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Chechen rebels are preparing new actions of intimidation, but this time terrorists are going to use virulent poison instead of bombs stuffed with bearings and ragged iron. This was reported at the Regional Operations Headquarters.

Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov announced that Chechen separatists were preparing a series of terrorist acts on the threshold of the presidential election in Chechnya. This information was confirmed by field commander Shamil Basayev.

As a result of the military men's action 9 local residents, mainly young people of 20-25 years old, were captured and taken away in an unknown direction.

According to some data, two of the kidnapped were thrown away on the outskirt of the settlement, having been savagely tortured and beaten.

Tent camp inhabitants asked the guests to do their best not to allow forced liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", authorities trying to close it at all costs.

It was claimed by Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Deng at a press-conference in Moscow.

On September 11 Ella Pamfilova, the Chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, called the disinclination of the country's leading human rights activists to send observers to the Chechen presidential elections a "moral defeat of the whole community of human rights defenders".

"Statements of Russian officials do not always reflect the reality," said Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Mading Deng wrapping up his visit to Russia. During his visit to Russia on September 8-12, Mr. Deng traveled to Ingushetia and Chechnya.

The statement reads: "The fight against criminality has for, above all, the object to protect peaceful citizens and it can not be conducted by criminal methods. Each fact of lawlessness and despotism must be investigated, and the guilty must be called to account.

The letter reads: "I, Akhmad Hajji Kadirov, the Acting President of the Chechen Republic, demand to establish an interdepartmental commission with your assistance, empower it, find missing people at the highest level, and, which it the most important, reveal and punish the "werewolves on APCs", this "squadron of death", hard, fully according to the law."

A total of 4,720 servicemen of Russian security agencies were killed in Chechnya from October 1, 1999 to July of this year.

Chechen militants have killed a school teacher in the village of Dargo, the Vedeno district of Chechnya, sources at the press service of the Chechen Interior Ministry said on Friday.

"We want you to answer the question of vital importance: what bad things did Chechen refugees do to the United Nations so that we are not given proper aid and international status is not granted in order that those who wish, many ill people are among them, can leave for the third country?" reads the appeal.

The statement reads, "We ask you once again to interfere in the disastrous condition of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan, which is obviously of discriminating nature."

It was announced by Presidential Commission on Human Rights Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova.