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Guard duty at the front of the Karabakh army. Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia http://www.mil.am/hy/news/7038
19:42, 28 October 2019
Azerbaijan registers 21 shelling attacks in conflict zone
The positions of the Azerbaijani troops on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were subjected to shelling attacks, including from heavy machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.
13:47, 28 October 2019
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 21-27, 2019
Shootout between Chechen farmers in the Rostov Region; Magomed Daudov's removal from the supervision of the territorial sector in Chechnya and information on checking a video about the brutal actions of the former mayor of Grozny; railway workers' strike in Armenia; unusual personnel decisions made by President of Azerbaijan; mass protest rally in Elista, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 21-27, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
Cover of the book by Khadjimurad Donogo. Photo from Khadjimurad Donogo's page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/donogohadjimurad/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARDqt_RDXUDFsX-C1ArExP-p_SSRGe69UvR-iK-wPyrFoZM029PmCvpc8Tdgkh1BYCP_OUqsaZO5V39S&hc_ref=ARROqaockuLMsYBBvQu67hTqUa0iAFIY5bq6Kw6MEUkqQWmaVIDBcxjFBQekf2rSOt8&fref=nf" title=
13:47, 28 October 2019
Historians interested in information from new book about Imam Shamil's son
A book by historian Khadjimurad Donogo published in Makhachkala contains the documents about the life of an eldest son of Imam Shamil, never published earlier. Serious studies on the topic of the Caucasian war are in demand in modern society, historians note.
A wedding. Photo: StockSnap https://pixabay.com/ru/users/jetratull-10530573/?tab=latest
13:37, 28 October 2019
Georgian resident suspected of forcing his teenage daughter to get married
In Georgia, law enforcers detained a father of a minor girl. The man is suspected of forcing his minor daughter to get married.
James Longman, a reporter of the "ABC Chanel", and the Chechen police chief Apti Alaudinov. Photo: screenshot of the report by the US "ABC Channel" https://abcnews.go.com/International/time-told-head-chechen-police-gay-standing-jail/story?id=66323713&cid=clicksource_574_null_dp_hed
13:09, 28 October 2019
Chechen police chief distances himself from gay persecution after British journalist's coming out
After the coming out of James Longman, a reporter of the "ABC Chanel", who visited the Chechen republic, Chechen police chief Apti Alaudinov has assured him that in Chechnya, gays are not afraid of persecution by the authorities, but of their relatives' reaction to their sexual orientation.
Placing of flowers at the monument to victims of the terror act in the territory of the National Assembly of Armenia. October 27, 2018. Screenshot of the video by GALA NEWS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9CTcvh330
11:37, 28 October 2019
20th anniversary of shooting of Armenian parliament highlights need to resume investigation into terror act
In Armenia, officials and ordinary residents paid tribute to victims of the shooting of the Armenian parliament on October 27, 1999. The possibility of resumption of the investigation into the terror act was discussed.
The conveyor belt with bottles of vodka. Photo http://www.delfi.lv/biznes/bizopinion/alkogol-v-latvii-budet-dorozhat.d?id=43239210
11:34, 28 October 2019
Grozny residents complain about increased control over alcohol buyers
Law enforcers are on duty at the exit from the only hypermarket in the Chechen capital where alcoholic beverages are sold. The law enforcers inspect the people who entered the wine and vodka department and detain them if alcoholic beverages are found, local residents report.
11:47, 27 October 2019
Court leaves Azerbaijani activist Ilham Gusein under arrest
The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint against the administrative arrest of Ilham Gusein, a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Majlis of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence treats the arrest as unjustified.
Pre-trial prison. Photo: Elena Sineok, Yuga.ru
11:33, 27 October 2019
ICRF gets interested in traumas of inmate of Khasavyurt SIZO
A resident of the Kizlyar District, kept in custody at the Khasavyurt SIZO (pre-trial prison), was hospitalized with a craniocerebral trauma; investigators opened a case about the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm.
Picket of miners in Gukovo, October 26, 2019. Photo by Vyacheslav Prudnikov for the Caucasian Knot
11:19, 27 October 2019
Gukovo miners demand report of bankruptcy manager
On October 26, at a picket in Gukovo, former employees of the "Kingcoal" Company adopted an appeal to the prosecutor asking to oblige Roman Kopets, the bankruptcy manager of the "Zamchalovsky Anthracite", to report weekly on the progress of tendering the underground workings.
Photos of victims of the terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre. Photo: Life News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz4f6HuICe0
11:07, 27 October 2019
Muscovites paid tribute to Dubrovka terror act victims
About 200 people gathered in Moscow for the mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the terror act at the Theatrical Centre. Only 60 victims out of a thousand received compensations from the authorities; it's too late for others to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Igor Trunov, a lawyer, has stated.
17:46, 26 October 2019
NKR reports 170 shelling attacks during the last week
On October 20-26, Azerbaijani soldiers fired 1500 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported today.
17:19, 26 October 2019
Parents of convicts in "Ganja case" hold protest action
Parents protested against the arrest of their children. According to the protesters, those accused of unrests didn't commit any unlawful actions; and they were tortured after arrest.
Islam Kadyrov. Screenshot from the "Grozny" ChGTRK video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=BpjWCGHbJ6E
17:05, 26 October 2019
Islam Kadyrov's video is a link in cleansing Chechen leader's encirclement
The screening by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) of a video showing the cruelty of Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, is explained by the cleansing of Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue conducted upon his permit, Alexei Malashenko and Sergey Zhavoronkov, political analysts, believe.
Azerbaijani servicemen. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan, https://mod.gov.az
16:50, 26 October 2019
Azerbaijan accused Armenia of 20 shelling attacks
The positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were subjected to shelling from machine guns and sniper rifles, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.
Khalid Omarov holds solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Makhachkala, October 25, 2019. Photo by Ilias Kapiev for the Caucasian Knot
13:05, 26 October 2019
Activists hold series of solo pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev
On October 25, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" (Draft), held a series of solo pickets in central Makhachkala near the complex of buildings of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the FSB.
12:46, 26 October 2019
BBC: Caucasian women disappear in conflict zone in Syria
The women-natives of Northern Caucasus, who had turned to Russian authorities asking to evacuate them from the conflict zone in Syria, has stopped communicating with their relatives.
Screenshot of Malika Djikaeva's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/B39v_CWob8h/
12:32, 26 October 2019
Orientalists urge Muslims to ignore Djikaeva's epatage
The video clips by Malika Djikaeva, a blogger from North Ossetia, can be painfully perceived by Muslims; however, they contain no direct desecration of Islam, the Islamic experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.
Hunger-striker in the DOSAAF Makhachkala micro-district, October 25, 2019. Photo by Rasul Magomedov for the Caucasian Knot
12:19, 26 October 2019
Kumyk activists demand return of historical lands
Two activists are hunger-striking near Makhachkala for the fifth day, demanding to return historical lands to residents of the Kumyk villages of Alburikent, Kyakhulai and Tarki. One more protester felt bad; and he is in hospital.
Conor McGregor. Photo: REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
08:45, 26 October 2019
Hundreds besiege McGregor's hotel after his words about Dagestanis
A Moscow hotel was taken under guard after several hundred people, outraged by the words of the Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor about Dagestanis, tried to reach him.
News
The sentence of former deputies of the Volgograd city duma has been upheld.

A police officer takes the rifle from the man. Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. A resident of a village near Volgograd has been fined for attempting to shoot down a Ukrainian drone.

A contractor from the Volgograd region was killed in the SVO zone.

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.