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When asked about the reason for the terror act committed 12 years ago in Dubrovka in Moscow, most of the residents of the Russian Federation mention failure of law enforcers and corruption. One third of the Russian residents explain the deaths of the hostages by the law enforcers' failure to organize the evacuation.

A group of students of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University (DSPU) has stated that they will take their documents and quit the DSPU in case if the university's administration fails to respond to their demand to cancel the merger of the faculties.

On October 21, the mountainous Vedeno District, located in Southern Chechnya, opened a sports-and-tourist complex "Kezenoi Am", located on the shore of the lake of the same name.

In the village of Gimry of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, which blocking has been reported by local residents, law enforcers go around households, a source from the village administration reports. According to the local residents, the situation in the village is quiet.

Residents of the cordoned-off settlement of Vremenny have filed an appeal to Intizar Mamutaeva, the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Republic of Dagestan. In their appeal, the villagers complain about the lack of warm clothing.

Azerbaijan has established a working group consisting of representatives of all branches of power and civil society, which, in particular, will deal with problems, including those concerning persons recognized by human rights defenders as political prisoners.

On October 26, Russia will open six polling stations, where citizens of Ukraine will be able to vote for candidates for the MPs of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine. One of the polling stations will work in Rostov-on-Don; and in the voter list includes about 9000 people.

In the period of July 1-September 31, 2014, at least 6 persons fell victims to the armed conflict in the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria. Of them, 4 persons were killed, and 2 others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is ready to withdraw its claim from the Supreme Court with a request for dissolution of the human rights organization "Memorial", the MoJ's press service reports.

In Astrakhan, during the court session held on October 21, Mikhail Stolyarov, the Mayor of Astrakhan, who was temporarily suspended from his post and accused of bribery, reiterated his innocence.

In Dagestan, residents of the village of Gimry of the Untsukul District report that law enforcers are cordoning off their village. According to their story, starting from 10:00 a.m., law enforcers accumulate military vehicles near Gimry.

In the "Navtlug" case, the Tbilisi City Court has announced the verdict of guilty against Bacho Akhalaya, the former head of the Corrections Department of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, the former Minister of Defence and the former Minister of Internal Affairs.

In the near future, the European Parliament (EP) is to delegate its representatives to Azerbaijan to support human rights defender Leyla Yunus, included in the list of finalists for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2014. This was announced by Martin Schulz, the EP President.

Grozny residents do not confirm the information disseminated by investigators about the circumstances of the death of the suspected organizer of the terror act committed in Grozny on October 5.

The Untsukul District of Dagestan, where the counterterrorist operation is underway, faces problems with communication, local residents are prohibited from communicating with journalists, and the settlement of Vremenny is cordoned off with barbed wire. This was reported by the local residents.

In Yerevan, the police have detained Vagram Gabrielyan, an activist of the public initiative "Pre-Parliament". During detention, the policemen used force against blind Alek Enigomshyan, another activist, and then left him along on the road.

In Azerbaijan, the voting at the next municipal elections will take place on December 23. The corresponding decision was made by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan.

Mikhail Boyarischev, a resident of the Volgograd Region, accused of setting fire to drilling rigs in the area of the Khopyor River, was sentenced to 2.5 years in a colony-settlement, the Prosecutor's Office of the Voronezh Region reports.

Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the head of the organization "Mothers from Kuma River Area" from Budyonnovsk, who has been engaged in investigating the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, is accused of fraud. People, who treat the situation with Lyudmila Bogatenkova as a provocation, are collecting signatures in the Internet in her support.

The Supreme Court of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has postponed for October 28 the hearing in the case against Djasharbek Gloov and Shamil Chomaev, accused of resonant massacre of seven persons committed in 2004 at the summer cottage belonging to the husband of the daughter of the former leader of the republic.