Human rights campaigners said they doubt Sunday\'s parliamentary elections in Chechnya will restore peace in the republic. \"We do not have sufficient grounds to expect the elections to lead to fundamental positive changes in Chechnya,\" Human Rights Watch Moscow office chief Alexander Petrov told Interfax on Sunday. A lack of security is one of the main problems facing the republic, he said. \"Chechnya has not become safer than it was at the beginning of the year. So far no noticeable changes have taken place from the point of view of security and improving people\'s lives,\" Petrov said. Moscow Helsinki Group head Lyudmila Alexeyeva told Interfax that leading human rights organizations chose not to send their observers to Chechnya. \"The Moscow Helsinki Group is not monitoring these elections because we do not have enough money to pay our observers. But, frankly speaking, I have not tried to find the money. Judging from what we saw during the republic\'s previous elections, I know that elections in Chechnya are a farce. It is pointless to monitor them,\" she said. (Interfax)