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19:00, 22 October 2009
Chechnya: sappers of Russian MfE neutralized about 160 explosives
Experts of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia who came in mid-September to Chechnya for demining local farmland have cleared over 35 hectares of arable area.
23:50, 21 October 2009
In Armenia, no prosecutor change assumed at trial of oppositional editor-in-chief
Today, at the litigation on the case of Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the daily oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time), Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan, who is chairing the trial, rejected the petition of the defence challenging the public prosecutor Koryun Piloyan.
23:40, 21 October 2009
Tomorrow, claim of MUE Director against Novorossisk human rights activists will be considered
Tomorrow, on October 22, the Oktiabrskiy Court of Novorossisk will consider the claim of Sergey Novikov, Director of Municipal Unitary Enterprise "Information-Analytical Centre" (MUE "IAC") against the Novorossisk Committee for Human Rights (NCHR) on defence of his honour, dignity and business reputation. This was reported by Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the NCHR.
23:20, 21 October 2009
Dagestan STSI inspector charged of murdering his prosecution colleague
Seifula Isaev, senior inspector of special battalion of the Road Sentry Service (STSI), has faced charges of murdering Gamzat Musaev, senior inspector of the Khasavyurt Inter-District Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee of the Prosecutor's Office) of the Russian Federation, and of exceeding his service duties.
23:10, 21 October 2009
Radio Liberty starts broadcasting for Abkhazia
The Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe opens its new project. From November 2 on, every evening frequencies 9525 and 9780 will broadcast an information-analytical programme in the Russian language "Echo of the Caucasus". It is a new Russian-language analytical programme aimed at the audience in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
23:00, 21 October 2009
Mikhalchenko: Ingush opposition would not address law enforcers on the website attack
Oppositional activists of Ingushetia are not going to address law enforcement bodies in the context of the yesterday's powerful attack on their website, as a result of which its work was completely paralyzed. In the opinion of Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website "Ingushetiyaru.org", there is no sense to address them.
22:00, 21 October 2009
Novorossisk administration bans International Black Sea Day march
The city bosses prohibited all the events applied for by activists to mark the International Black Sea Day, and did it with violation of the procedure prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation for official answers. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee for Human Rights (NCHR).
21:00, 21 October 2009
Krasnodar ecologists send complaint to Adler court
Today, activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus have lodged their complaint to the District Court of Adler challenging the administrative sanctions imposed on them. The ecologists protest against the decision made frontier guards of the FSB, who had detained the "greens" allegedly for breaking the frontier regime.
20:00, 21 October 2009
Georgia: grenade detonator blows up in hands of a boy of 13
Today, in the village of Dvani, Kartli District of Georgia, Alexander Makhachashvili, 13, found a grenade in the cemetery and decided to bring it home; however, the weapon blew up and wounded him.
Azerbaijan, Baku. Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/blodgett
19:00, 21 October 2009
"Reporters without Borders" enlist Azerbaijan among countries with poor freedom of press
On October 20, the international organization in defence of journalists "Reporters without Borders" (RwB) has published its annual rating list on the freedom of press in the world. The report entitled "Global Freedom of Press Index--2009" rank Azerbaijan in the 146th place among 169 countries.
18:00, 21 October 2009
Over fifteen hundred cars detained in Chechnya within the "Automobile" campaign
On October 16, broad-scale operative-preventive actions started in the territory of Chechnya aimed at revealing hijacked cars and those with excessively tinted glasses within the campaign named "Automobile".
23:40, 20 October 2009
By "freedom of speech index" Armenia is ranked 111th
The organization "Reporters without Borders" has presented its next regular report with assessment of the freedom of speech in 175 countries of the world. By the "freedom of speech index" Armenia was put in the 111th place.
23:00, 20 October 2009
An inmate murdered in a Chechen colony
The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has conducted a check on the fact of detection of a body of a convict with traces of murder in the territory of the colony-settlement (UKP) of the Corrective Establishment No. 2 of the Russian Correction Service (known as "UFSIN") for Chechnya, located in the city of Argun.
22:10, 20 October 2009
Three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria disappear
Three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria - Timur Begidov, born in 1975 in Kenzhe village, and Ibragim Shogenov and Anzor Nagoev from the village of Dugulubgei, who left on October 2 to the city of Ufa in a refrigerator truck with a cargo of fruits for sale, have disappeared. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it at the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre, where Timur Begidov's parents addressed for help.
22:00, 20 October 2009
Plievo resident assassinated in Ingushetia
In the evening on October 19, in Plievo village, a local resident Azhigov by name was shot dead in his car.
Ingushetia, Nazran. Photo by www.venividi.ru/user/183, Artem Rusakovich
21:10, 20 October 2009
Mikhalchenko: frauds with voters' lists were committed at elections in Nazran
While the leader of the Ingush opposition Magomed Khazbiev tried to find out at his 72nd polling station in Nazran why some other people had voted for his family, the employees of the precinct amended the voters' list, having made a forgery in the eyes of journalists. Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website "ingushetiyaru.org", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.
20:00, 20 October 2009
Journalists' organizations of Azerbaijan call to resume foreign broadcasting
The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and the Institute of Media's Rights (IMR) have made a joint statement today, where they resolutely condemned the utterances of Azerbaijani officials that broadcasting of foreign companies in FM-frequencies will not be restored.
19:00, 20 October 2009
Militiaman's house attacked in Chechnya
In the southwest of Chechnya, in its Urus-Martan District, unidentified persons shelled the house of an employee of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Besides, a fougasse was planted opposite the house.
18:00, 20 October 2009
Titov: militia of Krasnodar Territory fails to react to SMS insults
Evgeniy Titov, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", complains that the militia makes no checks on his application about the insults sent to him as SMS messages from the telephone number of the director of a Novorossisk school; Mr Titov had a talk with him, when he prepared the material about the opponents of the "children's curfew".
23:50, 19 October 2009
Oppositional businessman wants to adjudge 220 million euros from Armenia
The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted to consideration the complaint lodged on behalf of the "Bzhni" Mineral Water Factory, belonging to the oppositional activist Khachatur Sukiasyan, against the Republic of Armenia. The claimant demands compensation of 220 million euros for damage caused to the company.
News
A fighter from Dagestan was killed in the military operation zone.

The road in the Grozny district. Screenshot of the publication https://www.instagram.com/chpchechnya_95/reel/DciuACyu3ux (the activities of the company Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia) The condition of the road in the Grozny district has given rise to criticism of officials.

The serviceman was convicted in Nalchik for absence from the unit.

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.