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22:00, 9 December 2009
South-Caucasian human rights activists to launch broad-scale campaign in EU embassies
On December 10, the Day of Human Rights Defender, 30 human rights organizations from the countries of South Caucasus prepare to hold a campaign entitled "Lobbing the European Union's Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders".
Egypt, Alexandria. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org
20:00, 9 December 2009
AI is against extradition of Ingush resident from Egypt
In the near future, Ibragim Mankiev, a resident of Ingushetia, can be extradited to Russia, where he can face torture and other forms of inhuman treatment. As reported by the Amnesty International (AI), he is now in custody in Egypt without the right of communication.
19:00, 9 December 2009
DEVAMM: this year Azerbaijan sees more problems with freedom of worship
In the opinion of Ilgar Ibragimoglu, head of the DEVAMM (Centre in Defence of Freedom of Conscience and Religion), in 2009, Azerbaijan suffers from a real "crusade" on the freedom of conscience and worship. Today, he has presented the 2009 annual report of his human rights organization.
18:00, 9 December 2009
Dymovskiy's "White Tape" Movement starts working
The Public Movement named "White Tape" is going to place in its website documents and applications of the citizens who have suffered from arbitrariness of law enforcement bodies. This was announced today by Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, initiator of the Movement.
23:30, 8 December 2009
Bortnikov: 80 terror acts prevented in Northern Caucasus
Head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov has stated today at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) that in 2009 almost 800 militants and their helpers were detained in Northern Caucasus, but the threat of terror acts in the Russian Federation survives.
23:20, 8 December 2009
President of Chechnya appeals against refusal to open case against "Novaya Gazeta" journalists
President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov asks the prosecutor's office to cancel the decision to refuse about refusal to initiate a slander case against Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta".
23:00, 8 December 2009
All Makhachkala educational institutions stopped for quarantine
Today, by the decision of the chief sanitary physician for the Republic of Dagestan, all higher and secondary schools, and kindergartens of Makhachkala are closed for quarantine because of flu epidemic.
Azerbaijan, Baku. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org
22:00, 8 December 2009
Azerbaijani bureaucrats want to preserve criminal punishment for defamation
The Azerbaijani Committee in Defence of Journalists named "Ruh" has held a poll aiming to reveal the attitude to responsibility for defamation among ministries, state bodies, establishments, enterprises and organizations.
21:00, 8 December 2009
All chief physicians in Grozny are put off-staff
All the chief physicians of medical establishments in the capital of Chechnya will have to pass re-attestation in the near future; and on the outcomes thereof decisions will be made on their service match. This decision was made by the authorities after on December 7 the city Mayor Muslim Khuchiev checked the first aid station.
20:00, 8 December 2009
Public of Abkhazia concerned of situation in Kabardino-Balkaria
Representatives of the public of Abkhazia express their concern of the recent situation in Kabardino-Balkaria and demand to stop attacks on the leaders of Adyg organizations.
19:00, 8 December 2009
Prosecution demands sending Evloev's killer to colony, defence is for acquittal
The Karabulak Court of Ingushetia, which runs the process on the murder case of Magomed Evloev, an oppositionist and the owner of the site "Ingushetia.Ru", plans to announce the verdict on December 11.
18:00, 8 December 2009
Ingushetia: fate of three missing persons still unknown
Relatives of three residents of Ingushetia, supposedly kidnapped by power agents, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that they were still unaware of their fate.
23:50, 7 December 2009
Karachai-Circassian drugstores have violations in drug storage, the prosecutor's office asserts
The check conducted by the prosecutor's office of Karachai-Circassia jointly with the local department of the Federal Service for Supervising Public Health and Social Development revealed violations by chemist's entities of the Federal Law "On Pharmaceuticals".
23:10, 7 December 2009
Bloggers discuss blocking of access to sites by Yota provider
The WiMax-operator named "Skartel", working under the brand of Yota, blocked for several days the access of its users to a number of Internet-based resources. Messages of indignant users started to appear in the Internet on December 2. Some subscribers from different Moscow districts failed to load several oppositional websites.
23:00, 7 December 2009
Evkurov supports Ingush Premier in his conflict with administration head
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has dismissed Vladimir Borschov, head of his administration. Under the official version, the bureaucrat had asked for resignation himself, having referred to poor health. By another version, Mr Borschov has retired because of his conflict with Alexei Vorobyov, head of the republic's government.
22:00, 7 December 2009
Detained Zviad Gamsakhurdia's son stops his hunger strike
Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the son of the first President of Georgia, arrested on the charge of a murder attempt, has decided to stop his protest hunger strike because of sharp deterioration of his health.
21:00, 7 December 2009
Markelov posthumously rewarded by European lawyers
The Board of European Bars and legal societies, which unites over 0.7 million lawyers of the European Union, has posthumously awarded their 2009 prize to lawyer Stanislav Markelov, assassinated this January.
Rally of the Imeretinskaya lowland citizens. The inscription on the placard says, "The sale of land is the camouflaged enslavement of the individual. L.N. Tolstoy". Sochi, December 6, 2009.
20:00, 7 December 2009
In Sochi, Imereti residents protest against sums for their real estate
The residents of the Imereti Lowland (Sochi, Krasnodar Territory), whose houses are within the Olympic construction zone, have held a rally in protest against a significant decrease of the earlier declared prices on their bought-out real estate, and against the absence of reliable and timely information about their forthcoming resettlement.
19:00, 7 December 2009
Ingushetia: father reports execution of his son by power agents
According to Hasan Tsoroev, father of Beslan Tsoroev, a resident of Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, assassinated today, his son fell victim of extrajudicial execution.
18:00, 7 December 2009
Lawsuit of Major Dymovskiy's colleagues sent to Primorskiy District Court of Novorossisk
Today, the Oktiabrskiy District Court of Novorossisk has held a preliminary session on the claim lodged by the bosses of the city UVD (Interior Department) against Major Alexei Dymovskiy, known for his video appeal with criticism of his bosses placed in the Internet.
News
A Volgograd activist reported pressure and threats from security forces.

A man accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Stavropol has been convicted in Rostov-on-Don.

A Kislovodsk resident was sentenced for posting LSR* leaflets.

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.