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21:00, 28 August 2009
Abkhazia refutes Georgian MIA's statements about shelling of Ganmukhuri
Zurab Marganiya, head of a frontier detachment of the Abkhazian State Security Service, has stated that the Abkhazian party has nothing to do with the incident in Zugdidi District.
20:00, 28 August 2009
CTO regime lifted in Dagestan capital
As reported by the PR Group of the FSB Department for Dagestan, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the Primorskiy District of Makhachkala, has been cancelled with the end of special actions.
19:00, 28 August 2009
President of Georgia pardons 238 prisoners
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has signed a decree on pardoning 238 prisoners. As reported at today's press conference by Dmitri Shashkin, Minister of Punishment Enforcement, Probation and Legal Aid, 169 prisoners will be set free.
18:00, 28 August 2009
Three could-be militants liquidated in CTO in KBR
In an armed clash near Karagach village, Prokhladnoe District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced tonight, three IAF (illegal armed formation) members are killed and one law enforcer wounded, as reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.
23:40, 27 August 2009
Abkhazian delegation to visit Nicaragua
President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh plans to send an official delegation to the Republic of Nicaragua, "being guided by the desire to strengthen bilateral cooperation in all areas of modern life." This is stated in the letter sent on August 26 by Sergey Bagapsh to the President of the Republic of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega Saavedra.
Stavropol. Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/nick_touz
23:30, 27 August 2009
Stavropol: boss of building company who deceived 350 would-be dwellers sentenced to 12 years in jail
The Promyshlenny District Court of Stavropol has found director of the building company LLC "Spas-XXI" and his two subordinates guilty of a swindle and causing 200-million roubles damage to citizens.
23:00, 27 August 2009
Militia lieutenant wounded in Ingushetia
On August 26 in the evening, in Sunzha District of Ingushetia, five unknown persons in masks, armed with automatic firearms, rushed into the house of a militia lieutenant, where he lived with his family, and wounded him from a pistol.
22:10, 27 August 2009
Officials' bodyguards were dispersing rally on March 1, 2008, in Armenia, oppositionists assert
Bodyguards of oligarchs and high-ranking officials of Armenia, including Ovik Abramyan, speaker of the parliament, Mger Sedrakyan, prefect of the community Erebuni, and Suren Khachatryan, governor of Syunik, took part in dispersing the peaceful rally on March 1, 2008. This was reported on August 27 at a press conference by the members of the fact-finding group about the March 1 events, which was disbanded by President's decree.
22:00, 27 August 2009
Ex-judge from Volgograd: I was sacked for "wrong" decision on "ordered" case
Judge Marianna Lukyanovskaya, who was dismissed from the Volgograd Regional Court, has filed a complaint to the cassation panel of the Supreme Court of Russia. It is her last resort among Russian instances to achieve restoration in her position; further, she is going to apply to Strasbourg. The judge asserts that she was sacked for making a "wrong" decision on an "ordered" case.
22:00, 27 August 2009
Person found in burned down car in Dagestan identified
In Dagestan, one of the three persons, whose bodies were found yesterday, on August 26, in a burned down car, has been identified. Father of Arthur Butaev - Yuri - could recognize his son only by his personal belongings, as the body was strongly scorched. The earlier identified young man had been kidnapped by unidentified persons.
21:00, 27 August 2009
Defendant in Nalchik attack case petitions on returning the case to public prosecutor
Today, at the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the criminal case about the events on October 13, 2005, the parties in the process discussed the petition filed by defendant Azamat Akhkubekov in favour of returning the criminal case to the public prosecutor, since, in his opinion, there are significant discrepancies between the indictment and the materials of the criminal case.
20:00, 27 August 2009
Armenia: court extends custody of oppositional editor
The court of general jurisdiction of the Yerevan community Tsentr-Nork-Marash has passed a decision to extend by two month the pre-trial custody of Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" and activist of the "Armenian National Congress" who voluntarily surrendered to law enforcers on July 1.
Dagestan, Makhachkala. Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/verbatim, Allie Verbovetskaya
19:00, 27 August 2009
In Dagestan, NGOs ask Russian President to "pacify" power agents
Today an extraordinary session of the Union of NGOs "Homeland" was convoked to discuss actions in defence of constitutional rights of Dagestan citizens.
Ingushetia, Nazran. Photo by www.venividi.ru/user/183, Artem Rusakovich
18:00, 27 August 2009
Khazbiev: militiamen-victims of Nazran terror act lack help
On August 26, in Ingushetia, local representative of Russian Ombudsman Magomed Khazbiev was approached by relatives of the Ingush militiamen injured by the terror act in Nazran on August 17 and sent to take their treatment to Rostov-on-Don. According to their story, the militiamen receive insufficient health care; and the conditions, in which they are treated, are "awful".
23:30, 26 August 2009
Member of Board of Elders of Balkar People was forced to the Prosecutor's Office of Nalchik
On August 25 in the morning, Tamara Gerieva, a member of the Board of Elders of Balkar People (BEBP), was violently delivered by militiamen to the Prosecutor's Office of Nalchik, where Anatoly Tkhagapsoev, public prosecutor of the city, offered her to sign a warning on inadmissibility of extremist activity. Ms Gerieva herself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
23:10, 26 August 2009
Chechen suicide bomber was convicted earlier as IAF member
Magomed Shakhidov who committed on August 25 a terror act in the Shali District of Chechnya, in 2004 was sentenced to imprisonment for taking part in illegal armed formations (IAFs).
23:00, 26 August 2009
South Ossetia marks its Independence Day
The concert under the motto "To Russia with love!" will be the final event of the Tskhinvali's meaningful day of the first anniversary of South Ossetia's independence. An "Open lesson of peace, friendship and arts" is another Russian-South-Ossetian action dedicated to one year after Russia's recognition of South Ossetia's independence.
22:30, 26 August 2009
Ingush MIA: hospital evacuation in Nazran was caused by threat of terror act
The republic's MIA has confirmed that the evacuation of the Ingushetian Republic's Clinical Hospital (IRCH) in Nazran was not an exercise, but a reaction of power agents to real information about a prepared explosion with participation of a woman-suicide bomber.
22:10, 26 August 2009
Dagestan resident complains of illegal actions of the militia
Abdulbadyr Abdulzhaparov, a resident of Rakhata village, Botlikh District Dagestan, has addressed his complaint against Labazan Derbishev, head of the criminal investigation division of the Botlikh ROVD, to Interior Ministers of Russia and Dagestan Rashid Nurgaliev and Ali Magomedov. Mr Abdulzhaparov believes that he has fallen victim of the militiaman's persecution because of aversion.
22:00, 26 August 2009
In the wake of Nazran terror act, Evkurov accuses his officials of criminal negligence
President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has accused, in his video address to the Ingush people, his officials of negligence and irresponsibility, which led to the terror act at the Nazran ROVD building.
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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.