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Residents of the temporary tent camp in Kullar (Dagestan). Screenshot from the Caucasian Knot video
08:34, 24 June 2020
Over 250 Azerbaijanis return home from Dagestan
252 Azerbaijani citizens, who could not leave Dagestan after the border closure because of coronavirus, have returned to their homeland, the country's operative headquarters has informed. The group included the majority of those who had been waiting at the border since April, one of the above Azerbaijanis has confirmed.
Women in masks in Grozny. Photo: REUTERS/Ramzan Musaev
08:22, 24 June 2020
Residents of Chechnya laugh at Kadyrov's demands for receiving guests
People should make visits in medical masks and no longer than for 15 minutes, observe the social distance of 1.5 meters, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Residents of Chechnya note that the demands are ridiculous; and it is impossible to check the fulfilment of them.
Resident of Gudermes. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBthZu1obLt/
22:14, 23 June 2020
Exhumation in Gudermes becomes example of Chechen authorities' reaction to public outcry
The authorities decided to exhume the body of a Gudermes woman because of the public outcry, believe human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
Law enforcer holding a gun. Photo: Krasnodar Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
21:46, 23 June 2020
Khasavyurt resident sentenced for participating in shootout with border guards
The court recognized Magomed Elmurzaev, who participated in a shootout with border guards in 2017, as a member of the Khasavyurt grouping of militants and sentenced him to 22 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony. Magomed Elmurzaev was helping the militants under threat of reprisal, the defence claimed.
European Court of Human Rights. Photo: REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
19:19, 23 June 2020
ECtHR awards human rights defenders with compensation for their beating in Ingushetia
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian authorities to pay am amount totalling to 28,000 euros to employees of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", two of whom – Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya and Shamsuddin Tangiev – were beaten, while Zina Mukusheva, Zoya Muradova, Fatima Yandieva, and Albert Khantigov were detained for holding a picket in Nazran in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.
Police detaining an activist at a protest rally in Baku. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
18:56, 23 June 2020
158 people included in updated list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan
The updated list of the "Alliance for Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan" includes three new names. In total, the list contains 158 people.
Elshan Teimurov. Screenshot:メ Yusifメ『K99』 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQIbfNZn2g8&feature=emb_logo
18:43, 23 June 2020
Azerbaijani rapper associates his arrest with criticism of police
On June 22, in Azerbaijan, the Court of Appeal left rapper Elshan Teimurov under custody. The rapper was subjected to 60 days of administrative arrest. The young man denied the accusations of drug trafficking and disobedience to the police and said he was being prosecuted for performing a critical song, the rapper's father reports.
Mindiya Goradze. Screenshot: http://www.primecrime.ru/characters/3977
13:49, 23 June 2020
Mindiya Goradze's relatives go on hunger strike in Batumi
Mindiya Goradze was detained in Belarus after, on June 20, a court in Turkey ruled to release him from arrest and ordered him to leave the country within 24 hours. On June 22, Goradze's relatives staged a protest rally in Batumi at which they demanded that the authorities extradite him to Georgia.
13:35, 23 June 2020
Conflict in Tsiyab-Ichichali settled without Kadyrov's intervention
A compromise figure has been appointed the Imam in the Dagestani village of Tsiyab-Ichichali, where residents had turned to Ramzan Kadyrov because of their contradictions with the Muftiate; the conflict has been settled, the head of the village has informed. The Ramzan Kadyrov's public reaction to the villagers' appeal will provoke a negative reaction in Dagestan, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.
Pensioners detained in Sochi for pickets and policemen. Photo courtesy of Anna Kolmagortseva
11:20, 23 June 2020
Two pensioners detained in Sochi for pickets against constitutional amendments
Galina Lazorskaya and Lyubov Nikolaeva have been detained by law enforcers of Sochi during their action against amending the Constitution.
Journalist Gadjimurad Sagitov. Photo: https://www.rgo.ru/ru/dagestanskoe-respublikanskoe-otdelenie/ob-otdelenii/ekspertnyy-sovet-0/sagitov-gadzhimurad
10:53, 23 June 2020
Sharia law treated as way to resolve disputes on Chechen-Dagestani border
Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliamentary, demonstrates his readiness for dialogue on Dagestani border, but Dagestani authorities wouldn't get involved in a conflict-prone process. For the least conflict-prone resolution of the problem, the mechanisms of Sharia law should be used, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo: პოლიტიკა https://kronika.ge,
10:35, 23 June 2020
Khangoshvili's relatives urge to defend them against Russian special services
Relatives of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of the Pankisi Gorge, who was killed in Berlin, have asked the German and Swedish authorities for protection, declaring fear of persecution by Russian special services.
Giorgi Gabuniya. Screenshot: © Rustavi 2
08:26, 23 June 2020
Giorgi Gabuniya turns to Putin live on air
Giorgi Gabuniya, a journalist for the "Mtavari Arkhi" Georgian TV Channel, who spoke obscene words about the Russian president a year ago, has again addressed Vladimir Putin in Russian by using rude expressions.
Temporary camp at the village of Kullar. Screenshot from the Caucasian Knot video
08:14, 23 June 2020
Ten people arrested for two months each after Kullar protests
By a court judgement, all the ten suspects of attacking policemen at riots in Kullar have been arrested for two months each. A total of 541 people remain on the border with Azerbaijan.
The "Ingur" border checkpoint. Photo: http://abkhazinform.com/item/3293-na-kpp-ingur-sostoyalsya-obmen-pomilovannykh-grazhdan-gruzii-i-yuzhnoj-osetii
22:21, 22 June 2020
Abkhazia opens border for three days to return its residents from Georgia
For the period from June 22 to June 24, 2020, Abkhazia opens a humanitarian corridor for the return of residents of the republic who temporarily stay in Georgia. Only employees of the "IngurGES" HPP (hydroelectric power plant) and representatives of international organizations will be allowed to use the humanitarian corridor to cross the border from Georgia to Abkhazia.
A policeman. Photo: Elena Sineok, Yuga.ru
22:01, 22 June 2020
In Volgograd, Azerbaijani student murdered because of national enmity
Investigators found that a man suspected of murdering an Azerbaijani student was a member of an organization engaged in cultivating hatred towards people of different nationalities. The investigators suggest that the suspect made a deliberate decision to murder a non-Russian.
Market in Makhachkala. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acW4dock95M
21:47, 22 June 2020
Makhachkala salesmen demand from authorities to open markets
The Makhachkala City Mayoralty promises to consider opening markets if salesmen confirm their readiness to comply with sanitary requirements. Entrepreneurs claim they lost their income in the absence of support from the local authorities.
Eight Russian doctors arrive at Yerevan airport, June 22, 2020. Photo: Facebook / ՀՀ առողջապահության նախարարություն
17:24, 22 June 2020
Russian doctors arrive in Armenia to treat coronavirus-infected patients
On June 21, eight out of fifty Russian doctors sent to help their colleagues in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic arrived in Armenia. Over the day, 320 cases of the coronavirus infection were detected in the country. 13 coronavirus-infected patients died.
Sodier of the Defence Army. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia, http://mil.am/hy/news/7980
17:10, 22 June 2020
Azerbaijan registers machine gun and sniper shelling attacks in Karabakh conflict zone
The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 26 times within 24 hours, including from machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.
Special operation. Photo: press service of the National Antiterrorist Committee, http://nac.gov.ru/antiterroristicheskie-ucheniya/v-irkutskom-gosudarstvennom-muzykalnom-teatre.html
13:22, 22 June 2020
On June 15-21, no victims were recorded in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus
During the week of June 15-21, 2020, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no casualties or victims were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
News
Islamic scholars explained the specifics of calculating zakat in Chechnya and Dagestan.

Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

Aishat Baimuradova's killers threatened her acquaintance, a native of Dagestan.

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.