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Representatives from the CIS will be part of a group of international observers watching the holding of the presidential election in the Chechen Republic on October 5, Alexander Veshnyakov, Chairman of Russia's Central Election Commission, said in an interview.

Not only refugees of the "Bella" camp are taking part in the hunger-strike, but displaced persons from the neighboring tent camps "Satsita", "Sputnik", and "Alina". They show solidarity with their fellow sufferers in such a way.

Sultygov expressed his belief finding sources of non-government human rights organizations, including those working under cover of international status, were to be closely checked.

Students were beaten in different parts of Nalchik at the same time. This is evidence that the action was thoroughly planned.

On September 18 the Leninsky District Court of Grozny began to try an administrative case against the republican "Vesti Respubliki" and "Molodyozhnaya Smena" newspapers, which are charged with the infringement of election agitation rules.

The European Court of Human Rights has declared admissible the application lodged against the governments of Georgia and Russia by 13 Chechens.

"These measures are taken to prevent provocations and possible terrorist acts on the threshold of the Chechen presidential election, scheduled for October 5," reported head of the Chechen interior ministry's press-cutting service Ruslan Atsayev.

Saidullayev was registered as a presidential contender on August 27, and two weeks later the Supreme Court of Chechnya revoked his registration.

Board Member of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oleg Orlov told about it. According to him, the "Memorial" did not receive an invitation to the conference from Scandinavian human rights activists.

The Antiwar Committee in Saint Petersburg put out a regular leaflet against the war in Chechnya.

A mass beating of students of the Chechen nationality with the use of cold steel took place in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, on September 17.

More than 40 Chechen intellectuals met in Grozny on September 19 to discuss how best to preserve their nation in the era of globalization.

A conference of non-government organizations and representatives of the Chechen intelligentsia took place in Grozny on September 19.

An extemporaneous meeting of people showing support for Shamil Burayev's candidacy for the post of the Chechen Republic's president was held in Achkhoy-Martan, Chechnya's district center, on September 13. Shamil Burayev is a former district administration head dismissed from his post by "Chechnya's Acting President" Akhmad Kadyrov on the threshold of the elections.

A press conference of Enver Berusoy, a representative of the Caucasian Institute of Strategic Researches, and Mairbek Taramov, the director of the Chechen Human Rights Center was held at the Press Club of Baku on September 19.