A new Russian-Georgian information and analytical website www.pankisi.info was launched on October 1. This is a joint project of the Center of Journalism in Extreme Situations and the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development.

The tent camp "Bella", which was situated on the outskirt of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Ingushetia's Sunzha district, ceased to exist de facto and de jure on October 1. The last two tents were carried from the former place of temporary accommodation "Bella" to the neighboring camp of Chechen refugees "Satsita" yesterday.

"Georgian legislation does not provide for opening of polling stations for refugees, therefore Chechen refugees can not take part in the Chechen presidential elections," the minister explained speaking at the press conference in Tbilisi.

The statement reads, "We call upon the UNHCR, international humanitarian organizations, Russian human rights organizations to express their attitude to the illegal actions of the Russian authorities on the tent camp "Bella" liquidation and demand that the Russian leadership should leave off the practice of forced liquidation of tent camps and centers of temporary accommodation of Chechen refugees of the territory of Ingushetia."

The third number of the Moscow Helsinki Group Bulletin, which came out on October 1, proceeds with the theme of the human rights monitoring of the presidential elections in Chechnya.

The four-day conference "Culture of Peace and Non-Violence" has been taking place in Vladikavkaz since September 29.

The Cinema Center on Krasnaya Presnya, where the festival program was to be demonstrated, pulled out.

The 7th Interregional Conference of Young Leaders "Technology of Cooperation" is to take place on October 2-5, with 150 representatives of youth public unions from Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk, Shakhti, Kamensk-Shakhtinsk, the Volgorgad, Stavropol and other Russian regions participating.

As Open Society Institute President Artak Kirakosian said, the legal regulation of the educational sphere in Armenia stays far from democratic standards.

The Russian servicemen had been abducted by unknown people in the center of Zugdidi last Saturday.

Akhmad Hajji Kadyrov's own words which he said after the end of the first Russian-Chechen war are given in the leaflets. They sound in translation about like this, "A Moslem who has offered his hand to a Christian and embraced him, takes a risk of becoming a Christian himself".

The statement reads, "We claim that the issue of making announcement about the impeachment of President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Maskhadov on September 5, 2003 was not discussed with our participation at the sessions of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, hence it has no legal effect."

About 400 people gathered yesterday to hold a meeting in front of the building of the Chechen government in Grozny. They protested against the abduction of Elina Gakayeva.

More than 200 delegates and guests from Russia, Turkey, and Germany participated in the congress.

A court official reported it.

The Media Rights Institute calls upon the country's government to make normal conditions for the publication of the Our Nakhchivan newspaper, hold an inquiry into the incident, and punish the guilty.

On the night of September 28, officers of Russian security structures abducted local Musa Ganayev in the village of Roshni-Chu, Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district.

For the last few days Russian air forces have been massively bombing mountain gorges and forest tracts in the Vedensk, Nozhay-Yurt, Sunzha, Urus-Martan, and Achkhoy-Martan districts of Chechnya.

This was reported at the press service of the republic's government.

On September 29, twelve families of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia were roofless during the torrential rain.