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".

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.