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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.

At night on October 22, in Komsomolskiy settlement of the city of Kizilyurt, Dagestan, an attack was committed on a district militiaman and his relative, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

On October 26, Makhachkala will host a press conference on the topic "Incessant acts of violence against lawyers". The event is initiated by well-known local human rights activists, lawyers and journalists, said Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the human rights NGO "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".

Islam Tochiev, leader of the Plievo militant grouping, liquidated in the special operation conducted in the village of Plievo in Ingushetia, had to do with a number of resonant terror acts, local law enforcers assert.