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22:30, 14 May 2013
In Yerevan, the court postponed the court session on the lawsuit filed by the company "Dino Gold Mining" against ecologist Yeghiya Nersisyan till June 10. The court session scheduled for May 13 was not held because of illness of Tigran Yegoryan and Lusine Akopyan, advocates of the ecologist.
22:20, 14 May 2013
On May 13, the Baku Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Abid Abdinbekov, considered the appeal filed by theologian Talekh Bagirzade against the refusal to grant the motion to change the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of detention in custody to home arrest. The Court dismissed the appeal filed by Talekh Bagirzade and left him in custody. The defence intends to file a complaint against, according to the defence's opinion, unlawful arrest to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
22:10, 14 May 2013
The journalist community of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) appealed to Oleg Zharikov, Republic's Prosecutor, with a request to take under his control the investigation into the case against journalist Igor Tsagoev.
22:00, 14 May 2013
Azer Aikhan, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Azerbaijani opposition newspaper "Yeni Musavat", claims receiving during three days the demands to stop publishing critical articles about Elmar Veliev, the head of the executive authorities of the city of Gandzha, and threats of physical violence.
21:00, 14 May 2013
The murder of a young man in Volgograd was committed because of his unconventional sexual orientation, one of the detainees, suspected of committing the crime told investigators. This was reported by Badma Gilyandikov, a representative of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
20:00, 14 May 2013
Alexander Dunaev, ex-Mayor of the city of Lermontov of the Stavropol Territory, is suspected of attempting to discredit the election of the City Mayor and interfere with work of the election commission, and he faces up to four years of imprisonment. This was reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
19:00, 14 May 2013
Gadjimurad Gamzatov appealed to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with a request to assist in the search for and protection of the rights of his brother Makhach. On May 15, at the request of the brother of Makhach Gamzatov, the appeal will be sent to the Republic's Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by Elena Denisenko, the representative of the HRC "Memorial" in Dagestan.
18:00, 14 May 2013
The Police Department of the city of Worcester has stated that the state is to repay the expenses in the amount of 47,171 US dollars for the protection of the funeral home "Graham, Putnam and Mahoney", where the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of committing the terror act in Boston, was stored.
17:00, 14 May 2013
In Karachay-Cherkessia, a 23-year contract military from Bashkiria shot to his head and survived. This was reported by the police of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).
22:50, 13 May 2013
Three soldiers from Georgia were killed, and 20 others were wounded in the Afghan province of Helmand in a terrorists' attack on the military base, said today Irakli Alasaniya, the Georgian Defence Minister.
22:30, 13 May 2013
In the park of the December Uprising in the Presnya District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, 11 natives of Northern Caucasus were detained. The police suspect them of robbery.
The building of the Nalchik City Court. Photo from http://nalchiksky.kbr.sudrf.ru
22:20, 13 May 2013
Today, the Nalchik City Court has declared illegal the charges of abuse of power of the figurants of the case of trying to sell the building of the Philharmonic Society, said the lawyer Ruslan Koblev.
22:10, 13 May 2013
The Interpol has stopped searching for the Georgian MP Givi Targamadze, who had been put on the international wanted list by the Russian MIA, by regarding the request of the Russian party as politically motivated. As of May 12, Targamadze is still being wanted in Russia.
Ilya Goryachev. Photo from his personal page on vk.com
22:00, 13 May 2013
Ilya Goryachev and Mikhail Volkov, members of the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN), suspected of involvement in the murders of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the judge Eduard Chuvashov, have been detained in the territory of Serbia and Ukraine, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.
Armenia, May 13, 2013: farmers from the Armavir Region block the highway Armavir-Margara demanding compensation of damage caused by a heavy hail. Courtesy of the http://www.aysor.am
21:00, 13 May 2013
Today, the highway Armavir-Margara was blocked by farmers from the Armavir Region, who demanded compensations for the damage caused by heavy hail.
20:00, 13 May 2013
Today, the court has dismissed the appeal against the two-month extension of the arrest of Mamed Azizov, a civil activist of the movement "Nida" (Shout), accused of drug possession.
19:00, 13 May 2013
Today, the Baku Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", and upheld the decision of the First Instance Court, which had sentenced the journalist to 9 years in prison.
18:00, 13 May 2013
In Dagestan, policemen have detained Zaurbek Ashurov, 25, a resident of Buynaksk, and took him to some unknown place, said his brother Shamsudin Ashurov. In its turn, the press service of the Dagestani MIA has reported that they know nothing about the detention.
A street in Makhachkala, Dagestan, May 2013. Photo by Akhmed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
17:00, 13 May 2013
A check of the information about the kidnapping in Makhachkala of a resident of the republic Makhach Gamzatov will be undertaken by a special unit of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, said Shamil Nasimov, Senior Assistant of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic for contacts with media and public relations, a Senior Adviser of Justice. Gamzatov was detained by the police, said a source from the Lenin ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala.
23:59, 11 May 2013
According to the spokesman of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in Buynaksk unidentified gunmen opened fire at a car and killed a policeman and a civilian who was with him in the car.
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.