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23:00, 5 April 2012
PACE delegation comes to Armenia to assess election campaign
The delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will arrive in Armenia on April 11 in order to assess the agitation campaign before the elections to the country's National Assembly of the country.
22:00, 5 April 2012
In North Ossetia, three children are still in hospital after poisoning in kindergarten
Three children are still taking their treatment at North-Ossetian hospitals after poisoning in kindergarten "Ivushka" in the village of Elkhotovo. Initially, 13 children were taken to hospital with symptoms of poisoning.
21:00, 5 April 2012
Rally against "Electrozink" Factory held in Vladikavkaz
More than 200 persons have gathered today to hold a protest action against the work of the "Electrozink" Factory located in the capital of North Ossetia.
20:00, 5 April 2012
Users of social networks report mass hunger strike of North-Caucasian natives in colony in Mordovia
A report has appeared in social networks about a mass hunger strike of prisoners from Northern Caucasus who serve their terms in Penal Colony Mo. 5 located in Mordovia. Members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Mordovia and the Territorial Department of the Russian Federal Correction Agency (FSIN) deny this information.
19:00, 5 April 2012
Four policemen wounded by explosion in Ingushetia
Four policemen suffered in an explosion of a patrol car in Malgobek, the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia has reported.
18:00, 5 April 2012
Check of Cherkesov's beating in Krasnoyarsk SIZO extended by a month
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the lawyer Igor Kuznetsov, one of the advocates of Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Nalchik, who was convicted for murdering the football fan Yegor Sviridov, that advocates have no results of the check of the fact of beating their client at the Krasnoyarsk SIZO (pre-trial prison); the check was extended by one month.
17:00, 5 April 2012
Court dealing with torture case in Ingush MIA sends witnesses' handwriting to re-examination in Moscow
The Karabulak Court of Ingushetia has satisfied the defence's petition to hold a re-examination of the handwriting of the witnesses Adam Nagadiev and Yakhya Kostoev, who figure of former employees of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev accused of torturing detainees.
Lilith Kalantaryan, who is in charge of British Council's programmes, at the training session for women-candidates for MPs; Yerevan, April 4, 2012. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
16:00, 5 April 2012
Armenia: women-candidates for MPs get special training in speech etiquette
Within the programme "Development of Women's Skills in Politics'', the British Council in Armenia holds training sessions, during which women-candidates for parliament are taught to properly build their statements, manage emotions and work with the audience. The training covers 24 candidates from eight parties.
14:00, 5 April 2012
In Kazakhstan, native of Ingushetia goes on hunger strike in SIZO
Gapur Garchkhanov, a native of Ingushetia, kept at the SIZO of the city of Pavlodar in Kazakhstan, has announced hunger strike, demanding to cancel his illegal, in his opinion, verdict. His protest action was reported by his brother Magomed Garchkhanov.
13:00, 5 April 2012
Human rights defenders ask Russian president to pardon political prisoners
On April 4, human rights activists and figures of culture sent an appeal to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a request to pardon those from the so-called "lists of political prisoners". On February 8, the organizers of the rally "For Fair Elections" conveyed the list of people whom they consider to be political prisoners to Mikhail Fedotov, the Chairman of the President's Council on Human Rights. Dmitry Medvedev instructed the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to study the sentences passed to the figurants of the list.
08:00, 5 April 2012
Oppositionists in Azerbaijan got a permission of holding a meeting on April, 8
The authorities of Baku suggested the civil movement for democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) to hold their meeting on April, 8, in a parking lot of a driving school in the settlement of Baiilovo, South-Western suburb of Baku. During the action of protest its participants will demand to carry out democratic reforms in the country.
23:00, 4 April 2012
Georgia: Christian Democrats offer to amend Constitution for Ivanishvili to take part in elections
Today, activists of the Christian-Democratic Movement have moved an initiative to amend the Constitution of Georgia in order to make it possible for the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the coalition "Georgian Dream" to take part in the parliamentary elections.
22:00, 4 April 2012
Gravestones used as foundations found in the capital of Chechnya
In Chechnya, in the process of building underground utilities in the Lenin District of Grozny, gravestones monuments – the so-called "churts" – that were walled into the concrete foundation of the former buildings of the Republic's Hospital.
21:00, 4 April 2012
In Armenia, court rejects Sukiasyan's appeal against CoEC's refusal to register him as candidate for deputy
Today, the Administrative Court of Armenia has dismissed the complaint of the oppositionist Khachatur Sukiasyan against the decision of the Constituency Election Commission (CoEC) No. 10 and upheld the refusal to register him as a candidate.
20:00, 4 April 2012
NAC: four militants liquidated in special operation in Nalchik suburb
Law enforcers of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed – in the course of a special operation, conducted in the outskirts of Nalchik, the village of Khasanya, – four suspected militants.
19:00, 4 April 2012
Chechnya: over 10,000 letters-appeals to militants gathered within the "Call of the Soul" action
In Chechnya, within the large-scale action "Call of the Soul", more than ten thousand children's letters-appeals to militants were gathered, asking them to return to peaceful life, said the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences.
18:00, 4 April 2012
All the casualties of special operation in Sergokala District of Dagestan identified
All the six militants killed during the special operation conducted on April 2-4 in Dagestan, have been identified; all of them were members of the Sergokala grouping, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (ANC) has reported today.
17:00, 4 April 2012
Volgograd authorities plan to erect monument to leaders of anti-Hitler coalition
As stated by Sergey Bozhenov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, in Volgograd, in preparation for the celebrating of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, it is planned to erect a monument to the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition.
15:00, 4 April 2012
Antonina Mayevskaya’s relatives in Sochi identified her dead body
Today relatives of murdered widow of a well-known cultural figure Joseph Mayevsky Antonina Mayevskaya identified her dead body in the morgue of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar region. Investigator Maxim Bogdanovich and attorney of Mayevskaya’s relatives Igor Kurochkin were present at the identification.
08:00, 4 April 2012
Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of religious extremism
Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of organization of a religious community “Tabligi Jamia” acknowledged an extremist one and participation in its activities, Astrakhan regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.
News
Vardanyan's wife asked Pashinyan to help in visiting prisoners in Baku.

Another shipment of grain has been sent to Armenia through the territory of Azerbaijan.

Participants in a social media discussion placed the "We Are Our Mountains" monument in the context of the Baku-Yerevan peace talks.

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.