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Logo of the YAŞAT Foundation. Photo: https://1news.az/news/goskomitet-po-arhitekture-sdelal-krupnyy-vznos-v-fond-yasat
08:21, 8 January 2021
Residents of Azerbaijan oppose compulsory contributions to aid funds
The information about coercion to make donations into state funds to help families of perished soldiers has triggered Azerbaijani residents' protests.
A burned-out tank, Nagorno-Karabakh, December 31, 2020. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
23:27, 7 January 2021
Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of violating peace agreement
The Armenian Foreign Minister had no right to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) claims. Yerevan refused to recognize the above event as a violation of the peace agreement and voiced counter-accusations of conducting military operations in the conflict zone.
23:12, 7 January 2021
Armenian Church explains need for Pashinyan's resignation
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is responsible for the outcome of the autumn escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and is unable to rectify the situation, the spokesman for the Armenian Apostolic Church has claimed while commenting on the request of Catholicos Garegin II to the Armenian Prime Minister to resign.
The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijan). Photo: User:Sefer azeri from az.wikipedia.org - http://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Şəkil:Əlincəçay_xanəgahı_Naxçıvan.jpg
22:54, 7 January 2021
President Aliev offers Russia to use transport corridor through Nakhichevan
Russia, along with Armenia, Iran, and Turkey, will be able to use the transport corridor to connect Nakhichevan with the eastern regions of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev has announced today.
Video appeal of the Ingush teip. Screenshot: https://web.facebook.com/watch/?v=2910376259198790
17:39, 7 January 2021
Sultygov teip reports details about Ingush natives detained by Chechen law enforcers
Chechen law enforcers detained a father, a mother, and a sister of a native of Ingushetia involved in an attack on the police in Grozny, said Sarazhdin Sultygov, a member of the Ingush teip (family clan).
Special operation conducted by law enforcers in the Oktyabrsky District of Grozny on October 13, 2020. Photo: NAC press service: http://nac.gov.ru/kontrterroristicheskie-operacii/v-g-groznom-v-hode-kto-neytralizovano-chetvero.html
17:23, 7 January 2021
Human rights defenders call punishment of militants' relatives typical for Chechnya
The deaths of the people detained after a special operation conducted in October proved that the Chechen authorities continue repressions against families of suspected members of the armed underground, Igor Kalyapin believes. Svetlana Gannushkina suggests that extrajudicial killings of militants' relatives are pushing people on the path of radicalization.
Policemen. Photo: © Vlad Alexandrov, Yuga.ru
13:10, 7 January 2021
Sources present details of murder at gathering in Dagestan
A resident of the dwelling settlement of Tarki has died in hospital after being stabbed during a people's gathering to discuss the murder of an activist on Tarki-Tau Mount, a Dagestani law enforcement source has informed.
Restoration of infrastructure in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: press service of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies, https://www.mchs.gov.ru/deyatelnost/press-centr/novosti/4348130#group=group-1&photo=0
12:53, 7 January 2021
Russia's MfE reports restoration of houses in Nagorno-Karabakh
About 260 houses and social facilities have been repaired in Nagorno-Karabakh using the construction materials brought from Russia, Russian rescuers have informed.
Edmon Marukyan, leader of the "Enlightened Armenia" Party. Photo: iravabannet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_anDB4kI9YQ
12:22, 7 January 2021
Armenian MP offers exchanging part of Shurnukh from Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan occupies a part of the territory of Armenia from the side of Nakhichevan; therefore Yerevan can claim the return of the parts of Shurnukh and Vorotan lost during the border delimitation, Edmon Marukyan, an MP and the leader of the "Enlightened Armenia" Party, has stated.
Screenshot of Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJt5K6nqrSa/
11:58, 7 January 2021
Tarki residents report mass brawl after activist's murder
A people's gathering demanding to evict the alleged drug dealer, due to which an activist, Vali Abduragimov, was killed earlier, has turned into a mass brawl in the dwelling settlement of Tarki that is a part of Makhachkala. Social networks have messages about casualties and wounded people; however, this information has not been officially confirmed.
08:31, 7 January 2021
Azerbaijani GPO treats video with POW's incineration as original
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has recognized the video footage of the burning of the body of an Azerbaijani soldier-prisoner of war (POW) to be authentic and opened a criminal case based on this footage. The Azerbaijani Ombudsperson has demanded from international organizations to react to this and other war crimes.
Special operation in Grozny, October 13, 2020. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvqkunIRxIc&feature=emb_logo
08:20, 7 January 2021
Social network users worried about Dagestani orphan's fate in Grozny
The information about the detention in Grozny of a 14-year-old orphan girl from Dagestan, who at this age was already one of the wives of an adult man, has alarmed social network users. The Children's Ombudsperson must check how the girl's rights are respected, commentators assert.
Malika Djikaeva's mother. Screenshot: kudzieva.anzhela://www.instagram.com/p/CIxkWUiK7m8/
23:03, 6 January 2021
Advocate and mother of blogger Djikaeva report about her stay at Grozny SIZO
Today, an advocate of North-Ossetian blogger Malika Djikaeva, sentenced to imprisonment for drug possession, has reported that an appeal against the verdict was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The mother of the sentenced blogger got information about the pressure on her daughter at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).
Screenshot of broadcasting of the liturgy in the temple of Grigor Lusavorich (the Illuminator) in Yerevan, Yerevan Today video
22:37, 6 January 2021
Pashinyan isolates himself amid protests near Yerevan Cathedral
In the morning, protesters gathered near a church in Yerevan to prevent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from attending the Christmas service. Nikol Pashinyan did not come to the church, and his press secretary explained the Prime Minister's absence by the epidemiological situation.
Ramzan Kadyrov and Khamzat Chimayev at a reception in Grozny. Screenshot of the post on Ramzan Kadyrov's VKontakte page: https://vk.com/ramzan
20:18, 6 January 2021
Kadyrov ignores mask regime at meeting with coronavirus-infected MMA fighter
MMA fighter Khamzat Chimaev flew to Chechnya after he had cancelled a fight at the UFC tournament because of his positive COVID-19 test. However, according to posts on social networks, at the meetings with Khamzat Chimaev, Ramzan Kadyrov, other athletes, and relatives of the MMA fighter neglected the mask regime in force in the republic.
Vali Abduragimov. Screenshot: https://vk.com/video-74219800_456248429
20:07, 6 January 2021
Social network users criticize law enforcers after murder of an activist in Dagestan
After a report about the murder of Vali Abduragimov, who tried to resist drug trafficking, some social network users have noted that law enforcers, and not activists, are to fight against drug dealers.
Map of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Caucasian Knot. Photo: https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/356336/
17:46, 6 January 2021
Balasanyan accuses Azerbaijani forces of violating border
The Azerbaijani side does not comply with the terms of the peace agreement and sends its armed forces deep into the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, states Vitaly Balasanyan, Secretary of the Security Council of the unrecognized republic.
A burned-out tank. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
15:34, 6 January 2021
Azerbaijan reveals number of captured Nagorno-Karabakh residents
Five Nagorno-Karabakh militaries and two civilians are being held captive in Azerbaijan, while the unrecognized republic keeps two Azerbaijani civilians, said Ismail Akhundov, the head of the Commission on Prisoners' Affairs.
At the positions of Karabakh militaries in the Agdam District, 528 ordnances were found and neutralized. Screenshot: https://apa.az/ru/azerbaydjanskaya-armiya/V-Agdamskom-rajone-obnaruzheno-27-dymovyh-minometnyh-snaryadov-s-belym-fosforom-colorredFOTOcolor-433983
15:22, 6 January 2021
Azerbaijani sappers find 27 phosphorus shells
At the positions of Karabakh militaries in the Agdam District, 528 ordnances, including 27 shells with white phosphorus, were found and neutralized, the Azerbaijani Demining Agency has informed.
Khristo Grozev, a journalist-investigator from the Bellingcat. Photo: REUTERS/Hannah McKay
11:17, 6 January 2021
Air flights of law enforcers from Grozev's investigation coincide with hunt for Doku Umarov
The special intelligence agents, whom journalists have linked to the attempt on Alexei Navalny, had flown to Northern Caucasus before the poisoning of the militant leader, Doku Umarov, in 2013, and in 2017, during the preparations of his remains for transportation, the materials of Khristo Grozev, a Bellingcat's investigator, assert.
News
The victim in the Safarov case did not confirm the prosecution's version of events in court.

Displaced persons. April 21, 2026. Photo: Report https://report.az/ru/vnutrennyaya-politika/v-ramkah-velikogo-vozvrasheniya-eshe-92-semi-otpravilis-v-agdam 92 Azerbaijani IDP families returned to Agdam

A scientist spoke about his research into a Jewish cemetery in Azerbaijan.

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.