All news

Homepage / All news

23:55, 13 January 2005

Head of the Information Center of the Council of NGOs Taisa Isayeva thinks that yesterday's incident showed the lack of professionalism of Ingush special services.

23:46, 13 January 2005

Azerbaijan opposition may unite

"It's time for all democratic forces to unite and put an end to authoritarianism in Azerbaijan," said chair of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party Ali Kerimli.

23:37, 13 January 2005

Bagapsh wins presidential election

68,225 people, or 90.1%, voted for Sergey Bagapsh, and 3,467 people, or 4.5%, did for Yakub Lakoba.

23:57, 12 January 2005

Georgian police units move to villages bordering on Abkhazia

They will assure the safety of people in the villages of Ganmukhuri and Khurcha in Georgia's Zugdidi district, announced Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania.

23:32, 12 January 2005

Deaths from torture registered in police departments

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, chairman of the Azerbaijan Committee Against Torture Elchin Bekhbudov said that 7 deaths from torture were registered in Azerbaijan in 2004.

23:20, 12 January 2005

Armenian, Azerbaijan foreign ministers meet in Prague

Spokesman for the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry Metin Mirza told the Caucasian Knot correspondent that there were no changes in positions of the sides but there was some approach.

23:52, 11 January 2005

Yeni Musavat published again

The publication of one of the main newspapers of the Azerbaijan opposition, Yeni Musavat, was resumed on January 10. It happened due to "the latest financial means", announced editors of the newspaper.

23:48, 11 January 2005

European Court considers Viktoria Sypchenko's claim

The European Court of Human Rights is considering a claim of Viktoria Sypchenko, a resident of the town of Bataysk, Rostov Region. Earlier, she was put on probation for three years under the article "Fraud". Viktoria was pregnant, nevertheless she was under arrest in the course of investigation.

23:03, 11 January 2005

Abkhazian parties, NGOs declare against presidential election

"The time given for the preparation and holding of the election sufficed only for continuation of the chosen tactics ? to come to power by all means, but not for the holding of the fair election of the head of state," leaders of some Abkhazian parties and non-governmental organizations announced in a joint statement.

21:52, 10 January 2005

Destiny of Maskhadov's relatives remains unknown

The Chechen Interior Ministry asserts that there was no abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives. The republican law enforcement agencies know nothing about it anyhow.

21:49, 10 January 2005

Beaten journalist checked up in Georgia

The state of Alan Parastayev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Initiatives and Studies beaten by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry, has improved.

23:37, 6 January 2005

396 abducted in Chechnya in 2004

For the same period of time, 293 locals were found dead on the territory of Chechnya.

22:03, 5 January 2005

Local functionaries 'take journalists as servants', says journalist

The Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry refused accreditation to Fatima Tlisova saying bluntly that the reason for it lay in her position as a journalist. In Karachaevo-Cherkessia, an attempt was made to accuse her of illegal receiving a pension and institute criminal proceedings against her.

23:26, 4 January 2005

Policemen beat journalist

Journalist Alan Parastayev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies and Initiatives, was savagely beaten on the Transkam road near the Osetia tourist center at about 11 p.m. on December 30, when he made an attempt to obtain from South Osetian law enforcers information about a column of cars they had detained earlier.

23:36, 3 January 2005

Quality of oil pipeline under question

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, head of the Monitoring Group to Examine Pipeline Systems in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey Mais Gyulaliyev claimed that low quality pipes are used to construct the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan oil pipeline.

23:52, 30 December 2004

No meeting between Zhvania and Kokoity

The informal meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and leader of the breakaway republic of South Osetia Eduard Kokoity that was much expected has not taken place. Mr Zhvania told journalists that "Mr Kokoity has a habit of changing plans at the last moment".

23:49, 30 December 2004

10 years since New Year's storm of Grozny

The New Year's storm of Grozny in the winter of 1994 became one of the most tragic pages of the first military campaign in Chechnya.

23:45, 30 December 2004

Azerbaijan president signs pardon decree

This decree grants a pardon to 54 convicts, including Sardar Gamidov, the former head of Azerbaijan's Tertersky district executive power and brother of ex-minister of foreign affairs Iskander Gamidov.

23:56, 29 December 2004

People go missing in Chechnya

"Sessions of the Government, the Security Council, and the Interior Ministry are broadcast every day. Everybody claims we should fight hard against the abductors of people, but nothing happens in reality," an abducted man's close relative said.

23:31, 29 December 2004

Bagapsh wants integration with Russia, equality with Georgia

Asked about Abkhazia's future, Sergey Bagapsh said that the Abkhazian people had already chosen the way of independence and were not going to turn off it.

⟵ Previous article

1 2 … 3046 3047 3048 … 3206 3207

Next article ⟶

News

Khasis admitted her guilt in the murder of lawyer Markelov for the first time

Mansur Khadzhiev was convicted for acquitting Basayev and Khattab

Ramzan Kadyrov added a medal from Zolotov to his collection of awards

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.