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11:46, 18 August 2026
A resident of Chechnya, Madina Makhamashova, appealed to Aishat Kadyrova with a complaint that her ex-husband has not allowed her to see and communicate with their daughter for two years, despite the court-established order for communication with the child.
10:46, 18 August 2026
The streets of Sukhumi have once again been flooded after heavy rain, a local resident complained on social media. Other citizens, commenting on her complaint, pointed out the non-functioning storm drains and demanded that officials solve the flooding problem.
09:46, 18 August 2026
Last night, air defense forces neutralized more than 80 drones in the Rostov region.
Landfill. Frame from the video https://www.instagram.com/p/DcG_TBYJBUT (the activities of the company Meta (which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia)
08:47, 18 August 2026
The smell from the landfill is spreading across various districts of Vladikavkaz and is already noticeable in Gizeli, local residents complained on social media. They criticized officials for the prolonged resolution of the problem.
Said-Magomed Mintsayev. Frame from the video https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbvpf_EC9Uy (the activities of the company Meta (which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia)
07:48, 18 August 2026
The court sentenced Said-Magomed Mintsayev to six years in prison, finding him guilty of kidnapping and robbery. His sister, Belkisa Mintsayeva, a native of Chechnya, called the verdict unfair, and the lawyer pointed out that the results of the forensic examination and data from mobile operators contradict the testimony of the victim.
06:48, 18 August 2026
The Rostov Regional Court will consider the appeal against the sentence of the former CEO of the "Tenth Bearing Plant" Alexander Dyachenko, who was sentenced to three years and ten months in a penal colony for fraud in the execution of a state defense order.
05:50, 18 August 2026
An illegal mining farm with 35 cryptocurrency mining devices has been discovered in the village of Maidan.
04:50, 18 August 2026
An unknown person attacked Dagestani singer Khadija Magomedova in her home; he stated to the police that he wants to marry her. According to the singer, the man had been stalking her for two years.
03:50, 18 August 2026
The acting president of South Ossetia, Marat Kambolov, became the first registered candidate for the post of head of the republic.
02:50, 18 August 2026
The fuel distribution regime on even and odd days linked to the state registration numbers of vehicles has been reintroduced in the Astrakhan region.
01:51, 18 August 2026
The Central District Court of Volgograd fined local resident Tatyana Smetanko for participating in an unauthorized mass event. The woman was detained near a gas station where a group of drivers was trying to record an appeal to the head of the Investigative Committee.
00:54, 18 August 2026
The rescue team is surveying the southern slope of Mount Elbrus in search of a group of climbers who did not make contact at the scheduled time. The group consists of at least eight people.
23:55, 17 August 2026
On the 628th day of continuous protests, demonstrators in Tbilisi called on citizens not to stop the fight, while Georgian emigrants promised to advocate for voting rights for citizens abroad.
23:03, 17 August 2026
The military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Kuban resident Alexey Ladygin to a long term, finding him guilty of arson of a cellular communication tower.
22:05, 17 August 2026
The Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan has initiated a criminal case against Russian media experts Ivan Knyazev, Alexey Chadaev, and Semyon Uralov, accusing them of public calls for violent change of the constitutional order and violation of the territorial integrity of the country, terrorism, and incitement of national hatred. All three have been declared wanted and arrested in absentia.
21:39, 17 August 2026
Abdurauf Ibrahimov, Ubayis Aliev, Shamil Budaykhanov, and Timur Khasinov from the Kazbekovsky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 2075 servicemen from Dagestan killed there.
21:06, 17 August 2026
Border guards at Mineralnye Vody airport held the head of the Kabardino-Balkar Human Rights Center, Valery Khatazhukov, for more than two hours, questioning him about his human rights activities and connections in Turkey.
20:09, 17 August 2026
More than 500 residents of Novorossiysk have been added to the lists for compensation payments after the drone attack on August 12. Over 700 apartments and more than a hundred private houses were damaged.
19:22, 17 August 2026
The announcement of police officer Yasin Khaidov from Chechnya being wanted is an attempt to conceal the real circumstances of his detention at the border with Kazakhstan and subsequent disappearance. Leaving the country to avoid participating in combat operations poses risks for active contractors and security forces; seeking to terminate service due to health reasons is a more effective way, human rights defenders noted.
Bakhtiyar Gasanov. Photo: APA https://ru.apa.az/
19:04, 17 August 2026
The head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Moscow, Bakhtiyar Gasanov, has been deported from Russia to Azerbaijan. Previously, Gasanov attempted to appeal the decision on his expulsion, but the court rejected the appeal.
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.