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Abkhazian national team at the World Domino Championship. Photo courtesy of the Abkhazian domino national team http://sputnik-abkhazia.ru/Abkhazia/20171029/1022268351/abxaziya-v-pervoj-desyatke-zavershilsya-chempionat-mira-po-domino.html
04:45, 30 October 2017
Abkhazian domino national team enters top ten in world
On October 22-29, the city of Willemstad in the island of Curaçao hosted the World Domino Championship. The national team of Abkhazia occupied the tenth place.
The first grenade festival in the city of Martuni, Martuni District of Nagorno-Karabakh. October 29, 2017. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:11, 29 October 2017
Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh present their products at pomegranate festival
Today, more than 55 pavilions have been opened at the first grenade festival in the Martuni District of Nagorno-Karabakh. Agricultural workers and gardeners from the Martuni, Gadrut, and Kashatag Districts have presented their products at the festival.
A flag of Catalonia hung over from a balcony of a house in the historical center of Barcelona. October 14, 2017. Photo by Yuliya Kasheta for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:28, 29 October 2017
Nagorno-Karabakh supports demands for Catalonia's independence
Residents of Catalonia have the right to independently determine the political status of the region, reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for Nagorno-Karabakh.
The winners were awarded statuettes of the Ingush tower. Photo: http://www.mincultri.ru/news/detail.php?ID=6371
10:19, 29 October 2017
A film from China wins Grand Prix of "Golden Tower" Festival
The film "Brave Warriors" by Chinese film director Ning Heijiang has won the International Film Festival "Golden Tower" held in Ingushetia.
A deportation camp in Turkey. Photo: screenshot of the video by Channel One Russia
06:22, 29 October 2017
Natives of Northern Caucasus massively detained in Turkey, Diaspora members report
Mass arrests of people from Northern Caucasus began in Turkey. Members of the North-Caucasian Diaspora collect signatures under an appeal to the Turkish authorities with a demand to stop the persecution of migrants and release the detainees.
Bella Shakhmirzova. Photo from her personal page on "VKontakte"
04:21, 29 October 2017
Summer school project for Nogai District of KChR enters final of Google contest
In the summer, under the "Balapanal" project, which claims to win the Google contest "Far from capital", children from the Nogai District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) learned for free their native language, learned to play national instruments, and practiced jujitsu.
Law enforcers. Grozny. Chechnya. Photo: REUTERS/Alkhan Gargayev
02:32, 29 October 2017
Residents of Chechnya report mass detentions of young people
Mass detentions of people suspected of the use of narcotic and psychotropic substances are being carried out in Chechnya. The raids are of operational and preventive nature, the police explained.
Participants of opposition rally in Baku, October 28, 2017. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot.
20:59, 28 October 2017
Opposition rally blames Azerbaijani authorities for corruption
Azerbaijan is experiencing an economic downturn, and most people live in poverty. At the same time, the country has 160 political prisoners and sees continued repressions, the participants of the opposition rally in Baku have stated.
Arc de Triomf in Barcelona, October 14, 2017. Photo by Yulia Kasheta for the Caucasian Knot.
18:23, 28 October 2017
Abkhazia announces conditions for recognition of Catalonia's independence
Abkhazia is ready to consider the issue on recognition of the Catalonia's independence in case it receives an appropriate address and sees that Catalonia needs that. This has been announced by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Abkhazia.
Lari. Photo from website pirveliradio.ge
17:38, 28 October 2017
Economists associate drop of lari with negative expectations and stronger dollar
The exchange rate of the Georgian lari against the US dollar has been steadily dropping since the start of the week; while on October 27 the lari/euro exchange rate fell below the historical minimum. Economists link the lari weakening with the end of the tourist season, post-election recession of economic activities and the trend that has forced people to expect for the lari devaluation this autumn.
Barcelona at night. Photo by Yulia Kasheta for the Caucasian Knot.
17:32, 28 October 2017
Azerbaijan supports territorial integrity of Spain
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has commented on the independence from Spain declared by the Catalan Parliament and mentioned the origin of the Karabakh conflict.
Participant of the rally holds flag of Azerbaijan with inscription demanding to stop corruption and to free political prisoners, Baku, October 28, 2017. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot.
15:05, 28 October 2017
In Baku, about 1000 people come to rally against corruption
Participants of the Azerbaijani opposition's rally organized under the slogan "No robbery and lie!" came to the stadium in the Yasamal District of Baku with portraits of political prisoners and socio-political posters.
Picket in support of Catalonia independence at Barcelona City Council, October 14, 2017. Photo by Yulia Kasheta.
14:05, 28 October 2017
South Ossetia expresses its willingness to recognize Catalonia as an independent state
South Ossetia will consider the issue on recognition of the Catalonia's independence. This was announced by Dmitry Medoev, South-Ossetian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in connection with the resolution on independence from Spain adopted by the Parliament of Catalonia on October 27.
Raisa Pogodaeva. Photo from personal Facebook page.
13:15, 28 October 2017
Kuban activist arrested for reposting video with swastika
Raisa Pogodaeva, an opposition activist from the town of Goryachiy Klyuch, has been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for reposting a video of Kuban blogger Leonid Kudinov with a swastika. This has been reported by activist Darya Polyudova.
Zhirair Sefilyan. Photo: http://minval.az/news/123583985
11:48, 28 October 2017
Zhirair Sefilyan's advocate calls on Armenian General Prosecutor to resign
At a court hearing held on October 27, in the Zhirair Sefilyan's case, the judge announced the completion of questioning the witnesses and the beginning of a new stage to study the evidence, reported the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Dmitry Batyrev. Photo: RFE/RL
04:26, 28 October 2017
Victims criticize judgement on Dmitry Batyrev's death case
Some of those convicted in the case of Dmitry Batyrev's death in Kalmyk Colony No. 1 received unduly short prison terms, the victims' advocate has stated.
Ekaterina Voloshina holds solo picket in Sochi, October 27, 2017. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the Caucasian Knot.
03:26, 28 October 2017
Sochi: activist holds picket demanding to release Gudimov and Khristosenko
Ekaterina Voloshina, an employee of one of Sochi legal firms, has held a solo picket in protest against the actual ban on opposition protests and with a demand to release the arrested activists Konstantin Gudimov and Olesya Khristosenko.
02:31, 28 October 2017
Volgograd activist appeals against Mayoralty's refusal to sanction picket
Anatoly Eldyrkin, a member of the Volgograd Human Rights Council (HRC) and a participant in "Strategy-31" actions, has filed a lawsuit demanding to recognize illegal the Mayoralty's refusal to sanction a picket scheduled by activists for October 29.
23:19, 27 October 2017
Resident of Mozdok found in IVS after kidnapping
Alim Chervaev, a resident of Mozdok, who was kidnapped by armed people from the city marketplace on October 26, is kept at the temporary isolation facility (known as IVS) of the Mozdok District, his relatives have reported. Power agents assert that they had found firearms and drugs on him, but his friends and relatives are sure that he is innocent.
Mikhail Saakashvili (right). Photo: REUTERS/Vitaliy Hrabar
19:32, 27 October 2017
Saakashvili repeatedly asks asylum in Ukraine
The former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has repeatedly, this time in person, filed an application for granting him additional protection status in Ukraine, Markiyan Galabala, his advocate, has stated today.
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The diplomat named the conditions for opening Armenia's borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan.

The report of mine incidents in Karabakh has sparked a debate about the causes of injuries and deaths.

Sapper. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Mine threats remain for residents of Karabakh outside villages

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.