The election would not to be under the supervision of any national court or international monitors.

But Russian election officials and international monitors also say it will not be easy to steal the vote.

But international monitors continue to question whether the army has been willing to disclose the full details of its role.

The few international monitors in the area estimate that more than 1,000 people are dying each week from violence and disease.

But international monitors said all the fighters had not yet left the towns, though the road itself was clear.

He took issue with the assertion that more international monitors were needed there.

Thus the international monitors know when a massacre is about to unfold.

Neither country has ever held an election judged to be free and fair by international monitors.

"They are criminal acts of murder," said one international monitor working in the region.

We need to take care also over this question of international monitors.