An International Film Festival: “Cinema Against Lies” will held in Vilnius on 1-7 August 2009 for supporting Khadizhat and Malik Gataev.

Chechen authorities have paid a visit to Finland with the aim to study the European experience of organizing local self-management. When they were visiting the municipality of Helsinki, Chechen refugees held a protest action in the adjacent street in May 13, 2009.