According to the words of Aleksandr Goldfarb, the purpose of the delivery of these disks is to remind the European Establishment that the most terrible barbarities in Europe since the World War II take place in Chechnya before everyone's eyes.

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian told it in his interview to the National Television of Armenia.

The leaders of the European Union stress they will support all arrangements that may contribute to the restoration of peace in Chechnya.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Armenia Robert Kocharian attended the congress. Outstanding political and public figures of Russia, Armenia and other countries of the world where members of the Armenian Diaspora live are among the guests of the congress.

U. Baisayev (a member of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", Nazran, an author of the book), D. Grushkin (a member of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", Moscow, an author of the book), O. Orlov (council chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial"), V. Shenderovich (a writer and publicist) will be participants in the presentation.

The fact that Malik Saidullayev had been deprived of his registration as candidate for the post of the president of Chechnya also influenced his decision as he thinks it was done "for far-fetched reasons with a gross violation of the Russian law".

The total number of claims dismissed by the Moscow City Court has reached 33.

According to the preliminary results, acting president of the republic Akhmad Kadyrov won the largest amount of the vote in the elections of the president of Chechnya. Chechen Central Election Commission Chairman Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov told it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The directors of enlightening and human rights projects: Svetlana Gannushkina, Arseny Roginsky, Grigory Shvedov, Aleksandr Cherkasov, and Irina Scherbakova will represent "Memorial".

A press conference summing up the trip of Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva and Moscow Helsinki Group Chief Executive Tatyana Lokshina to the Chechen Republic for monitoring the Chechen presidential elections is to be held at the Institute of Press Development (Tverskoy Bulvar, 20) on October 8, 2003, at 10 a.m.

Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Artur Bagdasarian said the accusations of his belonging to some Masonic organizations, which had been heard recently for him from representatives of the social and political organization Armenian-Aryan Order, were slander.

A vocational school in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, where election polling districts Nos. 398 and 400 were located, was hit on the night of October 5.

The statement reads: "We decidedly condemn the actions of destructive forces in Kabardino-Balkaria aimed at kindling interethnic strife and intolerance between the Chechens and brotherly Kabardian nation."

80.66% of the voting papers have been processed by now.

The interview with Chechen election commission chairman Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov was conducted via phone by Roman Rostov, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Members of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" encountered problems with Russian military men on October 3. According to available information, the military men threatened the "Memorial" members and made a number of illegal demands.

The fourth number of the MHG Bulletin proceeds with the theme of the human rights monitoring of the presidential elections in Chechnya.

A mass action of protest in Grozny is planned for October 4 and 5. According to the words of the meeting organizers, the main goal of the action is to demonstrate protest against the presidential elections in Chechnya appointed for October 5.

Specialists of the Moscow representative office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation prepared a seminar devoted to human rights.

The day before the elections has started quietly. No shot was heard at night in Chechnya.