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Salekh Magamadov (left) and Ismail Isaev. Screenshot: https://www.facebook.com/KavkazRealii/videos/227279865717873
22:21, 21 December 2021
The Achkhoi-Martan Court of Chechnya refused to transfer to another region the consideration of a case against Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev brothers, accused of aiding and abetting a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF). The brothers went on a hunger strike with the demand to send their case to a court outside Chechnya.
Rubati Mitsaeva. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU9gjd_mmHY
21:56, 21 December 2021
Rubati Mitsaeva got the role of a Ramzan Kadyrov’s admirer to motivate other Chechen migrants to return to their homeland, note human rights defenders interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”.
Garnik Isangulyan. Photo: 23artashes  https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Исагулян,_Гарник_Самвелович
18:05, 21 December 2021
When explaining the detention of the oppositionist, the Investigative Committee of Armenia reported that Garnik Isangulyan publicly and unreasonably accused an Armenian diplomat of a crime.
Sakhavet Mamed. Photo: MEDIAN TV https://d9mc3ts4czbpr.cloudfront.net/ru/article/v-azerbajdzhane-sud-oshtrafoval-zhurnalista-za-publikacziyu-ob-armii/
17:52, 21 December 2021
In Azerbaijan, journalist Sakhavet Mamed was fined 500 manats for posting an article in an online newspaper about bribes in the country’s army.
Barakh Chemurziev, convicted together with six other leaders of the protest in Magas, in a courtroom. Screenshot: https://t.me/fortangaorg/10748
17:33, 21 December 2021
In a video message addressed to Alexander Sokurov, Barakh Chemurziev, convicted together with six other leaders of the protest in Magas, thanked the film director for his courage and decision to support for the Ingush activists before Vladimir Putin.
Supporters of former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at the rally. Screenshot of video posted by Sputnik Georgia at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9_4LWu7VKE
13:18, 21 December 2021
Today, on the birthday of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, several dozen of his supporters went out to a protest action in Tbilisi, where they demanded to release the politician and also congratulated him on his birthday, the "Rustavi-2" TV Company has reported on its website today.
An agricultural fair in Makhachkala. Photo: Administration of Makhachkala
13:07, 21 December 2021
Dagestan has the lowest food prices in Russia, Battal Battalov, the acting head of the region's Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs, has stated. In response, Instagram users have noted that people's earnings in the republic are one of the lowest in the country and unstable, while utility tariffs are high.
Azerbaijani soldiers detained after crossing the border. Photo: Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan https://t.me/Acevsmisle/1627
11:28, 21 December 2021
The Azerbaijani soldiers, detained after crossing the border, have been handed over to Baku through Russia's mediation, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed. The above soldiers were taken prisoners of war (POWs) after they lost their way due to bad weather, the Azerbaijani MoD has informed.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Photo: Frank Baulo https://ru.wikipedia.org/
11:01, 21 December 2021
Two German diplomats were declared persona non grata in Russia in response to similar German actions against Russian diplomats after the verdict in the case of the murder of Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has treated the sentence to a Russian citizen found guilty of assassinating Khangoshvili as a political order.
Flags of Turkey and Armenia. Photo:  https://anna-news.info/turtsiya-i-armeniya-hotyat-snova-sblizitsya/
08:32, 21 December 2021
Armenia and Turkey have appointed special representatives for normalizing the two countries' mutual relations; their meeting is planned for the near future.
Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the Caucasian Knot
08:20, 21 December 2021
At their four solo pickets held in Makhachkala, Dagestani journalists demanded to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, stop arrests without proofs and persecuting journalists; they also called for the release of political prisoners.
Courtroom at the Southern District Military Court. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the Caucasian Knot
22:22, 20 December 2021
Today, in Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court has found six residents of Dagestan guilty of organizing a terrorist community and plotting attempts on law enforcers and sentenced them to 6.5-8 years of imprisonment.
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.
18:39, 20 December 2021
Verdict of guilty against the leaders of the protest in Ingushetia; end of the Azerbaijani activist Salekh Rustamov’s hunger strike; arrival of migrant Rubati Mitsaeva in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 13-19, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
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.
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.