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15:00, 7 March 2009
Rostov Region: three persons wounded in raiders' attack on refinery
In the Kamensk District, Rostov Region, an attempt was made by members of one of private security agencies (PSA) to capture a large oil refinery in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy. Three persons were wounded.
14:00, 7 March 2009
Evkurov: war on corruption returned 14 million roubles back into the budget of Ingushetia
Yunus-Bek Evkurov, President of the Republic of Ingushetia, said that his anticorruption actions have returned 14 million roubles back into the Republic's budget.
13:00, 7 March 2009
Human rights activists of Kabardino-Balkaria link restriction of juries with the Nalchik attack case
The participants of the roundtable, held at the Public Human Rights Centre of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic believe that the restriction of juries is related to the particular criminal case, which considers the events on October 13, 2005, in Kabardino-Balkaria.
12:00, 7 March 2009
Head of Russia's "Minprirody": shame to show Olympic sites to Putin
The Olympic construction sites in Sochi are in awful condition, as Yuri Trutnev, head of the Ministry for Natural Resources and Environment Protection ("Minprirody"), stated at the sitting of the Federal Technical Inspection Committee ("Rostekhnadzor") on Friday, March 6.
11:00, 7 March 2009
SFD: gambling business asks to stay in cities till 2012
The Gamblers' Association of the Southern Federal District (SFD) of Russia asks to postpone the deadline for closing their gambling facilities located outside particular areas from July 1, 2009, till the end of 2012 under the motive that the so-called "Azov-City" is not ready yet.
10:00, 7 March 2009
Explosion in Ingushetia was aimed to kill best sappers, militia says
The explosion in Ingushetia on March 5, which killed bomb technicians and sappers from the FSB and militia, could be a sort of preparation of a huge terror act, and its aim, most likely, was to liquidate the best bomb technicians and sappers of the Republic, as law enforcement bodies assert.
09:00, 7 March 2009
"Azerbaijani Airlines" want to fly to Batumi
During the visit of Adzharia's delegation to Azerbaijan, a preliminary agreement was reached to launch a direct flight Baku-Batumi by the start of the resort season.
20:00, 6 March 2009
Meeting of President of South Ossetia with refugees in North Ossetia failed to meet their expectations
The meeting on March 5 of Eduard Kokoity, President of South Ossetia, with the refugees living in North Ossetia, failed to meet their expectations. After his two-hour speech, President answered only seven questions of the audience.
19:09, 6 March 2009
"Voice of Beslan" again complains of Russia to the European Court
Today, the members of the All-Russia NGO "Voice of Beslan" have lodged another complaint of theirs to the European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg the next complaint against the state on behalf of the new initiative group consisting of 71 persons, as Ella Kesaeva, head of the NGO, has reported.
18:00, 6 March 2009
"Alliance for Georgia" starts plebiscite for Saakashvili's resignation
Today, the political association named "Alliance for Georgia", headed by Irakliy Alasaniya, has declared a start of the public plebiscite towards resignation of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. This was announced by Mr Alasaniya at a briefing in Tbilisi.
16:10, 6 March 2009
General Prosecutor's Office sends the "Neva-Express" Train case back to additional investigation
The General Prosecutor's Office has returned the case about the explosion of the "Neva-Express" Train for additional investigation. In the opinion of the Office, the investigation remained unfinished.
15:00, 6 March 2009
In Armenia, politicians and experts give differing estimates to US DoS' human rights report
The authorities of Armenia find the Armenian part of the annual report on situation with human rights in the world presented on February 26 by the Department of State (DoS) of the USA unduly sharp and politically motivated.
14:00, 6 March 2009
Centre of Islamic Medicine in Grozny reports curing a thousand
The Centre of Islamic Medicine, opened on February 2, in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, where patients with psycho-neurological diseases are treated by reading ayats from Koran and according to Sunnah of Prophet Mohammed, has already cured one thousand persons, as the Republic's Muftiyat reports.
Source: "Caucasian Knot"
13:00, 6 March 2009
Volgograd Region launches action in defence of cowslips
The Committee for Natural Resources and Nature Preservations of the Volgograd Regional Administration has initiated its fifth annual action in defence of rare early-flowering herbs (cowslips or primroses) growing in the region.
12:19, 6 March 2009
In Nagorno-Karabakh, panic on dram collapse calms down
After Nagorno-Karabakh leaders have spoken on local TV, the situation around the fall of the exchange rate of the national currency has calmed down a little: people stopped flapping about and crowds in shops have disappeared, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the region.
12:00, 6 March 2009
On March 8, Kabardino-Balkaria marks 65 years of Balkar people's deportation
On March 8, Kabardino-Balkaria will mark the Memory Day of 1944 deportation victims among the Balkar nation. A mourning rally will be held in Nalchik, at the memorial to deportation victims.
11:00, 6 March 2009
Shakhnazaryan: Armenian consumer markets get normalized
In Armenia, prices on essential foodstuffs and the cost of US dollar went down. Ashot Shakhnazaryan, Chairman of the State Commission for Defence of Economic Competition, said at a briefing on March 6 that the situation in Armenian marketplaces has normalized.
10:00, 6 March 2009
Stock of the only HPP put up for sale in Nagorno-Karabakh
The city of Stepanakert has presented a public flotation of the stock of the company named "ArtsakhGES" (Artsakh Hydraulic Power Plant). Thus, for the first time in Nagorno-Karabakh, an attempt was made to involve public in a large investment project.
09:00, 6 March 2009
Chechnya builds a copy of "Heart of Chechnya" Mosque
In the village of Tsentaroy, known as the clannish settlement of Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov, a copy of the "Heart of Chechnya" Mosque, erected last year in Grozny (capable to house 10,000 believers at a time, the largest in Europe) is now being built. The mosque in Tsentaroy will house about seven thousand believers.
22:00, 5 March 2009
Chechen native accuses Kadyrov of preparing murders in Norway
Ruslan (Aslan) Khalilov, a native of Chechnya, who is named by separatists' websites as "repented Kadyrov's killer", has stated before a video camera that President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov had ordered to kill Magomed Ocherkhadzhi, a native of Chechnya, who lives in Norway, and instructed his people to come into contacts with the authorities of Norway with the aim to mislead them and discredit Norwegian Chechens.
News
Putin suggested Pashinyan choose a course before the elections.

Alipat Sultanbegova, an activist. Photo: SOTA https://t.me/sotaproject/54465 Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 20-26, 2023

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 12-18, 2022

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.