By empty (9/14/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Between 7,000 and 10,000 people attended an opposition march in Baku on 14 September to protest the falsification of the outcome of the 24 August referendum on constitutional amendments and to demand the resignation of President Heidar Aliev, whom they accused of anticonstitutional acts. Other demands included a reduction in unemployment, the formation of a national government capable of resolving the Karabakh conflict, and the release of persons detained after clashes between police and residents of the village of Nardaran in early June. The Baku city administration gave permission for the demonstration; no clashes with police were reported.

By empty (9/14/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Two Chechen sisters were killed on 12 September by a mortar attack on the village of Dyshne-Vedeno southeast of Grozny. A woman wounded in the attack died two days later. Some 5,000 village residents blocked the main Vedeno-Grozny highway on 13 September to protest the attack and demand that those responsible be punished.

By empty (9/14/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Lieutenant General Valerii Putov, who heads the Russian Federal Border Guard North Caucasus Headquarters, told Interfax on 14 September that his service has "substantial evidence" that "bandits" are preparing for a new attempt to cross into Chechnya from their base in the Pankisi Gorge. Federal Border Guard Service Director Colonel General Konstantin Totskii for his part told RTR television on 14 September that the Chechens could head from Pankisi either toward Ingushetia, or Chechnya, or Daghestan. (Interfax).