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18:00, 12 December 2009
Nauru to consider recognition of South Ossetia
The parliament of the Republic of Nauru will consider the issue of recognition of independence of South Ossetia. This was stated Kiren Keke, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Finance of Nauru, at his meeting in Tskhinvali with Stanislav Kochiev, chairman of the parliament of South Ossetia.
17:00, 12 December 2009
In Adzharia, young man dies from swine flu
A young man - Ramaz Bezhanidze, 27, whose life was supported by a respiratory apparatus, - died today in the afternoon from swine flu in a Batumi hospital. This was reported at an emergency press conference by Alexander Kvitashvili, Minister of Public Health of Georgia.
16:18, 12 December 2009
Abkhazia refutes data on forced voting in Gali
Ruslan Kishmariya, Abkhazian President's plenipotentiary for the Gali District, has categorically refuted statements of some Georgian media that the Abkhazian militia and Russian militaries violently brought residents of the Gali District to polling stations to force them to take part in today's presidential election in Abkhazia.
16:00, 12 December 2009
Yaganov: dialogue is the way to compromise for Kabardino-Balkaria
In the opinion of Ibragim Yaganov, leader of the public organization "Khasse", who was not long ago beaten in Nalchik, in the land disputes between Kabardians and Balkars, dialogue is a possible way to a compromise.
Ingushetia, Tsey-Loam. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
15:00, 12 December 2009
Musa Aushev: nothing is known about investigation of Maksharip Aushev's murder
Even though the investigation is under personal supervision of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and Russian Public Prosecutor Yuri Chaika, nothing is known so far about any progress in investigating the kidnapping attempt and subsequent murder of Ingush human rights activist Maksharip Aushev. Musa Aushev, the casualty's brother, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.
Armenia, Yerevan. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org
14:00, 12 December 2009
Case of convicted oppositionist Atspanyan is in European Court already
The case of Sarkis Atspanyan, an activist of the opposition of Armenia, who is serving his term in the Yerevan prison of "Vardashen", was sent to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported by Asmik Pogosyan, Sarkis' wife.
13:00, 12 December 2009
Militants searched in southwest of Chechnya
The foothill Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan Districts of Chechnya are under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime after December 11, and militants are searched there.
12:12, 12 December 2009
Volgograd residents complain of Artemiy Lebedev to prosecutor's office
The initiative group of the project named "Volgograd Breakthrough" has filed a claim to the prosecutor's office of Volgograd against the well-known Runet designer and thousand-reader-blogger Artemiy Lebedev in the context of his permanent use of obscene language in his blog. The applicants see it as offence of all Russians.
11:00, 12 December 2009
Nagorno-Karabakh rejects Baku's accusations of breaking ceasefire
Senor Asratyan, press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, has refuted the accusations announced on December 10 by his Azerbaijani counterpart Eldar Sabiroglu that the Karabakh party breaks the ceasefire regime at the contact line on the everyday basis.
10:00, 12 December 2009
First frontier boats of Russian FSB arrive to Ochamchira
On December 11, two frontier sentry boats of the Russian FSB Border Department in Abkhazia - named "Mangust" and "Sobol" - arrived for permanent deployment to the Abkhazian port of Ochamchira.
09:00, 12 December 2009
Human rights defenders urge authorities to dialogue with North-Caucasian radicals
The delegates of the Fifth Reporting-Election Congress of the Public Movement "For Human Rights", which took place in Moscow on December 10-12, called authorities to dialogue with those oppositional radical forces in Northern Caucasus, which essentially reject violence in politics. Human rights activists also called to lift the ban on professing certain religious trends, including the so-called "Wahhabism".
23:50, 11 December 2009
This year, Dagestan Ombudsman received 940 applications
On the International Day of Human Rights, which was marked on December 10, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the office of the Ombudsman of Dagestan that as of December 1, 2009, they received 940 applications.
23:30, 11 December 2009
Natalia Estemirova and Maksharip Aushev posthumously decorated with Russian Ombudsman's medals
On the eve of the International Day of Human Rights, Moscow hosted a ceremony of awarding the medals of the Ombudsman of the Russian Federation "Hurry Doing Good". Two of the laureates were rewarded posthumously - human rights defenders Natalia Estemirova from Chechnya and Maksharip Aushev from Ingushetia.
23:30, 11 December 2009
In 2009, Georgia mostly complained to the Ombudsman of legal proceedings
The Ombudsman of Georgia and a number of local NGOs mark that in 2009 citizens of the country submitted their complaints most often with regard to legal proceedings, investigation of criminal cases and violations of prisoners' rights.
23:10, 11 December 2009
In Baku, police disperses protesters against mosques demolition
Today, over a hundred activists of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan held an action in front of Mosque "Fatmei-Zakhra" in Eni Guneshli settlement in a Baku suburb in protest against court decision to demolish this temple. According to the protesters, policemen did not let them to the mosque and detained about 50 activists.
22:50, 11 December 2009
Georgia states that Abkhazian agents kidnapped 10 Georgians
Today, in the course of an emergency sitting of the parliament of Georgia, MPs have accused Russian and Abkhazian power agents of terror against the Georgian population.
22:20, 11 December 2009
Lawyer Gandarov: court on Evloev case refused to interrogate main witnesses
Today, at the trial on the murder case of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Evloev, his relatives left the courtroom after they learnt that the main witnesses would not be interrogated. This was reported by the Evloevs' advocate Magomed Gandarov.
21:00, 11 December 2009
15 years ago Russian troops entered Chechnya
On December 11, 1994, under the decree of the then president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, federal troops were brought to the territory of the Chechen Republic, and the first military campaign, called "restoration of the constitutional order" began.
20:10, 11 December 2009
Fire-fighting authorities check all New Year festivity sites in North Ossetia
Specialists of the fire supervising service of North Ossetia will examine, together with local militiamen, all the places, where the New Year cultural and mass actions are planned. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt that the count of such places is about a hundred, including ten night clubs, of them seven are round-the-clock ones.
Chechnya, Argun. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru
20:00, 11 December 2009
Resident of Chechnya kidnapped several months ago announced to be liquidated militant
Employees of Chechen power agencies have handed over the body of a 21-year-old citizen of the city of Argun to his relatives. He was kidnapped by armed persons several months ago after he had been released from a militia station. The militia asserts that the young man was killed in the recent armed clash with members of the armed underground. However, human rights activists and his relatives are sure that he fell victim of an extrajudicial execution.
News
Airports in southern Russia have suspended operations following the attack on Rostov-on-Don.

A Dagestani woman has been convicted of murdering her young daughter.

Power engineers reported the complete restoration of power supply in Makhachkala.

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.