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23:19, 7 February 2022
Azerbaijan hands eight POWs over to Armenia
Eight military servicemen, including those taken prisoner of war (POWs) on November 16, 2021, have been returned to Armenia, the Azerbaijani State Commission for POWs has informed.
Explosions in Moscow metro stations. Photo: Yuga.ru https://www.yuga.ru/media/61/bd/v-metro21_01__q0q0wh0.jpg
23:08, 7 February 2022
Week from January 31 to February 6 passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus
During the week from January 31 to February 6, 2022, there were no reports about the dead and wounded persons as a result of the ongoing conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.
Screenshot of the post https://www.instagram.com/p/CZo50ODIWUi/
15:33, 7 February 2022
Abduction attempt of Dagestani native in Moscow angered Instagram users
In the public of the human rights project "Marem", Instagram users have expressed their indignation at the attempted abduction of a native of Dagestan in Moscow by her relatives. The commentators have suggested that the girl would not be left alone, while the Russian legislation provides almost no protection to victims of domestic violence.
15:23, 7 February 2022
Residential house in Azeri village shelled
Armenian militaries have shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed on the border in the Terter District; a bullet hit a residential house in the village of Gapanly, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.
Screenshot of Abubakar Yangulbaev's video appeal https://t.me/Bkr_Yang/40
13:13, 7 February 2022
Abubakar Yangulbaev leaves Georgia
Abubakar Yangulbaev, a former lawyer of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT)*, said that he left Georgia for Europe because of security threats.
Participants of a rally in Oslo. Photo from the "Adat" telegram channel
13:10, 7 February 2022
Rallies in Munich and Stockholm support Yangulbaevs
Protest actions in Munich and Stockholm were held by Chechen émigrés who demanded that they stop mocking relatives of Kadyrov's critics and save them from extrajudicial executions. The protesters especially touched on the situation with the Yangulbaev family, expressing their support for them.
Soldiers of the Rosgvardia department for the Chechen Republic. Photo: press service of Rosgvardia in the Chechen Republic, https://95.rosguard.gov.ru/uploads/2021/07/photo20210702163143.jpg
12:01, 6 February 2022
Military experts doubt possible transfer of Chechen power units to Ukrainian border
The subdivisions of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) don't subordinate to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and usually don't take part in its exercises and operations, Russian military experts told the "Caucasian Knot" in their comments on the information about the sending of military equipment from Chechnya in the direction of Ukraine.
11:26, 6 February 2022
Chechen law enforcer calls to execute Yangulbaevs
Rustam Aguev, the head of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), has addressed the Chechens living in Europe and called on them to "cut off the heads" of Yangulbaevs and bring them to the republic. Those who would not do this are cowards, the high-ranking law enforcer has stated.
Abubakar Yangulbaev. Screenshot of video posted at Yangulbaev’s Telegram Channel on January 31, 2022, https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1252439480
11:09, 6 February 2022
Abubakar Yangulbaev appeals to Bastrykin
On February 5, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT)*, sent an application to Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Abubakar has asked to check the threats against his family pronounced by Chechen leaders for the presence of death threats, incitement of hatred and enmity, solicitation, slander, insults and abuse of power.
Saidi Yangulbaev. Screenshot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM28I3flMvA
18:46, 5 February 2022
Saidi Yangulbaev rebukes Kremlin for inaction
Saidi Yangulbaev, a former federal judge, said that he had repeatedly appealed to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, asking him to protect his family from the persecution by "Kadyrov people", but no reaction followed.
18:11, 5 February 2022
USA reacts to arrest of Azerbaijani oppositionist Aliev
The United States have expressed disappointment with the arrest of opposition politician, Ali Aliev, in Azerbaijan on charges of defamation. Washington has called on Azerbaijani authorities to respect their international obligations, including the right to the freedom of expression.
A house in Gadrut, December 2020. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
16:37, 5 February 2022
Refugees from Gadrut complain about Armenian authorities' indifference to their problems
Armenian authorities refuse to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state, which casts doubt on its future existence; at the same time, they offer refugees to return to Karabakh, the NGO "In the Name of Gadrut" has stated.
Saidi Yangulbaev. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpTtMH76z8&t=1s
16:07, 5 February 2022
Saidi Yangulbaev estimates chances to challenge immunity stripping
The Russian qualification board of judges will cancel the decision to terminate the resignation, if it is guided by the law, since the order of this procedure was not observed in Chechnya, Saidi Yangulbaev has stated.
13:35, 5 February 2022
Opposition refuses nominating its candidate for Armenian president
The parliamentary oppositional factions "Armenia" and "I have the honour" have decided not to nominate their candidates for the upcoming presidential election.
Akhmed Sagov speaks at a rally in Grozny. Screenshot: youtu.be/CSQU74OPo8w
13:07, 5 February 2022
Ingush rights defenders name possible consequences of Sagov's participation in Kadyrov people's action
Akhmed Sagov, the head of the "Bart" Ingush Cultural and Educational Centre, who attended the rally against the Yangulbaevs in Grozny, may be subject to moral and psychological measures of influence so that he no longer speaks out on behalf of the Ingush nation, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have suggested.
12:16, 5 February 2022
Bar Chamber claims rights violation of Zarema Musaeva's advocate
Chechen law enforcers violated the rights of the lawyer, Natalia Dobronravova, who was present at the Yangulbaevs' apartment in Nizhny Novgorod, when law enforcers broke into it, the Bar Chamber of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has concluded.
Zarema Musaeva. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZPyIyiFlvO/
08:41, 5 February 2022
Musaeva complains to advocate about feeling unwell
At the SIZO (pre-trial prison), Zarema Musaeva is kept in solitary cell; she "barely walks"; she was called an ambulance twice, said Alexander Karavaev, an advocate, who has managed today to visit her at the SIZO for the first time.
Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev (left). Screenshot of The Insider Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheInsiderRussia/photos/1851919648306295
08:29, 5 February 2022
100,000 support petition in defence of Magamadov and Isaev
A petition demanding to release Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, natives of Chechnya, who were kidnapped exactly a year ago from Nizhny Novgorod, has gathered more than 100,000 signatories. The authors of the petition note that the lives of the two brothers are in danger.
08:18, 5 February 2022
"International Memorial"* asks to suspend liquidation
An application with a request to suspend the liquidation procedure of the "International Memorial"* was sent to the Appellate Board of the Russian Supreme Court (SC) by the organization's lawyers. They refer to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which has decided to apply interim measures to the organization until the consideration by the ECtHR of the complaint against the law on foreign agents.
Valery Fadeev. Photo: HRC official website, http://president-sovet.ru
23:09, 4 February 2022
Fadeev urges to take Musaeva’s case from Chechen investigators
Valery Fadeev, the chief of the Human Rights Council, addressed the chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a proposal to transfer the investigation into a Zarema Musaeva’s case to the federal level or to investigators from the ICRF’s Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
News
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A native of Chechnya, Zelimkhan Murtazov, was able to leave Kazakhstan.

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.