INFORMATION CENTER OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP
Press release No. 509 from September 2, 2003

Bus drivers are made to distribute agitation information for Kadyrov.
340 refugees are on the verge of poverty because of the Migration Service.

Report from the Chechen Republic
Shali district

Bus drivers are made to distribute agitation information for Kadyrov
From August 29 to September 2, 2003 representatives of the guarding service of the acting president of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov started the agitation campaign for his patron but they chose rather extraordinary way to do it. They threatened drivers of inter-city buses with guns and made them put placards agitating to vote for the present pro-Moscow head of the republic inside their vehicles and on them. A correspondent of the Informational Center of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship met with some drivers and they told him they could nothing but obey unlawful demands of armed people. All the big settlements of Chechnya are full of portraits of Kadyrov with election slogans that are pasted on houses. To tell the truth, a lot of such placards are being torn off by local people. They are demonstrating their attitude to this candidate in such a way. Representatives of other candidates don't have such a wide possibility to carry the election campaign. They complain ab!
out the fact that Kadyrov is using his administrative resource for sure. For example, telephones have not been installed in election headquarters of Malik Saidullaev and Khusein Jabrailov so far. People who are working for them are sure that all these obstacles are put by instructions of "the acting president" and his assistant.
(From our correspondent)
Report from Ingushetia

340 refugees are on the verge of poverty because of the Migration Service
The head commandant of the compact settlement "GUP Troitskaya" Madaev Khamid Ibraguimovich appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship. He asks to assist in putting forced migrants from the Chechen Republic back on the lists of the Migration Service as they were excluded unlawfully by officials of this structure. Madaev is actually the commandant of three compact settlements: "MTF-1" where sixty people are living, "MTF-2" where 240 people are living and "Building Unit - Garage" where forty people are living. All of them were excluded from the database of the forced migrants in the second quarter of 2002. All of them are among those who are supposed to have voluntarily returned to Chechnya. The appeals addressed to the Migration Office of the Interior Affairs Ministry of Ingushetia, the chief of the Migration Service M.Kh. Latyrov, Interior Affairs Minister A.S.Pagorov, as well as to the president of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov have brought !
no results. There have not been any formal replies even.
There are children, women and people of the advanced age among inhabitants of these settlements. They are suffering from undernourishment and different diseases as they have not received any humanitarian aid since the first half of 2002. The exclusion from the database of the Migration Service immediately deprives a refugee from the right to receive food ration and they lose their domiciliary registration in Ingushetia.
(From our correspondent)

Editor-in-chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Editor of the current issue Oksana Chelysheva.
This edition has been put out with the support of The National Endowment for
Democracy, as part of their "Russian-Chechen Information Partnership"
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