All news

Homepage / All news

19:02, 28 August 2004

Majority of Chechen refugees unable to participate in presidential election

The Chechen side has allotted about 10 vehicles to deliver voters to the place of destination. The busses will drive from both places of refugees' compact residence and places of their living in private houses.

18:36, 28 August 2004

Two Chechen women may have been involved in plane explosions

Chechen law enforcement agencies have no information on the implication of republican residents, killed in Tu-134 and Tu-154 plane explosions, in terrorist activity.

22:58, 27 August 2004

Committee to Protect Rights of Rauf Arifoglu to send delegation to Strasbourg

Musavat party leader Isa Gambar holds that the Azerbaijan authorities use the trial against opposition leaders, including Arifoglu, to keep society in awe.

22:52, 27 August 2004

Last day of election campaign in Chechnya

In spite of the assertions of Election Commission officials, violations took place in the course of the election campaign nevertheless.

22:49, 27 August 2004

Chechen migrants refuse to participate in presidential election

Chechens officially registered in Dagestan do not want to vote, and unregistered refugees do not have a vote at all.

19:30, 26 August 2004

Meeting between Georgian PM and South Osetian president 'still possible'

"The situation has become less tense after the withdrawal of Georgian troops from the conflict zone," EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie said and added the opposite party should do the same thing.

18:55, 26 August 2004

Turkish citizen deported from Russia for second time

Having spent 43 hours under illegal arrest in an airport, Hajji Bayram Bolat was sent back to Istanbul. FSB officers explained it by "instructions from Moscow".

18:19, 26 August 2004

USCIRF concerned about situation in Azerbaijan

"The Azerbaijan authorities are moving in the wrong direction with respect of freedom of conscience and honoring its international obligations in this field," said Preeta B. Bansal, Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

19:46, 25 August 2004

Investigation into two plane crashes underway

According to updated information from Moscow's Domodedovo airport, the two planes that crashed on Tuesday night near Tula and Rostov carried a total of 89 people.

18:31, 25 August 2004

Maskhadov promises Georgia to help against Russia

"Mr Saakashvili is right stating that the Russian military sides with the Osetians," the leader of Chechen separatists said and begged pardon for Chechen rebels' participation in the Georgian-Abkhazian war on the Abkhazian side.

18:30, 25 August 2004

Candidates for Abkhazian presidency nominated

Altogether there are seven candidates proposed by initiative groups and political organizations.

19:22, 24 August 2004

International observers 'were not invited' to Karabakh municipal elections

Chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Central Election Commission Sergey Davidian has noted in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the second round of municipal elections in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh was held on a high level.

18:52, 24 August 2004

Kabardino-Balkarian border guards detain Turkish citizen

Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen and ethnic Kabardinian deported in August 2003, arrived by air in Nalchik from Istanbul yesterday, August 23. His residential permit had been reinstated by a decision of a Nalchik court.

17:28, 24 August 2004

Human rights activists speak in support of terrorist suspect

Dzhavashir Sadigov's lawyer says there is no evidence against his client.

19:28, 23 August 2004

Victims of clashes buried in South Osetia

Residents of Tskhinval bid farewell to two old men and their 15-year-old grandson.

18:47, 23 August 2004

Rebel attack leaves 44 dead

Residents of Grozny evidence many civilians were killed by disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies already after Mojaheds' retirement.

18:45, 23 August 2004

Juma community worries about Moslem shrines in Iraq

The religious community of the Juma Mosque rates developments in Iraq as the unexampled jeering at religious feelings of Moslems living all over the world.

20:36, 20 August 2004

Ingushneftegazprom owner will not change

The President of Ingushetia has announced he will not allow the privatization of Ingushneftegazprom, the largest industrial enterprise in the republic, indirectly refuting media reports about the delivery of the company's control stock to Soyuzobshchemashbank.

20:15, 20 August 2004

Yesterday's attack staged by Georgian military, South Osetian sources say

South Osetian Defense Minister Anatoly Barankevich does not rule out that only soldiers of Georgian official structures were withdrawn from South Osetia, groups consisting of militiamen and mercenaries remaining in Georgian villages.

19:42, 20 August 2004

Consequences of gas pipeline explosion liquidated

Now the supply of gas to Azerbaijan and districts of Dagestan is resumed.

⟵ Previous article

1 2 … 3059 3060 3061 … 3206 3207

Next article ⟶

News

Four airports in southern Russia have been closed due to security threats

Instagram* users expressed support for the fight to punish those responsible for the death of Pyatimat Yevkurova

A native of Ingushetia spoke about her late sister's struggle to see her child

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.