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Residents of the Achkhoi-Martanovsky District in Chechnya are reprimanded by the police for supporting online publications criticizing the Chechen authorities. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLW_tomHt2q/
08:40, 18 February 2021
Educative talk at Achkhoi-Martan ROVD angers Instagram users
The video, in which a police officer scolds two young men from the Achkhoi-Martan District for supporting online publications criticizing Chechen authorities, has sparked outrage among Instagram users. One of the young men had been slandered, one of the commentators has stated.
Magomed Khamkhoev. Photo courtesy of Gelani Khamkhoev.
08:27, 18 February 2021
Magomed Khamkhoev's relatives treat his sentence as too harsh
The accusations against Magomed Khamkhoev, a participant in the rally in Magas, were untenable; and the court verdict that sent him to colony was unfair and harsh, his relative and advocate have stated.
Policemen detain an activist during protest rally in Baku. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
22:21, 17 February 2021
Analysts voice doubts about Azerbaijani political prisoners' chances for pardoning
The authorities of Azerbaijan need political prisoners as a frightening factor to maintain the stability of the government, so a pardoning requested by human rights defendants from the Azerbaijani president is unlikely to affect many political prisoners. This opinion was voiced by analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
Konstantin Samsonov and Shamil Sultanov. Screenshot from the website containing information on criminal cases against Russian Jehovah's Witnesses*
22:02, 17 February 2021
In Neftekumsk, Jehovah's Witnesses* lose their jobs because of criminal prosecution
Konstantin Samsonov, Alexander Akopov, and Shamil Sultanov, accused in a case against the Jehovah's Witnesses*, are at large. However, the defendants are not able to return to their workplaces and are experiencing difficulties with medical assistance because of the restrictions imposed on them by the court, advocate Denis Vladimirov reports.
Tarki, February 13, 2021. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyvf54eE6kM&feature=emb_logo
18:41, 17 February 2021
"Mediazona" reports about background of searches in village of Tarki
After an arrest of a law enforcer suspected of possessing drugs, mass searches were conducted in the Dagestani village of Tarki. Local residents associate the searches with the revenge of relatives of the arrested law enforcer against the opponents of drug addiction, the "Mediazona" reports today.
Regional authorities collected garbage and returned it to the offender's yard. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLWh4IPqWFX/?igshid=1gyfkw944ni20
18:28, 17 February 2021
Video with an apology of Chechen resident for a garbage dump outrages social media users
The authorities collected the garbage left by a resident of Chechnya in the forest and transported it to his house, while the villager himself publicly apologized for his act. Some Instagram users have criticized officials for the above actions.
Municipal building in Chiatura. Photo: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Чиатура#/media/Файл:Chiatura._A_municipal_building_(Photo_A._Muhranoff,_2011).jpg
15:52, 17 February 2021
Two people detained after attack on journalists in Georgia
In Chiatura, policemen detained two men suspected of attacking a journalist and a TV channel operator who prepared a report from the village of Shukruti, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.
Law enforcer. Photo: NAC press service, https://i-pmr.com/novosti/imgs/trenirovku-po-protivodeystviyu-terrorizmu-proveli-v-ogrv.jpg
15:18, 17 February 2021
FSB reports prevention of terror acts in Northern Caucasus
In four regions of southern Russia, a total of 19 people have been detained who had planned terror acts in Northern Caucasus; extremist materials, weapons and ammunition have been seized from them, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) has reported today.
Representatives of the Ministry for Emergencies carrying bodies of soldiers killed during military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/RescueServiceOfTheNKR/photos/a.1527615660606237/4088398617861249/
14:53, 17 February 2021
Nagorno-Karabakh presents names of 132 perished military servicemen
On February 16, the Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Defence (MoD) released a new list of servicemen who perished in the hostilities during the last autumn escalation of the conflict. The list includes 132 names of militaries, the "News.am" has reported.
Teberda Nature Reserve. Photo: https://tgpbz.ru
11:36, 17 February 2021
Plans to change status of Teberda Reserve triggers Karachais' protests
The Teberda Nature Reserve in the Karachai-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) is being transformed into a national park. It is unknown how the reserve's lands will be used after the status change, social activists and ecologists assert.
Protest rally in Magas. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
11:20, 17 February 2021
Defence criticizes proofs in Ingush activists' case
The correspondence in social networks and telephone messages presented at the Essentuki City Court have nothing to do with the leaders of the protest action in Magas, while the many hours of announcements of materials at the trial only protract the process, the advocates have stated.
Azerbaijan handing the remains of killed soldiers over to Armenia, http://www.rs-nkr.am/content.php?contid=2708&fbclid=IwAR1J7DThgb59iaes7XhuGU0bF0i01IeCZpSZ2peS0cqPn765Hj7YNM9aTYc
08:37, 17 February 2021
Azerbaijan hands more than 100 bodies over to Nagorno-Karabakh
The Azerbaijani party has handed the bodies of 106 people killed in the conflict zone over to the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, the president of the unrecognized republic has informed.
The woman who confessed to faking pregnancy and inventing the story of the death of twins after childbirth. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLJm756KTHL/?utm_source=ig_embed
08:24, 17 February 2021
Dagestan: fake pregnancy case raises problem of women's rights violation
In Northern Caucasus, women are forced into the role of a sort of "children-producing bag"; and the act of a Dagestani woman who invented a story about the death of her twins during childbirth could have been the result of psychological pressure, Saida Sirazhudinova, the head of the "Caucasus. Peace. Development" Centre, said in an interview with the "Lenta".
Mukhammed Imanly. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=148451829934783&set=ecnf.100043098992455
22:45, 16 February 2021
Baku court refuses to cancel sentence of oppositionist Imanly
The Baku Court of Appeal upheld the verdict to Mukhammad Imanly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), sentenced to imprisonment on the charge of spreading COVID-19. The defence will file a cassation appeal and has already addressed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a complaint about the pre-trial arrest of Mukhammad Imanly, advocate Asabali Mustafaev said.
Magomed Khamkhoev in a courtroom. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the Caucasian Knot
22:11, 16 February 2021
Ingush activist Magomed Khamkhoev sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment
In Yessentuki, a court found Magomed Khamkhoev, who took part in a rally in Magas, guilty of inciting an attack on law enforcers. Taking into account the term served by the man at a SIZO (pre-trial prison), he is to spend eight months in a penal colony.
Law enforcer, Grozny. Photo: REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko
21:57, 16 February 2021
Kremlin takes interest in "Novaya Gazeta" data on extrajudicial executions in Chechnya
The press secretary of Vladimir Putin decided to familiarize himself with the material released by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" about the detention by Chechen law enforcers of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions later.
Meeting room of the ECtHR. Photo: CherryX https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Европейский_суд_по_правам_человека pm MSK.
18:51, 16 February 2021
ECtHR demands to reconsider verdicts to persons sentenced for murder of Markelov and Baburova
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision that the Supreme Court of Russia should reconsider the unjust verdicts to Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis, sentenced for the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.
Batumi residents at a rally. Photo courtesy of the press service of the Georgian government: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgianGovernment/photos/pcb.1602184726586092/1602183863252845/?type=3&theater
18:27, 16 February 2021
Residents of Adjara demand from authorities to solve social problems
More than 200 residents of Adjara, including those dissatisfied with the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic, forced migrants, and farmers affected by the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Chorokh River, held at a protest action on February 15. The protestors request the government to solve their problems.
Moscow City Complex. Photo courtesy of Nina Tumanova
13:31, 16 February 2021
Native of Dagestan arrested for shooting in "Moscow City"
A Moscow court has ruled to arrest for three months Said Asadulaev, a Russian kickboxing champion, accused of involvement in the shootout in the "Moscow City" Business Centre in 2017.
Sergei Melikov tells how he intends to solve the problem of garbage disposal in Dagestan. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx-HURtoYag&feature=emb_logo
13:05, 16 February 2021
Melikov's promise to solve garbage problem causes social network users' scepticism
The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, promised to launch, since March 1 on, systematic work on removing garbage dumps in the republic. Instagram users have urged authorities to move from promises to deeds and demonstrate a real solution to the problem of garbage collapse.
News
Ingush natives sentenced to lengthy prison terms in Moscow terror attack case

A verdict has been handed down for those involved in the torture of Caucasian nationals in a Saratov prison hospital.

Ilham Aliyev rules out deliberate attack on AZAL plane

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.