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08:31, 7 January 2021
Azerbaijani GPO treats video with POW's incineration as original
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has recognized the video footage of the burning of the body of an Azerbaijani soldier-prisoner of war (POW) to be authentic and opened a criminal case based on this footage. The Azerbaijani Ombudsperson has demanded from international organizations to react to this and other war crimes.
Special operation in Grozny, October 13, 2020. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvqkunIRxIc&feature=emb_logo
08:20, 7 January 2021
Social network users worried about Dagestani orphan's fate in Grozny
The information about the detention in Grozny of a 14-year-old orphan girl from Dagestan, who at this age was already one of the wives of an adult man, has alarmed social network users. The Children's Ombudsperson must check how the girl's rights are respected, commentators assert.
Malika Djikaeva's mother. Screenshot: kudzieva.anzhela://www.instagram.com/p/CIxkWUiK7m8/
23:03, 6 January 2021
Advocate and mother of blogger Djikaeva report about her stay at Grozny SIZO
Today, an advocate of North-Ossetian blogger Malika Djikaeva, sentenced to imprisonment for drug possession, has reported that an appeal against the verdict was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The mother of the sentenced blogger got information about the pressure on her daughter at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).
Screenshot of broadcasting of the liturgy in the temple of Grigor Lusavorich (the Illuminator) in Yerevan, Yerevan Today video
22:37, 6 January 2021
Pashinyan isolates himself amid protests near Yerevan Cathedral
In the morning, protesters gathered near a church in Yerevan to prevent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from attending the Christmas service. Nikol Pashinyan did not come to the church, and his press secretary explained the Prime Minister's absence by the epidemiological situation.
Ramzan Kadyrov and Khamzat Chimayev at a reception in Grozny. Screenshot of the post on Ramzan Kadyrov's VKontakte page: https://vk.com/ramzan
20:18, 6 January 2021
Kadyrov ignores mask regime at meeting with coronavirus-infected MMA fighter
MMA fighter Khamzat Chimaev flew to Chechnya after he had cancelled a fight at the UFC tournament because of his positive COVID-19 test. However, according to posts on social networks, at the meetings with Khamzat Chimaev, Ramzan Kadyrov, other athletes, and relatives of the MMA fighter neglected the mask regime in force in the republic.
Vali Abduragimov. Screenshot: https://vk.com/video-74219800_456248429
20:07, 6 January 2021
Social network users criticize law enforcers after murder of an activist in Dagestan
After a report about the murder of Vali Abduragimov, who tried to resist drug trafficking, some social network users have noted that law enforcers, and not activists, are to fight against drug dealers.
Map of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Caucasian Knot. Photo: https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/356336/
17:46, 6 January 2021
Balasanyan accuses Azerbaijani forces of violating border
The Azerbaijani side does not comply with the terms of the peace agreement and sends its armed forces deep into the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, states Vitaly Balasanyan, Secretary of the Security Council of the unrecognized republic.
A burned-out tank. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
15:34, 6 January 2021
Azerbaijan reveals number of captured Nagorno-Karabakh residents
Five Nagorno-Karabakh militaries and two civilians are being held captive in Azerbaijan, while the unrecognized republic keeps two Azerbaijani civilians, said Ismail Akhundov, the head of the Commission on Prisoners' Affairs.
At the positions of Karabakh militaries in the Agdam District, 528 ordnances were found and neutralized. Screenshot: https://apa.az/ru/azerbaydjanskaya-armiya/V-Agdamskom-rajone-obnaruzheno-27-dymovyh-minometnyh-snaryadov-s-belym-fosforom-colorredFOTOcolor-433983
15:22, 6 January 2021
Azerbaijani sappers find 27 phosphorus shells
At the positions of Karabakh militaries in the Agdam District, 528 ordnances, including 27 shells with white phosphorus, were found and neutralized, the Azerbaijani Demining Agency has informed.
Khristo Grozev, a journalist-investigator from the Bellingcat. Photo: REUTERS/Hannah McKay
11:17, 6 January 2021
Air flights of law enforcers from Grozev's investigation coincide with hunt for Doku Umarov
The special intelligence agents, whom journalists have linked to the attempt on Alexei Navalny, had flown to Northern Caucasus before the poisoning of the militant leader, Doku Umarov, in 2013, and in 2017, during the preparations of his remains for transportation, the materials of Khristo Grozev, a Bellingcat's investigator, assert.
The village of Shurnukh. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7beLleSqOY
11:05, 6 January 2021
Shurnukh village head reports talks with Azerbaijani border guards
The Armenian and Azerbaijani parties are coordinating the location of border posts in the village of Shurnukh; the issue of creating a neutral zone is still open, said Akop Arshakyan, the head of the village.
Christmas Eve in Stepanakert, January 2018. Photo courtesy of Albert Voskanyan
10:52, 6 January 2021
On Christmas Eve, Stepanakert townspeople pray for war victims
On the eve of the Orthodox Christmas, liturgies were held in two operating churches in Stepanakert. Believers prayed for the wounded, killed and missing military servicemen during the Karabakh conflict aggravation.
The church of Kazanchetsots Surb Amenaprkich in Shushi after shelling, October 20, 2020. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the Caucasian Knot
08:36, 6 January 2021
President of Azerbaijan declared Shusha to be cultural capital
Ilham Aliev, Azerbaijani President, has ordered to return the city of Shusha to its historical appearance, restore mosques and return the Days of Vagif's Poetry and the "Khary Bulbul" Festival back to the city.
Alleged militant killed during a shootout with law enforcers in Grozny. Photo: press service of the National Antiterrorism Committee, http://nac.gov.ru
08:23, 6 January 2021
"Novaya Gazeta" reports death of those detained after October CTO in Grozny
The bodies of the owner of the house, in which alleged militants were killed on October 13, 2020, in Grozny, his pregnant wife and brother, were handed over to their relatives about a month after their detention, the "Novaya Gazeta" writes.
Relatives of the policeman killed in Grozny declare a blood feud, December 31, 2020. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJd1wcEK2Aa/.
22:56, 5 January 2021
Ingush Council of Teips expresses condolences to family of policeman killed in Chechnya
The Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) expressed the condolences to relatives of Chechen policeman Magomed Djabrailov, who was killed in Grozny. It was also noted that the incident was being used to stir up ethnic hatred. The above statement was made after the threats voiced by Chechen MP Magomed Khanbiev against Sarazhdin Sultygov, a member of the Ingush teip.
A road to a village in the Fizuli District, December 2020. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot
22:43, 5 January 2021
President Aliev announces construction of international airport near Shusha
An international airport in Fizuli will reduce the travel time to Shusha for foreign tourists, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev announces. According to him, the take-off runway is to be constructed this year.
Anatoly Bibilov and Zemfira Tskaeva. Collage made by the Caucasian Knot. Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH2wTiXIa7k&feature=emb_logo Zrx44 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibilov_Anatoliy.jpg
22:30, 5 January 2021
Tskaev's widow expresses her indignation at Bibilov's criticism of protest in Tskhinvali
A widow of Vladimir Tskaev, who died after an interrogation at the Vladikavkaz ROVD (District Interior Division), wait for an apology from the President of South Ossetia for his statement about a mother of a Vladikavkaz citizen. Anatoly Bibilov compared the stories of Vladimir Tskaev and Inal Djabiev and condemned the behaviour of the latter's mother.
Instagram blogger Mikhail Litvin shows a luxury Range Rover SUV as a prize for the users who would subscribe to the same Instagram pages that Mikhail Litvin himself had subscribed. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/mikhail_litvin/
18:56, 5 January 2021
Blogger Litvin joins promotion of Kadyrov's associates on Instagram
Mikhail Litvin, a popular Instagram blogger, announced a luxury SUV as a prize by inviting his followers to subscribe to the users he indicated, including relatives and close associates of Ramzan Kadyrov.
18:36, 5 January 2021
Relatives of soldiers missed in action come to protest action in Yerevan
Today, in Yerevan, several dozen residents have come to a protest action in front of the government building. They demand from the authorities to report the information concerning the soldiers missed in action in Nagorno-Karabakh.
14:45, 5 January 2021
Armenia presents new death toll in Nagorno-Karabakh
Employees of the forensic medical examination service have conducted examinations of the bodies or remains of 3360 military servicemen, who perished in Nagorno-Karabakh. Also, more than 2500 forensic genetic examinations have been conducted, Arsen Torosyan, the Armenian Minister of Public Health, wrote on December 4 in his Facebook page.
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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.