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15:30, 30 June 2011
Tbilisi Court sentences Okruashvili in absentia to two months in jail
The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced, under the motion of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, in absentia Irakli Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence and co-chair of the "Georgian Party", to two months of custody as a preventive measure of liberty deprivation.
Mountainous Ingushetia. Territory of the Djeirakh-Assin Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve. Photo by Beslan Bekov: sunja-edu.livejournal.com
15:00, 30 June 2011
Rumours about Umarov's stay in Djeirakh District of Ingushetia are directed against resort project, experts say
The information that the leader of North-Caucasian armed underground Dokku Umarov is hiding somewhere in the Djeirakh District of Ingushetia may be directed at disrupting the resort projects to be implemented in the area, said Ruslan Khautiev, a local political analyst.
14:00, 30 June 2011
MIA: one of sisters assassinated in Chechnya was pregnant
Chechnya continues investigating the killing of two sisters, the youngest of whom was 15 years old. The bodies of the girls were sent to examination, the local law enforcers assert. Their father who confessed of murdering one of the daughters by negligence is under threat of up to 20 years in prison.
11:00, 30 June 2011
Development of diving tourism started in Georgia
Development of diving tourism and realization of a project of underwater biological multiformity has started in Georgia.
10:00, 30 June 2011
A referendum on the status of the Russian language announced in South Osetia
On September, 11, a referendum on the status of the Russian language will be held in South Osetia. The respective edict of President Edward Kokoiti came into effect and was published on June, 29, in state mass media.
09:00, 30 June 2011
20 persons injured as a result of the explosion in Vladikavkaz are still staying in Moscow hospitals
There are currently 20 persons injured as a result of the explosion of a gas bottle in Moscow clinics, two of them in the resuscitation department.
23:00, 29 June 2011
A woman injured in gas explosion in Vladikavkaz died
Today, at 9:00 p.m., Albina Arkaeva, born in 1962, who received serious burning injuries in the explosion of gas cylinder in Vladikavkaz on 25 June, died in Moscow hospital, reported Irbek Doev, the spokesperson of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Moscow.
22:00, 29 June 2011
Rostov Region: rally against medical emergency service closure at Zverevo hospital
On June 28 about 400 residents of the city of Zverevo of Rostov Region started a rally against the closure of the emergency medical service at the central city hospital.
21:00, 29 June 2011
Chechnya: Petroleum College Director accused of bribery
The law enforcement authorities of Chechnya have instituted a criminal case against the director of the Petroleum College of the Grozny State Technical University, who is suspected of taking bribes.
20:00, 29 June 2011
Azerbaijan: Bloomberg photojournalist Diana Markosyan deported
On June 28 in the evening the authorities of Azerbaijan expelled from the country a Bloomberg employee, who was detained at Baku Airport, said a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the republic.
19:00, 29 June 2011
Rostov Region: court recognized publications of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist
In the city of Salsk of Rostov Region Judge Marina Fedyakova recognized a number of materials of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist and rejected the request of the defendant's lawyers to question a linguist witness and to make a repeated psycho-linguistic-religious examination.
18:00, 29 June 2011
Moscow's Court rejected material damage compensation to parents of children lost in Yeysk Spit
Today, the Tver Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the relatives of the schoolchildren lost in Yeysk Spit, containing demand of compensation for material damages. As the lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the families of the deceased, said, the court's decision would be appealed.
17:00, 29 June 2011
Dagestan: local resident reported his nephew's disappearance
Today Magomed Yusupov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about disappearance of his nephew Davud Israpilov, which occurred on June 24. According to Magomed Yusupov, earlier, Davud has been repeatedly summoned for questioning in the OVD (Interior Division) of the Tsuntin District.
16:00, 29 June 2011
Azerbaijan: opposition continues protests demanding democratic reforms
The Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) intends to continue protests demanding democratic reforms in Azerbaijan. This was announced on June 28 by Isa Gambar, a member of the Coordinating Council of the CMDPC, a leader of the party "Musavat".
15:00, 29 June 2011
Suspects in two foreign women's beating in Baku rejected political motives of their actions
The law enforcement authorities of Azerbaijan detained the fourth suspect in beating on 15 June in Baku of Amanda Erickson, an American journalist, and Celia Davis, a British human rights activist. This is Nazim Khuseinov, a resident of Babak District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). All four detainees said that they did not know who the girls were and that initially they wanted to get acquainted with them.
Picket on the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims with participation of rights defenders and residents of Chechnya who suffered from rights violations. Chechnya, Grozny, June 24, 2011. Photo by the press service of the Chechen Representative Office of the IRPO "Committee against Torture"
14:00, 29 June 2011
Questioning of "Dosh": Chechen residents hardly trust in local human rights organizations
Residents of Chechnya hardly trust in the official agencies, which activity is aimed at human rights protection, and out of 200 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the country only the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" faces the relative confidence of the population. These are the results of a questioning survey conducted by the Caucasian independent magazine "Dosh".
13:00, 29 June 2011
Georgian Parliament: opposition initiates investigation of pressure on journalists
The Parliament of Georgia established an initiative group to create a temporary parliamentary commission to investigate the facts of pressure on journalists. The Georgian MP Dzhondi Bagaturiya announced that at the press briefing on June 29.
12:00, 29 June 2011
The Ministry of Interior Affairs: an underage resident of Chechnya exploded policemen out of revenge
On June, 28, a nineteen-year-old resident of Urus-Martan district of Chechnya Yusup Magomedov was sentenced to six years and one month of custody by the court with service of the sentence in a general regime colony for committing an act of terror. The reason for Yusup Magomedov’s joining the gunmen became the murder of his close relative who had also been a participant of armed underground, a representative of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya considers.
11:00, 29 June 2011
A father of two girls detained in Chechnya for suspicion of their murder
On June, 27, the personnel of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya detained a father of two girls, one of them underage, in Shelkovskoy district of the republic for suspicion of having committed a murder. The “Caucasian Knot” correspondent received this news from the republican law enforcement bodies.
10:00, 29 June 2011
“The New Rights” in Georgia explain singing an agreement with the ruling party by the necessity of compromising
Among the points of the agreement on electoral issues signed by the ruling party with several oppositional parties of Georgia there is an increase of the number of seats in Parliament from 150 to 190 along with the increase of the portion of deputies elected on the basis of party lists and paying off one million lari to each party which overcomes the 5% barrier at the parliamentary election. “The New Rights” consider these points the most significant ones.
News
Ukrainian prisoners held in Chechnya have returned home.

522 people remain in temporary accommodation centers after the flood in Dagestan.

Domestic violence. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in Photoshop. Human rights activists have recorded a surge in requests for assistance in the North Caucasus.

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.