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.

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.