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Today, the Prosecutor's Office asked the Moscow City Court to sentence Vasily Krivtsov, a former student and a resident of Moscow, who is regarded by the investigation to be the leader of the grouping "Belye Volki" (White Wolves) and who was found guilty by the jury of committing 15 murders on the motive of ethnic hatred and enmity.

Zarema Khasanova, a Dagestani female journalist, addressed the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with her statement giving facts of threats against her, telling also about increased interest of power agents in her work. The journalist has linked these facts with her reports revealing militiamen's human rights violations.

There are witnesses in South Ossetia, who saw and talked with Rodion Ikaev, who was kidnapped on August 8, 2008, and since then was regarded as a person who had disappeared in the territory of Georgia. The Georgian party has never recognized these facts.

A Month of children's rights is going on in Azerbaijan on the initiative of Elmira Suleimanova, the Children's Ombudsman. The Month started on October, 20 and will last till November, 20, in connection with the 21-rst anniversary of accepting the Convention of Children's Rights, Press Service of the Azerbaijani Ombudsman reported.

A serviceman suspected of murder of his collegue, a soldier of federal forces, was detained in the mountainous district of Itum-Kale in the South of Chechnya.

The number of injured people in the explosion of October, 24, at the roadside near a Road Patrol Service post in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia has come to seven. Six militiamen and a local woman got wounded, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

A homemade explosive device was activated in the town of Malgobek, Ingushetia, near a food store, on October, 24. Nobody was injured, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

A report of a strong blast in the school building of the village of Zaragizh came to the standby unit of the Department of Interior Affairs of Circassian district of Cabardino-Balkaria this early morning, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

As a result of the terror act committed by a suicide bomber in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, one militiaman was lost, and some 8-12 more persons, including civilians, soldiers and militiamen, were wounded and hospitalized.

In the course of debates about the situation in Northern Caucasus, deputies of the European Parliament called on Russia to observe its international obligations on human rights and put an end to impunity in the region.

A suicide bomber who drove an UAZ van triggered an explosion at the entry to the militia base in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan, the local GOVD (City Interior Department) reports.

Today, the territorial capital hosted an ecological rally, after which its participants marched with slogans and posters along the city streets.

In Georgia, with the aim of better relations between the Parliament, non-governmental sector and civil society, the bureau for cooperation with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) will be created.

The Tbilisi Appeal Court has upheld the verdict of the lower instance on the case dealing with events on May 5, 2009, in the Mukhrovani tank battalion.

In Kalmykia, the opposition held a memorial party on the birthday of journalist Larisa Yudina: on October 22, Larisa Yudina, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Sovietskaya Kalmykia Today", who was murdered in July 1998, would have turned 65 years old. A similar action in Larisa's memory was held in Moscow.

On October 22, to the south-east of the Astara District of Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea, in the Iranian sector, a number of earthquakes were registered, said the Republic's Seismology Service of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.

Sochi has opened the first festival of ecological films "Green Carnation". Its main topic is the links of humans with nature, and its main objective is to form a new vision of the society on environmental problems.

In the run-up of the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, scheduled on November 7, nine international human rights and journalist organizations have promulgated a new joint report entitled: "Freedom of speech in Azerbaijan is under threat - deterioration of media environment".

The first open ecology film festival "Green Carnation" will be held in Sochi on October 22-25. Public will see more than 30 full- and short-length feature films, movies for kids and retro movies.

As a result of a broken elevator rope in one of Baku skyscrapers, 10 persons suffered, including one child.