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21:47, 15 January 2018
Former National Guard commander shot dead in Georgian marketplace
Samson Kutateladze, a former high-ranking military and a Georgian MP, was found dead today in his office on the "Istanbul" marketplace in the city Rustavi.
Oyub Titiev. Photo by "Civil Assistance" Committee.
20:52, 15 January 2018
Titiev's defence reports non-admission of doctor to Oyub
Investigators refused to let a doctor to the arrested rights defender Oyub Titiev, who cannot eat any hard food without his dentures, his advocate Pyotr Zaikin and Oleg Orlov, a Board Member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", have stated.
Miners' rally in Gukovo. Photo by Vyacheslav Prudnikov for the Caucasian Knot.
19:05, 15 January 2018
Gukovo miners demand to provide them with coal
According to organizers, the picket was 47 people strong. The miners demanded to allocate coal for heating their houses.
Photo of Afghan Mukhtarly. Photo: REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
16:23, 15 January 2018
Rights defenders count 161 political prisoners in Azerbaijan
The Azerbaijani Centre for Protection of Political Prisoners (CPPP) has updated the list of political prisoners by adding three new convicts and eliminating one released.
Mockery of Ramzan Kadyrov. Video by user Danila Poperechny https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=51&v=OL5_MY2vHpk
16:18, 15 January 2018
Humorous video about Kadyrov gains almost one million views per day
A video entitled "Chief Assistant" was posted by video blogger Danila Poperechny on the YouTube on January 14. By 4:00 p.m. on January 15, it gained 921,745 pageviews and more than 111,000 likes against 3000 dislikes.
16:07, 15 January 2018
Internet posts photos made before attack on Andrei Rudomakha
Activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) made photos within the fenced area in the forest near Gelendzhik. After that, they were exposed to beating. The photos taken by them and published today by the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper prove the construction of capital buildings that is underway inside the fenced territory.
Madina Alieva. Photo: press service of State TV Company 'Grozny' https://grozny.tv/
13:41, 15 January 2018
Chechen long-liver placed to a social centre in Chechnya
Madina Alieva, who was found in Azerbaijan and who introduced herself as a 104-year-old Chechen woman, was placed to a social centre in the Chechen village of Alpatovo.
Ayatollah Khamenei. Photo: REUTERS
10:35, 15 January 2018
Baku believers rally in support of Iranian authorities
A group of believers held a rally in support of the Iranian leaders in front of the Embassy of Iran in Baku. Participants of the action held portraits of Ayatollah Khamenei in their hands and shouted slogans in support of the Iranian authorities.
Special operation. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru
09:08, 15 January 2018
On January 8-14, 2018, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus
During the week of January 8-14, 2018, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were registered. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
09:05, 15 January 2018
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 8-14
Detention in Chechnya of the leader of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"; guilty verdict to journalist Afghan Mukhtarly in Azerbaijan; death in Tbilisi of a man wounded in a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 8-14, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
Participants of the rally in support of Afghan Mukhtarly hold banners with his portraits, Tbilisi, May 2017. Photo: REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
06:46, 15 January 2018
EU condemns verdict to Afghan Mukhtarly
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has demanded to investigate the kidnapping and prosecution of Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly.
Map of Sarmatia Asiatica, London (1770). Photo: http://ru-wiki.org/wiki/Сарматия
00:29, 15 January 2018
In Volgograd, exhibition "Sarmatians' Gold" presents unique artefacts
More than 90 artefacts of the Sarmatian culture, made of precious metals, are exhibited at the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local History. Many of those artefacts have never earlier been exhibited for public.
19:34, 14 January 2018
Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of 126 bombardments per day
Over the past 24 hours, Armenian militaries have violated the ceasefire for 126 times by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.
Oyub Titiev. Photo: press service of Human Rights Centre 'Memorial', https://memohrc.org/ru/news_old/zaderzhan-rukovoditel-groznenskogo-predstavitelstva-pravozashchitnogo-centra-memorial
16:30, 14 January 2018
Oyub Titiev's relatives leave Chechnya
The family of Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev, accused of drug dealing, has left Chechnya for security reasons, Pyotr Zaikin, Titiev's advocate has stated today.
Bjorn Engesland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. Photo: http://www.nhc.no/no/om_nhc/sekretariat/Bj%C3%B8rn+Engesland.9UFRjQ3K.ips
08:43, 14 January 2018
Norwegians agree to support Oyub Titiev
On 11 January, the human rights organizations the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, the International Federation of Human Rights and the World Organization Against Torture issued a joint statement demanding from Russian authorities to release the rights defender Oyub Titiev.
Four masked men sitting at the background of the IS'* flag call on their followers to kill Russian rights defenders. Screenshot of the video.
05:56, 14 January 2018
Video calling to kill rights defenders spread in social networks on behalf of IS*
A video clip on behalf of the militants of the "Vilayat Kavkaz", a branch of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia by a court decision, with the call to kill prominent Russian rights defenders has been spread in the WhatsApp instant messenger, in a number of Telegram channels and among users of the Facebook.
Prison bar. Photo: © Flickr/ Michael Coghlan
01:36, 14 January 2018
New charge brought against journalist Afghan Sadygov three months before his release
Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Sadygov, convicted on charges of assaulting a woman in the reception room of the head of the Jalilabad District, has faced a new charge three months before the end of his prison term.
A picket in Vladikavkaz held on January 13, 2017. Photo by Alan Tskhurbaev for the "Caucasian Knot"
20:50, 13 January 2018
Relatives of the person who died at Vladikavkaz police station demand objective inquiry
Today, about 300 residents of Vladikavkaz came out to picket in support of relatives of Vladimir Tskaev, who died at the police after interrogation. His close relatives fear that policemen want to "hush up" his death.
20:18, 13 January 2018
Rights defenders criticize Armenia's MoJ for high mortality in jails
The high death rate from illnesses in Armenian prisons indicates poor medical care and authorities' inhumane policy, Arthur Sakunts and Aikui Arutyunyan, rights defenders, have stated.
17:46, 13 January 2018
Son of killed militant detained in Gubden
Law enforcers have detained Nurmagomed Taimasov, a resident of the village of Gubden, after finding ammunition in his house. According to his relatives, the cartridges and a grenade were planted there.
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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.