The Chechen presidential election campaign was conducted in accordance with international norms, Chechen elections commission chief Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov told Interfax on Tuesday. Yesterday, U.S. State Department representative Richard Baucher told a briefing in Washington on the results of the presidential elections in Chechnya that serious faults were found in the elections process. Especially problematic was the preliminary dismissal of a leading candidate based on a technical problem. The elections were not conducted in a democratic manner, Baucher said. (Interfax)