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Action "Russia without cruelty" in Sochi, April 23, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 23 April 2011
Picket in support of homeless animals held in Sochi
Today, residents of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, went out to hold a picket as part of the All-Russian action in support of the law on protection of animals.
21:00, 23 April 2011
Yerevan holds torchlight march in memory of victims of Armenian Genocide
A torchlight march dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide was held in Yerevan today. This year saw coincidence of two important dates for Armenia - the Easter and the Remembrance Day of Armenian Genocide.
20:30, 23 April 2011
Fifth bomb within a day found in Dagestani railway
As reported by the press service of the Department for Dagestan of the Russian FSB, today's fifth bomb was found in the railway section Kizilyurt-Temirgoe in this republic; the bomb was successfully defused.
Magomed Khazbiev. Photo by Yuri Timofeev (RFE/RL)
19:00, 23 April 2011
Magomed Khazbiev's family announces reward for information about his kidnappers
The family of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has announced a reward of one million roubles for information about the persons who on March 23 captured him and his two brothers, Murad and Berd, in their own home and delivered to the GUVD (Chief Interior Department).
18:30, 23 April 2011
Moscow hosts rally against subsidizing Northern Caucasus
The participants of the rally started today at 3:00 p.m. near Chistye Prudy metro station are protesting against allocation of budget funds for supporting North-Caucasian republics.
Pilgrims in Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram), Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo by the Press Service of the Ministry for National Politics, Religious Affairs and External Relations of the Republic of Dagestan: www.minnaz.ru
18:00, 23 April 2011
Gizatulin: some of our pilgrims go to Mecca as tourists or tradesmen
On the eve of the upcoming May accreditation of tourist operators for the Hajj, different viewpoints are expressed. The governmental commission on religious communities believes that travel agencies and mediation companies are the perpetrators of the problems encountered by pilgrims. The board of muftis puts part of the blame on pilgrims as such.
17:30, 23 April 2011
Three women detained in Dagestan at attempt to sell a baby
On April 22, law enforcers of Dagestan and Chechnya conducted an operation and detained three female residents of Khasavyurt who tried to sell a newborn baby.
17:13, 23 April 2011
Picket against high-rise buildings is on in Sochi
In front of the Central Marketplace in Moskovskaya Street of Sochi, a picket is being held from 2 to 4 p.m., organized by Evgeniy Zakharov, a member of the initiative group for protection of the resort city against skyscrapers.
Mantas Kvedaravichyus during his visit to the children of the Gataev Chechen family in Lithuania, in the SOS-village near Vilnius, November 2010. Photo by Dmitry Florin
16:30, 23 April 2011
Kvedaravichyus: film about kidnappings and torture in Chechnya gives an actual picture
The documentary "Barzakh" telling about facts of torture and kidnappings in Chechnya, which was presented at film festivals in Lithuania, Switzerland and Spain, aims to tell the world about the situation in today's Chechnya, the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
16:00, 23 April 2011
Grocery store burnt down in Kabardino-Balkaria
At night on April 22, in the village of Khasanya, a suburb of Nalchik, unidentified persons set fire to a grocery store, which burned down completely. Nobody was hurt.
15:00, 23 April 2011
Housing construction suspended in South Ossetia
As reported by the State Committee for Restoration Projects in South Ossetia, the funding of housing construction in Tskhinvali has been suspended; it is unknown when it may be resumed.
Rally of residents of the Dagestani Tabasaran District and public activists in defence of law enforcers in Rhodope Boulevard in Makhachkala, April 22, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
08:00, 23 April 2011
Dagestan: protesters demand to investigate policemen's murders
On April 22, Makhachkala hosted a rally of residents of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan and public activists. The action in defence of law enforcers was about 600 persons strong.
23:40, 22 April 2011
Meeting of relatives of captured sailors with head of Adzharia postponed
Yesterday, on April 21, a meeting was to take place of relatives of the Georgian sailors, kept for over eight months by Somalia pirates, with the head of the government of Adzharia Levan Varshalomidze; however, it was reappointed on April 27.
23:40, 22 April 2011
For the week of April 11-17 armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away 17 lives
During the week from April 11 to April 17, at least 17 persons were killed and at least 15 more were wounded in the glowing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
23:20, 22 April 2011
Orlov: stability in Northern Caucasus is impossible without observance of human rights
Respect for human rights and the rule of law in Northern Caucasus are prerequisites for ensuring peace and stability in the region, said Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", at a press conference on human rights in Chechnya.
23:20, 22 April 2011
Georgia: Deputy Governor of Shida Kartli detained on bribery charges
Employees of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained Avtandil Mestvirishvili, Deputy Governor of the region Shida Kartli (Eastern Georgia), on bribery charges. No details have been disclosed so far.
23:10, 22 April 2011
Chechnya gets ready to celebrate Orthodox Easter
For celebrations of the Orthodox Easter, Chechnya expects arrival of plenty of its former residents. A special working group has been set up to cope with all the activities associated with this holiday.
23:10, 22 April 2011
Presentation of a book about Chechen woman convicted on terrorism charges to take place in Moscow
On April 27, the Moscow Cultural Centre "Pokrovskie Vorota" will host a book presentation, written by Zoya Svetova, a Russian human rights activist, a publicist and journalist, about the trials of the scientist Igor Sutyagin, convicted as a spy, and of the Chechen woman Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism.
23:00, 22 April 2011
In Krasnodar, Prosecutor's Office accuses Mayoralty officials of fraud
As reported by the press office of the Territorial Prosecutor's Office, several officials of the Krasnodar Mayoralty have repeatedly violated the law, while forming the budget, distributing and using the budgetary funds, placing orders on the purchase of goods, works and services for municipal needs, and in managing and disposing municipal property, including land resources.
23:00, 22 April 2011
In Stavropol Territory, chief physician of hospital where child was raped is accused of negligence
As reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the chief physician of the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, where a 9-year-old girl was raped, is accused of a failure to ensure the proper guarding of his hospital, which allowed the criminal to get into it.
News
A Georgian citizen has been detained on charges of espionage.

A still from a protest march in Tbilisi in support of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Photo: MO SE / Facebook Participants in a march in Tbilisi demanded treatment for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Protesters on Rustaveli Avenue supported the demands of parents of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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.