Chechnya - The week in brief: 1 - 7 Oct 2007

October 1 - The congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party in Moscow decided that the Kremlin-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will head the ticket for the party's Chechen branch in the upcoming December State Duma elections. At the same time, President Putin accepted the party's proposal that he head its federal ticket for the elections.

October 2 - One policeman was killed and several more wounded as the result of an explosion at a cafe in Grozny.

October 2 - Kavkazsky uzel reported that former Ichkerian MP Vagap Tutakov is to work on matters that concern the return of his compatriots to their native country.

October 3 - Dokka Umarov, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, signed a series of decrees honouring killed top guerrilla commanders, including Abdul-Khalim Sadullayev and Shamil Basayev, and making changes in the command of the guerrilla forces.

October 4 - The Swedish government decided not to extradite former Chechen guerrilla Magomed Uspayev to Russia, where the Prosecutor-General suspects him of involvement in the abduction and murder of journalist Vladimir Yatsin in Chechnya in the summer of 1999.

October 4 - An international forum in Nizhny Novgorod to commemorate Anna Politkovskaya, organized by local NGOs and scheduled for October 5-6, was thwarted by the authorities. On October 6, several foreign human rights workers were shortly detained.

October 4 - Magomed Elzhurkayev, the CEO of Chechnya's largest printing concern, was charged with theft of public funds amounting to more than 1 million roubles.

October 4 - The ceremonial re-opening of a cement factory which was under reconstruction for several years took place in Chiri-Yurt.

October 4 - The European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) ordered Russia to pay almost 150,000 euros in compensation to three Chechen residents who became victims of a "mop-up" by federal troops in Grozny in January 2000.

October 7 - At least four servicemen were killed and ten wounded when a police convoy was ambushed on the Dargo-Vedeno road in Chechnya's Vedensky district.

October 7 - Events commemorating journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered on October 7 2006, took place in major European cities as well as some Russian cities.