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22:00, 21 July 2010
Prayer house destroyed in Pankissi Gorge, local residents assert
As reported by villagers of Birkiani, located in the Pankissi Gorge of Georgia, a prayer house of local followers of traditional Islam was ruined there.
20:00, 21 July 2010
In Azerbaijan, journalists detained at the building of President's administration
On Tuesday, July 20, four journalists were detained in Baku near the administration of the President of Azerbaijan, when they were covering the protest action of residents of the Sabirabad District, who suffered from floods.
Action of the initiative group of Vladikavkaz residents near the building of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) in Moscow with a demand to stop "Electrozink" factory. Poster runs: "All the 'best' – to children!" July 5, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
19:00, 21 July 2010
Vladikavkaz residents lay an action against "Electrozinc"
In the capital of North Ossetia the initiative group continues its judicial efforts to stop the "Electrozinc" factory. On July 19, a statement of claim was filed by residents of the sanitary zone around the factory, as reported by Zalina Kairova, leader of the initiative group named "Electrozinc - what do we breath in?"
18:00, 21 July 2010
Armenia: 257 victims of Stalin purges get loans to buy or repair their flats
Under the governmental credit programme aimed at improvement of living conditions of the citizens who have the status of repressed persons, as of July 1, 2010, loans during the previous decade had been granted to 257 persons to the total sum of 972,659,730 drams.
17:00, 21 July 2010
Terror act in Baksan HPP committed in Kabardino-Balkaria
At night on July 21, the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) was attacked. Having killed two securities, the terrorists entered the machine hall and seized HPP workers. Then, they planted and triggered two explosive devices.
16:00, 21 July 2010
Georgia announces February 25 to be Day of Soviet Occupation
The Georgian parliamentary committee on foreign relations has initiated two statements, according to which August 23 will be announced to be the Memory Day of Totalitarian Regimes' Victims, and February 25 - the Day of Occupation.
Flood implications in Musaly village, Saatlin District of Azerbaijan. June 5, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
15:00, 21 July 2010
In Azerbaijan, residents of flooded villages demand from authorities to accelerate restoration
On July 20, some 100 residents of the flooded villages of the Sabirabad and Saatlin Districts of Azerbaijan came to the President's administration with a demand to speed up restoration of their houses and increase compensations for the damage caused by floods.
14:00, 21 July 2010
Two young men shot dead in Kizilyurt District of Dagestan
Today at night in Kirovaul village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified persons shot two young men dead from their automatic firearms.
13:00, 21 July 2010
A one-year-old girl kidnapped in North Ossetia
On July 19, at about 5:00 p.m. in Maiskoe village, Chakhkieva, Khadidzha Rustamovna, aged one year and three months, disappeared. According to eyewitnesses, the child was hastily taken away by another girl, aged about 6-8 years.
20:00, 20 July 2010
Teachers of Additional Education Centre in Astrakhan stop their hunger strike
The teachers of the Astrakhan Regional "Centre of Children's Scientific and Technical Creativity", who demanded to cancel the order about reorganization of the "Centre of Children's Aesthetic Training", have stopped their hunger strike.
Tent camp of refugees from South Ossetia in a Tbilisi suburb. Georgia, August 2008. Photo by Guram Muradov/http://civil.ge
19:00, 20 July 2010
Georgian-Ossetian forum asks help in addressing problems faced by population of Georgia and South Ossetia
The Dutch city of Leiden hosted a meeting of the participants of the Georgian-Ossetian Civil Forum, where an appeal was adopted to the parties of the Geneva Consultations, asking to help in solving the problems of the peaceful population of Georgia and South Ossetia.
18:00, 20 July 2010
Georgian opposition urges parliament to reject new Constitution
Ten oppositional parties of Georgia have made a joint statement asking the parliament not to adopt the new version of the national Constitution. The signatories believe that the hasty consideration of the bill has only one aim - granting guarantees to Mikhail Saakashvili that he will continue ruling the country as prime minister after the end of his presidency.
17:00, 20 July 2010
Medvedev offers tougher sanctions for terrorism
After the recent resonant terror acts committed in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev has brought in a bill to the State Duma on amending the Russia's Criminal Code.
16:00, 20 July 2010
Kabardino-Balkaria opens youth camp "Caucasus-2020"
On July 19, the city of Nalchik hosted an opening ceremony of the youth tent camp "Caucasus-2020", located on the coast of the picturesque Kurortnoe Lake, where more than one thousand young men from all Russia - from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad - gathered.
15:00, 20 July 2010
Georgia: schoolbook about 2008 war with Russia presented
In Tbilisi, a book was presented entitled "Russian Aggression in My Eyes", dedicated to the Russian-Georgian military conflict in August 2008.
14:00, 20 July 2010
Members of the Board under Russian President ask Medvedev to defend human rights activists in Chechnya
The Board for Assisting to Development of Civil Society Institutes and Human Rights under Russian President sent an appeal to Russian leader asking to protect human rights activists, including the employees of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", who work in Chechnya, against the threats pronounced by local president Ramzan Kadyrov, and ensure their normal working conditions.
13:00, 20 July 2010
One of women detained in Dagestan prepared self-blowing in Moscow, power agencies say
According to a high-ranking source in power agencies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), one of the six women detained on July 12 in Makhachkala was going to come to Moscow in July and commit a terror act there.
12:00, 20 July 2010
UN to rebuild burnt-down houses in Gal District of Abkhazia
In the village of Dikhazurga, Gal District, the burnt-down houses of local residents will be rebuilt in the near future. This became known today after the regular meeting within the mechanism for prevention and reaction to incidents held in the city of Gal.
11:00, 20 July 2010
Armenia and Russia agree about joint military production facilities
Konstantin Biryulin, deputy director of the Russian Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation, has discussed, in the course of his visit to Yerevan, with the Armenian party the opportunity of creating joint military-technical facilities and of involvement of Armenian enterprises in the Russian-Belarusian Financial and Industrial Group "Defence Systems".
10:00, 20 July 2010
Action against new HPP held in Armenia
On July 19, residents of the Gegarkunik Region of Armenia held a protest action against construction of a Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in their district. The protesters blocked the Yerevan-Martuni Highway demanding not to start the construction.
News
A soldier was convicted in Nalchik for failing to report to his unit.

An anti-corruption lawsuit against Ruslan Tsalikov has been filed in court.

A fighter from North Ossetia was killed in a military operation.

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.