Akhmed Zakaev. The murder of Akhmed Zakayev could have been ordered by Ramzan Kadyrov. British intelligence services put forward their version. Was there a chance to prevent war?

Zakaev Akhmed Khalidovich

A statesman of Ichkeria, who served as Minister of Culture and Minister of Foreign Affairs, a participant in the First and Second Chechen Wars, Alan Maskhadov's special representative in the West (2001), Prime Minister of Ichkeria (2007-2009). Put on the international wanted list on terrorism charges, he received political asylum in the UK.

Biography

Born on April 26, 1959 in the village of Kirovsky, Taldy-Kurgan region of Kazakhstan, where his family lived after the deportation of 1944. Soon after the birth of Akhmed, the Zakayevs returned to their native village of Urus-Martan in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

After school, Akhmed Zakaev graduated from the choreographic department of the Grozny Cultural and Educational School and the Voronezh State Institute of Arts (according to other sources, Zakaev is a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS)).

In 1981–1990, Akhmed Zakaev was an actor at the Grozny Drama Theater named after Khanpashi Nuradilov. Since 1991 - Chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of Chechnya and member of the board of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia. Before the start of the Chechen conflict, he spent most of his time in Moscow.

In 1994, Akhmed Zakaev returned to Chechnya, where Dzhokhar Dudayev offered him the position of Minister of Culture in his government.

First Chechen War

Since the end of 1994, Akhmed Zakaev has been a member of the headquarters of the Southwestern Front. At the end of March - beginning of April 1995, he led the defense of the village of Goyskoye. In 1995, Zakayev was appointed commander of the Urus-Martan Front, with the rank of brigadier general. In February 1996, he was appointed commander of the “western defense group of Ichkeria”. According to some reports, Zakayev participated in the planning and execution of the attack on Grozny in August 1996 (Operation Jihad).

Since 1996, Akhmed Zakaev has been assistant to the President of the unrecognized republic of Ichkeria Zelimkhan Yandarbiev for national security, secretary of the Security Council of the Chechen Republic. Participated in negotiations in 1995 and 1996 for a peaceful resolution of the crisis in Chechnya and in the preparation of the Khasavyurt Agreements. In the subsequent period, Akhmed Zakaev acted as an opponent of the radical leaders of Chechen militants, incl. Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduev.

Interwar period

In October 1996, Zakayev again took the post of Minister of Culture of the ChRI, and in 1997 he ran for president of Chechnya (Aslan Maskhadov won the election).

Since 1998, Akhmed Zakaev has been Deputy Prime Minister of the ChRI government (he held this post until the beginning of 2006, when he was dismissed by President Abdul-Halim Saidulaev). He led the creation of the separatist news agency "Chechenpress". There is information that, on instructions from President Maskhadov, Zakayev maintained contacts with members of the Georgian leadership. On June 17, 1998, a Chechen delegation led by Zakayev visited Germany with a proposal to establish relations between the German and Ichkerian parliaments.

Second Chechen War

Since 1999, the beginning of the second Chechen war, Akhmed Zakaev has been the commander of the “special purpose brigade” (Maskhadov’s personal reserve). In August 2000, he was wounded in a battle in the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan region. According to other sources, Zakayev was wounded during a militant breakthrough from Grozny on the night of January 31 to February 1, 2000 and, according to some sources, went to Georgia for treatment.

Since March 2000, Akhmed Zakaev has been outside Chechnya.

Diplomatic activities

In November 2000, Zakayev was appointed Maskhadov's representative in Turkey and the Middle East region. He participated in the establishment of the “government of Ichkeria in exile,” which was headed by ex-president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. In March 2001, Zakayev visited Azerbaijan, where he held a meeting with commanders of Chechen armed forces.

Since 2001, Akhmed Zakayev has been appointed as Maskhadov’s special representative in Western countries. At the same time, he acted as Maskhadov's representative in peace negotiations with the Russian government.

On November 18, 2001, at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, Akhmed Zakaev met with the plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District, Viktor Kazantsev. Negotiations aimed at resolving the situation in Chechnya were unsuccessful. It later became known that at the time of the meeting, Zakayev had already been put on the federal wanted list - a warrant for his arrest was issued in September 2001.

In 2002, Aslan Maskhadov appointed Akhmed Zakayev as chairman of the Information Committee of Ichkeria. In March 2002, Zakayev met with the prosecutor of the International Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Carla del Ponte, and invited her to try Russian President Vladimir Putin for the actions of federal forces in Chechnya. As a representative of the ChRI, Zakayev also visited France and Great Britain. On August 18, 2002, in Zurich, Akhmed Zakayev met with former Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Ivan Rybkin.

Activities outside Russia

Since January 2002, Akhmed Zakaev lived with his family in London, in the house of film actress and public figure Vanessa Redgrave.

Arrests at the request of Russia

In October 2002, Akhmed Zakaev took part in the World Chechen Congress in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, where on October 30, 2002 he was detained by the Danish police at the request of the Russian authorities sent through Interpol channels. Russia accused Zakayev of involvement in the terrorist attack in the Moscow Theater Center in October 2002 and the activities of illegal armed groups, and insisted on his extradition to the Russian Federation. However, the Danish court considered that the evidence received from Moscow against Akhmed Zakaev was not enough for extradition and on December 2, 2002, Zakaev was released.

On December 5, 2002, Zakayev was arrested at London Heathrow Airport - again at the request of Moscow. Soon, Vanessa Redgrave posted bail in the amount of 50 thousand pounds sterling and Zakaev was released without the right to leave the country. Over the next three months, three court hearings in the case of Zakaev’s extradition were held in London. One of the human rights activists who supported Zakayev was the head of the Civil Liberties Foundation created by Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Goldfarb.

Obtaining political asylum

On November 13, 2003, a London court decided to refuse Russia's request for the extradition of Akhmed Zakayev and closed his case. On November 29, 2003, it became known that Great Britain had granted Zakayev refugee status.

On July 26, 2006, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced the opening of a new case against Akhmed Zakaev. Based on numerous statements in various media, Zakayev is accused of inciting hatred towards persons of Russian nationality (Article 282-2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Shortly after this, Russian President Vladimir Putin again demanded Zakayev's extradition.

Blaming Russia for the death of Alexander Litvinenko

On November 1, 2006, Zakayev gave a lift to his friend, former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, in his car. On that day, Litvinenko had several meetings - incl. with former FSB colleagues Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi, as well as with Italian researcher Mario Scaramello. By the evening of November 1, Litvinenko felt unwell and some time later was hospitalized in serious condition. On November 23, 2006, he died in University College London Hospital as a result of poisoning with the radioactive isotope polonium-210. In one of his interviews, Zakayev made it clear that he blames the Russian authorities for Litvinenko’s death. On December 7, 2006, at the funeral of Alexander Litvinenko, Akhmed Zakaev promised to fulfill the request of the deceased, who converted to Islam shortly before his death, and to transport Litvinenko’s remains to the Caucasus to be buried there in a real Muslim cemetery.

Prime Minister of the Government of Ichkeria in Exile

On November 22, 2007, by resolution of the parliament of the ChRI, Akhmed Zakayev was appointed head of the government of Ichkeria. This decision was made by deputies of the ChRI parliament due to the fact that on October 25, 2007, the president and chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the unrecognized republic of Ichkeria, Dokku Umarov, made a statement in which he proclaimed a new state formation - the Caucasian Emirate (Caucasus Emirate), declaring himself the amir of the Mujahideen of the Caucasus and leader of jihad.

Question about returning to Chechnya

On February 9, 2009, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov personally invited Zakaev to return, saying that in his homeland Zakaev could develop national culture. According to Kadyrov, Zakayev said in a personal conversation with him that he himself wanted to return. Previously, he had ruled out such a possibility.

On February 17, the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and transnational crime, Anatoly Safonov, announced a possible amnesty for Zakayev. After this, Zakayev stated his desire to "promote long-term peace in the region" while in Chechnya.

On March 3, Kadyrov confirmed his invitation to Zakayev to Chechnya.

On July 2, 2009, it became known that Akhmed Zakayev was meeting in Norway with the Speaker of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic, Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov. At the negotiations, according to meeting participant Aivar Amudsen, director of the Forum for Peace in Chechnya, “long-term prospects for stability in Chechnya” were discussed. However, on the same day, Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov denied information about his contacts with Akhmed Zakayev in Oslo. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed the fact of negotiations, saying that he is negotiating the return to his homeland of the former emissary of the Chechen separatists, Akhmed Zakayev. According to him, Zakayev is the only person from Ichkeria whom he would like to see in the current republic.

July 24 following the results of two days During negotiations in Oslo with the head of the Chechen parliament, Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, Akhmed Zakaev made a statement that he did not think of ending his life in a foreign land and that he would definitely return to Chechnya, where the situation, according to him, was still unstable. In particular, Zakayev said that it is wrong not to see the good undertakings that are associated with Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya. Zakayev also said that he did not negotiate about personal employment and personal safety.

On July 26, Zakayev announced that the leadership of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on the territory of Chechnya had made a decision to cease military operations against the Chechen police from August 1, 2009. According to him, this decision was the result of a meeting between Akhmed Zakayev and the Chairman of the Chechen Parliament, Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, and was made as part of the development of a peaceful dialogue at a joint meeting of the parliament and government of Ichkeria. Zakayev also believes that his dialogue with the Chechen authorities can make those militants who are currently subordinate to Dok Umarov think, and they will support peace initiatives.

When asked whether the problem of his return to Chechnya and the cessation of criminal prosecution by Russian law enforcement agencies was discussed at the meeting in Oslo, Akhmed Zakaev answered negatively.

On August 25, 2009, the “Supreme Sharia Court of the Caucasus Emirate” declared Akhmed Zakayev a “zindik” (apostate from Islam) and sentenced him to death, ruling that “the murder of this zindik is the duty of Muslims if he does not have time to publicly repent before he ends up in jail.” Muslim power."

On September 17, 2010, Akhmed Zakaev was detained by Polish police in Warsaw, during his visit to Poland to participate in the “World Congress of the Chechen People”. The arrest was made on the basis of an international arrest warrant initiated by the Russian authorities in 2002. The Warsaw court released Zakaev.

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The head of Chechnya called Akhmed Zakayev, who fled to London, to return home. On February 5, Ramzan Kadyrov visited the family of the former field commander. He assured his relatives that the betrayal did not affect his attitude towards them. Kadyrov also said that Zakayev’s life is not in danger.

Akhmed Zakaev is a former field commander during the Chechen wars, an ally of Dzhokhar Dudayev. Back in 2001, he was put on the international wanted list. Since 2002, he settled with his family in London. The fugitive was granted political asylum.

Text from Ramzan Kadyrov's Instagram:

Assalamu alaikum! Today I visited the Zakayevs in Urus-Martan. The brothers and sisters of Akhmed Zakaev - Ali, Buvadi, Laila and Ziza - greeted me very warmly. We were treated to Chechen dishes and aromatic tea. They said that no one had ever created problems for them. I said that Ahmed had no reason to sit in London. Ichkeria ceased to exist since the referendum. The people made a conscious choice. Everyone should respect this choice.

Ahmed would have returned home long ago if the decision depended only on him. I reminded that hundreds and thousands of former supporters of Ichkeria are worthy people. They work and contribute to the development of the republic. Ahmed has a lot of relatives. They live the same way as the rest of the people. But the brothers and sisters say that concern for Ahmed remains in their hearts. They want him to join his family.

It was hard for me to see tears in the eyes of elderly people who had been living apart from their brother for many years. Ali asked permission to call me brother. I gave him this right and suggested that he contact me at any time if he had any questions. Our conversation turned out to be very warm and relaxed.

Some may interpret my visit as an attempt to influence the Zakayevs to return Akhmed. I can swear that I had no other goals than the desire to see people, sit with them, and dispel their anxieties caused by someone’s provocative conversations.

The head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Akhmed Zakayev, called the proposal to return to his homeland from the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, propaganda and out of touch with reality.

Since 2002, Zakaev has lived in London, and since 2003 - as a political refugee. Akhmed Zakayev is accused by the Russian authorities of organizing illegal armed groups, armed rebellion, involvement in the terrorist attack on Dubrovka in Moscow and inciting ethnic hatred. In January 2010, the Russian FSB brought new charges against him - in an attempt to create “armed forces of Ichkeria.” Zakaev denies this accusation.

“I’ll somehow be able to figure out where and how I should live. This is a purely propaganda statement, just like the “meetings” with my relatives in Chechnya. They gathered not only close ones, but also distant ones, forced them to abandon me. Apparently something- it didn’t work there or didn’t work the way they wanted,” Zakayev said.

According to Zakayev, Kadyrov’s proposal has nothing to do with reality. He called the statement of the head of Chechnya a game - “maybe an election game, maybe something else.” “Of course, I’m not going to go to him, I’m not going to become an accomplice to the crimes committed and still being committed on the territory of Chechnya,” Zakayev told Novaya Gazeta.

Ramzan Kadyrov visited today the relatives of one of the Ichkerian leaders Akhmed Zakayev. The website of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Grozny" quotes Kadyrov's statement that Zakayev can freely return home, especially since the idea of ​​an independent state of Ichkeria no longer exists, and all those who were in power in Ichkeria live and work for the benefit of the Chechen Republic. Zakaev himself, in an interview with Ekho Moskvy, said that he knows about such a meeting, but is not going to his homeland yet. Akhmet Zakaev is a former brigadier general of the self-proclaimed Ichkeria. In 2001, he was put on the federal and international wanted list. Since 2003 he has lived in the UK, where he received asylum.

Correspondent- Today the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, met with your family, as you probably heard. We wanted to ask you why this was necessary and what it could mean?

A. Zakaev- It’s difficult for me to say what this could mean. I think that after all - as I learned - the so-called elections in Chechnya, the elections of the head of the region, are scheduled. And, naturally, he will run, or he will be appointed by Putin. Of course, there is a certain trail behind him: how he deals with relatives and close relatives of his opponents, political opponents. And in this case, he apparently decided to add a slightly different shade to his image and what he does.

I know that yesterday, the day before yesterday there was a completely different situation there. They gathered relatives and loved ones, forced them to renounce me, and it even got to the point where they gathered representatives of my teip and they were forced to say that they were almost renouncing me. And today, apparently, something didn’t go as they planned, because the extras and the performance were not a success. And more spectacular, of course, was what they did today, that is, he suddenly appeared, visited... The women whom they had kept in fear for three or four days, they began to cry and thank him. And this performance was needed in order to show both in the republic and in the world, as if creating a new image, a new image for this person, that everything that they say about him is not true, but in fact he is so kind and fluffy.

But I wouldn’t wish anyone to be held hostage. Today, not only my relatives - the whole of Chechnya is hostage to him, and therefore they, of course, are happy with any relaxation coming from him or from the regime that he established.

Correspondent- Tell me, do you generally observe Kadyrov’s latest statements and actions?

A. Zakaev- Certainly. I am watching. Now, after all, I am not an outside observer, but a participant in all these processes. For the last 20-25 years, I have been, in principle, involved in all the political processes that took place in Chechnya and continue to be involved now. Of course I'm watching. And for me these are absolutely obvious things - all these attacks against the opposition, all his statements. They are directed... and orchestrated by the Kremlin, and from there it receives clear signals to which it reacts, and clearly knows how to behave in which case.

For me, in fact, what is developing today is very alarming. It’s alarming in the sense that this anti-Kadyrov hysteria, which begins in Moscow, can ultimately turn into anti-Chechen hysteria, and we have already witnessed this once. And what he is doing today or what he is forced to do - this also has its own explanation. I think that the ruling regime in Russia today is consistent in its actions, that is, in building this vertical of power.

You know that in 1998, when Putin was director of the FSB and (head of) the Security Council, a law was adopted on the fight against international terrorism. This law was being prepared for the start of the second military campaign. Then, in 2006, two laws were adopted. One law that equated critics of the government and regime with terrorists and extremists. And the second law, which allowed the Russian special services to eliminate unwanted... or enemies of the state NRZB. And the first victim was Anna Politkovskaya. The second was Alexander Litvinenko here, Nemtsov and many, many others.

And today – what I want to draw your attention to – you know that two or three months ago a law was passed allowing security forces to shoot disabled people and pregnant women... that is, to disperse any mass protests that are possible. That is, the law was adopted in advance. Today, of course, the authorities probably have doubts that they themselves - in particular, the FSB and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Defense - are ready to carry out such an order.

And if this order is given to this comrade that we are talking about, he demonstrates and shows to the whole of Russia and the whole world that he is ready to carry out Putin’s order of any complexity.

In this regard, it seems to me that he is now a kind of bogeyman for liberal-minded people. These protests, which began in connection with economic problems, should subsequently turn into political protests, and in this case it will be very convenient to use the very force that today declares that they are ready for anything. And, I think that those who stand behind Kadyrov, who have been prepared by Putin and Kadyrov over these 5... 9-10 years - these are precisely the youth who grew up under Russian bombs, and, of course, if they are told that they should to restore constitutional order in Moscow, they will do it with pleasure. I think that this is why Kadyrov’s card is being played today. And he, in turn, repeats the same games on the territory of Chechnya.

Correspondent- Question, I understand that it is not very relevant, but please tell me. Ramzan Kadyrov called on you to return home. Do you have such plans? And, in general, why is he doing this?

A. Zakaev- No, no, I have no such plans. We discussed this before. I don’t have such a plan, and this is not the situation now. I have a certain position and have certain views on things. Naturally, they radically disagree with the views of the comrade you named and his position on many issues, including the definition of the relationship between Russia and Chechnya. We have completely different things...

Today his position is: he crushed Moscow, crushed Russia. But I believed and still believe that we must build normal relations, where the interests of both sides will be taken into account, first of all, and we will build our relations not from handouts and “I am loyal,” but in accordance with interests and for the long term. So far I don’t see this, and I think, therefore, today, as if to fit into an absolutely unpromising and obviously false direction or false policy, I, of course, will not participate in this.

Correspondent- Tell me, under what conditions would you be ready to return home?

A. Zakaev- You know, there is a certain condition... Not just a condition - we must first end this confrontation that continues between Russia and Chechnya. In order to end this confrontation, there is only one way out. This solution is laid down in the document that was signed by Yeltsin and Maskhadov - this is a peace treaty.

I think that today... If this is not done under Putin, it will be done after Putin. I don’t know, sooner or later, we will have to return to this basic document and begin to build our relations on the basis of this document. And until we return to real political processes that would suit both sides, I think that there can be no talk of a return or a change in position.

The British newspaper Sunday Telegraph published sensational material about how an assassination attempt on Akhmed Zakayev was being prepared in London. He is now in the UK, where he has been granted asylum. In his opinion, the traces of the case lead to Chechnya, and here British investigators probably agree with him.

Akhmed Zakayev, who in the past was one of the leaders of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was going to be killed right on the streets of London. But this plan, apparently, is no longer destined to come true - the man who was allegedly tasked with organizing the assassination attempt is now under arrest in the UK.

His name is unknown. In all court documents he is called E1. This is a Russian citizen, who is 45 years old, and he is trying to obtain British citizenship through the courts. And the intelligence services - that is, MI5 - are trying to prevent him from doing this. They want to convince judges that the suspect poses a threat to national security and must be removed from the country. A statement from MI5, seen by Sunday Telegraph journalists, says that E1 is an intermediary who would help kill Akhmed Zakaev by providing the perpetrators with some valuable information.

What else is known about person E1? He is a former soldier. He is married and has six children. He first came to the UK in 2003 with his family and attempted to gain political asylum. His wife and children received British passports, but he himself was denied citizenship three years ago.

Some time later, when E1 left the country, the British Home Secretary personally prohibited him from being allowed to enter. E1 was warned that if he returned, he would still not be able to obtain citizenship. But these words apparently did not convince him; he flew back and was immediately arrested. At Heathrow airport, intelligence agents were already waiting for him - they suspected him of planning an assassination attempt on Akhmet Zakaev and therefore transferred him to custody.

But even while under arrest, E1 continued to sue the British authorities. And 10 days ago, the kingdom's appeal court allowed him to remain in the country, despite the fact that he was given the status of a threat to national security.

MI5 agents believe that Zakayev’s murder was ordered by his longtime enemy Ramzan Kadyrov. A statement from the British intelligence service clearly states: “Kadyrov, who has already eliminated several of his opponents, has drawn up a blacklist of people he believes deserve to die. And the exiled prime minister of Chechnya, Akhmed Zakayev, a political refugee in the UK, is probably also on this blacklist.”

E1, according to investigators, has already been involved in at least one assassination attempt, also associated with Ramzan Kadyrov.

A man codenamed E1 is believed to be involved in the murder of Umar Israilov in Vienna in 2009. Israilov was in the past one of the guards of the current head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. He lived in exile in Vienna and, while there, lodged a complaint with several local courts and with the European Court of Human Rights.

In it, he wrote that secret prisons operate in Chechnya under the leadership of Kadyrov. In early 2009, he reported to the police that someone was following him. And on January 13 of the same year, he was shot dead outside a grocery store. Austrian investigators tried to verify the involvement of Ramzan Kadyrov in this case, but the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office did not respond to any of their requests. In Russia, Israilov himself was accused of crimes and put on the federal and then international wanted list.

In Austria, meanwhile, three suspects were arrested - an Austrian and two natives of Chechnya. After a two-year trial, they were found guilty of murdering Israilov. "Kommersant" then wrote that, according to the prosecutor's office, the security guard, having fled to Austria, began threatening to expose his former boss - that is, Kadyrov - and then the criminals "forced him to shut up", hoping to receive the opportunity to return to their homeland as gratitude."

The name of Ramzan Kadyrov was then mentioned in the indictment in the case, but, naturally, it was not possible to prove his involvement without the help of Russia. Apparently, British investigators now believe that the planned assassination attempt on Zakayev and the murder of Israilov in Vienna are links in the same chain, and it is man E1 who connects them.

Some see the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in the same chain. He met with Zakayev shortly before his death, and then traces of radioactive polonium-210 were found in the car of the former emissary of the Chechen separatists. This is the substance that was used to poison Litvinenko.

The Chechen trace is also noticeable in the murder of Sulim Yamadayev, a former commander of the Vostok battalion, who moved to the United Arab Emirates after a conflict with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. On March 28, 2009, he was shot dead in the underground garage of a luxury residential complex in Dubai. Yamadayev’s family, however, only finally announced his death more than a year later.

Finally, quite recently, in the fall, there was a series of assassination attempts on leaders of the Chechen emigration in Istanbul. And Turkish investigators also mentioned among the versions that these were contract killings, and the order came from Grozny.

The press service of Ramzan Kadyrov each time denied the involvement of the head of Chechnya in the murders. And now, too, press secretary Alvi Karimov called the accusations of the British intelligence services “a clumsy attempt to put on a show.” “In this performance, it seems to me that the worst role was given to Akhmed Zakaev, since even talk that someone is trying to organize an assassination attempt on him is dangerous for him. The fact that some traces can lead to Russia is absolute nonsense: no one in Russia is interested in Zakayev,” Karimov said. In fact, Russian authorities have repeatedly sought the extradition of Akhmed Zakayev, including when he was arrested in Poland in 2008. But refugee status in the UK helped the former militant remain free.

Zakayev himself believes that his life is threatened, rather, not by Ramzan Kadyrov, but by Russian leaders. He is sure that Kadyrov simply does not have the authority to organize operations to eliminate people abroad, but the Kremlin supposedly has such authority.

In Russia, he is accused of committing a number of crimes - very serious ones, such as violating territorial integrity and changing the constitutional system of the country. Two years ago he was put on the international wanted list - not for the first time. Not so long ago, according to some sources, he organized a congress of Chechen separatists.

According to him, he was not aware of the planned assassination attempt. But they allegedly tried to kill him earlier.