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Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has rejected the complaint lodged by Andrei Krasnenkov, the legal representative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, against the decision of the Tver District Court to refuse to recover from the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" of 500,000 roubles of compensation under the case of defending the honour, dignity and business reputation.

Evgeny Gurov, ex-defendant on the case of mass murder in the stanitsa of Kushevskaya, submitted a claim of compensation for moral damage inflicted on him to a total sum of one million rubles, Kushevsky district court reported.

Residents of Cherkessian settlement of Bir-al-Azham in Syria left their besieged settlement and started for the nearest Arab village. Earlier, yet before the beginning of the siege, local residents left the Cherkessian settlement of Berek.

On November, 13, about 50 members of Armenian National Congress (ANC) in Yerevan gathered in front of the building of the court to express protest against the sentence to four activists of ANC convicted for hooliganism, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Tatiana Okushko, attorney of Bashir Khamkhoev accused of committing the act of terror in “Domodedovo” airport, appealed to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in connection with the information she received about threats to her client from Chief of Federal state facility Investigative isolation ward No 4 colonel Alexey Khorev.

Today, in Armenia, in front of the presidential palace, a protest action was held, which was attended by relatives and friends of soldiers perished in the army. Participants of the protest action demanded a fair investigation into deaths in the army.

The court has fined Elena Belan, a participant of the "March of Millions", held in Rostov-on-Don, by 20,000 roubles.

An 18-year-old native of Azerbaijan, who on November 12 shot from a traumatic pistol at the wedding party, was detained for two days. This was reported by the Moscow police.

Today, in Yerevan, within the ongoing Inter-Party Consultations, dedicated to the creation of the Eurasian Union, a memorandum was signed of cooperation between the political parties of Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

Today, in front of the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), a solo picket was held, urging the Russian authorities to immediately evacuate Circassian compatriots to their historic homeland from Syria, involved in military conflict.

Today, the court sentenced a resident of Budennovsk, who was found guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl, to 15 years of imprisonment in high security colony. This was reported by Violetta Bondareva, the head of the united press service of the courts of the Stavropol Territory.

The Division for Especially Serious Cases Investigation of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Kabardino-Balkaria instituted a criminal case under Article "Fraud committed on a large scale" against Ivan Gerter, the former head of the Government of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Appellate Criminal Court of Armenia brought a standing judgment concerning a verdict of a primary jurisdiction court sentencing four young oppositional activists to custody for hooliganism.

At night of November, 11, leaflets calling for people not to remain indifferent in the situation when the Cherkessians perish in Syria appeared in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. However, the residents of Nalchik did not have time to see the leaflets because they were torn down.

Today, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the decision on the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of keeping in custody against Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Defence and Internal Affairs of Georgia.

During the process on the case of mass murder in Kushevskaya Krasnodar regional court dismissed a motion of suspect Sergey Tsapok’s attorney, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny drew the attention of readers of his blog to order the Government of the Astrakhan Region of two Mercedes cars worth 11.7 million roubles.

Three residents of Chegem district of Kabardino-Balkaria accused of gang rape of a fourteen-year-old girl from Kursk region in the settlement of Nartan were sentenced to custody terms of 4,5 to 9 years of custody by the Supreme Court of the republic, a representative of regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) reported.

On November 12, in Yerevan, in front of the residence of Armenian President, "United Youth League" held the last action within the campaign to collect signatures "against the sects". Participants of the action demand to establish an agency to control the activities of religious organizations and to amend the legislative code to introduce a definition of "soul hunting".

Today, in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, Sapiyat Magomedova, lawyer from Dagestan today received an award named Per Anger.