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.

Representatives from the CIS will be part of a group of international observers watching the holding of the presidential election in the Chechen Republic on October 5, Alexander Veshnyakov, Chairman of Russia's Central Election Commission, said in an interview.

Not only refugees of the "Bella" camp are taking part in the hunger-strike, but displaced persons from the neighboring tent camps "Satsita", "Sputnik", and "Alina". They show solidarity with their fellow sufferers in such a way.

Sultygov expressed his belief finding sources of non-government human rights organizations, including those working under cover of international status, were to be closely checked.

Talks on working out guarantees of security and nonrenewal of military operations between Georgia and Abkhazia, which were to be held on September 23, have been postponed till a later term because of technical reasons.

Students were beaten in different parts of Nalchik at the same time. This is evidence that the action was thoroughly planned.

On September 18 the Leninsky District Court of Grozny began to try an administrative case against the republican "Vesti Respubliki" and "Molodyozhnaya Smena" newspapers, which are charged with the infringement of election agitation rules.

The European Court of Human Rights has declared admissible the application lodged against the governments of Georgia and Russia by 13 Chechens.

"These measures are taken to prevent provocations and possible terrorist acts on the threshold of the Chechen presidential election, scheduled for October 5," reported head of the Chechen interior ministry's press-cutting service Ruslan Atsayev.

Saidullayev was registered as a presidential contender on August 27, and two weeks later the Supreme Court of Chechnya revoked his registration.

Board Member of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oleg Orlov told about it. According to him, the "Memorial" did not receive an invitation to the conference from Scandinavian human rights activists.

Speaking in Moscow at the conference "Tolerance as the Basis for the Well-Being of Multinational Russia", Gainutdin said he thought the so-called Wahhabi sentiments among some of the young Moslems were caused by the poor quality of Islamic education, the inability to communicate with extremist-minded people and make them change their mind.