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14:16, 26 November 2008
Adygea: facts of logging in the territory of World Natural Heritage are checked by law enforcers
Not only ecologists, but also law enforcement bodies have registered the facts of forest felling in the territory of the object of the World Natural Heritage (WNH) "Western Caucasus" in Adygea. In the next few days, criminal cases will be initiated on these facts.
14:14, 26 November 2008
Same judge will run Anna Politkovskaya's murder case
Today Evgeniy Zubov, Judge of the Moscow Regional Military Court, has refused to self-disqualify from the process on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.
14:08, 26 November 2008
Former advocate of ex-senator from Kalmykia Chakhmakhchyan applies against Russia to the European court
Boris Kuznetsov, former advocate of Levon Chakhmakhchyan, ex-senator from Kalmykia, who was convicted to nine years of deprivation of freedom, has filed a claim against Russia to Strasbourg to the European Court for Human Rights.
13:15, 26 November 2008
Sokiryanskaya: residents of Georgian villages in South Ossetia feel extremely unsafe
On November 21, 2008, Russian human rights activists made a visit to the Leningor District of South Ossetia bordering on Georgia. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, a representative of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who took part in the visit, told the "Caucasian Knot" in her interview about the distress of the villagers in the District.
13:50, 25 November 2008
Azerbaijani politicians: Ukraine excessively politicizes Holodomor topic
The topic of Holodomor (also known as Famine-1933) in Ukraine is being excessively politicized, however, the position of Ukrainian President on the issue deserves understanding, Azerbaijani politicians and political scientists believe.
13:47, 25 November 2008
US congressmen urge Azerbaijani President not to stop Voice of America
On November 24, Elsie Hastings and Benjamin Cardin, co-chairs of the US Congress Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, sent a letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev with expression of their concern with the plans to stop in 2009 access of foreign radio companies, in particular Voice of America and Radio Liberty, to the frequencies controlled by the country's government.
13:42, 25 November 2008
Ex-ambassador of Georgia: Georgian invasion to Abkhazia was prepared in April-May
Back in April 2008 the Georgian leadership was preparing the warfare in Abkhazia, having invited trainers from Israel; this was announced today by Erosi Kitsmarishvili, former ambassador of Georgia to Russia, at a sitting of the ad hoc parliamentary commission, which was set up for studying the August crisis in the Caucasus.
13:38, 25 November 2008
Well-known oppositionist approved as Vice-Premier of Ingushetia
Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has signed appointment decrees to various top positions in the Republic. Thus, Magomed-Sali Aushev, a well-known oppositional politician of Ingushetia, has been approved as the Deputy Chairman of the Government (Vice-Premier).
13:36, 25 November 2008
Trial of Anna Politkovskaya's murder case is again made open
The litigation on the case on the murder of the "Novaya Gazeta" correspondent Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the open regime. The board of jurymen has reiterated their statement that they do not object to run the trial in the open regime. The state prosecution has supported the jurymen's statement. As a result, Judge Zubov made a respective decision, the "New Gazeta" reports.
13:30, 25 November 2008
Fight in Moscow with participation of Caucasian natives
In Moscow, at about midnight, a fight burst out between the natives from the Caucasus and those from Central Asia, in which some 15 persons took part. About ten persons suffered, and four were knifed.
13:25, 25 November 2008
HRC "Memorial": in Dagestan, armed conflicts are religion-motivated
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has stated in the press conference in Moscow on November 24, dated to one year anniversary of the murder of Dagestan human rights activist and oppositional politician Farid Babaev, that armed conflicts in Dagestan have religious character.
13:20, 25 November 2008
In Kalmykia, authorities notice municipal hunger-strikers
After the "Caucasian Knot" published a news item about the protest action of municipal workers in the Iki-Burul District of Kalmykia, they were visited by representatives of various media and power bodies. The hunger-strikers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.
12:33, 24 November 2008
Kaczynski asks not to blame anybody for the incident in Georgia
President of Poland Lech Kaczynski asks not to blame anybody for the incident in Georgia when unknown persons opened fire near the cars, which carried himself and President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. According to Mr Kaczynski, it was he who asked to change the route of the presidential cortege.
12:26, 24 November 2008
Chechnya investigates the terror act that killed four persons
Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic continue investigating the circumstances of the terror act in Sadovoe village, Grozny District, committed at night on November 23, when three employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, and one local resident were killed, and eight more person, five militiamen among them, were heavily wounded.
12:22, 24 November 2008
Moscow holds picket in memory of Farid Babaev killed in Dagestan
A memory picket of Dagestan human rights activist and member of the "Yabloko" Party Farid Babaev took place today in Moscow near "Kropotkinskaya" Metro from 11:15 to 12:00 a.m. Moscow time.
12:18, 24 November 2008
Russian Prosecutor's Office: mercenaries fought for Georgia in conflict with South Ossetia
Alexander Bastrykin, head of the ICPO, asserts that in the August conflict with South Ossetia, Georgia made use of mercenaries recruited in several countries.
12:15, 24 November 2008
Medvedev ratifies treaties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia
President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has signed the ratification laws of the treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Kremlin press service said today.
12:13, 24 November 2008
Chechen Prosecutor's Office: military inspectors to take Sulim Yamadaev's case now
Further investigation of the criminal cases initiated against former commander of the "Vostok" battalion of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Ministry of Defence of Russia Lieutenant Colonel Sulim Yamadaev will be held by military investigatory bodies.
12:10, 24 November 2008
Body count of November 6 Vladikavkaz terror act is now 12 persons
The death roll of the explosion of a fixed-route taxi in the centre of Vladikavkaz has reached 12 persons, the spokesman of the Ministry of Public Health of North Ossetia has reported today.
12:07, 24 November 2008
European parliamentarian finds missing South-Ossetian young men
European MP from Italy Julietto Chieza has managed to establish the whereabouts of the missing young men from South Ossetia, who had been taken in captivity by Georgian militaries and whose fate remained unknown.
News
A Baku court refused to allow Ali Karimli to attend his father's funeral.

Two Russians detained in Azerbaijan have been sentenced to prison.

The wife of journalist Nurlan Gahramanli reported that he was beaten in pretrial detention.

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.