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16:05, 19 July 2014
On July 18, Oksana Toropova, a figurant in the case of beating a court marshal, forced the local UFSIN (Department of Russian Penitentiary Service) employees to take off her electronic bracelet.
13:35, 19 July 2014
In the city of Imishli, in south-western Azerbaijan, an attack was committed on Makhbub Zulfugarly, a local activist of the "Kura" Society.
Special operation in Dagestan. 2013. Photo by NAC, nac.gov.ru
09:50, 19 July 2014
During the spring of 2014, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, employees of law enforcement bodies suffered fewer losses than in the winter of 2013-2014, note authors of the quarterly information-analytical bulletin prepared by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
The Government House of Baku. Photo: Nick Taylor, https://www.flickr.com/photos/indigoprime/2429843671, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
06:00, 19 July 2014
Despite the Azerbaijan's stronger measures to combat corruption, it is necessary to take measures to increase the transparency of the bodies of power, says the report of the Transparency Azerbaijan "Evaluation of National Transparency System: Azerbaijan-2014", which was presented on July 18 in Baku.
05:06, 19 July 2014
The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has posted a photo of Doku Umarov's body, who was killed, according to various versions of power agents, in a special operation in the period from late 2013 – early 2014, in his profile on the Instagram social network.
A charitable action of distributing food parcels to motorists moving along the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" to break Ramadan fasting. Ingushetia, July 28, 2014. Photo by Timur Agirov exclusively for the "Caucasian Knot"
02:21, 19 July 2014
A charitable action of distributing food parcels to motorists moving along the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" for breaking the fasting after the last days of Ramadan was launched on July 18 at the GIBDD (traffic police) post in Ingushetia, said Beslan Tsechoev, an advisor to the head of the republic.
The village of Maidanskoe, Untsukul District of Dagestan, July 2014. Ayna Gamzatova, mother of the villager Magomed Payzulaev killed during the special operation on July 6, 2014, in the door of her house. Photo by Makhach Akhmedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
00:08, 19 July 2014
Law enforcement bodies are searching for seven residents of the village of Maidanskoe, Untsukul District of Dagestan. They are suspected of aiding IAF members, said Imamutdin Kamilov, the deputy village head.
Participants of the action in support of Shant Arutyunyan and other arrested activists of "Million Mask March" carry posters in support of arrested of Volodya Avetisyan, a Karabakh War veteran, with the inscription "Armenia without political prisoners", and of Shant Arutyunyan with the inscription "Freedom to the political prisoners". Yerevan, June 12, 2014. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
20:43, 18 July 2014
On Friday, July 18, the policeman Petros Airapetyan, who is considered to be the third victim in the case of the protesters on November 5, 2013, testified to the court. In the course of the court session, the defendants and their advocates stated that Airapetyan testimony was false, and that the case was politically motivated.
18:35, 18 July 2014
Since the advocates have filed an appeal against the decision of the preliminary session of the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA), the consideration of another appeal complaint, lodged by activists of the "Nida" movement, has been indefinitely postponed.
The sanatorium "Terek". Photo http://www.l-oko.ru/
15:30, 18 July 2014
The activists who help the refugees from Syria in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) complain about poor living conditions of the Syrian Circassians, who were accommodated in the sanatorium "Terek". Activists are holding the campaign "Blankets-pillows" trying to provide Syrian Circassians at least with the bedding.
13:25, 18 July 2014
The four villagers of Maidanskoe, Untsukul District of Dagestan, killed during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) have been buried.
10:22, 18 July 2014
As reported by a source from the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the minor girl from the Rutul District of Dagestan, who was supposedly raped by 12 persons, cannot be found. According to the source, nobody has been detained so far; a pre-inquiry check is underway.
10:11, 18 July 2014
The Krasnodar Territorial Court (KTC) has considered the appeal lodged by the Prosecutor of the Adler District of Sochi on the verdict passed in the case of beating up Pavel Solovyov, a builder of the Olympic facilities.
Memory sign at the entrance to the Cossack village. Photo: http://sobesednik.ru/
08:46, 18 July 2014
In the Krasnodar Territory, a female advocate is suspected of a fraud amounting to 48.5 million roubles, said the press service of the Investigating Department (ID) for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), without specifying the suspect's name.
Splinter of a shell. Photo http://www.trud.ru/
07:03, 18 July 2014
As reported by the Russian FSB's Frontier Department for the Rostov Region, five unexploded artillery shells may still be present in the territory of the Kuibyshev District of the Rostov Region, which flew from the Ukrainian territory during the recent armed clashes.
The SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) in Grozny. Photo http://www.ufsinchr.ru/
04:19, 18 July 2014
The facts presented in the complaint of Timur Tangiev against the actions of the administration of the SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) in Grozny were not confirmed during the prosecutor's inspection; and the Chechen Prosecutor's Office found no illegal measures applied to the inmate by the staff of the SIZO.
A military unit in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"
03:42, 18 July 2014
Dilkham Askerov, an Azerbaijani citizen, who was detained in the Karabakh conflict zone on suspicion of illegal crossing the border, is suspected of killing Smbat Tsakanyan, a resident of Karabakh, said Seiran Oganyan, the head of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).
00:30, 18 July 2014
On July 17, media people of Azerbaijan attended a rally held near the tomb of Elmar Guseinov, the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Monitor", on the occasion of his 47th birthday. They announced their decision to intensify the activities of the Elmar Guseinov Foundation and conduct their own inquiry into his murder.
At the border checkpoint "Dyakovo - Kuibyshevo". Photo http://vsekommentarii.com/?url=http://vsekommentarii.com/news/2014/07/09/9377407.htm
23:59, 17 July 2014
The Ukrainian border guard, who was hospitalized on July 16 to the hospital of the district centre Kuibyshevo of the Rostov Region, died on Thursday, July 17, said the Regional Ministry of Public Health.
At the courtroom during the trial in the case against Volodya Avetisyan. Yerevan, June 6, 2014. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
19:14, 17 July 2014
The court has found Volodya Avetisyan, a Karabakh War veteran, guilty of a fraud and sentenced him to six years in prison and a fine. The defence has announced its intention to appeal against the verdict.
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.