Ziyavdi Lanzhuyev, a refugee from the Chechen Republic, was detained and taken away in an unknown direction by officers of unknown security agencies.

Other international organizations will also send their observers to the election.

A quiz on the history of the creation of the Convention, a competition of posters "The Convention on the Rights of the Child and local community" and other contests are to be held within the limits of the tournament.

The appeal reads, "The increasing pressure on the mass media, public organizations, and business has been added to the despotism of the law-enforcement agencies, bloody war in Chechnya, which existed in Russia before too."

Kavkaz Center has figured out the hacker because of the hacker's own negligence. The hacker turned out to be the FSB of Russia.

Stepanakert's Press Club jointly with a number of public organizations did a talk show on September 28 on the Artsakhskoye Public Television within the framework of the program of the international organization "Article 19" that is aimed at the development of freedom of speech in the Southern Caucasus.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Shugarian stated that the search for regional stability in the Southern Caucasus was a complex one.

Deputy director general of the "Chechenpechat" union Said-Husein Khamzatkhanov was killed on Saturday in the Chechen-Aul village, Chechnya's Groznensky rural district.

The last case, as it is noted in the NPC statement of September 28, is that which happened with editor-in-chief of the Or newspaper Gayane Mukoian.

The Chechnya Film Festival, which was held in New York and Washington last week, with the rooms being overcrowded, is moving to Moscow.

Italy, which is in the chair of the European Union now, stated its concern in respect of the presidential elections in Chechnya scheduled for October 5.

The Chechen refugee camp "Bella", which has been in the center of heated debates recently, is likely to be liquidated.

The International Chechnya Film Festival is to take place in Moscow on October 1-4, 2003.

The distribution of application forms with a request for the permission to take vote has been started in the tent camps and places of compact residence of Chechen refugees on the territory of Ingushetia.

Anatoly Popov was taken to a hospital on the night of September 27 when he felt bad after the launch in the Gudermes district on the occasion of opening a local gas pipeline.

Unidentified people shelled a police patrol guarding polling station 232 from sub-machineguns in the Ayti-Mokhk settlement, Chechnya's Nozhay-Yurt district, on Sunday. It was reported at the interior ministry of the Chechen Republic.

Russian and Georgian security men are currently conducting talks with the kidnappers of Russian peacemaker Grigory Derevyannykh to get the soldier released.

"There is a serious anxiety that district administrations will use unfair methods to proclaim Akhmad Kadyrov President of Chechnya already on October 6." said Abdula Bugayev.

The second number of the MHG Bulletin which is devoted, like the first one, to the theme "Presidential Elections in Chechnya: Human Rights Monitoring" came out on September 26.

The interview with the Chechen presidential contender Shamil Burayev was conducted by Ruslan Umarov, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".