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22:20, 9 February 2010
Astrakhan: bosses of GIBDD inspectors, suspected of bribe-taking, sacked
Militia General-Major Gregory Kulik, Head of the UVD (Interior Department) of the Astrakhan Region, has ordered to dismiss from office Militia Captain Kirsanov, a squadron commander of the Special Battalion (SB) of the Road Patrol Service (RPS)-1, his deputy Militia Captain Milov and Militia Lieutenant Colonel Barninkov, commander of the SB of the RPS-1. The order was caused by detention of the employees of Squadron 1 of the SB of the RPS-1 of the Astrakhan Regional STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, know in Russia as "GIBDD"), suspected of bribery.
22:00, 9 February 2010
Chikirov: incident with Khripun in South Ossetian-Georgian border is a provocation
The Frontier Department (FD) of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia has announced the reasons, which forced warrant officer Khripun to desert on December 21 from his post of frontier control. According to Colonel Dmitri Chikirov, deputy head of the above Department, Khripun's flight across the border was a provocation of Georgian special services.
South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/20211461
21:20, 9 February 2010
Hammarberg goes to South Ossetia to release Ossetians detained in Georgia
In February, Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights, will visit South Ossetia. One of the main topics will be debates on release of the Ossetians, considered as missing or detained by the Georgian party.
21:00, 9 February 2010
Evkurov calls militants to surrender and promises lenient verdicts
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has addressed members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) with an appeal to surrender in exchange for lenient administrative and criminal punishments.
20:00, 9 February 2010
Organizers of rally in support of Major Dymovskiy in Novorossisk receive threats
Threats are arriving to mobile phones of the applicants for a rally in demand of a fair trial of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee of Human Rights (NCHR) and Dymovskiy's official representative.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru
19:00, 9 February 2010
Kadyrov recalls his suits against Orlov, Alekseeva and journalists
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has recalled, after his mother's appeal, his suits against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Liudmila Alekseeva, chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and a group of Moscow journalists. Alvi Karimov, Kadyrov's press secretary, denies that the mother asked to stop prosecution of human rights activists under Kadyrov's request.
18:00, 9 February 2010
Dagestan to vote on Magomedsalam Magomedov on February 10
On February 10, an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of Dagestan will take place to vote on Magomedsalam Magomedov, nominated by Russian President Medvedev to the post of the republic's president. It is expected that Alexander Khloponin, Mr Medvedev's plenipotentiary for the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District), will present the nominee.
23:50, 8 February 2010
PACE co-Rapporteurs to present their report on Azerbaijan in June
Andres Herkel (Estonia) and Joseph Grekh (Malta), co-Rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for Azerbaijan, are now in this country. Today, they have met Eldar Azizov, chief executive of the city of Gyandzha.
23:40, 8 February 2010
Volgograd militiamen are accused of beating a detainee
A criminal case is opened in Volgograd against militiamen from a PPS (patrol and post service) squadron, who are suspected of beating a detainee. This is reported by the regional department of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office).
23:20, 8 February 2010
Yaganov: law enforcers, not NGOs, shall fight extremism in KBR
In the opinion of Ibragim Yaganov, leader of the public organization "Khasse" of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), there is no threat to peace and accord; and what happens in the republic is a normal political process.
23:10, 8 February 2010
Authorities fail to fix water supply to Dagestan capital
In Makhachkala, after the failure of the pump station on February 4, water is still absent in many houses, while communal services reload responsibility from one structure onto the other.
22:50, 8 February 2010
In Sochi, militiaman knocks two women down to death
A criminal case has been initiated against an operative agent of Sochi UVD (Interior Department), who committed a road accident on February 6, as a result of which two elderly women were lost.
22:20, 8 February 2010
Prosecution asks from 6 to 22 years for figurants of Kondopoga disorders
At the Supreme Court of Karelia, the state prosecution has demanded to sentence the main figurants in the case about mass disorders in the city of Kondopoga, natives of Chechnya and Dagestan, to imprisonment for the terms ranging from 6 to 22 years.
Ingushetia, Galgayche. Photo by http://ingushetia.org
22:10, 8 February 2010
Russia's SC labels "Imarat Kavkaz" as terrorist organization
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has satisfied the statement of the General Public Prosecutor and recognized the so-called "Imarat Kavkaz" (Emirate of the Caucasus) to be an international terrorist organization and banned its activities in Russia.
21:00, 8 February 2010
Astrakhan: 2 out of 19 detained GIBDD employees arrested
As reported by the website of the Regional Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office, the court decided to arrest 2 out of 19 detained Astrakhan employees of the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known as "GIBDD"), while the arrest of other suspects is currently considered.
Chechnya, Shali. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/14125291
20:00, 8 February 2010
Chechen MIA: human rights activists were not detained but brought to Shali OVD for check
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya refutes the fact of detention of Russian human rights activists. As reported by the press service of the Ministry, the Russian human rights defenders were not detained, but just brought to the Shali District OVD (Interior Division) for a check.
Dagestan presidential candidate Magomedsalam Magomedov. Photo by Dagestan public assembly press service.
19:00, 8 February 2010
Medvedev suggests Magomedsalam Magomedov as Dagestan President
Today, President of Russia has brought his nominee - Magomedsalam Magomedov - in the National Assembly of Dagestan for approval to the post of the President of the republic.
18:00, 8 February 2010
Relatives of assassinated Ingush human rights defender challenge investigatory group
The relatives of Maksharip Aushev, the Ingush oppositionist murdered in Kabardino-Balkaria, are dissatisfied with the course of inquiry and ask to transfer the case to the central machinery of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.
22:00, 6 February 2010
In Dagestan, two figurants of "execution list" recognized as victims
Zubair Omarov, an inspector of the Investigatory Committee for especially important cases at the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, informed two figurants of the "execution list" today that they are regarded as victims in criminal case No. 96892, dealing with appeals to murders and grave crimes.
20:00, 6 February 2010
ICPO: militants' leader liquidated in south of Chechnya
As reported by the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia, on February 4 the leader of a group of militants was assassinated in one of the settlements of the Vedeno District of Chechnya in the course of a special operation held in the south of the republic.
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.