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.

Mass clashes occurred in downtown Baku on September 21 between supporters of the "Musavat" party leader Isa Gambar running for presidency and police. The incident sparked several minutes before Gambar's meeting with voters.

The Antiwar Committee in Saint Petersburg put out a regular leaflet against the war in Chechnya.

A mass beating of students of the Chechen nationality with the use of cold steel took place in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, on September 17.

Most of them are members of the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses", which is unregistered in the country.

More than 40 Chechen intellectuals met in Grozny on September 19 to discuss how best to preserve their nation in the era of globalization.

The Council of American-Islamic Relations joined the group supporting the US Congress resolution that commemorates the 15th anniversary of the United States ratification of the UN Convention on Genocide, in which the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of the last century is mentioned.

The adoption of such a law in the time that is so decisive for Armenia is inadmissible, therefore it must be prevented by common efforts, stresses the authors of the document.

A conference of non-government organizations and representatives of the Chechen intelligentsia took place in Grozny on September 19.

On September 18 the police did not let representatives of humanitarian organizations in the Bella camp explaining it with toughening of security measures after the terrorist act in Magas.

An extemporaneous meeting of people showing support for Shamil Burayev's candidacy for the post of the Chechen Republic's president was held in Achkhoy-Martan, Chechnya's district center, on September 13. Shamil Burayev is a former district administration head dismissed from his post by "Chechnya's Acting President" Akhmad Kadyrov on the threshold of the elections.

The round table discussion "Administrative Barriers Preventing the Development of Small-Scale Enterprise in Krasnodar Territory" was held in the conference hall of the Krasnodarskiye Izvestiya newspaper.

Sergey Shamba and Heidi Tagliavini spoke about a Georgian-Abkhazian meeting on the guarantees of security and nonrenewal of military operations in Tbilisi scheduled for September 23 and about a forthcoming arrival of 20 UN Civilian Police in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

A press conference of Enver Berusoy, a representative of the Caucasian Institute of Strategic Researches, and Mairbek Taramov, the director of the Chechen Human Rights Center was held at the Press Club of Baku on September 19.

The interregional conference "Political Parties and the Media in the Election Process. New Features of Electoral Legislation" was held in Rostov-on-Don on September 17.

An interest to the problem of discrimination against the Turks-Meskhetians in Krasnodar Territory has appeared on central TV channels.

The authorities of the Kuibyshev district's head Tamara Zaborodnyaya have been ceased ahead of time for an unlawful dismissal of a farm head.

According to his words, the so called State Defense Committee of Ichkeria, which is immediately under Aslan Maskhadov, decided during its last session not to limit operations to the territory of the Chechen Republic, but extend them to the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

Over a hundred people rushed into a hospice of the economic and law lyceum and beat Chechen students living there.