchenko holds a solo picket, Stavropol, December 20, 2021. Photo by the Caucasian Knot correspondent
18:42, 20 December 2021
Today, law enforcers have disrupted a solo picket by farmer Mikhail Shevchenko in front of the FSB building in Stavropol. The picketer protested against ineffective investigation into threats and raider land seizure.
Portrait of a deceased officer at a funeral. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
18:06, 20 December 2021
In Azerbaijan, a crash of a helicopter of the State Border Guard Service, in which 14 people were killed, was caused by an error of the pilots during landing, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan reports today.
FSB agents conduct a counterterrorism operation. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/terrorizmu-net/fsb/fsb-rossii-predotvrashchena-popytka-soversheniya.html
17:22, 20 December 2021
During the week from December 13 to December 19, 2021, the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus brought no information about any casualties or wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
Karim Fuad and Anastasia Marchenko. Photo courtesy of Anastasia Marchenko
17:05, 20 December 2021
Karim Fuad and his wife, Anastasia Marchenko, has complained to the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) about actions of law enforcers, who had falsified two criminal cases against Fuad, planted drugs and damaged property during a search of their house located in the Zelenchuk farmstead of the Gulkevichi District in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the major river). In the complainants' opinion, the criminal prosecution has a xenophobic background.
Giorgi Kalandadze. Screenshot:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m5qOc0PV7M
11:39, 20 December 2021
In Berlin, at the request of Georgian authorities, Giorgi Kalandadze, a former head of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces, has been detained.
11:25, 20 December 2021
The South-Ossetian authorities have released Gela Gochoshvili, who was detained in August for trespassing the border, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has informed.
Prisoners of war returned to Armenia. Photo: https://twitter.com/ToivoKlaar/status/1472471675207917568
11:11, 20 December 2021
The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has announced the names of ten military servicemen who were returned to their homeland; on November 16, they were taken prisoners of war (POWs) by Azerbaijan.
Participants of a rally in support of Mikhail Saakashvili. October 2021. Photo by Inna Kukudzhanova for the Caucasian Knot
10:56, 20 December 2021
Supporters of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili have held a protest action in front of the building of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). They called for the release of the oppositional politician and demanded from the police to stop political persecution of the opposition.
Salekh Rustamov. Screenshot of the video posted at the "Meydan TV" YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uezdubIiUd0
15:41, 19 December 2021
After he stopped his long hunger strike, the health condition of the Azerbaijani activist, Salekh Rustamov, began improving, said Adil Geibulla, a doctor.
Salman Geroev's appeal to the Russian president in support of Ingush activists. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W08tZLfY9Mw
15:37, 19 December 2021
Salman Geroev, a Kazakhstani public figure of Ingush origin, has called on the Russian president "not to be an enemy of the Ingush people" and to intervene in the situation with the verdicts rendered to seven Ingush activists. The verdicts were passed with authorities' awareness, while an appeal to Putin is doomed to failure in advance, commentators on the YouTube have noted.
15:32, 19 December 2021
Azeri law enforcement bodies have announced a restart of criminal proceedings on complaints of torture of the Azerbaijani militaries suspected of treason.
11:51, 19 December 2021
The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has refused to initiate a criminal case against doctors on the complaint lodged by relatives of Ogtai Gyulyalyev, a human rights defender, about doctors' failure to provide him with proper medical care. The GPO sees no corpus delicti in doctors' actions, Mekhman Aliev, the director of the "Turan" News Agency, has informed.
15:11, 18 December 2021
Law enforcers have detained Isa Bekov, a resident of Ingushetia, during his solo picket in support of the leaders of the republic's protests. After drawing up a protocol on violation of the mask regime, the picketer was released.
Children evacuated from Syria, Maria Lvova-Belova, the plenipotentiary for children's rights under the Russian President, and a health worker. Photo by the press service of the Russian children's Ombudsperson
14:59, 18 December 2021
After medical examination, nine children evacuated from Damascus, will be sent to their relatives in Dagestan, Maria Lvova-Belova, the plenipotentiary for children's rights under the Russian President, has informed. By the children's arrival, their relatives document custody and receive the right to benefits and social welfare, said Marina Yezhova, the children's Ombudsperson of Dagestan.
Rubati Mitsaeva (on the left). Photo: the "Grozny Inform" news agency https://www.grozny-inform.ru/
12:59, 18 December 2021
The sumptuous welcoming provided to Rubati Mitsaeva by Chechen authorities is no evidence of the woman's importance; Ramzan Kadyrov only uses her to demonstrate his mercy to former opponents, Alexei Malashenko has pointed out. Mitsaeva cannot be perceived as an independent figure, but Kadyrov earned points on her, Ruslan Kutaev believes.
Screenshot of the video with a dance in Makhachkala posted on the Instagram "makhachkala.live" https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXgacF0l6ob/?utm_medium=copy_link"
12:54, 18 December 2021
The girl who danced a frank dance in Makhachkala hid her face, realizing that she would be condemned, but the police could find her and take care of her safety, Albert Esedov, a political analyst, believes. The video clip was an advertising action of a store, Shamil Khadulaev, the chairman of the Coordination Council of Dagestani NGOs, has suggested.
Tavros Sapeyan. Photo: https://armeniatoday.news/politics/401621/
11:31, 18 December 2021
The candidate for the city Mayor, nominated by the winning opposition bloc, at the sitting of the Council of Elders, himself voted for his opponent from the ruling party, and endured by doing so the majority of votes for him.
The police detained a man suspected of murdering a woman in Makhachkala. Screenshot of the video by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan https://www.instagram.com/p/CXlKnR0AVbJ/
23:59, 17 December 2021
The police detained a man suspected of murdering a woman in Makhachkala. He explained that the woman had driven genies into him.
Vladimir Novitsky, Yevgeny Chernousov. Photo by Alexander Vorobyev https://jourmos.com/чередная-встреча-московских-журнали/, screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6KjWYFcIHIg
23:58, 17 December 2021
In addition to an appeal, seven leaders of the protest in Ingushetia sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, can address the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), suggests Vladimir Novitsky, the president of the Russian section of the International Society for Human Rights.
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.