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10:50, 19 August 2026
The acting head of Dagestan, Fyodor Shchukin, reported on the repair of electrical networks and named the reliability of energy supply as one of the main problems of the republic. Local residents, commenting on his report on social media, complained about regular power outages and demanded specific results from the authorities.
09:51, 19 August 2026
A driver from Baksana complained on social media that there are long queues at gas stations. Other motorists from Kabardino-Balkaria, commenting on his post, shared similar problems in other areas. They demanded that the authorities take effective measures to solve the queue problem at gas stations.
08:52, 19 August 2026
The court in Nalchik sentenced serviceman Salim Zhigunov to six years in prison, finding him guilty of being absent from service for more than one month.
Screenshot of the publication https://www.instagram.com/tut.dagestan/reel/DcG07S9qWG- (the activities of Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia)
07:54, 19 August 2026
A resident of Makhachkala filmed a video about the poor road on Sochinskaya Street, where several wheelchair users live. Commenting on the video on social media, the mother of a disabled child asked officials to repair the road. Other local residents urged supervisory authorities to pay attention to the situation.
06:55, 19 August 2026
The court fined a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia 400 thousand rubles, recognizing his comment on social media as rehabilitating Nazism.
05:54, 19 August 2026
The cassation court upheld the sentence of former deputies of the Volgograd city duma Evgeny Shchur, Fyodor Litvinenko, and Alexey Zverev, convicted of fraud.
03:56, 19 August 2026
The district court in Krasnodar denied Sochi resident Viktor Smirnov's request to be reinstated in the ranks of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). Smirnov believes that the decision to exclude him was made with gross violations of the party's charter and intends to appeal the court's refusal.
02:57, 19 August 2026
Ruslan Abanokov and two of his fellow countrymen from the Tersky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 469 combatants from Kabardino-Balkaria as killed there.
02:54, 19 August 2026
Former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov, serving a life sentence in the "Black Dolphin," has ended his hunger strike, his lawyer reported.
00:56, 19 August 2026
The military court in Rostov-on-Don will consider the case of a resident of Krasnodar accused of preparing a terrorist act, treason, and participating in a terrorist organization. The man faces a sentence of up to life imprisonment.
23:58, 18 August 2026
On the 629th day of protests, demonstrators in Tbilisi and Batumi took to the streets with placards reading "Antsukhledze is immortal," honoring the memory of the National Hero of Georgia on his birthday.
23:30, 18 August 2026
The Derbent City Court fined local resident Ibrahim Tajibov 30,000 rubles for a comment under a video with a police officer on Instagram**.
22:33, 18 August 2026
Armenia is interested in expanding and enhancing cooperation with the USA in various areas, including political ones, said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting with American Congressman Abraham Hamade after discussing the implementation of the TRIPP project.
22:01, 18 August 2026
The acting captain of the seaport of Caucasus, Evgeny Skorchenko, disputed the conclusions of the Federal Transport Oversight Agency regarding his involvement in the tanker crashes near the Kerch Strait in 2024, but the court supported the agency's position.
21:12, 18 August 2026
The military court in Rostov-on-Don will consider the case of a resident of the village of Kiyankiz in the Andropov district, accused of publicly justifying terrorism due to a comment in a messenger.
A police officer takes the rifle from the man. Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
20:29, 18 August 2026
A pensioner from the village of Yelany, Nikolai Mukhin, has been fined for attempting to independently shoot down a Ukrainian drone flying at night near the Yelansky district. His hunting rifle has also been confiscated. The man does not consider himself guilty and calls the punishment unfair.
19:42, 18 August 2026
The Derbent City Court approved a settlement agreement between the veterinary sanitary officer of the municipal animal shelter and its management. The woman was fired after she published a video on social media about the severe and unsanitary conditions in which the dogs were kept.
18:58, 18 August 2026
The great-grandson of the founder of the Batalkhadzhintsy brotherhood, Ilyas Belkharoev, died in Poland, and his relatives are preparing to bury him in Ingushetia. In Russia, Belkharoev was charged with a number of terrorist offenses.
18:31, 18 August 2026
14 people have been evacuated from Mount Elbrus - two groups of tourists who could not descend on their own due to bad weather.
17:40, 18 August 2026
The court in Krasnodar sentenced the author of the Telegram channel "Titushki in Krasnodar" Vitaly Votanovsky* to eight months in a penal colony. The case was considered in absentia, as the activist lives outside the Russian Federation.
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.