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Teberda Nature Reserve. Photo: https://tgpbz.ru
11:36, 17 February 2021
Plans to change status of Teberda Reserve triggers Karachais' protests
The Teberda Nature Reserve in the Karachai-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) is being transformed into a national park. It is unknown how the reserve's lands will be used after the status change, social activists and ecologists assert.
Protest rally in Magas. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
11:20, 17 February 2021
Defence criticizes proofs in Ingush activists' case
The correspondence in social networks and telephone messages presented at the Essentuki City Court have nothing to do with the leaders of the protest action in Magas, while the many hours of announcements of materials at the trial only protract the process, the advocates have stated.
Azerbaijan handing the remains of killed soldiers over to Armenia, http://www.rs-nkr.am/content.php?contid=2708&fbclid=IwAR1J7DThgb59iaes7XhuGU0bF0i01IeCZpSZ2peS0cqPn765Hj7YNM9aTYc
08:37, 17 February 2021
Azerbaijan hands more than 100 bodies over to Nagorno-Karabakh
The Azerbaijani party has handed the bodies of 106 people killed in the conflict zone over to the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, the president of the unrecognized republic has informed.
The woman who confessed to faking pregnancy and inventing the story of the death of twins after childbirth. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLJm756KTHL/?utm_source=ig_embed
08:24, 17 February 2021
Dagestan: fake pregnancy case raises problem of women's rights violation
In Northern Caucasus, women are forced into the role of a sort of "children-producing bag"; and the act of a Dagestani woman who invented a story about the death of her twins during childbirth could have been the result of psychological pressure, Saida Sirazhudinova, the head of the "Caucasus. Peace. Development" Centre, said in an interview with the "Lenta".
Mukhammed Imanly. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=148451829934783&set=ecnf.100043098992455
22:45, 16 February 2021
Baku court refuses to cancel sentence of oppositionist Imanly
The Baku Court of Appeal upheld the verdict to Mukhammad Imanly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), sentenced to imprisonment on the charge of spreading COVID-19. The defence will file a cassation appeal and has already addressed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a complaint about the pre-trial arrest of Mukhammad Imanly, advocate Asabali Mustafaev said.
Magomed Khamkhoev in a courtroom. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the Caucasian Knot
22:11, 16 February 2021
Ingush activist Magomed Khamkhoev sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment
In Yessentuki, a court found Magomed Khamkhoev, who took part in a rally in Magas, guilty of inciting an attack on law enforcers. Taking into account the term served by the man at a SIZO (pre-trial prison), he is to spend eight months in a penal colony.
Law enforcer, Grozny. Photo: REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko
21:57, 16 February 2021
Kremlin takes interest in "Novaya Gazeta" data on extrajudicial executions in Chechnya
The press secretary of Vladimir Putin decided to familiarize himself with the material released by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" about the detention by Chechen law enforcers of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions later.
Meeting room of the ECtHR. Photo: CherryX https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Европейский_суд_по_правам_человека pm MSK.
18:51, 16 February 2021
ECtHR demands to reconsider verdicts to persons sentenced for murder of Markelov and Baburova
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision that the Supreme Court of Russia should reconsider the unjust verdicts to Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis, sentenced for the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.
Batumi residents at a rally. Photo courtesy of the press service of the Georgian government: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgianGovernment/photos/pcb.1602184726586092/1602183863252845/?type=3&theater
18:27, 16 February 2021
Residents of Adjara demand from authorities to solve social problems
More than 200 residents of Adjara, including those dissatisfied with the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic, forced migrants, and farmers affected by the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Chorokh River, held at a protest action on February 15. The protestors request the government to solve their problems.
Moscow City Complex. Photo courtesy of Nina Tumanova
13:31, 16 February 2021
Native of Dagestan arrested for shooting in "Moscow City"
A Moscow court has ruled to arrest for three months Said Asadulaev, a Russian kickboxing champion, accused of involvement in the shootout in the "Moscow City" Business Centre in 2017.
Sergei Melikov tells how he intends to solve the problem of garbage disposal in Dagestan. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx-HURtoYag&feature=emb_logo
13:05, 16 February 2021
Melikov's promise to solve garbage problem causes social network users' scepticism
The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, promised to launch, since March 1 on, systematic work on removing garbage dumps in the republic. Instagram users have urged authorities to move from promises to deeds and demonstrate a real solution to the problem of garbage collapse.
High-security prison in Gobustan, Azerbaijan. Photo courtesy of 'Veter s Absherona'
11:13, 16 February 2021
Rights defenders urge to pardon Azerbaijani convicts
The Baku Human Rights Club has appealed to Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, with a request to release 110 persons sentenced to various prison terms, including life imprisonment, the "Turan" News Agency reported on February 15.
A video filmed in support of Vladimir Putin. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9F64ADzTP/
11:01, 16 February 2021
Instagram users support demand to punish organizers of flash mob on Mamayev Kurgan
The participants of the flash mob in support of Vladimir Putin, held on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, were involved there by deception, for which the organizers of the action should respond, social network users insist.
Participants of a protest action in Volgograd, February 14, 2021. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the Caucasian Knot
10:45, 16 February 2021
Analysts treat action with flashlights in Southern Russia as successful
The action "Love is stronger than fear" was successful, despite the fact that not all of Navalny's supporters reacted thereto, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.
Tubes with blood samples for HIV testing. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
08:43, 16 February 2021
Ingushetia and Kalmykia are leaders in Russian rating of fighting HIV
The authors of the study of the situation with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) detection and treatment in Russia have placed Ingushetia and Kalmykia into the group of 13 best regions. Doctors of the Stavropol and Volgograd Regions are also successfully coping with the problem, while in other regions of the Southern Federal and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) the problem is expressed at an average level.
The head of the Gudermes ROVD holds an explanatory conversation with three young men. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRRpZWqi35/
08:28, 16 February 2021
Rights defenders point to the political reasons for talk with youngsters at Gudermes police
Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, believe that the head of the Gudermes ROVD (District Interior Division) by scolding the guys for supporting the "Euroichkerians" has supported the federal government's confrontation vector with Western countries.
Rally participants holding banners with Polad Aslanov's portraits. .Screenshot: "Amerikanın Səsi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeItCVwfF20
23:09, 15 February 2021
BCA upholds verdict to Polad Aslanov
The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) upheld the verdict of guilty to journalist Polad Aslanov. The sentenced journalist claimed that he would continue his hunger strike in protest against the unjustified criminal prosecution.
Syunik Region. Screenshot: https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/society/20210215/26453950/Ombudsmen-Armenii-predstavil-dokazatelstva-strelby-VS-Azerbaydzhana-bliz-Syunika.html
22:53, 15 February 2021
Armenian side reports shelling near villages of Syunik Region
The Azerbaijani armed forces use small- and large-calibre weapons to shell the immediate vicinity of the villages in the Syunik Region of Armenia, the Ombudsman of Armenia claims today. The head of the Agarak village community also reports about the shelling.
Hand cuffs. Photo courtesy of Elena Sineok / Yuga.ru
18:17, 15 February 2021
Dagestani law enforcers detain a person accused of financing terrorism
A resident of Buynaksk was detained in a case on transferring more than 370,000 roubles to support terrorist organizations, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.
Terror attack on policemen, December 17, 2016. Screenshot: DAMATOHTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2cD0fAtwes
18:02, 15 February 2021
"Novaya Gazeta" makes public investigation into extrajudicial executions in Chechnya
The newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" got copies of photographic tables prepared by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which contained the information about the detention of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions. The "Novaya Gazeta" announced a release of an interview with a Chechen law enforcer who witnessed the executions.
News
Participants in the fighting in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense Press Service The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has reached 9,000.

Participants of the Special Military Operations Team. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has exceeded 8,950.

The verdict in the Crocus City terrorist attack case. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program. No casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts from March 9 to 22.

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.