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Zarema Musaeva. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
18:20, 5 March 2026
Musaeva's defense considered the court's decision to be biased.
The court unconditionally accepted the prosecution's case, and Zarema Musayeva's right to a defense was violated during the two-day trial. The Shali Court ignored both the lawyers' motions and their request to postpone the trial due to Zarema's poor health, the defense claimed.
17:38, 5 March 2026
Rising prices during Ramadan in Dagestan also affected tourists.
Grocery prices increased during Ramadan at both markets and stores, according to Makhachkala residents. Amid the overall price hike, cafe and restaurant owners were also forced to raise prices.
16:40, 5 March 2026
The Azerbaijani army has been put on alert after the attack on Nakhchivan.
The drone attack on the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic was a deliberate terrorist attack by Iran, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared today, demanding an apology and punishment for those responsible. He ordered the armed forces to be put on alert. The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office has opened a criminal case in connection with the strikes on civilian infrastructure.
15:40, 5 March 2026
Blogger Markaryan sentenced to prison in Nazi rehabilitation case
A Moscow court found blogger Arsen Markaryan guilty of rehabilitating Nazism and sentenced him to 4.5 years in prison. The case was heard under a special regime.
15:00, 5 March 2026
Zarema Musaeva appealed the verdict
The lawyer filed an appeal against the sentence handed down by the Shali Court following a review of the case against Zarema Musayeva for the attack on a security officer.
The Ninotsminda boarding school. Photo: https://newstbilisi.info/180547-phr-v-oon-obyazali-vlasti-gruzii-provesti-monitoring-detskogo-doma-v-ninocminda.html
14:52, 5 March 2026
Lawyers found the compensation for children from the Ninotsminda boarding school insufficient.
A Tbilisi court ordered 11 children at the Ninotsminda boarding school to pay 30,000 lari each in compensation for inhumane treatment. The children's defense team appealed the court's decision, and the Georgian Ministry of Finance also filed an appeal.
13:55, 5 March 2026
Azerbaijani politicians called on Iran to explain itself after the drone attack.
Four people were injured in a drone attack on the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic; their condition is stable. The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister demanded an explanation from Iran, and a member of parliament called on the neighboring country to apologize for the drone attack.
12:55, 5 March 2026
UAV wreckage found in 11 settlements in Abkhazia
On March 4, 30 drones were spotted over Abkhazia; they were shot down by Abkhazian and Russian air defense forces. Drone wreckage was found in 11 settlements, causing a power outage in one village.
12:09, 5 March 2026
Two Iranian drone crashes recorded in Azerbaijan
One drone crashed inside the airport terminal, and the other crashed near a school in the village of Shekerabad. The airport building was damaged, and two people were injured.
11:55, 5 March 2026
Zarema Musaeva was again found guilty of assaulting a prison officer.
Following a retrial of a criminal case for disrupting the activities of a correctional facility, the Shali City Court of Chechnya sentenced Zarema Musayeva to three years and 10 months in a penal colony.
11:46, 5 March 2026
A video of the last days of the Armenian population in Karabakh sparked a conflict among Facebook users*
The publication of three amateur films about the final period of the Armenian population's stay in Karabakh has sparked debate about the region's territorial jurisdiction and the perpetrators of the conflict.
10:49, 5 March 2026
A soldier from the Astrakhan region was killed during a military operation.
Rinat Kusaliyev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 719 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.
09:55, 5 March 2026
Peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia have led to a lull on the border between the two countries.
The Azerbaijani armed forces suffered irreparable losses in the first two months of 2026, totaling eight personnel, all of whom died in non-combat situations.
08:58, 5 March 2026
A large-scale drone strike has been recorded in southern Russia.
Sixteen drones were shot down over four regions of the Southern Federal District. A drone alert was also declared in the North Caucasus.
08:01, 5 March 2026
A Lithuanian court has returned Mikhail Benyash's residence permit*.
The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania has overturned a first-instance court ruling that rejected the appeal of Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash, who challenged the decision of the Migration Department to revoke his residence permit in Lithuania due to his trips to Belarus.
Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
06:01, 5 March 2026
Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.
At least 4,326 servicemen from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,478 from the Southern Federal District have been killed in fighting in Ukraine, according to official reports from administrations and security agencies.
06:01, 5 March 2026
The prosecution has requested a long prison sentence for Azerbaijani activist Zamin Zyaki.
05:02, 5 March 2026
The Supreme Court of Georgia refused to review Amaglobeli's sentence.
Judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled out the possibility of reviewing the sentence of Mzia Amaglobeli, founder of the publications Netgazeti and Batumelebi, by refusing to consider the appeal of her defense.
04:03, 5 March 2026
A court has ordered the demolition of an eight-story residential building in Makhachkala.
An eight-story residential building on Azizov Street in Makhachkala has been declared illegal and is scheduled for demolition. Some Telegram users sympathized with the building's residents, while others blamed the buyers of the illegally built apartments for the city's infrastructure problems.
03:04, 5 March 2026
A Stavropol resident was sentenced to prison for inciting terrorism.
A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Stavropol resident Artur Shamanov to three years in prison, finding his comments on a messenger to be justification and propaganda for terrorism.
News
The Berkat market in Grozny. March 2024. Still from the YouTube channel "Alyonka Krasnodar" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEvEWgTwmdE Grozny traders criticized the methods used to combat price increases during Ramadan.

A single ski pass has been launched at three ski resorts in the North Caucasus.

The head of a village in Chechnya has been accused of land fraud.

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.