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According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia, the information that the Azerbaijani armed forces advanced one kilometre into the Kapan municipality of the Syunik region does not correspond to real facts. Residents of the Nerkin Hand community complain that they had to stop driving cattle to pastures after Azerbaijani soldiers had been deployed in their new positions.

Like Ramzan Kadyrov, Adam Delimkhanov travelled to Ukraine to cheer up Chechen fighters and demonstrate his involvement in the special military operation, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” explained.

The performance "Two in the Dark", staged by the young director, Alexandra Teinina, in Vladikavkaz, is quite unique, original and unexpected, and correlates with the events now underway in Ukraine, spectators have pointed out.

Dear readers! The "Caucasian Knot" has been working for you since 2001. We have always tried to write truthfully and honestly about what happens in the regions of Southern Russia, and in Northern and Southern Caucasus. But today the "Caucasian Knot" is blocked in the territory of the Russian Federation by the decision of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office.

The residents of the Karabakh village of Khramort, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe that they will be able to live in peace only if Azerbaijani militaries are removed from the village.

Authorities should be tolerant of constructive criticism and conscientiously perform their functions, experts have stated in their comments on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the complaint of the "Caucasian Knot" in connection with the libel case initiated by the administration of the Volgograd Region.

For the third month now, the case of the death of Ilya Smolin, a resident of Yeysk, has not been investigated; and law enforcers are getting off with replies, Oleg Smolin, Ilya's father, has stated.

The international community is focused on the events in Ukraine and fails to pay enough attention to the looming humanitarian catastrophe in Nagorno-Karabakh, the NGOs have stated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied, 12 years later, the complaint lodged by the "Caucasian Knot", having recognized violations in the case on the lawsuit of the administration of the Volgograd Region on libel.

Since the beginning of the fighting in Ukraine, it was reported about at least 102 killed residents of Southern Russia. These data are obtained due to the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” and based on the confirmed information. The death toll includes 66 natives of Northern Caucasus and 36 residents of the Southern Federal District. The most of the killed were natives of Dagestan: it was reported about at least 25 killed natives of the republic.

Trucks with humanitarian aid went from Dagestan to residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, who are now accommodated in Crimea.

During the day, the number of refugees who arrived on the territory of the Rostov Region increased by 3000 compared to the day before.

The Baku Court of Appeal did not grant a complaint against the arrest of Elshan Abbasov, an activist of the “Muslim Unity” movement, and left him under arrest for four months.

Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, about 7500 Azerbaijani citizens have been evacuated from the country to Baku.

Baku has declared its readiness for talks with Yerevan on the conclusion of a peace treaty, subject to a number of principles. In response, Yerevan has offered to hold talks under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group. Baku's proposals are an attempt to consolidate the results of the 2020 war, Armenian political analysts believe.

The opposition has chances to win the upcoming presidential election in South Ossetia, as the incumbent president Anatoly Bibilov has lost his rating. The assessments of Moscow's influence on the election are often exaggerated, especially since any winner will be oriented toward Russia, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

In Grozny, the Prosecutor's Office (PO) has found no violations in the actions of the law enforcers who had forcibly taken Zarema Musaeva from her home in Nizhny Novgorod, the "Committee against Torture" (CaT)* has informed.

The court has sentenced Koba Margiev to ten days of arrest after he was detained in central Moscow, when a protest action against the special military operation in Ukraine was held there. Margiev himself has claimed that he did not take part in the action.

In Ukraine, as a result of the conflict, more than 5 million people have already been forced to leave their homes, Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, a total of 248,993 people have been evacuated into Russia, the Russian Ministry of Defence has informed.

Courts of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) have imposed fines on activists under the new article on discrediting the armed forces, while no hard proofs were presented at court sessions, Mikhail Benyash, an advocate, has stated.