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A suspect of preparing a terror act in Northern Azerbaijan was liquidated by law enforcers when rendering armed resistance, the State Security Service (SSS) has reported. Human rights defenders are worried about the increasing number of suspects' deaths without conducting an investigation.

Law enforcers' pressure on teenagers in Chechnya causes discontent among local residents and creates conditions for a new wave of armed underground, human rights defenders Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya and Valery Borschov have stated.

Arman Mkrtumyan, a former Chairman of the Court of Cassation, received two gunshot wounds, but did not want to stay in hospital, doctors said.

A resident of Ingushetia left for Syria, where he joined a terrorist organization, reports today the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded the compensation of 20,000 euros to family members of Amirkhan Alikhanov, a resident of Dagestan, kidnapped in December 2004.

Two of four prosecution witnesses, questioned today at the trial of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", gave truthful answers to defence's questions, advocate Pyotr Zaikin said.

The authorities of Chechnya have explained interrogation of teenagers from the encirclement of those who attacked law enforcers with conducting of prophylactic conversations.

Magomednabi Gairbekov, a resident of Dagestan, is suspected of involvement in the criminal community, the creation of which is criminated to his relative, Magomed Makhachev, a former head of the Chief Bureau of Forensic and Social Expertise of Dagestan, investigators have reported.

Today, the Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected the defence's appeal against the arrest and subsequent release on bail of Yuri Khachaturov, the Secretary General of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization), who is accused within the case of dispersing protests ten years ago.

Today, at the trial in the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, the court questioned a law enforcer from the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division). The witness denied his acquaintance with Oyub Titiev, but failed to explain why he wore the same uniform as other law enforcers who took part in the detention of the rights defender.

A resident of the Korenovsk District was fined for posting images with Nazi attributes and symbols on a social network page, the Prosecutor's Office reported.

Tigran Khachatryan has been put on the wanted list. According to investigators, he forged documents to avoid military service, when his father Surik Khachatryan was the Governor of the Syunik Region in Armenia.