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12:00, 22 June 2011
The special operation in the South of Chechnya may last several months, members of power ministries state
A large-scale special operation against participants of armed underground which started on May, 20, in Vedeno district of Chechnya has not yielded any results yet, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports.
23:00, 21 June 2011
Kucher: Muslims detained in North Ossetia have advocates
In North Ossetia, lawyers and members of the Public Chamber have access to members of Muslim communities who were detained on May 31, stated a session of the Public Chamber of the republic.
22:00, 21 June 2011
Yerevan: subway fare to be doubled since July 1
Since July 1, subway fare in Yerevan will be doubled. Karen Karapetyan, the Mayor of Yerevan, announced this information.
21:00, 21 June 2011
Prosecution demands life imprisonment for accused of Kizlyar attack
The prosecutor Andrei Nazarov, speaking in the debates in the Supreme Court of Dagestan, demanded life imprisonment sentence for all three defendants in the case of terror act in Kizlyar on March 31, 2010.
20:00, 21 June 2011
Ingushetia: fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin constructs garment factory
Valentin Yudashkin, the fashion designer, approved the sites for the future garment factory which Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has shown him on June 21. The factory is to be built in the village of Ali-Yurt.
19:00, 21 June 2011
Armenia: deputy Arzakantsyan gives money collected from opposition newspaper to charity
Tigran Arzakantsyan, the representative of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, who won the lawsuit against the newspaper "Erkir" (Country) on the case of honour and dignity defence, intends to transfer the amount of 500 US dollars collected from the newspaper for charity. On June 21 he announced it to journalists.
18:30, 21 June 2011
Nagorno-Karabakh: journalists watch life of people
A group of journalists from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia and Armenia visit Nagorno-Karabakh. The programme of their visit schedules meetings with government officials, NGO representatives, travelling to remote regions of Nagorno-Karabakh.
18:00, 21 June 2011
Einullah Fatullaev called the Council of Europe to increase support to human rights in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev, a former political prisoner, visits Strasbourg at the invitation of the Council of Europe (CE). Within his visit, on June 20 he conducted a series of meetings in various structures of the Council of Europe.
17:00, 21 June 2011
Maryam Sharipova's brother got political refugee status in Italy
The Court of Trieste declared the decision of the Commission's on Political Asylum, which had rejected asylum for Anvar Sharipov, to be illegal due to insufficient and contradictory motivation, and provided a native of Dagestan with a political refugee status. Giorgio Kamai, the editor of the Media Centre Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, who watched over the detainee's fate from Italy, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
16:00, 21 June 2011
Baku: anonymous leaflets against hijab ban in schools
Authors of the leaflets, which are distributed anonymously at the entrances of apartment buildings in the capital of Azerbaijan, demand to abolish the practice of the ban on hijabs at schools, as it allegedly violates human rights.
15:00, 21 June 2011
Astrakhan Region: 'injured child' checked drivers' response to road accident
In the Astrakhan Region the GIBDD (road police) officers checked drivers' response by staging a road accident involving a child, and watched who of road users would stop seeing the bloodied boy and who would drive by.
14:30, 21 June 2011
Judoist from Ingushetia wins gold at European Cup
Zelimkhan Ozdoev from Ingushetia became the gold medallist in the European Cup competitions on judo, which took place in Slovenian city of Celei on June 19.
23:00, 20 June 2011
Georgia: opposition demands Soso Dzhachvliani's early release
The oppositional party "New Right-Wingers" demands early release of the stage director Soso Dzhachvliani, an activists of the "People's Assembly" of Georgia, who was detained on May 26 during dispersal of the protest rally in central Tbilisi.
22:00, 20 June 2011
Afghanistan: eighth soldier from Georgia lost
During a mission of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Khelmand province of Afghanistan soldier Gia Goguadze perished, reported the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia on June 20. He was already the eighth Georgian soldier lost in Afghanistan.
21:00, 20 June 2011
Moscow: Yegor Sviridov's murder case in court
The Moscow Prosecutor's Office confirmed the indictment in criminal case against Aslan Cherkesov, a 27-year-old native of the city of Nalchik, accused of killing Yegor Sviridov, a fan of Football Club (FC) "Spartak", and sent the materials to the Moscow City Court for consideration.
20:00, 20 June 2011
"Forum of People's Unity of Abkhazia" nominates presidential candidate
In Abkhazia, the oppositional Republican Party "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia", headed by Raul Khadjimba declared an intention to nominate its presidential candidate. Nomination will take place at the next congress of the organization.
19:00, 20 June 2011
Chechnya: policeman accidentally kills man at wedding
On June 19 in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny District of Chechnya, a policeman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) accidentally shot and killed a local resident, 21-year-old man.
18:00, 20 June 2011
Car voyage "Sochi-Torino-Sochi" plans to learn European experience of waste management
Six Sochi residents in three cars started today an automobile trip from Sochi around the European Olympic capitals. During the trip they intend not only to talk about preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also to get acquainted with the European experience of waste management.
17:00, 20 June 2011
Kabardino-Balkaria: bodies of WW II soldiers found
In Kabardino-Balkaria, on Mount Elbrus, bodies of three soldiers of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) were found. Konstantin Shershov, an alpine skiing instructor, discovered the remains of the perished soldiers.
Sapiyat Magomedova. Photo by Yuri Timofeev (RFE/RL)
16:30, 20 June 2011
HRC "Memorial": investigation into lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova's beating in Dagestan gave no results
A year ago, on June 17, 2010, Sapiyat Magomedova, a lawyer of the Bar "Omarov A. S. and Partners" was beaten by militiamen at the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division) in Dagestan. As at June 17, 2011, in the case on Magomedova's beating there were no detainees and convicted, a preliminary investigation has not been finished yet.
News
In March 2026, one person was killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and southern Russia.

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

In January 2026, three people were killed in armed and terrorist attacks 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.