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22:20, 14 April 2011
Stavropol Territory: local woman convicted for false reports about terror acts
The Petrovskiy District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced a woman-resident of Svetlograd to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment for false reports about impending explosions.
22:10, 14 April 2011
Ex-Head of Semikarakorsk, Rostov region, convicted for abuse of authority
Vasily Mikheev, ex-Head of Semikarakorsk urban settlement of Rostov region, has been convicted for abuse of authority which caused damages to a sum of over one million rubles.
22:10, 14 April 2011
Armenian prisons are overcrowded
Currently, Armenian penitentiary institutions (PIs) are severely overcrowded, which leads to deterioration of custody conditions and increase of death rate there, human rights defenders and politicians of Armenia assert.
22:00, 14 April 2011
A Russian non-governmental organization awarded a prize of PACE for investigating crimes in Chechnya
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) awarded the "Human Rights" prize to a Russian non-governmental organization "Committee Against Torture" of Nizhny Novgorod for investigations of crimes in Chechnya. The respective decision was officially announced on April, 12, within the framework of the spring session of the organization in Strasbourg.
22:00, 14 April 2011
Check of Raznochinovskiy boarding school, Astrakhan Region, reveals no violations
An audit conducted by investigating bodies of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation) for the Astrakhan Region at the Raznochinovskiy orphanage-boarding school in the context of reports about multiple deaths of pupils found no evidences of crime.
Kazakhstan citizens wait for a verdict of the сommission for militants' adaptation. Photo by Albert Tokaev for the "Caucasian Knot"
21:00, 14 April 2011
Committee for adaptation of gunmen in Dagestan complied the request of arrested citizens of Kazakhstan
On April, 13, the Committee for assistance to adaptation of persons who decided to stop terrorist and extremist activities in the territory of Dagestan to peaceful life adopted an appeal to the Supreme Court and Public prosecutor's office of the republic to reduce preventive punishment for four citizens of Kazakhstan arrested for participation in paramilitary groups in the territory of Dagestan.
19:00, 14 April 2011
A mass scuffle occurred in Dagestan, one person killed
A mass scuffle with the use of firearms took place on April, 13, in the settlement of Jimikent, Derbent district of Dagestan. One person was killed, three more got wounded.
18:00, 14 April 2011
Parliamentarians of Kabardino-Balkaria suggested to legitimate snitching on one's close relatives
The Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria has introduced a law in draft to the State Duma suggesting to cancel the clause of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation according to which a citizen is exempted from liability "for concealment of a crime committed by his of her spouse or close relative not promised beforehand".
23:50, 13 April 2011
Rostov-on-Don: local resident convicted for false report about terror act
The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don found Vladimir Bagin, a local resident, guilty of willingly false reports about terror acts and sentenced him to a real term in prison, said the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region.
Marketplace in Tbilisi, February 12, 2011. Photo by Nodar Tskhvirashvili, RFE/RL
23:40, 13 April 2011
NDI: Georgians are concerned about employment, utility costs and democracy
The main concern issues of Georgian citizens are employment problems, utility tariffs and the low level of democracy in their country. This was confirmed by published materials of the public opinion research conducted in major cities across the whole country by the Caucasian Centre of Research Resources under the order of the US' National Democratic Institute (NDI).
23:30, 13 April 2011
Oleg Orlov: so far, flow of violence in Dagestan is unstoppable
The discussion at the presentation of the report of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" entitled "New Magomedov's Course?" ran about the growth of terrorism in the country and continued human rights violations; however, the authorities' attempts to start dialogue with human rights defenders were also noted. The event was held at the Independent Media Centre.
23:10, 13 April 2011
Dokku Umarov is most likely alive, Russian President's special envoy says
According to indirect evidences, Dokku Umarov, leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz", is most likely alive, said Anatoly Safonov, special representative the Russian President for matters of international cooperation in combating terrorism and organized crime.
Protesters against lawlessness of power agencies in Astrakhan, April 10, 2011. Photo by Zakir Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:10, 13 April 2011
In Astrakhan, relatives of detained Dagestanis hold a rally
On April 10, relatives of and sympathizers to the natives of Dagestan, accused of raping and kept in custody for more than two years, held a protest action against protraction of the investigation.
23:00, 13 April 2011
Woman joins Chechen government for the first time in 20 years
On April 12, head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov made some reshuffling in his government and appointed Khadizha Dulaeva to the post of the first deputy head of the administration and Chechen government. Changes were made among top managers of a number of ministries and agencies.
22:30, 13 April 2011
Head of Adygea had lowest income in 2010 among his SFD colleagues
According to preliminary data, in comparison with the leaders of other subjects of the Southern Federal District (SFD), the revenues of the head of Adygea Aslan Tkhakushinov are among the lowest. This is evidenced by the data, published by heads of Russian regions in their declarations. So far, out of the SFD subjects, there is no data about the income of Alexander Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region.
On March 23, 2011, in the city of Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia, at least 100 persons, mainly relatives of Ilez Gorchkhanov, a resident of the village of Plievo, kidnapped on March 21, blocked circular crossing of Bazorkin and Oskanov Streets in protest against kidnappings. Photo by the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", www.memo.ru
22:10, 13 April 2011
Kostoev: residents of Ingushetia rally from despair unable to know the fate of their kidnapped relatives
According to the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", starting from 2002, 197 persons are on the list of kidnapped and missing residents of Ingushetia. As stated by Yusup Kostoev, an Ingush MP, only last year 10 persons were abducted, whose fate remains unknown. Making his comment on the dispersed rally on March 23 in Nazran, Mr Kostoev noted that such protests are held because the desperate people cannot get at least any information about their kidnapped relatives.
22:00, 13 April 2011
Azerbaijan: two oppositionists expelled from university
Djavid Mekhraliev, a youth activist of the Party of "Classic" People's Front of Azerbaijan (PCNFA) and a 3rd year student of the Department of History of the Baku State University (BSU), was expelled from the university. This is the second exclusion of a young activist from university within the last week in Azerbaijan.
20:00, 13 April 2011
Public prosecutor's office discovered infringements in the work of medical institutions of Karachay-Cherkessia
Public prosecutor's office of Karachay district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia has carried out an inspection of sanitary and technical state of medioprophylactic institutions of the district. Five outpatients' clinics, eleven first-aid and obstetric stations and two district hospitals underwent the inspection.
19:00, 13 April 2011
The opposition held "The Day of Wrath" in Rostov region
One more "Day of Wrath" passed off on April, 12, in the city of Rostov-on Don and the town of Sakhti. Activists of oppositional movements of Taganrog decided not to hold the picket not authorized by the administration.
18:00, 13 April 2011
Director of the boarding school of Tsimlyansk suspected of negligence
The suspicion of negligence has become the reason for starting criminal proceedings against the director of a boarding school in Rostov region where three inmates got poisoned.
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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.