The main item on the agenda was a discussion on the aggravating security situation in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, especially in the Gali district.

The military demonstrated clearly the situation was under their full control and they were fixing what was happening at the electoral districts.

According to the data of "Memorial", two thirds of grave crimes against peaceful Chechen people are committed by Russian military men and officers of special services.

From the very beginning of the press conference MHG Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva let the present know that the reality shown virtually in all media reports on the elections in Chechnya seemed to be too affected.

The research results show 51% of the questioned people of Russia do not approve of the Russian authorities' policy towards the Chechen Republic.

A meeting of partners of the international organization "Article 19" took place in Zvenigorod, a town near Moscow, on October 2-5 within the limits of the project "Consolidation of Democracy in the Southern Caucasus through Freedom of Speech".

Numerous independent sources assert the voters' attendance on October 5 was extremely low.

The mass media monitoring conducted by the Press Club of Baku during the pre-election campaign displays breaches of legal regulations and one-sided coverage of the election process by the media.

According to some information, Akhmad Kadyrov's son was delivered to a local hospital; other reports say he was taken outside the republic.

"The presidential election campaign has shown everybody's real worth and certain conclusions will certainly be made," said Anatoly Popov.

Public figures and public organizations working in the field of peacemaking, defending human rights and providing humanitarian aid in the Northern Caucasus can be nominees for the "Prize".

Dozens of families of Chechen refugees from the tent camp "Bella", which was forcedly liquidated at the end of September, were moved to the other tent centre of temporary accommodation "Satsita" and are in the state of outcasts so far.

On October 6 the press service of the foreign ministry of Chechnya's government in exile propagated a statement in which it roundly denounced so called presidential elections.

Russian military men solemnly gave a small "present" to each villager who was leaving the election center after voting.

The Foreign Ministry called it "off-handed and tactless".

A simple deduction can be made that the internally displaced persons in Ingushetia practically boycotted the elections of the president of Chechnya.

The Association of Chechens in Belgium has protested against the illegal detention of Said-Magomed Khachukayev and urged international, public and human rights organizations to interfere and do everything possible for the detainee's immediate discharge.

Amnesty International is concerned that the Russian authorities have not given sufficient guarantees that the principle of voluntary return as well as the integrity and dignity of the IDPs will be respected.

The human rights defender raised deep concern about the future of the Southern Caucasus as gross breaches of democracy took place in all the three countries of the region.

A round-table discussion on migration policy issues took place in Stavropol on the basis of the Stavropol Agrarian University on October 6.