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17:00, 11 August 2012
Second Azerbaijani boxer wins bronze Olympic medal
Today at night, the Azerbaijani boxer Magomedrasul Medzhidov has lost – in the weight category of over 91 kg – his semi-final fight at the Olympic Games in London to Italian Roberto Cammarelle and lost a chance to compete for the gold medal. Medzhidov received a bronze medal.
16:00, 11 August 2012
Native of Abkhazia Denis Tsargush wins Olympic bronze in freestyle wrestling
A native of Abkhazia Denis Tsargush, a member of the Russian team at the Olympic Games in London, has won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling in the weight category of up to 74 kg.
15:00, 11 August 2012
Heavy rain floods several streets in Kutaisi
At night on August 10, as a result of a heavy rain that struck the city of Kutaisi (Imereti Region, Western Georgia) several streets were flooded. There is no data about any casualties and victims.
23:00, 10 August 2012
Volunteer Andrei Mareev who helped flood victims dies in Krasnodar Territory
Andrei Mareev, 39, who had come from St Petersburg to help local residents affected by the catastrophic flood, has died in the volunteers' camp set up in the settlement of Nizhnee Bakanskoye, Krasnodar Territory.
22:00, 10 August 2012
Dzhamal Otarsultanov from Chechnya wins gold in freestyle wrestling
The wrestler Dzhamal Otarsultanov, who is representing the Chechen Republic at the Olympic Games in London, has won the freestyle wrestling competition in the weight category of up to 55 kg.
21:00, 10 August 2012
Relatives of missing Makhachkala residents prepare protest actions
Relatives of the three residents of Makhachkala, who disappeared on June 28 in Astrakhan, say that after the Ramadan they will start their protest actions "because of authorities' idleness." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Shamkhal Bagaudinov, the uncle of Magomed Bagaudinov, one of the missing persons.
20:55, 10 August 2012
Motor rally "White Stream" leaves Moscow for Astrakhan today
The "White Stream" is a motor rally, whose participants plan to visit fifteen Russian cities. Today, they arrived in Yaroslavl and held an information picket there. The "White Stream" will have its finish on August 19 in Astrakhan and run via Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Kazan, Togliatti, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, Kamyshin and Akhtubinsk.
19:00, 10 August 2012
Azerbaijani boxer Teymur Mammadov wins Olympic bronze
Today, Teymur Mammadov, an Azerbaijani boxer in the weight category of up to 91 kg, lost the Olympic semi-final in London to the Italian Clemente Russo. However, he received a bronze medal of the Olympics.
18:00, 10 August 2012
Boxer from Stavropol Territory wins bronze at Olympics in London
Today, David Ayrapetyan, a boxer from the delegation of the Stavropol Territory at the Olympic Games in London, has added his bronze medal to the "treasury" of the Russian team.
17:00, 10 August 2012
Agranovskiy: ECtHR accepts appeal against sentence on riots in Manege Square
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted a complaint lodged by the defence of Igor Bereziuk, a convict for the unrests in Manege Square, said his lawyer Dmitry Agranovskiy.
15:00, 10 August 2012
In Sochi, ICRF head Alexander Bastrykin received persons during one day
Today, at 9:00 a.m., Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), finished receiving citizens in Sochi. For 22 hours, Mr Bastrykin received 70 persons from the Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk Territories, and Chelyabinsk and Moscow Regions.
14:00, 10 August 2012
Soldier of Azerbaijani Army perished
Bakhruz Seidullah oglu Ragimov, a serviceman of the National Army of Azerbaijan, was killed by his colleague's careless shot.
12:00, 10 August 2012
Search for militants in Vedeno District of Chechnya complicated by mountainous terrain
So far, the search for members of the armed underground conducted in the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya for the third day already has yielded no results. Power agents do not exclude that militants could escape from the blockaded area.
11:00, 10 August 2012
Nino Burjanadze's party refuses to participate in parliamentary elections in Georgia
The oppositional party headed by Nino Burjanadze, a former parliament's speaker, and named "Democratic Movement – United Georgia" will not take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
10:00, 10 August 2012
Deputy head of Khasavyurt sacked for his son helping militants
Salimkhan Djamaldinov, the deputy head of the administration of Khasavyurt, whose son surrendered during a special operation, was dismissed from his post on the initiative of the head of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed at the department for information policy and press service of the president of Dagestan.
23:00, 9 August 2012
Yusup Zubairaev: about 500 Chechens from Syria want to return to Chechnya
About 500 Chechens, residing in Syria, wish to return to their historic homeland to the Chechen Republic; at present, the problems of the issuance of long-term visas and residence permits for them are being solved. This was reported by the Department of External Relations of the Chechen leader and the government of Chechnya.
22:00, 9 August 2012
120 children from Syria arrive in Armenia
Today, the "Armavia" Airline carried out a special flight "Yerevan-Damascus-Yerevan" to transport children of Syrian Armenians to Armenia. This flight brought 120 children, who were met by Granush Akopyan, Minister of Diaspora of Armenia, Syrian Ambassador to Armenia, and by their relatives.
21:00, 9 August 2012
In Dagestan, 7 persons killed in shootout
5 policemen and 2 persons, suspected of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF) killed in a shootout in the Botlikh District of Dagestan.
20:00, 9 August 2012
Hours-long delay of flight from Moscow to Makhachkala caused by aircraft failure
On August 5, the flight "Moscow-Makhachkala" of the "Utair" Airline was delayed because of an aircraft's failure. This was reported by a representative of the airline carrier. After passengers arranged a protest action, the Airline provided them with another aircraft on August 6.
19:00, 9 August 2012
In Armenia, new suspects appear in case on beating military doctors
The Armenian police received evidence that the fight at the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, as a result of which military doctor Vage Avetyan perished, involved other participants, apart from 6 arrested persons. The journalists were informed about that by Arsen Aivazyan, the representative of the Police of Armenia.
News
Two North Caucasus republics are among the regions with the highest road traffic fatality rates.

Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

An arrested teenager. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in ChatGPT. During the week from December 22 to 28, no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia.

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.