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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.

Seda Dudurkaeva, a daughter of the former head of the Department for Chechnya of the Federal Migration Service (FMS), arrested in Turkey, is suspected of links with militants; she was put on the international wanted list through the Interpol channels, the spokesman of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has announced today.

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

In Chechnya, there are no restrictions for members of human rights organizations, the Chechen authorities announce. The Chechen Press Minister has explained that while speaking of rights defenders, Ramzan Kadyrov meant "notorious journalists."

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

Three men in masks entered the territory of the house belonging to Arman Mkrtumyan, the former chairman of the Armenian Court of Cassation, and opened random fire from machine guns. One attacker has been detained, reports today Sona Truzyan, the advisor to the chief of the Investigating Committee of Armenia.

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.

On August 28-29, the Armenian armed forces used large-calibre machine guns during the shelling, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

An image of the enemy, got by Russian citizens during the wars in Chechnya, fades away, and the propaganda has redirected xenophobia from Caucasians to Ukrainians, believe sociologists from the "Levada Centre".

According to law enforcers, about five thousand people took part in the first beer festival in the history of Nagorno-Karabakh. The residents of the city, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", would like to see such topical festivals in Stepanakert more often.

Putin must condemn the statements of Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, with threats against human rights defenders and promises to collectively punish families of alleged members of the armed underground, the human rights organizations Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Amnesty International (AI) and the Front Line Defenders (FLD) have stated.

Delegations from Russia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, Nauru and self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics have attended the festivities on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Russia's recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

This evening, two underground tremors were fixed in the Lerik District of Azerbaijan. No victims have been reported; however, cracks appeared on some houses.

The President of Azerbaijan has dismissed Elmar Veliev from the post of the Mayor of Ganja, the second largest city of the country, where protests against the Mayor led to clashes with the police and human casualties.

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.

During the past day, the ceasefire regime on the contact line was violated 94 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reports today. There were no reports about shelling of villages and towns.