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23:30, 6 May 2011
Caravan in memory of victims of terror and war moves across Kabardino-Balkaria
On May 5, the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria was crossed by a memory caravan of victims of terror and war, which started in Vladikavkaz. The tour over the cities of Southern Russia on horses and camels was organized by the NGO "Right to Peace".
23:10, 6 May 2011
The accused of murdering Markelov receive life imprisonment and 18 years in colony
A verdict was passed at today's session of the Moscow City Court on the murder case of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. At 11:32 a.m., the court sentenced Tikhonov to life imprisonment in a special security colony; and Khasis - to 18 years of imprisonment in a minimum security colony, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the courtroom.
Evugeniy Dunaev, former chairman of the City Duma, a member of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party and current head of the reception office of Sergey Mironov in the Astrakhan Region. Astrakhan, March 2011. Photos by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:00, 6 May 2011
Ex-Speaker of Astrakhan City Duma prepares complaint to ECtHR against his sentence for slander
Evgeniy Dunaev, former chairman of the City Duma, who was convicted by the Astrakhan Court on charges of defamation during his performances on TV with criticism of Astrakhan authorities, intends to file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), because he believes his verdict to be unfair. Mr Dunaev himself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Baku, May 6, 2011. Policemen trying to disperse the believers who went out to protest action to the building of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan against the ban on wearing hijabs in schools. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:50, 6 May 2011
Azerbaijan: clashes between believers and police result in victims and detainees
Today in the morning, several hundreds of believers held a protest action in front of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan against the ban to wear hijabs in schools, introduced in November last year. Policemen tried to disperse the protesters; in the course of the confrontation, one of the women lost consciousness, and dozens of people were beaten and detained.
22:40, 6 May 2011
Kaloy Akhilgov: Ilez Gorchkhanov kidnapped and killed in Ingushetia was tortured
The body of Ilez Gorchkhanov, a local resident, who was kidnapped in Nazran, was identified by his relatives. As stated by power agents, the body had no external signs of violent death; however, according to his relative, the body was disfigured by torture.
22:20, 6 May 2011
Social services of Kabardino-Balkaria make lists of those who suffered from introduction of CTO regime
The social services of the Elbrus District, Kabardino-Balkaria, are compiling lists of residents affected by the introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Mussa Dzhappuev, deputy head of the administration of Elbrus settlement.
22:10, 6 May 2011
Armenians and Azerbaijanis apologize to Tver residents for brawl on Easter Day
On April 26, Seiran Kochkanyan, Chairman of the Tver Regional Branch of the "Union of Russian Armenians", and Fayaz Pashaev, Chairman of National-Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis "AzKa-Tver", signed a joint appeal to residents of the city, in which they apologized for the behaviour of the participants in the fight that burst out on April 24 in the Zavolzhskiy District of Tver between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
22:00, 6 May 2011
Bandits attack Krasnodar ecologist Gazaryan in Khimki Forest
In the morning on May 6, Suren Gazaryan, a Member of the Board of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" was attacked by unidentified persons in the Khimki Forest near Moscow. The ecologist received minor injuries and wrote an application to the police.
21:00, 6 May 2011
An action "Victory Mail" is going on in Rostov-on-Don
Young journalists, members of the Independent community of journalists ("NOZH") organized an action "Victory Mail" in Rostov-on-Don, representative of the community Karina Kravchuk told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
20:00, 6 May 2011
Hackers disabled an independent web-portal "Voice of Ingushetia"
The web-site "Voice of Ingushetia" (golosingushetii.ru) has been disabled already for several days, representatives of the web-site told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Before that the web-site had undergone a powerful attack and was working several days without fully functioning.
19:00, 6 May 2011
A corruption scheme detected in the sphere of public health in Georgia
Constitutors of "Express-Diagnostika" company in Tbilisi have been detained for misappropriation of state finance. They are accused of legalization of illegal income (money laundering) and forgery of the customs documentation.
18:00, 6 May 2011
A resident of North Osetia who abducted a bride in Volgodonsk detained in Rostov region
The police personnel of Rostov region detained three young "abductors of a bride". The kidnapped girl, resident of Volgodonsk, was returned home safely.
23:55, 5 May 2011
French Armenians protest against rejection of bill on criminalization of Genocide denial
On May 4, hundreds of people held a demonstration in front of the French Senate in Paris in support of the bill assuming criminal liability for denial of the Armenian Genocide. The action was attended by about 500 persons.
23:50, 5 May 2011
US increases maximum term of visas for Georgians to 10 years
The US government has increased the maximum term of visas for certain categories of Georgian citizens to 5 and 10 years. Earlier, the maximum term for all citizens was one year.
23:40, 5 May 2011
Activists of "Mothers of Beslan" fail to meet Dmitry Medvedev
As reported by Aneta Gadieva, one of the members of the "Mothers of Beslan", the meeting of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with the victims of the terror act in September 2004 did not take place.
23:30, 5 May 2011
In Dagestan, schoolgirl convicted conditionally for reporting about terror act during "direct line" with Putin
A verdict of guilty has been passed to a schoolgirl: on December 14, 2010, a 16-year-old pupil called the office of the programme "Conversation with Vladimir Putin" and reported to the operator knowingly false information about an impending terror act in the Moscow Region, said the spokesman of the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office.
Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura in the Sovietskiy District Court of Ulan-Ude, January 19, 2011. Photo by Sergey Basaev for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:20, 5 May 2011
In Ulan-Ude, court re-examines the case of journalists, who spread leaflets about deportation of Caucasian nations
On April 14, the Sovietskiy District Court of the city of Ulan-Ude started reconsidering the case of the Buryat journalists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura on charges of inciting social hatred to employees of law enforcement bodies in their article about deportation of Caucasian nations. On April 29, another session took place, where the prosecution witnesses were questioned.
23:10, 5 May 2011
Oppositional rally held in Yerevan
A rally of the People's Party is over in the capital of Armenia near the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran; however, the announced march along the route: Mashtots Avenue - Amiryan Street - Square of the Republic, was not held. The date of the next action was not announced.
23:00, 5 May 2011
Baburova's parents claim to collect 5 million roubles from Tikhonov as moral compensation
Today, the suffered party - Larissa Baburova and Eduard Baburov - moved a petition at the trial on the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova about bringing a civil action against Nikita Tikhonov. They want to receive 5 million roubles in compensation for their moral harm and 40,000 roubles - for their material damage.
22:40, 5 May 2011
Former Deputy Mayor of Astrakhan convicted for death of 5 persons
They perished in a collapsed building of a hostel, where they had been illegally placed two years before the tragedy, runs the verdict.
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The court confiscated the assets of the arrested Kuban Health Minister.

Aslan Trakhov was unable to challenge the seizure of his property.

Lawyers assessed the severity of the sentence handed down to an Anapa resident for the pig's head at a mosque in Adygea.

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.