Articles

December 31, 2017 08:00

• Why volunteers of Southern Russia prefer Sobchak, not Putin or Navalny

  After Ksenia Sobchak, a public person and a journalist, had been nominated to run for Russian presidency, her offices and volunteer groups launched activities in the regions. In Rostov-on-Don, Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, and Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" interviewed supporters and volunteers of Ksenia Sobchak to find out what to expect from the "candidate against all" and why she is more preferable than Putin and Navalny. Rivals and opponents of Ksenia Sobchak also had something to tell about her.

December 28, 2017 17:35

• Chechnya, Dagestan and Krasnodar: how oil refineries generate protests

  For more than 10 years, in an outskirt of Grozny, a secret oil refinery has been operating. It is situated at the exit from the Zavodskoy District of the city in the direction of the dwelling settlement of Andreevskaya Dolina. This was reported in a letter sent to the "Caucasian Knot" by one of Grozny townspeople. Residents of other places of Russian South – of the city of Tuapse and Dagestani countryside – told about their personal experience and consequences of living close to oil refineries.

December 15, 2017 18:10

• Caliphate children: what awaits them after IS*

  The "Caucasian Knot" tells why it is not easy to return militants' children to Russia, who is engaged in the process, and how many children they have already managed to return.

July 08, 2009 14:00

• National Reconciliation in South Ossetia

  The Commission of National Reconciliation in South Ossetia could become a vital tool for reducing tensions and finding lasting political solutions in the region, argues journalist and analyst Valeriy Dzutsev.

October 24, 2008 13:30

• Georgia-Russia conflict: Ethnic Cleansing Continues in South Ossetian Conflict Zone in Georgia

  Statement of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

August 28, 2008 18:39

• Blogger "failures" in the Georgian war, and the rise of citizen propaganda

August 21, 2008 17:35

• Russian bloggers go after YouTube

  While the real war between Russia and Georgia may be over, the Internet war lingers on, with virtual battalions continuing to fight on sites like YouTube.

August 18, 2008 17:45

• Citizen war-reporter? The Caucasus test

  The Georgia-Russia war has exposed some of the flaws in the idea of citizen journalism, says Evgeny Morozov.

August 16, 2008 17:43

• Misunderstanding cyberwar
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August 13, 2008 15:34

• The Kremlin's Virtual Army

  Shadowy hackers in Moscow and St. Petersburg? Old news. Get ready for the next generation of Russian cyberwarriors

May 23, 2008 21:36

• Extraordinary Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Georgia

  Report from election observation 20 and 21 May 2008

May 07, 2008 19:34

• Aidan White (General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists): "Journalists should walk off any close relations with the authorities"
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February 27, 2008 16:28

• North Caucasus: Police raid offices of Independent Journalist

January 30, 2008 09:49

• Valery Dzutsev: Kosovo and duplex plan for peace settlement in Georgian-South Ossetian conflict

January 17, 2008 14:56

• Gordon N. Bardos (The Harriman Institute, USA): "In the issue of the right of nations to self-determination the international community resorts to double standard policy"

  On the threshold of unilateral declaration by Kosovo, former Serbian autonomy, of its independence from Serbia, the practice of international recognition of new self-determined territories, including those in the Caucasus, is becoming especially actual.

December 22, 2007 01:20

• Interview with David J.Kramer

November 29, 2007 20:49

• From the Conflict Zone

  Bulletin of Memorial Human Rights Center: Tangieva v. Russia

January 17, 2007 22:38

• Andreas Gross: 'Russia underestimates the gravity of the totalitarian past'

  One of the most significant events of autumn 2006 political life was the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Forum 'For the Future of Democracy' held in Moscow.

August 14, 2006 14:35

• An Appeal to Russian Public and International Community, to All People of Good Will from Ingush residents of Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, who were forced to start a timeless hunger strike

  The hunger strike of 10 residents of refugee camp "Majski" has continued for 14 days. According to the appeal of the strikers, their action is a protest against postponing the return of Ingush IDPs to the places of their permanent residence in North Ossetia and against discrimination of the Ingush minority in North Ossetia.

December 14, 2005 19:08

• Expertise on Russia's new NGO legislation

  Yuri Dzhibladze, President of the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, comments on amendments restricting NGO rights in Russia