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A law enforcer. Photo by the press service of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) http://nac.gov.ru/
23:55, 16 December 2020
Suspected militant Kazbek Baidulaev threw a grenade at law enforcers after they requested him to surrender. The suspect was killed by return fire, investigators reported.
A protest action in the Shirak Province of Armenia. December 16, 2020. Screenshot of the video by NEWS AM
https://youtu.be/L_Xo8vsj3xQ
23:51, 16 December 2020
Dozens of soldiers from the Shirak District of Armenia were captured in the Hadrut District of Nagorno-Karabakh, protesters claim with reference to some videos posted on the Internet. According to a source from the Defence Army, a group of Armenian soldiers was cordoned off, and only a few dozen of them managed to break through.
Participants of a protest action in Tskhinvali. December 6, 2020. Photo by Anna Gioyeva for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:48, 16 December 2020
In Tskhinvali, about 50 people have stayed to spend the night in a square, where relatives and friends of Inal Djabiev are holding a round-the-clock protest action. The main demands of the protesters remain unchanged: the resignation of the General Prosecutor and the punishment of the persons guilty for the Inal Djabiev's death.
Symbolics of the "Akhmat" Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Club. A website screenshot https://ahmat.moscow/
18:10, 16 December 2020
The "Akhmat" fight club will not be able to attract sponsors' funds from abroad and invite foreign fighters because of the US sanctions, while the "Akhmat" football club (FC) will be less affected by sanctions, sports observers suggest.
18:07, 16 December 2020
In fact, the villages of Khin Takher and Khtsaberd in the Hadrut District of Nagorno-Karabakh stay abandoned, military expert Alexander Golts notes. According to expert Vladimir Yevseev, it is too early and unsafe for people to return to the destroyed villages. The expert also adds that a "gray zone" should be created to prevent such incidents.
The FSB officer during the counterterrorist operation. Photo by the press service of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) http://nac.gov.ru/kontrterroristicheskie-operacii/fsb/pyat-verbovshchikov-mto-zaderzhany-v-kazani.html#&gid=1&pid=2
15:03, 16 December 2020
The counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, in which law enforcers liquidated an alleged militant, became the third in Chechnya since the start of the year. The previous CTO was conducted in Grozny in October.
The village of Khtsaberd (the Azeri name is Chailakkala), late November 2020. Screenshot of the video https://www.facebook.com/CivilNet.TV/videos/1783518675130602
14:53, 16 December 2020
The communication with soldiers of several military posts set up in the vicinity of the villages of Khin Takher and Khtsaberd has been lost; searching for them is underway, the Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.
13:02, 16 December 2020
Kazbek Baidulaev, a native of the Chechen village of Yandi, whose murder in a counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in the Achkhoi-Martan District, was announced by Ramzan Kadyrov, was earlier named among those killed on October 11. According to law enforcers, the man perished in a shootout in the Sernovodsk District.
The SWAT vehicles. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/antiterroristicheskie-ucheniya/operativnym-shtabom-tomskoy-oblasti-provedeno.html
12:53, 16 December 2020
During a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF) was killed, Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, indicating that the alleged militant was alone; and the law enforcers involved did not suffer.
The mother of the blogger Malika Djikaeva apologizes to Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot www.instagram.com/p/CIxkWUiK7m8/
12:39, 16 December 2020
The defence of the blogger, Malika Djikaeva, will appeal against the verdict announced by the court of three years in prison within a drug dealing case. Social network users have expressed bewilderment at the apology of Djikaeva's mother to Ramzan Kadyrov.
An Armenian tank destroyed near Djebrail. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:57, 16 December 2020
The two elderly men beheaded in the video have been identified, The Guardian reports. They were ethnic Armenians, their fellow villagers have reported.
The village of Khin Shen in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by David Simonyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
11:42, 16 December 2020
For three days already, more than 60 Khin Shen villagers in Nagorno-Karabakh cannot leave the village because the road is blocked by Azerbaijani militaries, David Davidyan, the head of the neighbouring Mets Shen community, has reported.
Protesters in the square in Tskhinvali, December 9, 2020. Screenshot of the post on Instagram "ЧП/Цхинвал" https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlky-Yr_XJ/
23:59, 15 December 2020
Relatives of deceased Inal Djabiev disagree with the results of a forensic examination, and that fact prevents the transfer of the criminal case to court, states Anatoly Bibilov, President of South Ossetia. The leader of the republic has also added that he will pay for the repeated forensic examination if the family has financial difficulties and will meet the relatives of Inal Djabiev at any time.
Afghan Sadygov. Screenshot of the video by azel tv Hakimiyyətin son fırıldaq çabası-Əfqan Sadıqov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNwWuK1CoIQ
23:54, 15 December 2020
Journalist Afghan Sadygov has been refusing to accept food and water for the 42nd day in a SIZO (pre-trial prison). The SIZO medical staff began to administer intravenous food to Afghan Sadygov. According to physician Aidar Abdullin, intravenous injections of nutrients are applied to critically ill patients.
Araik Arutyunyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer
19:32, 15 December 2020
Araik Arutyunyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, refused to meet the co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group from the United States and France. The Russian co-Chair did not come to the meeting due to illness. Araik Arutyunyan has missed a rare chance to discuss with the mediators the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and the problems that arose after the war, political analysts note.
The border between Azerbaijan and Dagestan. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWxcpv2bKhU
19:26, 15 December 2020
For several months, the family of Nadir Shakhbazov has been unable to reunite with their daughter in Azerbaijan because of the closed border with Dagestan and irregular departure of people to their homeland. The family members have to rent an apartment and are short of money to pay tickets for a plane.
Clashes between the police and protesters. Batumi, December 13, 2020. Screenshot of the video by "Sputnik Грузия" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW3Phkw6Mis&feature=emb_title"
17:20, 15 December 2020
The court has sentenced six protesters against the outcomes of the Georgian parliamentary elections to seven days of arrest each. They were detained on December 13, after an attempt to enter the Adjara parliament building and clashes with the police.
Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh return home from Armenia. December 1, 2020. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sTBy9xrC7I&feature=emb_logo
16:59, 15 December 2020
The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported that 566 refugees had been brought to Stepanakert by buses from Yerevan, accompanied by patrols of Russian peacemakers and military policemen.
10:53, 15 December 2020
Six Armenian reservists have suffered during the shootout near the villages of Khtsaberd and Khin Takher; ten others have been presumably taken prisoners of war (POWs), Stepanakert has stated.
10:50, 15 December 2020
During the Yerevan-Baku exchange of prisoners of war (POWs), 44 of them have been returned to Armenia, but some of Armenian ones remain in Azerbaijan, the Karabakh authorities have informed.
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.