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.

The round table discussion "Administrative Barriers Preventing the Development of Small-Scale Enterprise in Krasnodar Territory" was held in the conference hall of the Krasnodarskiye Izvestiya newspaper.

Sergey Shamba and Heidi Tagliavini spoke about a Georgian-Abkhazian meeting on the guarantees of security and nonrenewal of military operations in Tbilisi scheduled for September 23 and about a forthcoming arrival of 20 UN Civilian Police in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

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.

The interregional conference "Political Parties and the Media in the Election Process. New Features of Electoral Legislation" was held in Rostov-on-Don on September 17.

An interest to the problem of discrimination against the Turks-Meskhetians in Krasnodar Territory has appeared on central TV channels.

The authorities of the Kuibyshev district's head Tamara Zaborodnyaya have been ceased ahead of time for an unlawful dismissal of a farm head.

According to his words, the so called State Defense Committee of Ichkeria, which is immediately under Aslan Maskhadov, decided during its last session not to limit operations to the territory of the Chechen Republic, but extend them to the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

Over a hundred people rushed into a hospice of the economic and law lyceum and beat Chechen students living there.

The commander of the group offered the separatist to yield, but Yandarbiyev began firing back from the automatic and was killed.

He had been held on the territory of Georgia's Tsalenjikhsky district for over a day; the state of health of the released hostage is satisfactory.

Today, at 11 am, at the office of the Internet newspaper "Grani.ru" investigative officer of the Moscow city prosecutor's office A.A. Galkin began a seizure of documents related to a publication about the last year's abduction of Nadezhda Pogosova and Aleksey Klimov who worked for the Chechen prosecutor's office.

The mass exclusion of women from social production has taken place in Stavropol Territory for the last years. Since 1990 the rate of women's participation in the production has reduced by 4 - from 51 to 47.

The seminar "New Geopolitical Reality and the Southern Caucasus" was devoted to the regional problems of the Southern Caucasus, evaluation of the situation that has arisen in the world after the terrorist act of September 11, 2001, and possible evolution in the region of the Large Near East.

According to the data of the Central Commandant's Office of Chechnya, 14 locals suspected of their connection with Chechen illegal armed units were detained as a result of the operation.

As Ara Abramian, the president of the Union of Russia's Armenians, marked the day before yesterday in Yerevan, only the strong and solidary Armenian Diaspora could be helpful to its country.

Chairpersons of the higher legislative bodies of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan will participate in the meeting.

Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva, Director of the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights Alexander Brod, UCSJ International Director Leonid Stonov, as well as Russian human rights activists, writers, journalists, and political scientists took part in the press conference.

The court decided "to suspend Lawyer Ovik Arsenian" till the conditions of his getting an advocatory license were clarified.

For the last year and a half citizens who forcedly left places of their residence in Chechnya have been gradually resettling there. Now their total number is 256 thousand people, including 190 thousand peculiarly in Chechnya, told Federal Migration Service Head Aleksandr Chekalin.