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23:00, 5 January 2011
Medvedev: Sochi shall become world-class resort
Four out of 14 sporting objects built for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will be moved to other cities, two will be re-profiled and eight will retain their functionality and, along with new transportation and engineering facilities, are intended to transform Sochi into a world-class resort.
22:30, 5 January 2011
Families of seamen captured by Somalia pirates demand meeting with Saakashvili
Relatives of Georgian seamen who stay in captivity of Somalia pirates demand a meeting with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
22:20, 5 January 2011
Power Unit No. 2 of Rostov NPP added to the grid
After elimination of the reasons that triggered the electric protection circuit on January 4, today the Power Unit No. 2 of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant was switched on and added to the energy grid.
22:10, 5 January 2011
Remains of archaeologist who disappeared in the mountains found in Abkhazia
In a forest in the upper section of the Kelasur River, a local resident found the remains of archaeologist Gennady Ognev, 61, who disappeared last March.
Ropeway on Cheget Mount, Kabardino-Balkaria. Photo by www.balkaria.com
22:00, 5 January 2011
Winter resorts of Kabardino-Balkaria are full of tourists
This year, during the New Year holidays, the region near the Elbrus Mount - the main winter resort of Kabardino-Balkaria - has already been visited by more than seven thousand tourists.
21:00, 5 January 2011
Leader of Khasavyurt militants liquidated in Dagestan, NAC reports
Amir of Khasavyurt Ruslan Makavov was among those militants liquidated today during a special operation in the city of Khasavyurt. This was reported by the spokesman of the Information Centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of Russia.
Portraits of Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzhabrailov at the picket in their memory in Moscow, August 13, 2009. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 5 January 2011
Investigation into murders of Sadulayeva and Dzhabrailov is fruitless, rights defenders assert
During the elapsed 18 months, the inquiry into the murders of the employees of the humanitarian organization "Let's Save the Generation" Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov "has not left its starting point." This was stated by Adlan Mukhamedov, the current head of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation".
19:00, 5 January 2011
NGO "Fund of People Willing to Return to Abkhazia" is functioning in Georgia
A non-governmental organization "Fund of People Willing to Return to Abkhazia" started working in Georgia, its task is to "come to terms and establish communication with the Abkhazians".
18:00, 5 January 2011
A kidnapped resident of Ingushetia Hamkhoev refuses hospitalization
In spite of traumas and fractures Adam Hamkhoev, resident of Ingushetia who returned home after he was kidnapped, refuses treatment in hospital. Hamkhoev is at home now because he does not rule out a new kidnapping.
23:40, 4 January 2011
"Dagestani Airlines" promise to upgrade fleet in 2011
In 2011, the "Dagestani Airlines" Company plans to upgrade the fleet of aircrafts by replacing its obsolete Tu-154 aircrafts for modern models, said Deputy Director General Gadjikhan Keramaliev.
23:30, 4 January 2011
Lithuania will try to strengthen OSCE's role in settling Transcaucasian conflicts
Lithuania, which will chair the OSCE in 2011, plans to revive the solution process of frozen conflicts, including those in Transcaucasia, said Audronius Ažubalis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania.
23:20, 4 January 2011
Georgian authorities toughen legislation for benefit of tourists in Adzharia
Amendments have been made in the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences, offered by the Government of Adzharia, which stipulate fines for livestock appearance on the beaches and in other places visited by tourists.
23:10, 4 January 2011
In Stavropol, bear bites cleaner of his cage to death
In the Zoo of Stavropol, which is situated in the Victory Park, this morning a bear has bit a human to death, said Boris Skripka, head of the Civil Defence and Emergency Department of the Administration of Stavropol.
23:00, 4 January 2011
Kabardino-Balkaria: explosion in a night club
In the city of Nalchik, unidentified criminals planted a bomb into the building of the entertainment club named "Sahara". No injuries were reported.
22:50, 4 January 2011
Illegal tree felling continues in Yerevan, ecologists assert
In the capital of Armenia, within the second half of 2010, 150 trees were cut down. This was reported to journalists by Arthur Aftandilyan, spokesman of the initiative group "We are City Managers".
22:40, 4 January 2011
In Georgia, court fines protesting veterans
Tea Tadashvili, Judge of the Tbilisi City Court, has fined 11 participants of the protest action of war veterans who were detained on charges of rendering resistance to policemen. Each of them was administratively fined by 400 laris (about 230 US dollars).
Photo of Adam Khamkhoev posted on the blog that Magomed Mutsolgov runs on the "Caucasian Knot"
22:30, 4 January 2011
Ingushetia: kidnapped Adam Khamkhoev returns home and reports torture
Adam Khamkhoev, a resident of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, who was kidnapped on December 30 together with the other two young persons - Pliev brothers - was released on January 3. His father Musa Khamkhoev asks the republic's public prosecutor to investigate the case, claiming that his son was tortured by power agents.
22:20, 4 January 2011
Selling exhibition of inmates' works opens in Yerevan
The House of Culture of the Erebuni community is housing a selling exhibition of works performed by fifty prisoners serving their sentences in penal institutions in Armenia. The event was organized by the Fund of Assistance to Convicts at the Ministry of Justice.
22:10, 4 January 2011
Names of casualties of special operation in Dagestan defined
The persons liquidated during the special operation in Shamkhal village, Kirov District of Makhachkala, have been identified. They are Badrudi Rasulov and Maksud Ismailov, suspected of attempts on law enforcers.
22:00, 4 January 2011
A child shot down in Georgia on the New Year's night
Giorgi Chkoidze aged 12 was shot down from a shotgun on the balcony of his house in Tbilisi. The man who had shot, the boy's neighbour, yielded to the police on his own accord.
News
Human rights activists reported violations of Belkisa Mintsayeva's rights.

Ukrainian prisoners held in Chechnya have returned home.

Aishat Khizrieva was able to leave Russia.

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.