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

The Chechen presidential election is a subject of general attention and interest both in the republic and outside. One can not say it is going impeccably, but no one has expected it. Chechen Election Commission Chairman Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov told in his interview to Ruslan Umarov, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", how the course of the election campaign is seen out of the commission's office.

Head of non-government organization "Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights" Nana Kakabadze accused the judiciary of dragging out a case of Giga Gelashvili, one of the leaders of "Mkhedrioni" organization.

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

On September 22 officials of the Ingush migration service with the assistance of OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) officers and officers of the Russian interior ministry's united group cut off the gas supply to the camp of displaced persons "Bela", which is situated in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district.

"Such a decision was made because of the absence of security blankets for the Abkhazian delegation members. The itinerary offered by the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia - by cars across Georgia - did not suit us," said Shamba.

Action initiators assert their aim is "to draw attention of the European Union Member States to the human rights problems in Azerbaijan and express their disagreement with the EU Member States' passive stance on this issue."

Stavropol Territory's government approved the legislation "On the Assignment of Workplace Quotas for Giving Employment to Disabled People in Organizations of Stavropol Territory".

"We appeal to you with a request and a wish not to lose a veritable Chechen spirit, which you inherited from our forefathers," reads the appeal.

A picket in protest against illegal actions of the Togliattiazot corporation, which keeps on constructing an ammonia reloading terminal on the Taman Peninsula, was to be held in the village of Volna on September 19, 2003.

The prefecture of the Moscow's Central Administrative District refused to accept radicals' notification about holding the picket "Chechnya: the UN Interim Administration, and Not the Imitation of Elections!" on Teatralnaya Square on October 3.

Russia's forces are committing abuses against displaced Chechens in Ingushetia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on September 23.

The law supposes maximum transparency of a government's activity, as well as keeping society abreast of executive power work.

As it was reported at the State Chancellery of Georgia, the idea of Georgian observers' participation in the monitoring of the Chechen election belonged to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Several Chechen students who arrived at the Krasnodar Institute of Law of the Russian Interior Ministry for studies were detained in Krasnodar.

In the early hours of September 22 Russian and Ingush forces carried out a "sweep-up" operation at the former dairy complex #1 near the Nasyr-Kort village in Ingushetia, in which displaced Chechens are currently living.

A mass action of protest took place on Teatralnaya Square, Grozny's Leninsky District, on September 22. According to data, over 200 people participated in the action.

"We earnestly ask you once again to familiarize yourself with the text of the appeal "For Establishment of the UN Interim Administration in Chechnya" and, if you agree with it, attach your signature to it," reads the letter.

MHG Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva, MHG Chief Executive Tatyana Lokshina, MHG Program Director Sergey Lukashevsky will be participants in the press conference.

According to deputy editor-in-chief of the "Vesti Respubliki" newspaper Khasa Gafurayev, the contenders Nikolay Paizullayev and Avkhad Khachukayev demonstrate the least activity in paper agitation.