12:59, 17 September 2025
What words of Pugacheva offended Kadyrov
Alla Pugacheva spoke about the First Chechen War and Dzhokhar Dudayev in her first major interview after leaving Russia. Ramzan Kadyrov responded to the singer's words, advising her "not to provoke an entire nation."
13:19, 12 September 2025
Single Voting Day 2025 in the South of Russia
As part of the Single Voting Day from September 12 to 14, 2025, elections are being held in some regions of southern Russia and the North Caucasus. In Kuban and Rostov Oblast, governors are being elected, and in a number of other regions, city council deputies, heads of cities and towns are being elected.
17:39, 1 July 2025
The Main Thing About the Weddings of Kadyrov's Sons
The weddings of Ramzan Kadyrov's sons are preceded by public meetings with Vladimir Putin. The celebrations themselves are accompanied by lavish ceremonies and symbolic gestures from government officials. At the same time, the names of the wives of the Chechen leader's sons are not publicly announced.
15:34, 8 May 2025
Ramzan Kadyrov’s seven statements of resignation
In May 2025, the leader of Chechnya stated that he asked to be released from the post. However, on the other day, Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that he was misunderstood. Over the past ten years, the leader of Chechnya has announced his desire to resign at least seven times and remained in office.
13:12, 2 March 2022
Factbox: Kadyrov’s fighters in Ukraine
During the six days of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, a lot of rumours and conjectures have appeared. What is really known about the participation of Chechen law enforcers, about their losses and statements of the republic's leadership, – read the details in the reference material of the "Caucasian Knot".
12:31, 3 February 2022
How Yangulbaevs became Kadyrov's enemies
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his entourage have attacked the Yangulbaev family with threats; and on February 2, they organized a rally in central Grozny to condemn the family. How the conflict began, what are Kadyrov's accusations and the Yangulbaevs' answer, as well as what does the oppositional Telegram channel has to do with it – see below in the reference material of the "Caucasian Knot".
15:54, 13 April 2021
Ramadan
Ramadan (Arabic) or Ramazan (Persian and Turkic) is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, the month of fasting (as-saum). Ramadan is the month of spiritual and moral cleaning, as well as of faith and will strengthening. In 2020, Ramadan began at sunset on April 23; the first day of fasting (Uraza) was April 24; and the month will end on May 23.
11:09, 25 October 2019
Terror act at Dubrovka Theatre Centre (October 23-26, 2002)
The day of October 23, 2019, marked the 17th anniversary of the seizure of the Dubrovka Theatre Centre. The terror act took place in Moscow, on October 23-26, 2002. A group of armed militants led by Movsar Baraev took 916 hostages. The terrorists demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities in Chechnya and the withdrawal of federal troops from the republic. During rescue operation 130 hostages, including 10 children, were killed, and more than 700 other hostages were injured.
13:28, 16 May 2019
Key facts about Geriev's case: from kidnapping to appeal
On September 5, 2016, Chechen journalist Zhalaudi Geriev, working for the 'Caucasian Knot', was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a penal colony on charges of drug possession. Prior to his arrest, on April 16, 2016, Geriev was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport after he had already bought an airline ticket and registered online. After kidnapping law enforcers confiscated his phones and backpack, which allegedly contained drugs. The armed men then took the journalist to the forest and questioned him, tying his hands and putting a plastic bag over his head.
19:05, 22 February 2019
How Ramzan Kadyrov turns February 23 into a feast instead of commemoration day
February 23 marks 75 years since the beginning of the Stalin's deportation of Chechen and Ingush people. However, the memorial day is not officially marked in Chechnya itself. Ruslan Kutaev, the chair of the Assembly of the Peoples of the Caucasus, who publicly spoke in 2014 against the ban on the February mourning events, was sentenced on the falsified charge and sent to prison for almost four years.
22:43, 14 January 2019
Killed for orientation – the fate of queer women in Chechnya
The history of kidnappings, torture and murders of gays in Chechnya has touched on not only men, many of whom left Russia or went, well in advance, to study and work in other regions. The fate of a woman of non-traditional sexual orientation is entirely in the hands of her relatives; and they are no less cruel than law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" tells about what queer women face in Chechnya.
17:57, 26 October 2018
Unequal Ingush-Chechen land exchange: cartographers' analysis
At the request of the "Caucasian Knot", a GIS expert, a graduate of the Cartography and Geoinformation Division of the Geography Department of the Moscow State University has analyzed, on the condition of anonymity, the maps of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia in the light of the agreement on the exchange of territories signed on September 26, and made a new map depicting the Ingush-Chechen border.
18:50, 5 April 2018
Nagorno-Karabakh after the truce: A two-year war
Two years have passed after the “four-day war”, but shelling and explosions on the demarcation line between Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, and Azerbaijan never cease. Military and civilians are still dying. The “Caucasian Knot” has analyzed more than 500 reports of the Ministries of Defense of all parties to conflict and compiled a calendar of military operations for the second year of the so-called truce in the conflict zone.
19:35, 26 December 2017
Blood feud – how they kill now in the Caucasus
The blood feud is a custom that had formed during the clannish social system as a universal means of defending the honour, dignity and property of the clan. It implies the duty of casualty's relatives to take revenge on the killer or his relatives. In recent months, several reasons have appeared to make sure – in Northern Caucasus, the blood feud is by no means a part of history; it continues acting as an actual social mechanism.
12:43, 6 December 2017
Prisoner of Côte d'Azur: why Suleiman Kerimov being investigated in France
In France, billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, a senator from Dagestan, detained on November 20 at the Nice airport, was charged with laundering money through real estate transactions. For the investigation period, the French court released Suleiman Kerimov on bail of 5 million euros, banned him from leaving the Alpes-Maritimes Department and obliged him to regularly attend the police.
14:04, 14 August 2017
War in Abkhazia (1992-1993): main facts
25 years ago, on August 14, 1992, the war in Abkhazia began. The conflict broke out after the Supreme Soviet of the Abkhaz ASSR, having restored the Constitution of Abkhazia of 1925, proclaimed the independence of the republic. The State Soviet of Georgia abolished this decision and deployed the troops of the National Guard of Georgia in Abkhazia.
23:27, 25 May 2017
Chechen armed underground is growing, but getting younger
The "Caucasian Knot" has gathered information about victims of conflict in Chechnya from among alleged militants – about those, who were killed or wounded in clashes with law enforcers and in committing terror acts in 2015 and 2016.
21:00, 24 March 2017
Video oaths and video repentances of the "Islamic State"* in Kadyrov's Chechnya
On March 20, 2017, the account "Chechen News" on the YouTube posted a video entitled "Meeting of Military Jamaat of Ichkeria". According to the captions to the video, it shows former fighters of the grouping "Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, who had fought in Syria. In the video, armed people, whose faces are masked, discuss how they will "gather Muhajids."
The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili
Magomed Daudov
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Tumso Abdurakhmanov
