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22:20, 20 April 2011
NAC: militants liquidated in the Caucasus wanted to launch news website and publish Wahhabi magazine
The militants liquidated in a counterterrorist operation in Northern Caucasus had planned to make a film and publish a glossy magazine about terrorists' lifestyle. Also, layouts and maps, and various methodology-training literature on how to prepare terrorist acts were confiscated from them. This was reported by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).
22:10, 20 April 2011
One of attackers on Moscow tourists liquidated in Kabardino-Balkaria
Azamat Sizhazhev, 26, one of those involved in the attack on Moscow tourists in Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed in the city of Baksan at rendering resistance. It was reported today by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
22:00, 20 April 2011
Performers and accomplices of murders of Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov are abroad, ICRF reports
As stated by Vassily Piskaryov, Deputy Head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), at his meeting with Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the performers of the murders of Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov and their accomplices are still hiding abroad; however, the ICRF is doing everything it can to catch the criminals.
21:00, 20 April 2011
Ex-imam of a village mosque killed in Dagestan
Last night unidentified people killed an ex-imam of a village mosque in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, Alkhas Amirkhnov, Senior assistant of Head of republican Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation for media relations, reported.
20:00, 20 April 2011
A commemoration meeting of Victor Popkov passed off in Moscow
On Monday, April, 18, a meeting of commemoration of Victor Popkov, peacemaker, journalist and human rights activist, was held in the Museum and Public Center named after Andrey Sakharov.
19:00, 20 April 2011
The dead body of the missing Ilez Gorchkhanov found in Ingushetia
On April, 19, at 16:20, a young man's dead body was found not far from the stanitsa of Nesterovkaya, Sunzha district, at the border of Ingushetia with Chechnya, at the bed of the river of Assa. After the expertise he was identified as Ilez Gorchkhanov born in 1984 who according to his relatives was kidnapped on March, 21.
18:00, 20 April 2011
Strasbourg Court obligated the Russian authorities to pay off a compensation to two women residents of Chechnya
The court in Strasbourg imposed a compensation of 61 thousand euro on the authorities of Russia to pay off to the mother and wife of Khamzat Tushaev, resident of Chechnya who disappeared after being summoned for interrogation.
23:40, 19 April 2011
Stavropol Territory: policeman blows himself up with grenade
The death of a policeman, whose body was found today in an agricultural field in the Levokumsk District, Stavropol Territory, is being investigated.
Frame from the documentary "Barzakh", borrowed from the website of the Institute of Documentary Film: www.dokweb.net
23:10, 19 April 2011
Film about kidnappings and torture in Chechnya screened at festival in Switzerland
The documentary "Barzakh" by the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus picturing the facts of torture and abductions in Chechnya was presented at the festival of documentaries named Vision du Reel, held in the Swiss city of Nyon.
23:00, 19 April 2011
In Georgia a building collapses and kills a child
In the Marneuli district of Georgia, in the Kvemo Kartli region, a wall of an abandoned building collapsed, killed a child and injured another one.
22:50, 19 April 2011
In Baku, April 17 protesters punished with arrests and fines
On April 18, in Azerbaijan, 6 participants of the opposition protest rally on April 17 in Baku were sentenced to administrative arrest; 9 persons were fined, and 8 oppositionists were warned and released.
22:30, 19 April 2011
Constitutional Court of Georgia finds some provisions of the law on assemblies contradictory to legislation
Several provisions of the law "On Assemblies and Manifestations" were found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Georgia. The lawsuit was initiated by four parties, the NGO "Youth organization of Georgian lawyers", local Ombudsman and several citizens of Georgia.
22:20, 19 April 2011
In Krasnodar, jurymen pass guilty verdict to "black" realtors
The jury of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has found the figurants of the criminal case on misappropriation of the rights of apartment residents of Sochi, two of whom were killed, guilty.
22:10, 19 April 2011
At Markelov-and-Baburova's murder trial judge passes warning to defence advocate
The court session on the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova began with the announcement by the chairing judge Alexander Zamashnyuk his decision to warn the lawyer Alexei Nikulochkin, an advocate for the defendant Evgenia Khasis.
Abdulmuslim Aliev with his son, April 4, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
22:00, 19 April 2011
Villager from Ikha, Dagestan, claims his son was beaten at boarding school
Abdulmuslim Aliev, a deaf-mute resident of the village of Ikha, Kazbek District of Dagestan, has lodged an application to the police that his son, a 6th form pupil, was beaten by a teacher of the Bavtugai boarding school. The school principal Nutsalkhan Akhmedov denies any guilt of his subordinate.
21:00, 19 April 2011
In Armenia, oppositionist Samson Khachatryan sentenced conditionally
Today, on April 19, the court in Yerevan sentenced Samson Khachatryan, an activist of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), twice European champion and five times champion of the USSR in boxing, was sentenced on charges of violent acts against state officials to one year of conditional imprisonment.
20:00, 19 April 2011
The Georgian opposition held an action "Museum of Exposure"
On April, 18, activists of Representative People's Assembly held an action of protest within the framework of a project "Museum of Exposure" near "Rustaveli" metro station in the center of Tbilisi. Information "on the present-day reality in Georgia" and appropriation of state property by officials was presented on special stands.
19:00, 19 April 2011
A cousin of the woman suicide bomber who exploded herself in the Moscow metro identified among the gunmen killed in Dagestan
Magomed Adalaev, one of the gunmen killed on April, 18, during a special operation near the settlement of Tashkapur, Levashi district of Dagestan, turned out to be a cousin of Mariam Sharipova who exploded herself in "Lubianka" metro station of Moscow in March, 2010. A source in one of the power ministries reported that the special operation in Tashkapur had been planned based on the information received about a visit of Israpil Valijanov, one of the leaders of Dagestani underground, to the settlement.
18:00, 19 April 2011
Drug testing will be organized at schools of Stavropol
The authorities of Stavropol will allot about 250 thousand rubles on drug testing at schools of the city. Testing will be voluntary.
23:40, 18 April 2011
Kadyrov to evidence by means of videoconference at his slander trial
At today's court session on the criminal case on slander initiated against Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", Judge Karina Morozova from the judicial precinct No. 363 of the Moscow district of Khamovniki, has satisfied the petition lodged by Andrei Krasnenkov, representative of the suffered party, to conduct interrogation of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in the form of a videoconference on April 28.
News
Four fighters from Dagestan were killed in Ukraine.

Social media users have reported widespread payment denials following the flooding in Dagestan.

A Kaspiysk resident accused of murdering a girl. Photo: Press Service of the Republic's Investigative Committee A resident of Kaspiysk received a life sentence for the murder of a girl.

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.