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On October 16, in Yerevan, former residents of the central streets, namely: Yekmalyan, Byuzand, and Anrapetutyan Streets, blocked a street in the centre of the Armenian capital and demanded a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Ovik Abramyan. According to the protesters, the government is to provide them with housing facilities.

Ramis Mirzakhanov, a Deputy of the Tabasaran District Assembly of Dagestan, was killed during a special operation. According to investigators, he attacked a law enforcer with a knife. However, his brothers have reported today that OMON (riot police) agents opened fire at Mirzakhanov without a warning.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has ruled today on the case "Kosumova vs. Russia" and concluded that the Russian authorities had failed to conduct a proper investigation into the death of Raisa Kosumova, a resident of Chechnya, in 2003. The court awarded the family of the deceased woman with 20,000 euros as compensation of moral harm.

A new NGO named "Monitoring Centre of Political Prisoners" (MCPP) has been established in Azerbaijan. Its founders are going to focus on protecting the rights of political prisoners and reporting about facts of harassment.

Today, a five-storey dwelling block in Sovietskaya Street of Derbent was blocked, since, according to power agents, two members of the "Yuzhdag" grouping of militants were hiding in a flat there. They refused to surrender and were killed. Another suspected militant was killed in another house, said a law enforcement source. According to the NAC, the killed militants were planning to commit a terror act and then to leave to fight in Syria.

Family members of Eradil Asanov have sent appeals to the Russian President, the Dagestani leader, and the Russian General Prosecutor asking to take under personal control the case on the death of Eradil Asanov. Besides, the family members of the deceased young man have sent a letter to the Chief of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation.

In Chechnya, local law enforcement bodies are actively searching for a 33-year-old native of Grozny, who, according to law enforcers, plans to use a shahid belt to commit a suicide bombing. In Grozny, power agents have disseminated leaflets with a photo of the wanted man. Local residents feel nervous about the new information about a possible terror act.

Kheda Saratova, a member of the Expert Council of the Ombudsman's Office under the Russian President, is suspected of holding an unsanctioned rally in front of the Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory. The materials on her administrative offense are already at the court.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala has dismissed Kurban Kurbanov, the head of the Derbent District of Dagestan, who is accused of abuse of power, from office. This was stated by the spokesperson of the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, local and regional officials pay no attention to the hunger strike and complaints of local protesters, said Valery Dyakonov, a City Duma Deputy. According to the protesters, the law enforcement bodies put pressure on them.

The Adler District Court has refused to consider the complaint lodged by the advocate of Mardiros Demerchyan against the refusal to initiate criminal proceedings against the policemen, who, according to the builder, exposed him to torture.

According to the father of Djabrail Nabiev kidnapped in Khasavyurt, no criminal case has been initiated on kidnapping despite the fact that the incident took place more than 10 days ago.

According to locals, today, some 5-6 fires occurred in the blocked settlement of Vremenny. A local woman, named Khadizhat, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the fires could be seen from the neighbouring village of Gimry.

n the capital of Georgia, activists of the movement "Free Generation" have held a rally at the central office of the "United National Movement" (UNM) with a demand to ban this oppositional party.

In Dagestan, the lawyer Patimat Abdulaeva, who is representing the interests of ten workers of the Kizlyar Cognac Factory, has filed an appeal complaint today against the court's decision to dismiss the workers' claim for defamation, lodged by them against Ramazan Abdulatipov, the head of Dagestan, who, according to the plaintiffs, had publicly insulted them by calling them "thieves" and "bandits."

On October 14, speaking at a sitting of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), the Russian President promised to draw investigators' attention to the need to investigate the killings of journalists in Dagestan. In his turn, Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the HRC, said that most of the President's instructions issued on the outcomes of the HRC sittings are not fulfilled.

The Society "Memorial" is a symbol of the struggle for human rights and support for democratization in Russia, and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) should not admit its closure, said Thorbjorn Jagland, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

The Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory has ruled to extend, until January 15, 2015, the custody of Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam of the city of Kislovodsk.

At assaulting the Beslan School, the Russian Federation did not violate any victims' rights, said Georgy Matyushkin, the Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia, who is representing the defendant at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has blocked, at the request of its colleagues from the Stavropol Territory, the Internet resources, which posted calls to go to rallies related to the investigation of the mass fight in the hospital of the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody).