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21:00, 12 November 2009
Medvedev offers appointing a government official in charge of situation in Northern Caucasus
President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, who announced today his Message to the Federal Assembly, said that the level of corruption and clannish rule in the republics of Northern Caucasus is "unprecedented."
21:00, 12 November 2009
Militant killed in Chechnya was earlier given out by his relatives
Hasan Ozdamirov, who was announced as liquidated in the course of the special operation conducted by power agents on November 7 in the vicinity of the city of Argun, had been earlier given out to law enforcers by his relatives. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from an Argun resident, who closely knew the casualty.
20:00, 12 November 2009
Ingushetia: Imam of Sunzha District wounded in an explosion
Today, an unidentified bomb blew up under the car of Kosum Meiriev, Imam of the Sunzha District in Ingushetia. The churchman was wounded and brought to hospital.
19:00, 12 November 2009
Refugees ousted out of hotel in North Ossetia
Today, from the morning, the Vladikavkaz hotel named "Alan" began evicting the refugees from the 1992 Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. In total, 49 South-Ossetian families lived there that is, over 140 persons. The official reason for eviction is the emergency condition of the hotel.
18:00, 12 November 2009
Karastelyov: militia pursues Major Dymovskiy's supporters
Law enforcement bodies are exerting pressure on the people supporting Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who had made public illegal actions of Novorossisk militia bosses. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about by Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights.
23:40, 11 November 2009
Security Council to check information about Dymovskiy's links with foreigners
Yuri Baluevskiy, deputy secretary of the Security Council, said today that the version of involvement of NGOs, foreign ones inclusive, in the activities of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy is not confirmed and needs a further check.
23:40, 11 November 2009
President of Dagestan: law enforcement bodies are regarded as involved in kidnappings until they solve the crime
On November 10, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev, speaking to the workers of internal bodies on the occasion of the Day of Militia, said that law enforcement bodies will be regarded as involved in kidnappings themselves until the solve the crime and find real kidnappers.
23:40, 11 November 2009
Azerbaijan: court rejects complaint of woman accused of beating 4 men
On November 10, the Baku Appeal Court, presided by Judge Gail Mamedov, considered the appeal complaint lodged by Sayara Geidarova, convicted for beating of 4 men.
23:20, 11 November 2009
Mother of the trooper who perished in Chechnya lodges 1-million claim to Strasbourg Court
Mother of Vadim Chugunov, a Russian trooper, who perished in the battle near Ulus-Kert in 2000, believes that the failure of the Russian party to pay her the due compensation for the death of her son in Chechnya is a violation of the provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights.
23:10, 11 November 2009
In Dubai, advocates of figurants in Sulim Yamadaev's attempt case to demand release of their clients
In Dubai (United Arab Emirates), the judge in charge of the case on the attempt on Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion, was dissatisfied with the proofs gathered by the prosecution party and found them insufficient. On these grounds, the defence advocates plan to move, at the court session on November 16, their petitions asking to release the defendants.
Azerbaijan, Baku. Maidens tower. Photo by www.echo.az, Samir Aliyev
23:00, 11 November 2009
Azerbaijani public indignant with bloggers' conviction
Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, chaired by Araz Guseinov, terminated litigation on the case of young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries. Representatives of the public are indignant with the verdict.
22:30, 11 November 2009
In Dagestan, "Chernovik" case not to go back to prosecutor's office
The Supreme Court of Dagestan has cancelled the decision of the Leninskiy Court of Makhachkala about return of the criminal case concerning the editor-in-chief and four journalists of the Dagestan weekly "Chernovik" (Blueprint) to the prosecutor's office because of violations when drawing up the indictment. This was reported by Biyakay Magomedov, lawyer of the edition.
22:20, 11 November 2009
Citizen of Georgia expects exclusion from Archangelsk to Belarus
Citizen of Georgia Nodar Nikoleishvili, who was forced to go on hunger strike in the militia reception centre of Archangelsk, because of "inhuman custody conditions and long term of detention at the centre", said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the DFMS (Department of the Federal Migration Service) for the Archangelsk Region was planning to exclude him from Russia to Belarus within five days.
22:00, 11 November 2009
Examination finds sanity in suspects of organizing explosions in Sochi
The inquiry bodies have finished a complex psycho-psychiatric examination of the suspects of committing terror acts in Sochi, and, according to its conclusions, the defendants were quite responsible for their actions during the incriminated offences.
Dagestan, Makhachkala. Photo by www.mkala.ru, Nikolai Belousov
20:00, 11 November 2009
Dagestan residents are controversial to "children's curfew"
The ban for children and youth up to 18 years of age to stay in public places without accompanying adults from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., legalized by the deputies of the National Assembly of Dagestan, has caused different reactions among the population of the republic.
Budyonnovsk. Central hospital buildings. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org
19:00, 11 November 2009
Apaev: court disregarded mitigating circumstances in verdict to participant of raid on Budyonnovsk
The verdict to Abubakar Mezhiev, convicted for participation in the attack on the city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, was upheld, despite the mitigating circumstances. This is the opinion Aslambek Apaev, head of the committee in defence of forced migrants' rights and director of the international peacemaking centre "Peace. Ecology. Culture" founded several months ago in Crimea.
18:00, 11 November 2009
Picket in support of "Memorial" head to be held in Moscow tomorrow
On November 12, in Moscow, at 5:30 p.m., in the Chistoprudny Boulevard, a solidarity picket with Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will start.
23:50, 10 November 2009
In October, 35 suspected militants liquidated in Chechnya
As reported by the United Army Grouping in Northern Caucasus, in October this year, in the course of the special operations conducted in the territory of the Chechen Republic, 35 members of the armed underground were liquidated, and 42 militants and their helper were detained. However, human rights activists are sure that power agents put also people who have nothing to do with the armed underground into the lists of their "trophies".
23:30, 10 November 2009
Chechnya to try supposed "turnskin will epaulets"
An employee of the Chechen militia will face justice on charges of complicity to a member of separatists' armed formations. The former militiaman is under a threat of several years in prison.
23:00, 10 November 2009
Date of trial of Georgian teenagers detained in South Ossetia still unknown
November 9 was to be the starting day of the trial in South Ossetia of four Georgian teenagers, detained by local power agents; however, the trial was uncertainly postponed.
News
A fighter from the Volgograd region was killed in a military operation.

Elena Mikhailova. Still from video: https://vk.com/wall-62316332_12803 An orphan from the Volgograd region has been fighting for nine years to obtain the housing she is legally entitled to.

The court seized the property of former Volgograd deputy Korotkov.

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.