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The court in Yerevan has released Manvel Grigoryan, an Armenian MP and the head of the "Erkrapa" Union of Volunteer, on bail of 52,000 US dollars.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has refused to change the freedom restraint of Pavel Grib, a Ukrainian citizen, for house arrest, despite his complaints about health problems.

The Russian military serviceman suspected of killing a woman in the city of Gyumri must be kept at the local SIZO (pre-trial prison); his stay at the military base contradicts the norms of the Armenia-Russia agreement, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

Russia cannot agree with the conclusions of the OSCE report on human rights violations in Chechnya and finds it deliberately politicized, stated Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.

Today, the Baku Economic and Administrative Court has partially granted the claim filed by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Taxes against journalist Khadija Ismayilova. The defendant treated the claim against her as an attempt to limit her cooperation with the Western media.

The Gurdjaani District Court has refused to release Gocha Maisuradze and Mamuka Usinashvili, suspected of attacking an oppositionist near the village of Velistsikhe, on bail.

On December 19, dozens North-Caucasian natives were detained by law enforcers forces in a Moscow hostel; they were all released after photographing and fingerprinting, the hostel tenants told the "Caucasian Knot". According to their story, law enforcers behaved rudely and applied physical force against some tenants.

The information about violent disappearances, torture, extrajudicial executions, pressure on human rights defenders and persecutions of gays in Chechnya has been treated as indisputable facts in the report. The publication thereof will not affect the situation in the republic, but it will make it easier for refugees from Chechnya to get protection abroad, activists of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" told the "Caucasian Knot".

After Vladimir Putin's statement that the murder case of Gasanguseinov brothers will be under special control, their father decided to suspend his protest actions.

Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who has been under arrest in Chechnya since this January, has been included into the annual rating of "100 outstanding people" compiled by the "Russian Reporter".

During the today's press conference in Moscow, while answering a question from a Dagestani journalist, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to "give necessary attention" to the case on the killing of the Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan.

Members of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, who were killed in Stavropol, were plotting terror acts, and one of them fought in Syria during three years, the law enforcement bodies reported.