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Armenia, Yerevan. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/23848391
20:00, 22 February 2010
NGOs from Russia, South Ossetia and Georgia meet in Yerevan within Strasbourg dialogue
On February 20-21, the capital of Armenia hosted a meeting of NGO leaders from Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia within the limits of the Strasbourg dialogue. They discussed ways of further interaction of civil societies in conflict zones.
Northern Ossetia, Beslan. Photo by www.panoramio.com/photo/10491094
19:00, 22 February 2010
Girl killed by explosion in Beslan
In Beslan today, an unidentified explosive blew up. By preliminary data, the explosion killed a girl of eight, and her two brothers were wounded and hospitalized.
18:00, 22 February 2010
Caretakers of outcast animals in Sochi are under threat of eviction
The public charitable organization in Sochi, engaged in taking care of outcast animals, may be deprived of its premises, since the bosses of the Federal State Educational Establishment of Secondary Vocational Training "Sochi Economic-Technological College" is going to hand over these premises occupied by animals defenders and belonging to the college to some security entity.
21:00, 20 February 2010
Georgia buries its sledge racer, who crushed to death in Canada
Today, Georgia held the funeral of its sledge (toboggan) racer Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died in an accident in Canada several hours prior to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympiad in Vancouver.
19:00, 20 February 2010
President of Dagestan inaugurated
Today Makhachkala hosted inauguration of Magomedsalam Magomedov to the post of President of Dagestan. The new leader promised to bring the republic out of crisis, eradicate corruption and attract investors to Dagestan.
18:00, 20 February 2010
Novorossisk: human rights activist who represents Dymovskiy's interests arrested
Today, the magistrate court of Novorossisk has ruled to arrest the human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov, who represents the interests of Major Alexei Dymovskiy, for seven days. Yesterday, the court found Karastelyov guilty of holding a non-authorized rally and fined by two thousand roubles.
16:00, 20 February 2010
In North Ossetia, trade sector well endured the 2009 crisis
The situation in the consumer market of North Ossetia remains stable and is characterized by a high level of saturation with goods, Zaur Kuchiev, Minister of Economy, has noted.
15:00, 20 February 2010
CPJ welcomes Kadyrov's recall of claims to "Novaya Gazeta" and HRC "Memorial"
Robert Mahony, deputy director of the international Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has named the decision of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to recall his claims to the "Novaya Gazeta" and Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" the first small step towards liquidation of the frightening effect against journalists in Russia.
14:00, 20 February 2010
In Rostov Region, militia searches those who desecrated graves
At night on February 15, in the city cemetery of Azov, Rostov Region, unidentified persons made a rout. In more than 30 tombs of one of the sections, where only veterans of World War II are buried, monuments and tombstones were ruined or damaged.
13:00, 20 February 2010
Shakhnazaryan: Moscow wants to make parallel format in Karabakh process
Russia tries to change the format of the Minsk OSCE Group and is interested to set up a parallel intermediary format in the Karabakh process. This is the opinion of David Shakhnazaryan, a member of the oppositional Armenian National Congress and former chairman of the local KGB.
12:00, 20 February 2010
Fatima Margieva, editor of the newspaper "Position" arrested in Tskhinvali
In Tskhinvali, on February 18, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia arrested Fatima Margieva, editor of the newspaper "Position". She went on hunger strike and plans to continue it until all the circumstances of her detention and the criminal case opened against her last year on the fact of illegal keeping arms are clarified.
Photo by www.engineering.uiowa.edu
11:00, 20 February 2010
Authorities of Dagestan create a school of bloggers
Dagestan plans to set up a school of bloggers. The initiative belongs to the information-analytical centre of the local Ministry on Youth's Matters. The main mission of the school is proclaimed as "creation of positive information" about the republic.
10:00, 20 February 2010
Georgia: history teachers study problem of tolerance in education
In the capital of Georgia, teachers of history considered the ways of bringing up tolerance in pupils in the multinational and multi-confessional society. The seminar was held within the project "Building up tolerance through historical education". Over 50 persons from different regions, representing various ethnic and religious communities of Georgia, were present.
09:00, 20 February 2010
Sochi hosts rally in support of voters' rights
An action in defence of voters' rights was held in Sochi. Its participants - candidates for the City Assembly, businessmen and members of public organizations - voiced for free elections, against arbitrariness of local bureaucrats and pressure of the executive authorities on undesirable candidates.
08:00, 20 February 2010
Two militiamen lost and a civilian wounded at shelling in Dagestan
Last night, in the Gregebil District of Dagestan, unidentified persons shelled, from the side of a large forest, the control-defence post on the "Red Bridge", as a result of which two law enforcers who were on duty at the post were killed, and a local resident also suffered.
23:55, 19 February 2010
Nikita Tikhonov, accused of murdering lawyer Markelov, placed into another SIZO
The nationalist Nikita Tikhonov, accused of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov, was transferred from SIZO (pre-trial prison) "Lefortovo", where he was kept since April 2009, to SIZO "Matrosskaya Tishina".
23:50, 19 February 2010
Medvedev sacks Deputy Interior Minister Edelev, who supervised power agents in Northern Caucasus
On February 18, General-Colonel Arkadiy Edelev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, who was in charge of Northern Caucasus, was dismissed. The corresponding decree was signed by President Dmitri Medvedev, who had promised at the sitting of the MIA Collegium to reshuffle the ministerial cadre. Sources in the Kremlin report that Edelev may pass over to work for the office of the plenipotentiary representative at the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and head the Chief Department of the MIA for the NCFD, which Mr Medvedev suggested to create.
23:45, 19 February 2010
Failure of water pipe in Stavropol eliminated
In Stavropol, repair works aimed to restore water supply to a kindergarten, school, medical institutions and private houses in the Tashly District are over. The water delivery is resumed.
23:40, 19 February 2010
Tbilisi Court starts considering Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's case
On Thursday, February 18, the Tbilisi City Court started considering the case of the son of the ex-president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne, accused of an attempt of deliberate murder.
Fragment of the photograph "Alikhma and Patimat from Gora", presented at the photographic exhibition "North Caucasus - on the way of changes". Original photo by Kamille Chutuyev
23:30, 19 February 2010
Photo exhibition "Northern Caucasus - on Road of Changes" opened in Dagestan
Makhachkala has opened an exhibition "Northern Caucasus - on Road of Changes" showing works of photographers from Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Chechnya and other regions. After Makhachkala, the exhibition will go to Nazran, Grozny and Vladikavkaz.
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Lawyers considered it possible to release Murdiev from the prison

A soldier from the Rostov region was killed in Ukraine.

A second Chechen resident has been charged under the article on searching for extremist materials.

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.