All news

Homepage / All news

20:23, 30 January 2004

Night shelling in Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts

Highlands and woodlands lying on the border between Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts were battered on the night of January 27-28.

20:12, 30 January 2004

11 European Parliament members call on Interpol to consider arrest warrant against Akhmed Zakayev to be null and void

Last year a group of members of the European Parliament awarded the "Passport for Freedom" to Akhmed Zakayev, Minister of Culture in the Chechen government of President Maskhadov, shortly after the Danish authorities had rejected the application for extradition made by the Russian Federation.

17:39, 30 January 2004

Damage from helicopter shelling of Shali town eatimated at 305 rubles

Sad results of the incident that took place in the district center of Shali on January 20 are being reckoned in Chechnya. Then the northwestern outskirts of the town were shelled with missiles from a helicopter.

17:16, 30 January 2004

Abductors set known Chechen doctor and masseur Khamzat Osmayev free

Khamzat Osmayev, the known Chechen doctor and body-builder abducted from his consulting room in the village of Pliyevo on January 12, was found in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district.

16:55, 30 January 2004

Volgodonsk journalist continues hunger strike

Aleksandr Zhabsky, the Volgodonsk journalist who went on hunger strike almost a month ago, is not able to get out of bed now.

16:29, 30 January 2004

New York Life insurance company launches payments to Armenians - victims of genocide in Turkey

Specialists hold that the total sums of payments by insurance companies in Turkey will likely run up to hundreds of milliards of dollars.

13:29, 30 January 2004

Book "FSB Blows Up Russia" can be distributed by anyone who wishes

People who want to print and distribute the seditious books "FSB Blows Up Russia" (see also here) and "LCG ? Lubyanka Criminal Group" on the territory of the Russian Federation can do it freely, without being afraid to infringe upon authors' rights, the Foundation for Civil Liberties announced yesterday.

12:00, 30 January 2004

Adjarian authorities release Kmara activist Avto Beridze

Avto Beridze told journalists that first he had been threatened and then he had been offered a good job and privileges as a way of gaining him over.

11:51, 30 January 2004

Azerbaijan authorities consider report by Human Rights Watch to be ordered

The ruling circles in Azerbaijan are incensed over the report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights organization, on the human rights situation in the country.

16:04, 29 January 2004

Saakashvili hopes for Russian assistance in returning refuges to Abkhazia

Speaking about the Georgian foreign policy, Mr Saakashvili declared, "Georgia will be neither pro-Russian nor pro-American. It will be pro-Georgian and European."

15:58, 29 January 2004

Open letter from Olivier Dupuis to Under-Secretary of Italian Foreign Ministry Margherita Boniver

The open letter reads, "I would obviously be very glad to be able to meet you to discuss whether, and in what way, you can contribute to restore hope to the Chechens and dignity to Europe, with respect, at least, to more specifically humanitarian questions."

15:52, 29 January 2004

Defense Ministry denies reports on Russian peacekeeper's death in Abkhazia

"There have been no incidents in which Russian peacekeeping units incurred losses in Abkhazia's Gali district," the ministry's press service reported.

14:06, 29 January 2004

Human rights activists are anxious about ecological situation in Chechnya

"Ecological conditions in Chechnya today are very bad, which is a result of the hostilities," Aleksandr Cherkasov, an activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", said in Strasbourg.

13:37, 29 January 2004

UN to allocate $1 million as help to refugees in Ingushetia

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland announced it on January 27, while meeting with Ingush President Murat Zyazikov during a short visit to Ingushetia.

13:23, 29 January 2004

Over 260 thousand refugees and IDPs registered in Georgia

There are 12 thousand IDPs from the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict among them and 250 thousand IDPs from Abkhazia. 3 thousand refugees from Chechnya are living in Georgia today too.

13:09, 29 January 2004

Activist of Kmara movement detained in Batumi

Avto Beridze was detained not long before the action of protest which was to be held in Batumi by activists of the movement, who demand that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze should resign.

12:49, 29 January 2004

Gypsies to be deported from Grozny

District police departments of Grozny plan to hold a joint action soon to deport Tajik Gypsies from the territory of the Chechen Republic.

12:24, 29 January 2004

Two Samashki villagers disappeared without a trace

At the end of 2003, the Shamayev father and son were detained by officers of Russian security agencies on the road leading to Molsovkhoz 15 and taken away in an unknown direction.

12:15, 29 January 2004

Local of Tsotsin-Yurt village killed

A local Tazbiyev was killed by officers of Russian security agencies in the course of the so called "address purges" in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, Chechnya's Kurchaloy district, on January 26.

12:06, 29 January 2004

Dead body of Russian peacekeeper found in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

One of the versions concerns the January 27 developments in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, when a skirmish happened between Georgian policemen and an Abkhazian criminal group of 10 people.

⟵ Previous article

1 2 … 3146 3147 3148 … 3221 3222

Next article ⟶

News

A fighter from Dagestan was killed in Ukraine.

Dagestani journalists have secured recognition of police inaction as illegal.

The sentence against the former head of the Untsukulsky district has been upheld.

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

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

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

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.