×

Кавказский узел

Скачайте приложение — работает без VPN!
Скачать Скачать
RU EN
поиск
Menu
AbkhaziaAdjariaAdygeaArmeniaAstrakhan RegionAzerbaijanChechnyaDagestanGeorgiaIngushetiaKabardino-BalkariaKalmykiaKarachay-CherkessiaKrasnodar TerritoryNagorno-KarabakhNorth CaucasusNorth Ossetia-AlaniaNorth-Caucasian Federal DistrictRostov RegionRussiaSouth CaucasusSouth Federal DistrictSouth OssetiaStavropol RegionVolgograd Region
Homepage   /   All news
Serviemen of the Armenian Army. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia, https://mil.am/hy/news/10107
10:57, 9 December 2021
Zangezur Corridor issue aggravates military threat to Armenia
By demanding from Armenia to open the Zangezur Corridor, Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, has secured the support of the international community; therefore, his threats to solve the problem by force are quite real, the Azeri analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. Baku is using the corridor issue as a lever of pressure on Armenia, and the country is vulnerable to it, political analysts in Yerevan have noted.
08:47, 9 December 2021
On the 33rd day of hunger strike, independent doctor was let to visit Salekh Rustamov
The health condition of Salekh Rustamov, an Azerbaijani activist, who has been on his protest hunger strike in prison for 33 days, continues deteriorating. He has severe headaches, his brother has stated. An independent doctor, Adil Geibulla, who visited Rustamov, reported that the hunger-striker was under "supportive treatment."
The injured patient of the hospital. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXOagoENP88/
08:29, 9 December 2021
Social network users urge relatives to find out trauma reasons of KBR patient
Doctors have discharged a resident of the Urvan District from hospital with traumas in his face, explaining that they were caused by the patient's fall, his relatives complained.
Armenian servicemen. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia, https://www.mil.am/
23:07, 8 December 2021
Armenian MoD reports about a shelling attack on its water carrier near border
Azerbaijani militaries shelled a vehicle belonging to an Armenian military unit. No one was injured as a result of the shelling attack, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Screenshot: https://www.facebook.com/axi.pankiski.5?__tn__=%2Cd-]-h-R&eid=ARDeGFhAGsBenE34L86ogjhI4TcgGQHTp_AcHkZt4vOvsJa9jR-9IiTVEdqRUhiUPM7vsYgjyMGacwyP
22:38, 8 December 2021
Chechen Diaspora concerned about possible extradition to Russia of man accused of Khangoshvili’s murder
A man accused of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili deserves life imprisonment, but members of the Chechen Diaspora fear that even in case of such a sentence, the convict may be extradited to Russia.
Relatives of captured soldiers near the Armenian parliament. Yerevan, December 8, 2021. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnS6xD3UkMs&t=8s
22:09, 8 December 2021
Protesters detained near Armenian parliament
Relatives of the militaries missing in action during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh blocked a street in the centre of Yerevan. The police pushed them back. Ten people were detained during the protest action.
Alexander Kapyapin (left) and Yury Dud. Screenshot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_2Vy9B8hic
20:15, 8 December 2021
YouTube users call on Dud to highlight practice of torture in Chechnya in more detail
Video blogger Yury Dud should visit residents of Chechnya and ask them about torture, YouTube users suggest. Chechnya has become a testing ground for the spread of torture throughout Russia, notes Lyudmila Kukhnina, a coordinator of the database compiled by the “Committee against Torture”.
A policeman. Photo: Elena Sineok, Yuga.ru
19:40, 8 December 2021
Police consider death of a detainee in Rostov Region a suicide
A detainee committed suicide at the police department in the Belokalitvinsky District. He was in solitary confinement, the police of the Rostov Region reports today.
Relatives of the prisoners of war at the Parliament of Armenia. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnS6xD3UkMs&t=8s
14:41, 8 December 2021
Relatives of POWs demand meeting with Speaker of Armenian Parliament
The President (Speaker) of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia must personally explain his words about deserters, relatives of the prisoners of war (POWs) and missing servicemen demanded on the second day of their protest action.
Screenshot of video records with Mikhail Saakashvili in a prison hospital, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1061505497963689&ref=sharing
14:12, 8 December 2021
In response to disciplinary sanctions, Saakashvili rejects medical treatment
As revenge for the fine imposed by the state inspector, the Georgia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has applied disciplinary sanctions, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has stated and refused from medical care at the prison hospital.
Adam Elzhurkaev, head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, talks to the women detained for practising witchcraft. Screenshot of the report by the Grozny TV channel https://www.instagram.com/p/CXMJRCqjMh3/
13:50, 8 December 2021
Three Chechen women publicly reprimanded for witchcraft
Law enforcers have detained two women-residents of Grozny and one resident of the village of Geldagan for practising occultism. Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, had a conversation with the detainees, as follows from the report of the "Grozny" TV Channel, posted on the Instagram.
Igor Kalyapin and Yuri Dud (right). Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_2Vy9B8hic
11:26, 8 December 2021
Yuri Dud's film tells about law enforcers' practice of torture in Kuban
Yuri Dud, a popular Russian video blogger, has posted a documentary, in which torture victims shared their stories; and human rights activists told about their practice of inquiring into torture cases in Russia.
Protesters in Yerevan, Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj11q_HHEMc&t=2s
11:01, 8 December 2021
Alen Simonyan's words anger relatives of captured soldiers
A video has appeared on the Internet, in which Alen Simonyan, the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, discusses the fate of the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs). According to his version, many of the POWs are deserters, and the future of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh is much more important. Relatives of POWs and missing servicemen have come to the government building and blocked roads in protest.
Pre-trial prison. Photo: Elena Sineok, Yuga.ru
08:49, 8 December 2021
Inmate of Volgograd SIZO self-mutilates
A man who is kept under arrest at SIZO-4 (pre-trial prison) in Volgograd has cut his forearm. He is registered as a person prone to suicide and self-mutilation, the press service of the local branch of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) has informed today.
Azerbaijani citizens accommodated in the "Ogonyok" camp. Screenshot of the video posted by the Caucasian Knot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt3jPs02pBI
08:28, 8 December 2021
In Dagestan camp, 62 residents of Azerbaijan wait for border opening
In the "Ogonyok" children's camp located in the Kaitag District of Dagestan, 62 Azerbaijanis are waiting for a permit to cross the land border and return home.
The European Court of Human Rights. Photo: CherryX per Wikimedia Commons https://ru.wikipedia.org/
22:38, 7 December 2021
ECtHR awards compensation to a woman from Ingushetia for death of her son
The Strasbourg Court found the Russian authorities responsible for the unlawful detention and death of 17-year-old Magomed Gorchkhanov and obliged them to pay 70,000 euros in compensation to Dibikhan Pugoeva, a resident of Ingushetia.
Protest action in support of "Sasna Tsrer"; Yerevan, December 7, 2021 Screenshot: https://www.facebook.com/sasnatzrer/posts/291061119728080
22:18, 7 December 2021
Supporters of “Sasna Tsrer” hold a protest action in Yerevan
Members of the “Sasna Tsrer” (Daredevils of Sassoun) detachment were convicted groundlessly, said participants of a protest action held in front of the court building in Yerevan, where the appeal against the convicted person’s sentences was considered.
Dunja Mijatović. Photo: Press Service of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE / Mickey Croell
22:05, 7 December 2021
Dunja Mijatović urges to discontinue liquidation of “Memorials”*
In her letter to the Russian Prosecutor General, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović notes that the use of the Russian law on foreign agents to liquidate the “Memorials”* NGOs (the International Historical, Educational, Charity and Human Rights Society “Memorial”* (International Memorial) and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* contradicts the European principles of human rights protection. The Council of Europe Commissioner has urged the Russian Prosecutor General to discontinue the liquidation proceedings against the human rights organizations.
Rally of those convicted in the "Terter case" in Baku. Screenshot: https://minval.az/news/124190177
18:29, 7 December 2021
In Baku, police stops protest action of relatives of people convicted in “Terter case”
Today, relatives of the people convicted in the “Terter case” have tried to hold a protest action in front of the administration of the President of Azerbaijan. They demanded to review the charges against the convicts. However, the police stopped the protest action.
The man doesn't give his name in the video, but explains that he is the elder of the Chechen community in Norilsk. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWrOCvri-vM
18:06, 7 December 2021
Head of Chechen community in Norilsk calls for unbiased investigation into Visaev’s case
In his video appeal, the head of the Chechen community in Norilsk has announced serious inconsistencies in a case against Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, accused of plotting a terror act in Norilsk.
News
A family from Makhachkala complained about delays in compensation for their flooded home.

Two soldiers from Dagestan were killed in Ukraine.

Renaming streets in Makhachkala has complicated flood victims' efforts to receive compensation.

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.