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Today, the defendant in the case of the murder of the Avetisyan family members has been charged with robbery and an attempt to cross the border between Armenia and Turkey. The defendant has pleaded guilty to the new charges. This was reported by the Investigating Committee of Armenia.

The Russian Justice Initiative (RJI) and the Chechnya Advocacy Network (CAN) have sent to the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) the alternative report on the Russia's compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Northern Caucasus.

Advocates intend to appeal against the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow to recognize as legitimate the refusal to institute a criminal case on torture of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder.

In Armenia, prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment have suspended their protest action while they are waiting for response from the presidential administration to the letters with the requests for reviews of their criminal cases.

Kaplan Tebuev, the head of the village, killed in Karachay-Cherkessia, used to work earlier as a top manager of a major distillery. Investigators suggest that the crime can be connected with that period of his activities.

In the Nazran District, in the course of operative and search activities, law enforcers discovered a hiding with weapons and about 20 kilograms of explosives. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Court of the Urus-Martan District has received a criminal case against Umar Akhtaev, a 25-year-old local resident. According to the suspect, he planned to destroy in an uninhabited area a homemade grenade, an explosion of which affected policemen.

The Levashi District Court of the Republic of Dagestan has found a resident of the village of Okhli of the Levashi District guilty of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

The "Association for Social, Economic and Cultural Development of South Ossetia" (ASECD) and the Women's Association "For Democracy and Human Rights" are preparing packages of documents on self-liquidation to be submitted to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

Evgeny Vitishko, an ecological activist from the Krasnodar Territory, has filed one more motion for conditional early relief (CER) to the Kirsanov District Court of the Tambov Region. The Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) for the Tambov Region has for the first time supported the ecologist's motion on CER.

The Imam of a mosque, arrested in Berlin, is accused of supporting terrorist activities and recruitment of young people, mainly from Chechnya, to take part in the combat actions in Syria in the ranks of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia.

Tuzla Island has turned into a parking lot and a place for storage of inert materials, and the natural area "Cape Tuzla" has been virtually destroyed. This was reported by the "Ecological Watch on Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch). Residents of the city of Taman complain about the shortage of drinking water.

In the Derbent District of Dagestan, local residents report that they have not yet experienced any restrictions in the area of the counterterrorist operation (CTO).

Law enforcers have ceased to take special measures as a part of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Dagestani village of Kvanada and started to search for militants in the forest. This was reported by local residents. According to them, the law enforcers took away a man, whose son was hiding from them.

The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the appeals filed by the defender and the prosecutor against the verdict to Shamil Omarov, a resident of Dagestan, who was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a penal colony on the charge of involvement in the activities of the organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami".

The European Parliament has mentioned the name of politician Boris Nemtsov, killed in February 2015, among three finalists for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

The case against Rizvan Agashirinov and Abdula Magomedaliev has been brought to the court. According to investigators, the suspects were plotting a terror act in a mosque in the town of Pyt-Yakh in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. The suspects purchased weapons in Dagestan.

In Moscow, the Russian Central Armed Forces Museum has opened an exhibition dedicated to the history of the formation of the military culture of the Adyg people starting from Antiquity and to the end of the 19th century. According to scientists, modern Adyg people are trying to revive professions of their ancestors.

In the Derbent District of Dagestan, law enforcers are searching for suspected militants. The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced within the administrative borders of the Derbent District.

Residents of the village of Surkhakhi of the Nazran District, detained during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out on October 12, are being kept by the law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia. This was reported by an official of the Ingush law enforcement bodies.