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The search for the remains of soldiers who perished in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by the press service of the Nagorno-Karabakh Emergency Service https://www.facebook.com/RescueServiceOfTheNKR/posts/301881741958001
22:58, 25 January 2022
In Shushi, Azerbaijan has handed the remains of a military serviceman over to the Armenian party. Thus, the overall number of bodies and remains found in the conflict zone after the November 2020 hostilities has reached 1707, the Nagorno-Karabakh Emergency Service has informed.
22:57, 25 January 2022
The Public Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Ali Aliev, the leader of the "Citizens and Development" Party sentenced to five months in custody, has been set up in Azerbaijan. Its members treat Aliev's arrest as an attack on the freedom of expression.
Ibragim Yangulbaev. Screenshot of the video published at the sotavision YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=365&v=WbBv-jE47Zs&feature=emb_logo
13:42, 25 January 2022
In his video address to Ramzan Kadyrov, Ibragim Yangulbaev, a blogger, has recalled his oppositional activities when he lived in Chechnya. According to his story, he was detained twice and tortured, but he didn't stop criticizing local authorities.
13:39, 25 January 2022
Apart from Zarema Musaeva, the mother of Yangulbaev brothers, who was abducted in Nizhny Novgorod and brought to Chechnya by law enforcers, two their other relatives have not been released yet.
Abubakar Yangulbaev. Screenshot of the post https://t.me/against_torture
13:34, 25 January 2022
By accusing the Yangulbaev family of organizing an attack on a former Chechen law enforcer in Turkey, Ramzan Kadyrov is trying to justify the kidnapping of Zarema Musaeva, her son, Abubakar Yangulbaev, has suggested.
Polad Aslanov. Photo: https://doshdu.com/reportery-bez-granic-prizvali-vlasti-azerbajdzhana-otkazatsja-ot-presledovanija-polada-aslanova/
13:11, 25 January 2022
Polad Aslanov, a journalist, was hospitalized on the 19th day of his hunger strike after he fainted in the colony. Aslanov took some food, but then continued his hunger strike, Gyulmira Aslanova, Polad's wife, has added.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot of the video by the BBC Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp65fNM4Mj8&t=1s
12:48, 25 January 2022
The Russian government allocates 300 billion roubles a year for supporting Chechnya; the republic won't hold "even a month" without Moscow's support, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has stated.
12:40, 25 January 2022
The sons of Zarema Yangulbaeva (Musaeva) should come to Chechnya to fetch their mother, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, again accusing the whole family of various crimes. Abubakar Yangulbaev intends to sue the head of Chechnya for calling his family as terrorists.
12:32, 25 January 2022
Khasan Khalitov, a blogger living in Turkey, has refused to apologize to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, despite the threats to publish obscene photos of the blogger's sister. Social network users considered it unworthy for Muslims to humiliate women.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot of the video on his personal page vk.com/ramzan
23:58, 24 January 2022
The allegation of Ramzan Kadyrov, who classified Igor Kalyapin, the head of the “Committee Against Torture”*, and journalist Elena Milashina as terrorists, will not be followed by criminal prosecution of those people, but the risk of unlawful pressure on them has increased, human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina and advocate Marina Dubrovina point out.
Igor Kalyapin, Ramzan Kadyrov. Photos: Foreign and Commonwealth Office; screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://grozny-inform.ru/news/society/131879/
23:55, 24 January 2022
It is useless to complain about the Ramzan Kadyrov’s allegation that Igor Kalyapin, the head of the “Committee against Torture”*, is an accomplice of terrorists, since the leader of Chechnya always get away with it, the human rights defender explains.
Law enforcers detain Zarema Musaeva. Screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/CZHKjIooFWA/
23:52, 24 January 2022
According to video from surveillance cameras, law enforcers took Zarema Musaeva out of the house entrance without warm clothes. The elderly woman was walking through the snow without shoes, Sergey Babinets, a lawyer of the “Committee Against Torture”*, emphasized.
The FSB officers detain a suspect. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/terrorizmu-net/fsb/fsb-rossii-predotvrashchena-popytka-soversheniya.html
23:49, 24 January 2022
During the week of January 17-23, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
Yelena Milashina, Igor Kalyapin. Photos: ttps://chechnyatoday.com/news/317599, http://president-sovet.ru/presscenter/news/read/2922/ Collage by the  "Caucasian Knot"
23:47, 24 January 2022
The head of Chechnya has labelled Igor Kalyapin, a member of the presidential Human Rights Council, and Yelena Milashina, a "Novaya Gazeta" journalist, as terrorists' helpers and called to detain them.
Khasan Khalitov. Photo https://doshdu.com/prozhivajushhij-v-gruzii-chechenskij-bezhenec-soobshhil-chto-ego-hotjat-ubit/
23:45, 24 January 2022
Khasan Khalitov, a blogger living in Turkey, has received a photo of his naked sister, who was abducted in Chechnya, accompanied by a demand to stop criticizing Chechen authorities.
Zarema Yangulbaeva. Screenshot of the video on Instagram of  Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAKOLSlcvd/
22:47, 24 January 2022
Zarema Musaeva is kept in the special detention centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya; she was detained because of insulting and attacking a policeman in Grozny. The court arrested her for 15 days, Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister of Information and Press of Chechnya, has informed.
Zarema Yangulbaeva, screenshot of the post by the "Committee against Torture" https://t.me/against_torture, Abubakar Yangulbaev, screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0yFcGfEFkI Collage by the  "Caucasian Knot"
20:58, 24 January 2022
After the abduction of Zarema Musaeva, her son, Abubakar Yangulbaev, said that about 15 members of the Yangulbaev and Musaev families living in Grozny have stopped communicating.
Saidi Yangulbaev. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpTtMH76z8&t=1s
11:59, 24 January 2022
The departure of the former federal judge, Saidi Yangulbaev, and his daughter Aliya from Russia was caused by the threats voiced out by Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, Natalya Kurekina, the press secretary of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT)*, has stated.
Polad Aslanov. Photo https://doshdu.com/reportery-bez-granic-prizvali-vlasti-azerbajdzhana-otkazatsja-ot-presledovanija-polada-aslanova/
11:57, 24 January 2022
The health condition of the Azerbaijani journalist, Polad Aslanov, who has been on a hunger strike for 18 days, demanding a revision of his case, has sharply worsened, his wife has informed.
Abubakar Yangulbaev. Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot: t.me/against_torture. Photo: IA ‘Chechnya segodnya’ https://chechnyatoday.com/news/348226. Collage made by the Caucasian Knot
11:42, 23 January 2022
The head of Chechnya has accused the family of the human rights defender, Abubakar Yangulbaev, of organizing an attack on a former Chechen law enforcer in Turkey and calling for terrorism; in his turn, Abubakar has asked the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to check Kadyrov's threats for extremism.
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.