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15:00, 18 August 2010
TI notes Georgia's progress in combating corruption
On Tuesday, August 17, the Transparency International (TI) published its Corruption Perception Index (CPI). It is noted that Georgia is least corrupted from among all Russia's neighbours.
14:00, 18 August 2010
Two Ingush residents kidnapped in Stavropol, their relatives assert
On August 13 in Stavropol two residents of Ingushetia - Islam Evloev, 24, and Ahmed Gazdiev, 21, - were kidnapped; until now there whereabouts are unknown, their relatives assert.
13:00, 18 August 2010
Students with faked education certificates revealed in Grozny
In the course of the check conducted at the Chechen State University, employees of the local prosecutor's office revealed facts of using faked certificates on secondary education by entrants to the University. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a source in local law enforcement bodies.
12:00, 18 August 2010
Murder of high-ranking Dagestan MIA officer was ordered by his son, law enforcers say
The law enforcement bodies of Dagestan assert that they have solved the murder of Yunus Khulataev, deputy chief of the division of the investigatory department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Republic of Dagestan. His son - Gadjimurad Khulataev - was named as the crime customer; he had got "under the influence of extremists" and is already giving confessional evidences.
11:00, 18 August 2010
18 victims of Pyatigorsk explosion are still in hospitals
Today at 9:52 a.m., a special aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies took off from the airport of the Caucasian Mineral Waters to take four heavily injured victims of the Pyatigorsk explosions for treatment to Moscow.
09:00, 18 August 2010
After lifting CTO regime in Chechnya, 22 suicide bombers blew themselves up in Northern Caucasus
After May 15, 2009, when a suicide bomber blew himself up for the first time after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, as of today, under estimates of the "Caucasian Knot", the regions of Northern Caucasus saw 22 terror acts committed by suicide bombers. As a result of these explosions, 92 persons perished in total, and 414 more were wounded.
22:00, 17 August 2010
Amendments in Georgian Constitution presented to the MoD
Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Georgia received the offered amendments to the national Constitution, according to which although the President will lose his right to appoint ministers but will preserve the title of Commander-in-Chief and the right to form the top management of the Joint Staff.
21:00, 17 August 2010
Court leaves the girl suspected of murdering lawyer Markelov in custody
Today, the Basmanny Court of Moscow has prolonged till November 3 the arrest of Evgenia Khasis, accused of complicity in the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov.
20:00, 17 August 2010
Explosion in central Pyatigorsk injures 30 persons
Today at 4:15 p.m. Moscow time in the centre of the resort city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, a car stuffed with explosive was blown up. 30 persons were injured; three of them are in resuscitation, their condition is grave.
19:00, 17 August 2010
Two passers-by wounded in skirmish in Dagestan
In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, two suspected militants were liquidated, who, by the official data, had opened fire on militiamen. As a result, one of the employees of the MIA, a boy and a woman were wounded.
18:00, 17 August 2010
Gurtuev: Balkars' hunger strike in Moscow lost its sense
As stated by Oyus Gurtuev, deputy chair of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP), the protest action of a group of residents of Kabardino-Balkaria in Moscow has lost any further sense; the hunger strike should be stopped, and European structures should be addressed for help.
17:00, 17 August 2010
In Dagestan, teenager partially lost hearing after beating by militiamen, rights defenders assert
On August 13, 2010, Makhmud Akhmedov, earlier beaten by militiamen at interrogation, was discharged from the Central Republic's Hospital. As a result of his trauma, Makhmud lost hearing by one ear. Doctors conclude that in case of necessary treatment and favourable conditions the hearing can be restored, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
16:00, 17 August 2010
Suicide bomber kills two militiamen in North Ossetia
As a result of an explosion, committed today in the morning by a suicide bomber at the check point in the North-Ossetian-Ingush border, two militiamen were lost and three more wounded.
15:00, 17 August 2010
Moscow-Tbilisi flights to resume on August 23
Today, the "Siberia" Airline ("S7 Airlines") has announced that since August 23 it will start its flights to Georgia.
13:00, 17 August 2010
Grozny: ten-day subbotnik lasts for two months already
The broad-scale subbotnik (citizens' volunteer work) started in mid-June and aimed to clean streets of the capital of Chechnya of rubbish and household wastes is not over yet. Some of the sectors, into which Grozny was split, failed to cope with the task to improve and clean the territory, although initially ten days were allocated for cleaning the city streets. The protraction of the event causes residents' bewilderment.
12:00, 17 August 2010
Begeyev, accused of murdering a militiaman, surrenders to FSB
In Dagestan, Rumil Begeyev, who was in federal search for murdering a militiaman, committed at his detention on January 22 in Derbent. Earlier, Begeyev's relatives had stated that they failed to receive guarantees from law enforcement bodies of observance of legality in exchange for his readiness to surrender.
10:00, 17 August 2010
Exhibition-sale of Indian goods held in Adzharia
The exhibition of India-made goods, held in Batumi, the capital of Adzharia, within the programme of popularization of Indian culture in Transcaucasia, will last till August 28.
09:00, 17 August 2010
Armenia: students of de-licensed higher schools can move to other ones
After the decision of the Ministry of Education of Armenia to deprive a number of higher schools of their licenses, over 2000 students will be able to move, in the period from August 17 to September 15, to other establishments to continue their studies. This was announced to journalists by Aga Avetisyan, deputy minister of sciences and education of Armenia.
08:00, 17 August 2010
Over 100,000 Sochi residents lost electricity and water supplies for about 24 hours
On August 15-16, it took local electricians almost 24 hours to repair a broken electric cable. In some city districts, where water delivery depends on electricity, people remained without water and electric power in 40-degree heat.
21:00, 16 August 2010
Hacker Saaev sentenced to 2.5 years for cracking official North-Caucasian websites
The Supreme Court of Chechnya has sentenced Albert Saaev, who cracked official websites of the authorities of several republics of Northern Caucasus, to 2.5 years of high security colony for complicity to militants.
News
Military operation in Ukraine. Still from a Russian Ministry of Defense video: https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=18838@morfVideoAudioFile The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,050.

Domestic violence. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in Photoshop. Human rights activists have recorded a surge in requests for assistance in the North Caucasus.

Participants in the fighting in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense Press Service The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,000.

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.