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22:27, 31 December 2020
Ingush woman gets court decision on giving out of body of suspect killed in CTO
The court granted a claim lodged by Madina Lolokhoeva and allowed to give out to her the body of her husband Aslangirei Gadaborshev, who was killed by law enforcers, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reported. Meanwhile, the court dismissed a similar claim lodged by the mother of killed Ibragim Lolokhoev.
Screenshot of the post on Instagram of the Fatwa Department of the Muftiate of Dagestan with explanations regarding wishes on the occasion of the New Year https://www.instagram.com/p/CJNjT2PAjAz/
22:25, 31 December 2020
Muftiate of Dagestan let Muslims voice Happy New Year wishes
A Muslim may wish other people a Happy New Year and even Merry Christmas, but with the selection of an appropriate format not to violate Islamic norms, the Fatwa Department of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Dagestan announces.
Screenshot of the video appeal of the Timurziev and Sultygov teips on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ramzan.sultygov/posts/933609963710259
21:37, 31 December 2020
Rights defenders: Ingush teips forced to abandon claims against Chechen authorities
Analysts call in question that the Timurziev and Sultygov Ingush teips (family clans) sincerely admitted that they were wrong. The experts suggest it has been a unique case when members of the Ingush teips objected to Ramzan Kadyrov and requested to prove that the suspects killed in a special operation were terrorists.
At the scene of an attack on police officers in Grozny. December 28, 2020. Screenshot of the video published on the BAZA Telegram channel
21:33, 31 December 2020
Grozny incident continues trend of knife attacks on law enforcers in regions of NCFD
An attack on the police in Grozny has become at least the seventh knife attack on the police in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria, that is, the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), over three years. Most of attackers were declared natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
21:16, 31 December 2020
Dagestan: over 500 militias receive status of war veterans
The list of candidates for the status of war veterans from among the 1999 militias included about 28,000 people, said Kamil Davdiev, Vice-Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament. However, only 520 of them received the respective certificates; and most of those who really fought were not among them, said activists of veteran organizations, Magomed Umargadjiev and Umakhan Umakhanov.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot of the post on Instagram of the "Grozny" TV channel https://www.instagram.com/p/CJblHWjJBLP/
21:04, 31 December 2020
Kadyrov suspects teip members of killed Ingushes of aiding terrorism
The head of Chechnya has ordered to check whether there were any signs of complicity in terrorism in the words of the members of the Ingush teips (family clans), who had demanded proofs that their relatives, who were killed in the attack on policemen, were terrorists.
Screenshot of the video appeal published by members of the Ingush teips (family clans) of Timurzievs and Sultygovs on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ramzan.sultygov/posts/933609963710259
10:41, 31 December 2020
Ingush teip renounces claims against Chechen authorities
Members of the Ingush teips (family clans) of Timurzievs and Sultygovs have posted their second video about the natives of Ingushetia killed in Grozny. According to their version, they watched the video from the venue, which clearly shows the actions of Khasan and Khusein, admitted that they were wrong and expressed condolences to the family of the killed law enforcer.
Shusha, December 2020. Screenshot of the video by İCTİMAİ TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwxiG_fgFvM
10:39, 31 December 2020
Economists assess prospects for opening enterprises in Shusha
The enterprises that are opening trade and service facilities in Shusha can hardly hope for any profits yet, economists have noted. However, in their opinion, the operation in Shusha will bring profits in the long term; it will also help increasing revenues in other regions of Azerbaijan, becoming a sort of advertising.
A girl. Photo: pixabay.com
10:37, 31 December 2020
Trend of blackmailing girls with intimate photos reaches KChR
A resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) extorted money from girls by threatening to spread their intimate photos in social networks; the police have reported about 18 criminal cases initiated against the suspect. Similar cases are being investigated in other regions of Northern Caucasus; and fighters for morality acted as blackmailers.
Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament. Screenshot of the post on Daudov's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbM0e9qpf2/
10:35, 31 December 2020
Chechen Speaker threatens blood feud to teip members of Ingushes killed in Grozny
Magomed Daudov made an appointment in the Chechen Parliament for members of two Ingush teips, who had demanded from Kadyrov to prove the guilt of the natives of Ingushetia killed in Grozny. A blood feud for the death of a Chechen law enforcer awaits the members of the teips of the killed Ingushes, Minister Daudov has warned.
The sports complex in Bachi-Yurt named after Ramzan Kadyrov's son. Photo: screenshot of the video on minsport_chr Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CJOjoFMqFF0
10:31, 31 December 2020
Kadyrov symbolically improves power in Chechnya by honouring his son
The naming of the sports complex in Bachi-Yurt after Ramzan Kadyrov's son speaks of an attempt to strengthen his regime in Chechnya, Mikhail Roschin, an Orientalist, believes. In his turn, Akhmet Yarlykapov, a Caucasian expert, has suggested that Kadyrov announced his heir, which could lead both to the unification of the elite around him and to the emergence of rivals in the struggle for power.
The banner installed on the road from Goris to Kapan. Screenshot of the video @flash1news t.me/flash1news/6264
00:10, 31 December 2020
Banner disputes highlight problem with demarcation of border between Armenia and Azerbaijan
The banner on the road from Gori to Kapan is located on the territory of Azerbaijan, and it does not imply any claims to the Armenian lands, states Togrul Djuvarly, a member of the Azerbaijani Public Committee for European Integration.
A car of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Photo by Nina Tumanova for the "Caucasian Knot"
00:07, 31 December 2020
Police detain relatives of suspects killed in Grozny, advocate reports
Advocate Magomed Bekov has reported about a complaint filed to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about the detention in Chechnya of relatives of two Ingush natives killed in Grozny. Facebook users call on people for more active dissemination of the information reported by the advocate.
The Syunik Region of Armenia. Photo: Yakovlev Sergey https://ru.wikipedia.org/
23:58, 30 December 2020
Armenia announces reconstruction plan of roads in Syunik Region
Reconstruction of roads in the Syunik Region is planned for 2021. The road reconstruction will ensure communication between villages, towns, and cities after some sections of the roads had come under the control of Azerbaijan, the Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures announces.
An official statement of the Timurzievs and Sultygov Ingush teips (family clans). Screenshot of the video https://www.facebook.com/ramzan.sultygov/videos/933307603740495
23:51, 30 December 2020
Two Ingush teips request evidence of terror act in Grozny
Members of the Timurzievs and Sultygov Ingush teips (family clans) requested Ramzan Kadyrov to prove that natives of Ingushetia killed by law enforcers in Grozny were terrorists. Authors of the video appeal insist on the giving-out of the bodies of the killed suspects.
A dead man in military uniform during the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. November 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer
17:50, 30 December 2020
Armenian officer arrested within case of death of 18 soldiers in Karabakh
A Lieutenant Colonel of the Nagorno-Karabakh Army ordered soldiers to get into the truck, despite the threat of a drone attack; as a result 18 soldiers were killed and one was wounded, the Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.
The Vorotan village in the Syunik Province of Armenia. Photo: Tatev7 http://wp.wiki-wiki.ru/
17:28, 30 December 2020
Armenia treats border with Azerbaijan near Syunik as temporary
The demarcation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border will start only after the establishment of diplomatic relations; now, only the two countries' actual control zones are defined. This was stated by the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) after the protests held by residents of the Syunik Region of Armenia.
A security officer. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/antiterroristicheskie-ucheniya/operativnym-shtabom-v-kaluzhskoy-oblasti-3.html
17:27, 30 December 2020
Caucasian scholars name reasons for armed attacks in Chechnya
Armed attacks in Chechnya are held amid glorification of rioters like Abdullakh Anzorov, dissatisfaction with the local authorities and the expansion of a new network associated with the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, analysts believe.
Russian peacemakers in Nagorno-Karabakh. November 14, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer
12:11, 30 December 2020
Azerbaijani analysts treat conflicts with Armenian militaries as peacemakers' flaw
Russian peacemakers fail to properly perform their functions of monitoring the observance of the ceasefire regime; therefore, Armenian militaries penetrate into the territories controlled by Azerbaijan. This is the opinion of Telman Abilov, the head of the NGO "Military Lawyers", and Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).
Residents of Kalmykia have commemorated those who perished during the Stalinist deportation. Elista, December 29, 2020. Photo by Badma Byurchiev for the "Caucasian Knot"
12:07, 30 December 2020
In spite of ban on mass events, residents of Kalmykia mark deportation day
At the monument in Elista, residents of Kalmykia have commemorated those who perished during the Stalinist deportation. The authorities have actually ignored the date by failing to offer a programme of events, and also failed to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological safety in the territory of the memorial, activists report.
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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.