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19:15, 1 January 2014
Mutsolgov: in 2013 no crime in Ingushetia was qualified as terror act
In 2013, not a single crime in Ingushetia was qualified as an act of terror, said Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", adding, by summing up the year, that the republic saw no kidnappings and no disappearances.
18:32, 1 January 2014
"Eco Watch" activists released from detention centre in Tuapse
On Wednesday, activists of the "Ecological Watch for North Caucasus" Alexei Mandrigelya, Anna Mikhailova and sisters Tatiana and Valentina Borisova, sentenced to three days of administrative arrest, left the detention centre in Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory.
Police detains youth activists at the protest action in Baku on December 29, 2013. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:32, 1 January 2014
Baku: five youth activists go on hunger strike
Today, five youth activists kept in Baku under administrative arrest have announced a hunger strike in protest against torture and inhuman treatment. The start of the action was reported by their parents.
Volgograd, December 31, 2013. Portraits of Alexei Valenta and Alexander Dolgikh, who died in the terror act at the railway station in Volgograd on December 29. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:44, 1 January 2014
Volgograd buries two children killed by explosion at railway station
On December 31, the funeral of Alexei Valenta, 12, and Alexander Dolgikh, 11, who died in the terror act in Volgograd, took place in the farm of Vertyachy, Gorodische District of Volgograd Region.
Liquidation of a spontaneous dump in Parallelnaya Street in Sochi. December 29, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
08:40, 1 January 2014
Spontaneous dump liquidated in Sochi
A spontaneous dump that appeared in Parallelnaya Street in Sochi and caused protests of local residents is liquidated. However, district officials and special truck fleet, as well as local residents, believe that the problem is solved only temporarily.
Announcement of a rally demanding to put the systems of housing utilities and urban management into proper order, scheduled for January 5, on a frontpage of the local newspaper "Mestnaya". Sochi, December 25, 2013
06:50, 1 January 2014
Sochi: rally demanding to put housing and communal services into order scheduled for January 5
On January 5, 2014, Sochi will host a rally demanding to put the systems of housing utilities and urban management into proper order. The action was sanctioned, said the Mayoralty.
19:05, 31 December 2013
Alexander Cherkasov finds new book of HRC "Memorial" interesting in context of Sochi Olympic Games
The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has published the book "Three Years of 'Stability'", which combines quarterly newsletters with analysis of the situation in the conflict zone in Northern Caucasus from the human rights defenders' point of view. The book is interesting in the context of the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi. Thus was emphasized by Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial".
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com
19:05, 31 December 2013
Northern Caucasus-2013: independent experts sum up the year (video)
The change of power in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria; refusal from direct elections of heads of most of the regions; termination of the militants' adaptation commission and suspension of dialogue among different currents of Islam in Dagestan – these events, as the most significant for Northern Caucasus in 2013, as of December 24, were assessed by the experts dealing with the region.
18:55, 31 December 2013
Ibragim Nurov, murdered in Stavropol Territory, was earlier kidnapped from mosque, his relatives assert
Ibragim Nurov, 25, a resident of the aul of Abram-Tybe, Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, who was killed on December 30 near the village of Kayasula, had been earlier kidnapped by unidentified persons on December 27 from the mosque in Neftekumsk, his relatives assert.
Makhachkala, December 31, 2013. Participants of the memorial rally about the victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd. Photo by the press service of the President of the Dagestan Republic, http://president.e-dag.ru/
17:57, 31 December 2013
Makhachkala: 2000 come to commemorate victims of Volgograd terror acts
Today, about two thousand people took part in the memorial rally about the victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the press service of the head of Dagestan.
Buynaksk, Dagestan. Photo http://www.odnoselchane.ru/
14:20, 31 December 2013
Car explosion kills assistant to Buynaksk Public Prosecutor
Rasul Gasanov, an assistant to the Public Prosecutor of the city of Buynaksk, was in his car, when an explosion occurred underneath. Gasanov died on the spot, said Rasul Temerbekov, the spokesman of the local Investigating Committee.
At the place of the terror act. Volgograd, December 30, 2013. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
13:26, 31 December 2013
Death toll of Volgograd terror acts reaches 36
The explosion in Volgograd trolleybus killed 16 people, including the suicide bomber, not 15, as reported earlier, the spokesman of the local Ministry of Public Health said today. Thus, the total number of casualties of the explosions on December 29 and 30 is 36 people.
13:10, 31 December 2013
Death toll of car explosion in Khasavyurt is two
The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports with reference to the latest data of power agents that the explosion of a police car in Khasavyurt on December 30 claimed two human lives.
Sochi, panorama of the Olympic objects in Imeretin Valley, 2013. Photo: sc-os.ru
12:13, 31 December 2013
States offer to help Russia in securing Sochi Olympics
The US Govt has offered its Russian counterpart a full support in ensuring security of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, said Caitlin Hayden, the press secretary of the US National Security Council.
Volgograd railway station after the terror act on December 29, 2013. Photo: http://www.volganet.ru/
10:02, 31 December 2013
Social care bodies of Volgograd Region receive 107 million roubles to pay victims
107 million roubles have been transferred to the social care bodies of the Volgograd Region, engaged in payments to casualties' families and victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd. On December 30, financial aid was paid to 17 people, said the regional governor Sergey Bozhenov.
Volgograd, December 30, 2013. At the spot of the trolleybus explosion near Kachinsky market in Volgograd. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
08:39, 31 December 2013
Volgograd: list of casualties of trolleybus explosion is 16 already (video)
The death toll of the trolleybus explosion in Volgograd has reached 16 people, including the suicide bomber. At night on December 31, a wounded man died in hospital, said a medical source from the Southern Federal District (SFD).
02:12, 31 December 2013
HRW: Akhshtyr villagers in Sochi have no access to drinking water and public transport
The mountain village of Akhshtyr, Adler District of Sochi, has been deprived for five years of reliable water supply and is cut off from public transport and other infrastructure because of the Olympic construction, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports.
The police detains members of the "People's Assembly" in Volgograd, organized in the context of recent terror acts. December 30, 2013. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
01:58, 31 December 2013
Details of detentions in Volgograd: policemen disrupt nationalists' action
The police have detained about 30 members of the "People's Assembly" in Volgograd, organized in the context of recent terror acts. According to eyewitnesses, the rally was attended by about 200 people, but the police began to disperse and detain them.
Andrei Serenko, the coordinator of the "Club of Experts of Volgograd". Photo: http://fedpress.ru/
01:50, 31 December 2013
Serenko: in Volgograd Region terrorists make use of power agents' drawbacks
Terror act organizers are successful in the Volgograd Region because of the weakness of local power agents, who are unable to prevent suicide attacks, said Andrei Serenko, the coordinator of the "Club of Experts of Volgograd". In order to prevent terror acts, it is necessary to consolidate the society, said political scientist Ruslan Kurbanov.
At the place of the terror act in a trolleybus in Volgograd. Volgograd, December 30, 2013. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:30, 30 December 2013
Two Volgograd terror acts committed within 24 hours killed 33 and wounded 64 persons
The death toll of the two terror acts committed in Volgograd on December 29 and 30 includes 33 people, including the suicide bombers. The Volgograd Regional Administration has spread the list of those wounded which contains the names of 64 people.
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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....

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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.