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Sultan Belkhoroev. Photo: http://bakdar.org
02:57, 9 October 2017
In Ingushetia, Sultan Belkhoroev, an elder of the religious concept (Wird) for followers of Batal-Khadji Belkhoroev, died after a short illness and was buried.
00:48, 9 October 2017
In the city of Telavi, a man attacked an office of the "European Georgia" Party and threatened to use weapons. After his detention, it turned out that his pistol was a model of combat weapon.
Dmitry Titkov. Photo from Facebook personal account
18:45, 8 October 2017
Today, Dmitry Titkov's advocate managed to release the activist from the police, where Titkov was brought in the previous evening from his solo picket in support of Alexei Navalny. The activist said that he had spent 16 hours in the dungeon (punishment cell) without food, water and chance to go to the toilet.
Anti-corruption rally in Baku, October 7, 2017. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucaisian Knot.
16:42, 8 October 2017
The Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has treated the arrests of its activists, detained on the eve of the rally held in Baku on October 7, as politically motivated.
Photo of one of the house blown up by power agents on October 1, 2017, Kizlyar District of Dagestan. Photo taken from 'Memorial' website.
15:26, 8 October 2017
Power agents planted drugs on Dinmagomed Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, and demanded to confess of keeping them, threatening to blow up the family's house, his father said. The court ruled to arrest Magomedov.
Rainbow flags. Photo: https://www.svoboda.org/a/28496059.html
13:26, 8 October 2017
Since April 2017, they managed to raise 300,000 euros to evacuate gays from Chechnya and to render psychological aid to them, the Russian LGBT Network reports.
06:07, 8 October 2017
Two young men found a bomb in Makhachkala, reported to power agents, and were detained. According to Shuai Magomedov, the father of one of the young men, after the detention, they were tortured.
Picket of Alexei Navalny’s supporters in Volgograd, October 7, 2017. Photo by Tatiana Filimonova for the Caucasian Knot.
00:22, 8 October 2017
In Volgograd, a picket of Alexei Navalny’s supporters passed with a minimum number of policemen, but under the supervision of young participants’ parents.
Advocate Mikhail Benyash is not allowed to visit the special detention facility in Sadovaya street where the detained activists are kept. Krasnodar, October 7, 2017. Photo courtesy of the oppositionist's regional office
22:11, 7 October 2017
At least 30 people were detained at an action in support of Navalny in Krasnodar. They are not allowed to be visited by an advocate, the oppositionist's office reported.
The participoants of the opposition rally. Baku, October 7, 2017. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
17:44, 7 October 2017
At the today's rally, the Azerbaijani opposition has accused the country's authorities of corruption and human rights violations. The protesters demanded to investigate the facts of corruption, punish the guilty persons and release political prisoners.
Ziyavudin Magomedov and Khuchbar Khuchbarov, the Director of the "Summa" Group Representative Office in Dagestan. May 30, 2017. Photo: press service of the "Summa" Group
17:04, 7 October 2017
A carpet with an area of 1300 square meters, made especially for the Derbent Mosque, will replace the current covering of 1500 carpets.
A hunter with a killed griffon vulture, https://econews.am/?p=9194&l=am
11:09, 7 October 2017
The police reported it was Pogosyan, a resident of the Armavir Region, who was hunting for two griffon vultures. The Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection believes a fine for killing the endangered bird should be increased.
05:54, 7 October 2017
The withdrawal from the CE will deprive Azerbaijani citizens of the right to apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and will complicate the receipt of Schengen visas, and the authorities will face political and, perhaps, economic problems. This opinion is expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
The blown-up house of the Yusupov family. Photo by the Human Rights Centre "Memorial"
05:45, 7 October 2017
Rights defenders have confirmed that in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, houses of militants' family members were blown up. The house of the Adjiniyazov family was partially destroyed, and the house of the Yusupov family was almost completely destroyed.
Zelimkhan Bakaev. Photo: screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtYNAL8Ir0
03:09, 7 October 2017
The mother of Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev has addressed her son with a request to return home to save his parents' life. Attempts to find contact with Zelimkhan did not succeed, said his acquaintance.
Militaries bring the coffins with the bodies of the killed fighters.  Photo: Gk170.ru
22:49, 6 October 2017
Twelve coffins were brought to Rostov Airport with the bodies of the killed fighters of the so-called "Wagner Private Military Company" (WPMC), a female friend of Roman Zabolotniy, who was executed by militants in Syria, has reported today. Zabolotniy was participating in warfare as a mercenary not for the first time, his family friend has told.
Ruslan Gvashev (on the left). Photo: https://www.yuga.ru/news/421543/
19:27, 6 October 2017
Ruslan Gvashev has explained his decision not to address municipal hospitals by the fact that he has already got experience of finishing the hunger strike. Besides, the activist counts on support of a doctor he knows.
Vladimir Vasiliev. Photo: premier.gov.ru
18:23, 6 October 2017
Members of the Dagestani government and employees of the regional head’s administration have been awarded the status of acting servants.
Natalia Zubarevich. Photo: RFE/RL
16:31, 6 October 2017
When assessing the effectiveness of the leaders for the North-Caucasian regions and making a decision on resignations, the Kremlin draws attention to conflicts in the regional elites, rather than to economic indicators. This was told in an interview given to the "Caucasian Knot" by Professor Natalia Zubarevich.
16:09, 6 October 2017
The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced Islam Efendiev, Rustan Buttaev and Islam Osmanov, residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), to long prison terms. The defence has declared their innocence.
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.