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23:00, 1 March 2012
On February 29, in Azerbaijan, the Nakhichevan Court for Grave Crimes began a trial on case against the political activist Zeinal Bagirzade.
23:00, 1 March 2012
Omar Sagidmagomedov, a member of the City Bar Association "Kavkaz", was murdered by power agents; however, the investigatory authorities are in no haste to investigate the criminal case instituted on the fact of the murder. This was reported by Sagidmagomedov's colleagues on February 29.
22:30, 1 March 2012
In the city of Budyonnovsk, an ex-policeman accused of abuse of power with serious consequences, will face justice.
Azerbaijan, March 1, 2012, confrontation in Guba near a police station. Photo by Faik Medjid for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:10, 1 March 2012
The situation in the city of Guba in the north of Azerbaijan has normalized after release of all the people detained during spontaneous protest actions. In the course of the riots, Abderrashad Vagif-oglu, a reporter of the Internet TV "Objective TV", was wounded in his head by a stone.
22:00, 1 March 2012
Murad Yandiev, the accountant of the human rights organization "Mashr", whose disappearance was reported today by his colleagues, has been detained and is kept at the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Nazran.
21:40, 1 March 2012
Today in the morning, Abdurakhman Djakaev, a resident of the village of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, was taken away to some unknown place by armed men in camouflage. This was reported by his mother Patimat Djakaeva. The Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) said that they had no such a detainee.
21:20, 1 March 2012
Today, Rashidat Khalidova, a resident of the village of Chontaul, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, has reported disappearance of her husband Akav Khalidov, 28.
21:10, 1 March 2012
Ruslan Rakhaev, ex-Deputy Police Chief and former head of the criminal and investigation unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Cherkessk, who was searched on suspicion of beating an arrested man to death, was detained by law enforcers. This was reported by the MIA of Karachay-Cherkessia.
21:00, 1 March 2012
The number of participants of the protest action in the form of hunger strike in the city of Lermontov of the Stavropol Territory has already reached 38 persons. According to them, they do not intend to stop their protest action. Yuri Turygin, Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory, established in the city a temporary reception of the Prosecutor's Office.
Azerbaijan, March 1, 2012, confrontation in Guba near a police station. Photo by Faik Medjid for the "Caucasian Knot"
20:00, 1 March 2012
The police dispersed the participants of an action in front of the building of executive authority in Guba district of Azerbaijan. The number of detainees makes about 200. However, disturbances are going on. The protesters burned down the house of Rauf Khabibov, Head of executive authority, and demand release of those detained.
19:00, 1 March 2012
The woman owner of a house in the settlement of Gimry, Dagestan, exploded by unidentified people this morning is safe but the building got a considerable damage, the "Caucasian Knot" referring to local residents reports.
18:00, 1 March 2012
In the evening of February, 29, resident of the town of Karabulak Murad Yandiev, member of human rights center "MASHR", disappeared in Ingushetia, representatives of the organization report.
23:30, 29 February 2012
The Armenian Parliament by a majority vote rejected a draft law to introduce a 100-percent proportional election system.
Sochi, February 29, 2012, picketers against the policy of incumbent authorities, violations of human rights and electoral legislation. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"
23:10, 29 February 2012
Today, in Sochi, from midday till 6:00 p.m. the square near the city administration hosted a picket against the current government policy, violations of civil rights and election law. The protest action was attended by about 50 persons.
22:00, 29 February 2012
On February 28, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia should pay 134,000 euros to relatives of two young men, one of whom was kidnapped and another one was killed in Chechnya.
Residents of the village of Kakashura hold rally by blocking Federal Highway "Kavkaz" near the dwelling settlement of Manas; Dagestan, Karabudakhkent District, February 29, 2012. Courtesy of the RIA "Daghestan", www.riadagestan.ru
21:30, 29 February 2012
In Dagestan, the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" near the village of Manas, which was blocked today by more than 500 persons, was opened. They demanded that the law enforcement agencies should solve the murder of their villager.
21:10, 29 February 2012
Today, the Interregional Public Organization "Committee against Torture" reported on re-opening of the criminal case on the beating of Alikhan Akhmedov by Chechen OMON (riot police) fighters.
21:00, 29 February 2012
Viktor Chlenov could not open gas valves and blow up the nine-storey building in Astrakhan, since he was bedridden. This was stated by his wife Valentina Chlenova. According to her, the blowing up of the building was a fault of workers from the gas service, who two weeks prior to the explosion replaced the gas equipment in their apartment. The woman is going to prove that her husband is innocent.
20:00, 29 February 2012
During the past 24 hours four people joined the participants of an action of protest in form of a hunger strike in the town of Lermontov, Stavropol region. So, 22 persons are taking part in the hunger strike at the moment, two of them are in hospital. According to head of the region Valery Gaevsky, the protesters are using coercive methods to achieve their goal which will be estimated by law enforcement bodies respectively.
20:00, 29 February 2012
Starting from March 20, in Georgia, socially vulnerable persons will receive vouchers for 1000 laris (about 606 US dollars) for education at professional training centres or vocational colleges. This was announced today by Nika Gilauri, Georgian Prime Minister, at the government meeting.
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.

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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.