September 10 - Vagap Tutakov, the Ichkerian MP and ex-representative of President Aslan Maskhadov in PACE, was abducted by unknown armed men in camouflage uniform in the Urus-Martanovsky district of Chechnya.
September 10 - Two Russian servicemen were killed when unknown gunmen fired on their vehicle in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny.
September 10 - The Kavkaz-Center propaganda and news site claimed that the Nevsky Express train was blown up by the Riyadus-Salikhin "Martyr Battalion", and referred to a new statement from a source that had earlier reported on acts of sabotage by the same organization.
September 11 - As many as 100 guerrillas of the Western Resistance Front are currently active in Ingushetia, and are being led by Ichkerian President Dokka Umarov, a source in one of Russia's law enforcement agencies claimed.
September 11 - Three male members of a local Roma family were shot by unknown gunmen in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district.
September 12 - The communications company VympelKom, which operates under the brand "Beeline", announced the start of commercial operations in Chechnya, giving local inhabitants an alternative to the monopolist mobile network "Megafon".
September 12 - A traffic police officer was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Ingushetia's largest city Nazran, local police said.
September 13 - Shamil Burayev, the former head of Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martanovsky district, was arrested on suspicion of organizing the execution-style murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, according to a report published in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on September 15. Burayev denied involvement in the murder.
September 14 - Polish border guards said they had found the bodies of three Chechen girls in the Bieszczady mountains near the Ukrainian border after picking up their mother, who apparently spent days wandering there after the family entered the country illegally.
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