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After an advocate offered to disclose the testimony of one of the witnesses, the prosecutor demanded to hold the court sessions on of Robert Kocharyan behind closed doors, but the court rejected this demand. About 200 Kocharyan's supporters and opponents rallied at the courthouse.

YouTube users have thanked Tumso Abdurakhmanov for posting an archive video, in which Ramzan Kadyrov's father spoke disrespectfully about Christians and unbelievers. Akhmat Kadyrov's statements about Christians contradict the Islam; they mean a radical position, Orientalists have pointed out.

Ismail Nalgiev denies his guilt and refuses to testify, his advocate, Andrei Sabinin, has informed.

Law enforcers have detained a suspected member of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, who was planning to commit terror acts in the Stavropol Territory, the FSB has reported.

In its annual report on human rights, the European Union (EU) has claimed persecutions of journalists and restrictions on lawyers' work in Azerbaijan. In this regard, rights defenders and oppositionists believe that the EU fails to make use of all the influence tools to solve the human rights problem in Azerbaijan.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded from Russian authorities to answer on how efficiently the torture complaint of Georgy Sveshnikov, a Sochi schoolboy had been investigated. This was reported by the head of the Krasnodar branch of the Committee against Torture (CaT).

A hideout with weapons and ammunition that belonged to the alleged militants, killed this January has been liquidated in Dagestan, the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) has reported.

In Baku, the entrepreneurs, who suffered from a fire in the "Diglas" Shopping Centre, held a protest action demanding compensation for their suffered damage.

Problems of domestic violence victims have aggravated after the decriminalization of this violence; moreover, rapists very often manipulate victims of family conflicts, employees of shelters for domestic violence victims have stated in their comments on the incident that happened at the Makhachkala centre for the protection of motherhood and childhood. According to their version, the legislation on the protection of mothers' and fathers' rights in Russia is defective.

The officials of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) have visited the troops contact line and revealed no violations of the ceasefire regime, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have reported.

The complaints on the cases of the journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, and the oppositional politician, Nemat Panakhly, sent by mail to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, failed to leave Azerbaijan within a month, Elchin Sadygov, an advocate, has stated. He believes that the sending of letters is delayed intentionally.

Ararat Khechumyan, a serviceman of the automobile company, turned over in a combat vehicle during exercises and died, investigators have reported.

After his release from prison, Bairam Mamedov, an activist of the "Nida" movement, was not allowed to continue his studies at the Baku Slavic University. Mamedov's associate, Giyas Ibragimov, has been also expelled from the same university.

Aslan Cherkesov, who is challenging the legality of the ban on administering namaz (prayer) in colony, received no rights defenders' reaction within six days, said his advocate. In Chechnya, the court earlier passed a positive decision on a similar convict's complaint.

The police dispersed the protest actions in March 2008, since the special services reported that protestors were taking up arms, reported Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia.

The detention of nine suspected militants in Chechnya was preceded by a statement released by the "Islamic State" (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the "Caucasian Knot") about an attack on law enforcers in the Urus-Martan District. The law enforcement bodies called the jihadists' statement the disinformation, but a special operation might have been triggered by it, said scientists engaged in the studies of the Caucasus.

David Grigoryan dismissed the motion filed by advocates of former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan concerning disqualification of the judge. The police warned supporters and opponents of Robert Kocharyan, gathered in front of the court building, against provocations.

Sergey Goncharov, the president of the Alpha Anti-Terrorism Unit Veterans' Association, and Gennady Gudkov, the retired FSB Colonel, doubt the credibility of the reports about the detention of militants in Chechnya. Political analyst Alexander Perendjiev suggests that people undesired by the Chechen authorities could be declared militants.

The agreement of May 12, 1994, signed by Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Nagorno-Karabakh remains the basis of the ceasefire regime, maintenance of peace and security in Southern Caucasus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

The disputable monasteries on the border with Azerbaijan are Georgian monuments, state historians. Religious sites often provoke conflicts, but Georgia and Azerbaijan have every reason to agree peacefully, said analysts.