September 4 - The Moscow-backed Chechen parliament sent a delegation to the town of Kondopoga in the north Russian province of Karelia, where attacks against Chechens started two days ago, following a clash between groups of young local men of Russian and Chechen nationality, in which at least two Russian men died.
September 4 - During his official visit to St Petersburg, the Moscow-backed Chechen President Alu Alkhanov proposed renaming Chechnya. The current name evokes negative associations, said Alkhanov, suggesting the name "Nokhchiyn Republic", based on the Chechen-language name of the republic.
September 5 - The Moscow-backed Chechen Premier Kadyrov as well as several top Russian officials rejected Alu Alkhanov's proposal to change the name of the Chechen Republic.
September 6 - A mine blast killed four Russian Interior Ministry's soldiers on an APC in the North Ossetian village of Mayskoye.
September 6 - The 15th anniversary of the declaration of the independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Also, the Day of Civic Concord and Unity, organized by the Moscow-backed Chechen authorities.
September 7 - Russian newspapers Novaya gazeta and Kommersant reported that Konstantin Krivorotov, a top investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Northern Caucasus, whose subordinates were blamed for using torture and falsifying criminal cases, was sacked.
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