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12:28, 18 August 2008
Georgian Defence Minister: 133 militaries lost in South-Ossetia
David Kezerashvili, Minister of Defence of Georgia, told journalists on August 17 when visiting the Vasian Military Base that 133 militaries were lost and 50 more are regarded missing after the warfare in South Ossetia.
12:23, 18 August 2008
In Abkhazia, two frontier guards killed by explosion
Today, in Gali District of Abkhazia, two Abkhazian frontier guards were killed and two more wounded by explosion of a radio-controlled mine. Journalists were informed about the fact by Lavrentiy Mikvabiya, coordinator of power agencies of the Gali District.
14:40, 16 August 2008
12 candidates run for Azerbaijani presidency
Today, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has registered the incumbent President Ilham Aliev as a candidate for the position of the state leader at the forthcoming presidential election on October 15.
14:35, 16 August 2008
Russian President signs six principles on settling conflict in Georgia
Today, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has held a sitting of the Security Council, where they considered the post-conflict settlement in South Ossetia. The President has informed that he had signed the six-point plan coordinated between Russia and France.
14:30, 16 August 2008
War in South Ossetia reminds Ingushetia residents about conflict in Prigorodny District
The residents of Ingushetia who were interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on the occasion of the military events in South Ossetia and the flow of forced migrants to southern regions of Russia, have not expressed any special sympathy with residents of South Ossetia, while recollecting the events of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict of 1992.
14:27, 16 August 2008
Georgian troops concentrate around Tbilisi
General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of Russian Armed Forces, has reported today in a press conference that the Georgian troops who participated in the war in South Ossetia are now concentrating around Tbilisi.
14:23, 16 August 2008
Women chess players from Georgia ask to move World Championship away from Kabardino-Balkaria
The women's national chess team of Georgia refuses to take part in the Chess World Championship to be held in Kabardino-Balkaria and asks to transfer the competition to "some safer place."
14:16, 16 August 2008
Patients with infected wounds arrive to North-Ossetian hospitals
Now, the Central Clinical Hospital of North Ossetia keeps 108 wounded persons from South Ossetia; three of them are in heavy conditions. Some victims are already arriving with infected wounds.
14:09, 16 August 2008
USA ask to take Olympiad away from Sochi
Next month, the US Congress is going to consider a draft appeal to the International Olympic Committee demanding to cancel the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as a punishment of Moscow for Russia's military actions in Georgia, the draft initiators have announced.
13:35, 15 August 2008
Churkin: western media give wrong coverage of Russia-Georgia conflict
Vitaly Churkin, Russia's permanent representative at the United Nations, has expressed regret in the context of the "propaganda campaign" opened in western media on the situation in the Caucasus. Especially, Mr Churkin disliked the way the events around the city of Gori were covered.
13:32, 15 August 2008
Parliament of Georgia approves country's exit from CIS
At its session on August 14, the Parliament of Georgia has unanimously adopted the decision on the country's exit from the Commonwealths of Independent States (CIS).
13:25, 15 August 2008
Abkhazian authorities help Russian refugees from Georgia
Fourteen residents of the Zugdidi District, Russian nationals, who have applied for refuge in Abkhazia, were accepted by the republic's authorities. These are mainly young women, their children and husbands. The refugees from Zugdidi have rendered material aid.
13:21, 15 August 2008
President of Georgia signs ceasefire agreement
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has announced, during his joint press conference with the US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice, that he had signed the ceasefire agreement.
13:09, 15 August 2008
Lokshina: federals stopped marauding in four Georgian villages
Tatiana Lokshina, representative of the Human Rights Watch, said that the federal agencies had stopped the marauders, who acted in four Georgian villages located along the Dzhava-Tskhinvali highway.
13:05, 15 August 2008
In Dagestan, editor-in-chief of "Nastoyascheye Vremya" bans publications about searches in "Chernovik"
Hanzhan Kurbanov, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan-based "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper, has forbidden publishing any materials about the searches conducted in the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper and about summon to interrogation of Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of this newspaper, against whom a criminal case was initiated.
13:02, 15 August 2008
Two journalists lost in Georgian military conflict
Today, Gennady Dzyuba, President of the Association of Military Press of the Moscow Union of Journalists, has presented generalized data, according to which two journalists were lost also seven more wounded in the warfare in South Ossetia.
12:56, 15 August 2008
Refugees arriving to Tbilisi express protest to Georgia's authorities
The residents of the Georgian villages, located in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone, who have arrived to Tbilisi, blame the authorities of Georgia of not protecting them. People are also disappointed with the absence of real help from the USA.
13:16, 14 August 2008
Russian Joint Staff reports that Georgia planned mass invasion into Abkhazia
On August 13, General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Commander of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, reported that Georgia had intended to invade Abkhazia.
13:11, 14 August 2008
Russian human rights activists and opposition manifest for peace in Georgia
A number of Russian human rights and oppositional organizations have moved the Antiwar Manifesto, announcing a termless antiwar campaign of civil protest until durable peace is established in Georgia.
13:08, 14 August 2008
Over 17,000 refugees from South Ossetia registered in the SFD
In the south of Russia, over 17,000 refugees from South Ossetia have been officially registered, as reports the Federal Operative Staff for liquidating the consequences of the armed conflict in South Ossetia.
News
Acting head of Dagestan Fyodor Shchukin and a criminal case. Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Commentators doubted the prospects of Shchukin's fight against corruption.

Mine explosion. Photo: https://ru.apa.az/proisshestvie/sotrudnik-anama-podorvalsya-na-mine-v-agdame-548449 The tractor driver detonated a mine in the Khojavend district.

Heat pipeline. Photo by the press service of the administration of Krasnodar. The authorities' report on the readiness of housing and communal services for winter has caused skepticism among the residents of Dagestan.

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.