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Azerbaijani displaced persons. December 17, 2025. Photo: APA https://ru.apa.az/sotsium/v-gorod-lacin-posyolki-gadrut-i-gyrmyzy-bazar-xodzavendskogo-raiona-a-takze-v-selo-xydyrly-agdamskogo-raiona-otpravleny-ocerednye-gruppy-pereselencev-630496
09:55, 17 December 2025
57 Azerbaijani families have returned to the former Karabakh conflict zone
More than 230 members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict returned to Lachin, Hadrut, and two other settlements today.
Voltmeter readings. Still frame from a video sent by a Caucasian Knot reader to the feedback bot.
08:56, 17 December 2025
Residents of a Dagestani village complained of regular power outages
Regular power outages and low voltage in the electrical grid are creating problems for residents of the Dagestani village of Verkhneye Kazanishche, and appeals to the authorities have been unsuccessful.
Voltmeter readings. Still frame from a video sent by a Caucasian Knot reader to the feedback bot.
05:57, 17 December 2025
Parties to the Dzhabiev murder case insist that their complaints be upheld
The Supreme Court of South Ossetia has reviewed the cassation appeals filed by the parties in the Inal Dzhabiev murder case. The decision will be announced on December 22. The parties insist that their appeals be upheld.
A victim and an ambulance. Illustration created by the Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program.
04:58, 17 December 2025
Two people were injured in Kuban when UAV debris fell
In the Slavyansky district of the Krasnodar region, two people were injured and at least five houses were damaged when a drone fell.
The accused in court. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program.
03:00, 17 December 2025
A court in Rostov-on-Don found a Ukrainian border guard guilty of plotting a terrorist attack
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian border guard Denis Storozhuk to 22 years in prison, finding him guilty of plotting a terrorist attack. His accomplice, Valentina Zayarnaya, was sentenced to 12 years.
Lawyer Ramzan Uzuyev. Screenshot from the "Word in Defense" project website, March 20, 2025, https://slovo-zashite.org/text/kak-v-kbr-falsifitsiruiut-dela-o-terrorizme-rasskazyvaet-advokat.
01:45, 17 December 2025
The defense and family reported that Yemkuzhev's case is being delayed
The Rostov-on-Don Military Court has extended the pretrial detention of Kazbek Emkuzhev and five other Nalchik residents accused of forming a terrorist organization by three months. Hearings in the case have been intermittent and constantly postponed.
23:50, 16 December 2025
Those accused of murdering the editor-in-chief of Chernovik are insisting on overturning the sentence
Lawyers for those convicted in the murder of Khadzhimurad Kamalov, editor-in-chief of the Dagestani newspaper "Chernovik," are appealing the cassation ruling of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which upheld their sentence.
Residents of a Kuban village complained about the construction of a waste disposal plant. Video still by Alexander Safronov / Telegram
22:28, 16 December 2025
Residents of a Kuban village complained about the construction of a waste disposal plant
Residents of the village of Kholmskaya in the Abinsky District recorded a video message to Putin asking him to cancel the land allocation for the construction of a waste landfill.
Kadyrov. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
21:35, 16 December 2025
Analysts have named the recipients of Kadyrov's statement about a new prison term
Ramzan Kadyrov's statements about his intention to participate in the 2026 Chechen presidential elections are primarily addressed to those elites who expect his resignation, and he has no need to negotiate with the Kremlin.
20:19, 16 December 2025
A Stavropol resident has been accused of justifying terrorism
A military court in Rostov-on-Don will hear the case of a 50-year-old Stavropol resident accused of publicly acquitting herself of a crime based on a comment she made on a messenger app.
Abbas Abbasov. Photo: https://haqqin.az/newsarchive/369163
19:25, 16 December 2025
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan is wanted
Former First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Abbas Abbasov has been placed on the wanted list in connection with the criminal case against Ramiz Mehdiyev and other individuals accused of attempting to seize state power.
Courtroom. Illustration of the "Caucasian Knot" created by AI using the Copilot program.
18:39, 16 December 2025
Three patients at a sanatorium in Nalchik have received compensation for contracting hepatitis and HIV
A Nalchik court partially upheld the claims of three victims in a case involving hepatitis and HIV infection at a private sanatorium. A convicted nurse is ordered to pay them 9 million rubles in compensation.
17:51, 16 December 2025
The corruption case against the brother of the head of Ingushetia has reached court
A criminal case involving the embezzlement of funds from the Russian Pension Fund, in which Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov is one of the defendants, has been filed with the Cherkessk City Court.
Indira Taisumova. Illustration created by the Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program.
17:30, 16 December 2025
Chechen officials chose to handle Taisumova's case secretly
Austrian resident Indira Taisumova's appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov to help her return her daughters attracted the attention of Chechen authorities and Mansur Soltayev personally, but they only contacted the woman informally and privately.
Larisa Tuptsokova. Video screenshot https://www.youtube.com/live/eFSqZwT4xt0
16:32, 16 December 2025
Human rights activists considered the prosecutor's office's response to a complaint by activists from Kabardino-Balkaria to be a formality
The Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office explained its refusal to take action, citing security forces' failure to pressure the signatories of the petition in defense of Larisa Tuptsokova. Human rights activists dismissed this response as a formality.
Eliminating the consequences of the oil spill in the Kerch Strait. December 10, 2025. Video screenshot: https://t.me/opershtab23/14634
14:47, 16 December 2025
On the anniversary of the tanker disaster, the problem of pollution of Kuban beaches remains relevant
The environmental consequences of the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait have not been eliminated even a year after the tanker disaster, scientists and authorities in Kuban acknowledged.
Still from a video message from Taganrog residents to Putin. December 16, 2025. Screenshot from the video: https://161.ru/text/transport/2025/12/15/76172493/
13:47, 16 December 2025
Taganrog residents asked Putin for help in restoring trolleybuses
Participants in a video message to Putin asked for help restoring trolleybus service in Taganrog. Operating the remaining trolleybuses is unsafe, and purchasing new ones requires significant financial investment, the mayor stated earlier.
A man in a courtroom. Illustration by the "Caucasian Knot" AI-generated program Copilot.
12:48, 16 December 2025
A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria has been convicted in a multi-million dollar theft case involving the Elbrus mountain
A court sentenced a Kavkaz.RF employee to 2.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of embezzling more than 81 million rubles from the sale of ski passes at the Elbrus resort.
Alesker Mammadli. Photo: Report.az https://report.az
09:49, 16 December 2025
Alesker Mammadli remains in custody despite the need for treatment
A Baku court has refused to ease the pretrial detention of Toplum TV founder Alesker Mammadli, who is in need of surgery.
Gultekin Hajibeyli. Photo: Meydan TV https://www.meydan.tv/az/article/gult%c9%99kin-hacib%c9%99yli-bar%c9%99sind%c9%99-deport-q%c9%99rari-cixarilib/
05:55, 16 December 2025
Turkish authorities have decided to deport Gultekin Hacibeyli
Gultekin Hajibeyli, a member of the Coordination Center of the National Council of Democratic Forces of Azerbaijan, received an official decision on her deportation from Turkey for five years.
News
A serviceman from Stavropol was killed in Ukraine.

Human rights activists have recognized Konstantin Bernatov as a political prisoner.

Special military operation in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense press service More than 8,600 fighters from southern Russia have been officially recognized as 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.