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The director of the company which developed a repair project for the "Varketili" metro station in Tbilisi and two employees of the construction company are accused of failure to perform works of required quality, which led to a collapse of the ceiling at the metro station.

By a court judgement, the freedom restraint measure for Arutyun Saribekyan, accused of an attempt to capture the power in Armenia, has been changed to a recognizance not to leave.

Today, the US State Department has demanded to liberate Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", calling the accusations against him groundless. The head of Chechnya has replied that the truthfulness of the charges should be evaluated by the court; besides, Kadyrov doubted Titiev's authority as a human rights defender.

For more than a week, relatives of Ibragim Aliev killed after his detention cannot get his body for burial, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today. According to the HRC, the law enforcement bodies have not yet responded to the Ombudsman's letter concerning the problem.

The information about the criminal history of the witness and about possible law problems faced by the police witnesses are of key importance in the case against Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today.

During the session on the case against Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, the defence claimed the court's partiality and requested its withdrawal and consideration of the case outside Ingushetia. The court dismissed the defence motion.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has started a study of the case on the kidnapping of Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly in Tbilisi. The ECtHR has sent its questions to the Azerbaijani and Georgian sides concerning the circumstances of the Afghan Mukhtarly's detention.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation decided to establish who ordered the assassination of politician Boris Nemtsov. After Chechen natives sentenced in the case had refused to cooperate with investigators, they started facing placement to punishment cells and to strict custody conditions, the "Rosbalt" reports.

Three users of social networks fined in Chechnya for posting banned songs of Timur Mutsuraev, said they were not aware about the ban, an official from the Prosecutor's Office reports today.

The authorities refused to deprive Manvel Grigoryan, an Armenian MP, of the "Artsakh Hero" title, which was demanded by activists of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), and promised to consider the issue after the court judgement is passed. The MP's advocates assert that Manvel Grigoryan, detained on suspicion of illegal arms trafficking, is completely innocent.

Law enforcers conducted searches in a summer cottage of Manvel Grigoryan, the head of the "Erkrapa" Volunteer Union, in Nagorno-Karabakh, and in Yerevan, an office of the Volunteer Union was also searched. The law enforcers found there rounds, ammunition, army food supplies, and firearms.