Doku Umarov. Biography. The mystery of the death of Doku Umarov. “Caucasus Emirate” is moving towards sunset Who is Doku Umarov

The name of the terrorist Umarov, along with the Dudayevs, Basayevs, Maskhadovs, Raduevs and other similar individuals, was known to everyone in Russia starting from the mid-90s. All of them were widely known and associated exclusively with death, fear and horror, which they sowed in the territory of the North Caucasus. Thus, Umarov and his accomplices fought to transform Chechnya into a “Sharia” state. Therefore, it is not surprising that when order was restored in the region, many normal citizens were waiting for retribution to overtake this non-human. And yesterday the Center for Public Relations This fact was given the status of federal significance not only because terrorist acts committed personally and on the orders of this scoundrel repeatedly made the entire country shudder. At least seven times, Russian security forces and the media reported the death of a terrorist. And seven times later they refuted this information. This time it looks like there will be no denials... 16-year-old Umarov received his first sentence for murder by negligence in 1980. Having been released and graduated from the Oil Institute in the city of Grozny, he got a job in the Tyumen region. Having worked there for a very short time, in July 1992, together with his work colleague, Umarov “sorted out” the young people with whom he had quarreled the day before. As a result, one person was wounded with a pistol, two were shot dead. Having robbed the apartment of the dead, the criminals went on the run, hiding from law enforcement agencies in their native Chechnya. That is, when there was still no talk about the events that took place in this republic after the arrival of Dzhokhar Dudayev, Umarov was already on the federal wanted list, under the threat of the “tower.”
And naturally, when the operation to restore constitutional order in the Chechen Republic began, Umarov fought against the federal troops as a field commander. In the summer of 1996, he participated in the execution of thirty policemen and military personnel - Chechens who defended Grozny. By the end of the year, he was already a “brigadier general” of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI), and a little later - secretary of the National Security Council and head of the headquarters for coordinating the fight against crime. This, however, did not stop Umarov from conducting his bloody business: he was engaged in kidnappings for ransom. Such chaos did not even suit the leaders of the ChRI, and in 1998, by Maskhadov’s decree, he was removed from all his posts. This did not stop the nonhuman, and, as it later turned out, it was Umarov who was involved in the kidnapping of the special representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Chechnya, Major General of Police Gennady Shpiguna (March 1999). They demanded $15 million for his release, but the bargaining did not take place. Exactly a year later, the general’s body was discovered near the Chechen village of Itum-Kali. Since the beginning of the Second Chechen Campaign, Umarov actively fought on the side of the militants, and in August 2002 he participated in the capture of settlements in the Urus-Martan and Vedeno regions of Chechnya. Following this “success,” he was again rewarded with a high position: Umarov became the commander of the so-called “Western Front.” But he did not leave his business and personally participated in the kidnapping of employees of the Chechen prosecutor’s office Alexei Klimov and Nadezhda Pogosova (December 27, 2002). They were subsequently released by the FSB special services. Umarov was involved in the explosions of the building of the FSB Directorate of Ingushetia and an electric train in Kislovodsk in 2003. The result of two terrorist attacks: ten killed, over seventy wounded. Since August 2004, Umarov has been the “director of the National Security Service of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria,” and after the death of the next leader of Ichkeria (June 2006) he was named “the head of the self-proclaimed republic.” In the interval between these two dates, according to unconfirmed reports (he was identified from a photo by one of the schoolchildren who managed to escape during the capture), it was D. Umarov who commanded a group of militants who attacked a school in Beslan on September 1, 2004. Be that as it may, by the time of his presidency in the CRI, there was no place to put marks on him.
Having become the “leader of Ichkeria,” Umarov imagined himself to be Bonaparte Napoleon and turned around to the fullest. He stated that in order to combat the “colonization of Chechnya”, in addition to the existing six fronts, two more fronts would be created to transfer military operations to the regions of Russia. In October 2007, Umarov announced the creation of the “Caucasian Emirate,” calling on supporters to fight not only against Russia, but also against other countries. He even managed to posthumously award the title of “Generalissimo” to terrorist Shamil Basayev.
Having become “terrorist No. 1” in Russia after his death, Umarov found himself involved in a number of terrorist attacks. He took responsibility for the bombing of the Nevsky Express train in November 2009 and for the explosions in the Moscow metro in March 2010. In June of the same year, the United States included Doku Umarov on the list of international terrorists. And after the explosion at Domodedovo airport (January 2011), when Umarov announced his involvement in this terrorist attack on the Internet, promising to make 2011 a “year of blood and tears” for Russia, he finally reached the global level. In March, the UN Security Council included Umarov on its list of terrorists associated with al-Qaeda. And two months later, when he entered the list of the ten most wanted criminals in the world, the United States announced a reward of five million dollars for information about his whereabouts.
The Russian special services assessed the situation around terrorist No. 1 most soberly. They were literally hunting him and understood perfectly well that, hiding in the forests of the Caucasus Mountains, Umarov was just bluffing. And when exactly a year before the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, he called on his supporters to disrupt the world sports festival, promising to carry out a terrorist attack during the competition, the head of Chechnya said that this devil would be destroyed before the start of the Games. At the same time, he added that Doku Umarov is only a tool in the hands of Russia’s Western enemies, who do not like the very idea of ​​holding the Olympics in Sochi, calling him a mother rat. “He is the most vile and bloodthirsty of all members of illegal armed groups that have ever hidden in mountains."
It is still not known for certain how Doku Umarov died, but in January 2014, Ramzan Kadyrov announced that, according to his information, the terrorist was killed as a result of a special operation. On the same day, a video appeared on YouTube in which a representative of the armed underground confirmed the death of Umarov, without providing, however, any details. On April 8 of the same year, the death of terrorist No. 1 was officially announced by the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov. A unique point in this matter, confirming the fact of death, was a photograph of the dead Umarov, published on social networks in July. And around the same time, a video appeared on the Internet showing the funeral of Umarov by his comrades. And they also said that he died on September 7, 2013, a month after he was poisoned with food during a special operation organized by law enforcement agencies... Today it is no longer so important how exactly this bastard passed away. The main thing is that he is no longer there. As well as all those who tried to rebel against society, imagining themselves to be someone unknown. And the same disgraceful end awaits all current Umar’s ideological followers.

Doku Umarov is the senior leader and military commander of the North Caucasus-based Caucasus Emirate (CE) group. In June 2010, the US State Department designated Umarov as a designated global terrorist under Executive Order 13224.

Doku Khamatovich Umarov was born on April 13, 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy, Shatoisky district, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (according to other sources, in Achkhoy-Martan). Received a higher education (specialty in construction). According to media reports, he was convicted of negligent homicide in the 1980s. In July 1992, he again came to the attention of law enforcement agencies and was put on the federal wanted list by the Tyumen Regional Department of Internal Affairs on charges of murder.

Before the events of 1994-1996 (fighting between separatists and federal forces in Chechnya, called the first Chechen war), Umarov served in the Borz special forces regiment under the leadership of Ruslan Gelayev.

At the end of 1994, Umarov commanded a group of militants stationed in the area of ​​Umarov’s ancestral village and took part in hostilities against Russian troops.

By 1996, he received the rank of brigadier general in the army of Ichkeria - he was the field commander of a large (up to several hundred people) detachment, which was replenished in 2004 with members of the detachment of the murdered Gelayev.

Since the end of 1996, together with field commander Arbi Barayev, according to press reports, he was involved in kidnappings for ransom. According to Novaya Gazeta, at the end of 1996, Umarov prepared lists of people to be kidnapped for ransom. It was alleged that most of those included in the list were Chechens.

On June 1, 1997, by decree of the President of the Chechen Republic Aslan Maskhadov, Umarov was appointed Secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya.

Since November 1997, he simultaneously headed the headquarters for coordinating the fight against crime.

However, already in 1998, Maskhadov removed Umarov from all posts - for involvement in kidnappings and attacks on employees of the Ichkeria prosecutor's office and beating prosecutors. It was then that Umarov tried to deprive Maskhadov of the halo of a fighter for a free Ichkeria and publicly promised to shoot him if Maskhadov negotiated with Moscow. At the same time, according to the Caucasian Knot news agency, Umarov served as Secretary of the Security Council until he accepted the post of Vice President of the Chechen Republic of Ichryssia in 2005.

Law enforcement agencies in Chechnya claimed that Umarov was directly involved in the kidnapping in March 1999 of the special representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya, General Gennady Shpigun. Shpigun was kidnapped on the territory of the Grozny airport. The terrorists almost unhindered took the general out of the cabin of the plane preparing to take off and took him away in an unknown direction. The kidnappers demanded $15 million for his release. They searched for the general for a year, but to no avail, then it became known that Shpigun had died.

With the beginning of the second Chechen war, Umarov actively participated in hostilities on the side of the militants. During the breakout from Grozny in January 2000, he was seriously wounded in the jaw. According to some reports, Umarov was secretly taken abroad for treatment; according to others, he was treated in a clinic in one of the southern regions of Russia. According to Novaya Gazeta and Gazeta.Ru, at the end of February 2000, Umarov was treated in one of the hospitals in Nalchik, and then the terrorist was transported to Georgia.

The publications claimed that both the treatment and the transportation of the field commander were carried out with the knowledge of a number of leaders of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (GUBOP). According to Novaya Gazeta, top officials from the leadership of the North Caucasus Regional Directorate for Organized Crime Control (Major General Ruslan Yeshugaov) and the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control (Mikhail Vanechkin), as well as former Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Rushailo, knew about the whereabouts of the terrorist, but did nothing. For the opportunity to receive treatment in Nalchik, according to Gazeta.Ru, Umarov extradited Bagautdin Temirbulatov, known by the nickname Tractor Driver and who committed many murders, to the GUBOP, and also helped find Shpigun’s body.

On March 27, 2000, the command of the joint group of troops announced the death of Umarov. It was reported that he died in battle in the Nozhai-Yurt region of Chechnya (similar information was also reported in the media in September 2004 and February 2005, but each time it turned out to be unreliable. The information that Umarov was blocked on April 15, 2005 was also not confirmed Leninsky district of Grozny and destroyed as a result of a special operation.

Umarov conducted military operations quite successfully, so that in August 2002 Maskhadov appointed him commander of the Western Front.

According to journalists, Umarov participated in organizing a number of high-profile separatist actions: the seizure of settlements in the Vedeno and Urus-Martan regions (August 2002); kidnappings of employees of the Chechen prosecutor's office Nadezhda Pogosova and Alexei Klimov (they were kidnapped on December 27, 2002 on the way from Grozny to Mozdok airport. The head of the Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, said that the abducted were captured by Umarov. According to him, the bandits demanded a huge ransom for the hostages. Later, media reports appeared that the militants hoped to exchange the hostages for their comrades.In turn, employees of the republic's prosecutor's office claimed that they were not aware of any demands of the kidnappers.

In November 2003, the abductees were released, but the lack of details about the special operation to free them gave rise to rumors that the hostage prosecutors were exchanged for money or other prisoners); explosion of the buildings of the FSB Directorate of Ingushetia in Magas and an electric train in Kislovodsk (in September 2003, as a result of the explosion of a truck with explosives in the building of the FSB Directorate, three were killed and more than 20 people were injured, and as a result of the explosion of two landmines planted under the railway track on the Kislovodsk-Mineralnye section water”, seven people were killed and more than 50 were injured); raid on Ingushetia (in June 2004, as a result of a militant attack on Nazran, Karabulak and the village of Sleptsovskaya, 79 people were killed, including 43 law enforcement officers, 105 were injured); siege of a school in Beslan (in September 2004, 1,127 people were taken hostage by terrorists; later, more than 300 hostages died.

The Izvestia newspaper, in particular, reported that in Beslan, “Brigadier General” Umarov was identified by a teenager who managed to escape from the school during its capture. It was later reported that all participants in the Beslan school seizure were killed - with the exception of one terrorist, Nurpashi Kulaev (he was detained and on May 26, 2006 sentenced by the Supreme Court of North Ossetia to life imprisonment in a special regime colony). Umarov was not among those killed. The Chechen authorities also suspected that Umarov was related to the terrorist attack in Beslan - news agencies reported that immediately after the terrorist attack, fighters from the detachment of the then First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov captured relatives of Maskhadov and Umarov. At the same time, in Leonid Velikhov’s book “Beslan. Who is guilty?" only one link was named between Umarov and the terrorists: it was alleged that among the participants in the seizure of the school was a certain Abdul-Azim Labazanov, who had once fought in Umarov’s detachment. And according to Segodnya magazine, Umarov was planning the Beslan terrorist attack.

In March 2004, Umarov declared himself the successor of the murdered Gelayev and took control of militant detachments in the Achkhoy-Martan, Urus-Martan and Shatoi regions.

In August 2004, Umarov was appointed Minister of State Security of Ichkeria. At that time, Umarov often met with the leader of the Chechen militants, Shamil Basayev, who, according to Russian media, was an indisputable authority for him.

On April 16, 2005, the FSB carried out an unsuccessful operation to capture Umarov in one of the multi-storey buildings in Grozny. In the battle, which lasted all day, four FSB officers were killed and two were wounded. Umarov was not among the six militants killed. At the same time, one militant managed to escape. The media assumed that it was Umarov. Soon after this, Umarov was appointed vice-president of Ichkeria (under President Abdul-Halim Saidullaev) while retaining the post of Minister of State Security (Director of the National Security Service).

On May 5, 2005, Umarov's 70-year-old father, wife and 6-month-old son were abducted by Russian security forces in Chechnya. On the night of August 12, 2005, in the south-west of Chechnya, Doku Umarov's sister Natalya Khumaidova was kidnapped by armed men in camouflage uniforms - presumably law enforcement officers. According to the separatists, the abducted were taken to Ramzan Kadyrov’s personal prison in the village of Khosi-Yurt. After this, Umarov accused the Russian authorities of targeted abductions of relatives of the separatists and threatened to transfer the fighting to other regions of the country. Novaya Gazeta claimed that Umarov's relatives were arrested by Kadyrov's security service only because the first deputy prime minister of Chechnya wanted to discover his father's killers by May 9, the anniversary of his death (Chechnya President Akhmad Kadyrov died in a terrorist attack on a stadium in Grozny on May 9 2004.

On June 17, 2006, in connection with the death of Saidulaev, Umarov began to perform his duties as president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In August 2006, the RIA Novosti news agency reported that Umarov surrendered to the authorities of the Republic of Chechnya and was in one of Ramzan Kadyrov’s residences. Earlier, a source in the Chechen government told reporters that Kadyrov “carried out work with Umarov’s relatives and through intermediaries for his surrender.” Later, news agencies reported that Doku Umarov remained free, and his brother Akhmad Umarov surrendered to the authorities. Then it turned out that he did not surrender to anyone, and a year and a half before that he was taken hostage.

On April 27, 2007, Russian news agencies reported that a group of extremists had been discovered near the village of Shatoy, which, according to Chechen security forces, was commanded by Umarov. Three Mi-8 helicopters with military personnel were sent to the location where the group was discovered. When approaching the battle site, one of the helicopters, according to preliminary data, was shot down. As a result of the disaster, 17 people died - three crew members and 14 military personnel. It was later reported that the fighting in the area where the helicopter crashed ended on April 28, and the helicopter itself crashed due to technical problems, but was not shot down by militants. Rumors about Umarov’s death were not confirmed in the press.

On August 13, 2007, as a result of the explosion of railway tracks in the Novgorod region, the Nevsky Express train Moscow - St. Petersburg derailed, resulting in 60 people injured. One of the considered versions of the organization of the terrorist attack was associated with the so-called Chechen trace, in particular, soon after the explosion, the Riyadus Salihiin group, associated with Chechen separatists, took responsibility for it. In October 2007, Salanbek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev, suspected of involvement in the train bombing, were detained in Ingushetia, neighboring Chechnya. At the trial in their case, which began at the end of June 2009, the prosecution representative stated that the terrorist attack was carried out by a terrorist group operating under the control of Umarov.

On October 12, 2007, information appeared in the press that Umarov led the kidnapping of Uruskhan Zyazikov, uncle of the President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov. Uruskhan Zyazikov was kidnapped from the mosque in March 2007. Tens of millions of dollars were demanded for his release. According to the RIA Novosti news agency, the kidnappers hid the hostage on the territory of Ingushetia and Chechnya, and the special services knew where exactly. However, the forceful release was unsafe for the life of the hostage, and it was decided to negotiate. As a result, according to the official version, the hostage was released without paying a ransom. A source from the Interfax news agency said that the kidnappers were simply tired of holding the elderly man hostage, and they released him for the sake of the holiday (Eid al-Fitr, the holiday of the end of fasting in the holy month of Ramadan, began on October 12). On the evening of October 11, the kidnappers brought the hostage to one of the police posts. Based on the fact of the abduction, a criminal case was opened under Part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“kidnapping”), which provided for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of up to 20 years.

In October 2007, Umarov announced the creation of the “Caucasian Emirate” (the author of the concept was called Movladi Udugov). Umarov proclaimed himself the emir of Caucasian Muslims, while declaring jihad against Great Britain, the United States and Israel. This caused a split among the Chechen separatists. In November 2007, due to the fact that Doku Umarov “withdrew from the duties of the president,” members of the Ichkerian parliament who were in European countries elected a new head of government, who became Akhmed Zakaev.

At the end of November - beginning of December 2007, 24 people were killed as a result of explosions on buses in the North Caucasus, and Umarov was suspected of involvement in the terrorist attacks. However, in January 2008, the head of the Chechen parliament, Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov, stated that Umarov was not capable of controlling any terrorist groups.

In the spring of 2008, two more criminal cases were opened against Umarov related to inciting ethnic hatred on the Internet and banditry.

At the beginning of July 2008, it was reported that Umarov was blocked by special forces in one of the Chechen villages, but this story was not continued. In November of the same year, it was reported that Umarov was allegedly hiding on the border of Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

In June 2009, the Chechen authorities announced the completion of the first stage of the special operation against militants, in which employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and Ingushetia took part. At the same time, State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, who headed the operation, announced that Umarov was seriously wounded during the battle near the Ingush village of Dattykh, but it was not possible to capture him. A few days later, however, reports emerged that Umarov had died during the special operation, although Chechen officials refused to announce this until the militant's death was legally confirmed. That same month, a high-ranking source in the Russian intelligence services reported that the identities of the separatists killed during a special operation in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia had been established - Umarov was not among them.

On October 30, 2009, an order was issued by the Chairman of the Chechen Parliament Abdurakhmanov “On the dissolution of telephone “parliaments” and “governments”, as well as the “Caucasian Emirate” and other structures, associations and groups of Chechens created outside the Chechen Republic, either on behalf of the Chechen people and not corresponding to the Constitution of the Chechen Republic,” in accordance with which, in particular, “the 'Caucasian emirate' of Dokku Umarov, located in hole No. 35 in the unknown mountain-forested square No. 17, was dissolved.”

At the beginning of December 2009, a statement was posted on the separatist website kavkazcenter.com on behalf of Umarov (Emir Dokki Abu Usman). According to him, Umarov took responsibility for the terrorist attack committed a few days earlier, as a result of which the Nevsky Express train was blown up. The media reporting this emphasized that the posted statement did not provide any details of the terrorist attack, and this was uncharacteristic of statements by militants who actually participated in such actions.

The Investigative Committee under the RF Prosecutor's Office did not comment on Umarov's statement, but representatives of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs were inclined to consider all the latest statements made on behalf of the militant about the terrorist attacks he allegedly carried out on the territory of the country, including his statement about his involvement in the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric station , which occurred in August 2009, as an attempt to “remind ourselves once again.”

On February 7, 2010, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation officially banned the organization “Imarat Kavkaz” (“Caucasian Emirate”), headed by Umarov, recognizing it as terrorist and threatening the territorial integrity of Russia.

At the end of March 2010, two explosions that occurred in the Moscow metro received wide resonance, as a result of which 40 people were killed and more than 90 people were injured. On March 31, 2010, two days after the attacks, a video message from Umarov appeared, in which he took responsibility for them and stated that they were a response to one of the operations of Russian law enforcement agencies in the North Caucasus.

In June of the same year, on the eve of a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States, the United States State Department added Umarov’s name to the list of international terrorists. According to analysts, the inclusion of the name of the leader of the Chechen separatists in the list of terrorists should have complicated the provision of any, including financial, assistance to Umarov.

At the end of July 2010, the media, citing the website of the Caucasian separatists, reported that Umarov had resigned as “Emir of the Caucasus Emirate” for health reasons. Umarov allegedly appointed a certain Aslambek Vadalov as his successor. However, a few days later, after Ramzan Kadyrov called on the heads of the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic to strengthen special operations to find the militant, Reuters reported that Umarov changed his mind about resigning as “emir”. At the same time, “due to a violation of official discipline, expressed in the publication without approval of video material for internal use, not intended for public disclosure,” one of the separatist ideologists Movladi Udugov was removed from the post of “director of the information and analytical service of the Caucasus Emirate.”

On August 10, a number of field commanders, including Vadalov, announced their withdrawal from subordination to Umarov. As a result, according to some experts, Umarov’s “emirate” was actually left without a Chechen wing. A little more than a month later, Umarov announced the demotion of field commanders who had broken away from the “emirate” and the need to subject them to Sharia courts. Meanwhile, these commanders themselves in October 2010 declared their new leader Khusein Gakayev, to whom Akhmed Zakayev, who was in the UK, also swore allegiance.

On January 24, 2011, a terrorist attack occurred at Moscow Domodedovo airport: the explosion killed 37 people. Umarov again took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

In March 2011, Umarov was included in the special consolidated list of the UN Security Council Committee on Sanctions against Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and related individuals and organizations. Thus, UN member states had to impose sanctions on Umarov, which included freezing his financial assets, prohibiting him from traveling and providing him with any assistance.

Umarov belongs to the Mulkoy teip. Married (to the daughter of field commander Daud Akhmadov, a close ally of Dzhokhar Dudayev), he has six children. He was awarded the highest orders of Ichkeria - “Koman Siy” (Honor of the Nation) and “Koman Turpal” (Hero of the Nation), as well as a personalized weapon from Dudayev. By the early 2000s, Umarov was considered one of the most influential field commanders after Basayev. His detachments and small groups (with a total number of about 250-300 people) operated in the high-mountainous Shatoisky, Itum-Kalinsky and a number of foothill regions of Chechnya, as well as in Grozny.

The official goal of the CoE is to create, through violent measures, an Islamic emirate in the North Caucasus, southern Russia and the Volga region, of which Umarov will become the emir.

Umarov made a number of public statements calling on followers to turn to violence in the fight against KE's sworn enemies, including the United States, as well as Israel, Russia and the UK.

Worldwide dangerous. Doku Umarov was recognized as one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world

14.03.2011

Elena Bugayskaya, Rossiyskaya Gazeta –

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Security Council Committee on Sanctions against Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, as well as individuals and organizations associated with them, decided to include Doku Umarov, “the leader of international terrorist gangs stationed in the Northern Caucasus". The ministry recalled that this person was involved in carrying out “numerous bloody terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation,” and also that it was he who took responsibility for the recent explosion at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, which killed dozens of citizens of Russia and other countries.

Our country submitted an application to include Doku Umarov on this list back in November 2010, however, at the suggestion of the United States, consideration of this issue was postponed. The fact that the UN Security Council made a positive decision means, in the opinion of the Russian Foreign Ministry, that Umarov’s crimes were given an objective assessment.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, in practical terms, in accordance with this decision of the Security Council, UN member states are obliged to immediately introduce a sanctions regime against Umarov, providing for the freezing of all financial assets belonging to him, a ban on movement and the provision of any assistance, including the supply of weapons, financial resources and etc.

Doku Umarov is an organizer and active participant in terrorist activities in the North Caucasus. He is wanted on numerous charges of terrorism, kidnapping, murder and other serious crimes. Last June, the United States officially included Umarov on its list of international terrorists.

Fraternal arrest. A relative of terrorist Doku Umarov was detained in Italy

01.02.2011

Oleg Kiryanov, Vyacheslav Prokofiev,

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - Federal issue No. 5395.

Ruslan, the younger brother of Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov, the organizer of the Beslan school siege in 2004, as well as a number of other bloody terrorist acts, was arrested in northern Italy.

The arrest took place at the Mestre train station, near Venice. 35-year-old Ruslan Umarov was removed from the Eurostar train, which was supposed to go to Paris.

Ruslan Umarov is not as famous and significant a figure as his brother Doka. The media actively started talking about Ruslan only once - in 2005, when he was kidnapped in Chechnya by unknown armed people. However, they then claimed that he was 43 years old, which is actually 13 years older than what was reported now. It is known that Ruslan is raising four children. After the abduction, Ruslan was quite unexpectedly released, and then, upon returning, began to travel around the countries of the Middle East and Europe. True, due to his brother’s terrorist activities, he was constantly under close surveillance by law enforcement agencies. In 2007, Ruslan Umarov was detained in France and deported to Russia. It was at that time that Doka Umarov declared himself the leader of the Caucasus Emirate. Apparently, Ruslan had no problems traveling abroad. It is believed that he arrived in Italy this time through Bosnia or Kosovo.

But the European intelligence services still did not forget about him. It is interesting that information about the visit of the Chechen terrorist’s brother to the Apennine Peninsula was received by the Italian intelligence services from the French, who, apparently, decided to control every step of Ruslan Umarov. During the arrest, which took place in one of the sleeping cars of a railway express, Umarov did not resist. A one-way ticket, money, and four passport-size photographs were found on him. According to Italian investigators, Ruslan Umarov most likely intended to use them to obtain fake documents.

Immediately after his arrest, he was taken to the Questura in the nearest suburb of Venice, Marghera, where the regional immigration office is located. The fact is that Ruslan Umarov, who did not have an identity card with him, let alone a passport, is considered by the Italian authorities as an illegal immigrant.

Apparently, having a good knowledge of Italian laws, the brother of the famous militant asked for asylum “on humanitarian grounds.” His application must be considered by a commission of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs. This means that at this time it will not be able to be issued to any third party. According to the Italian newspaper Nuova Venezia, Ruslan Umarov fears that a request for his expulsion will come from Russia. At the same time, he told investigators that he “does not share” the views of his older brother, because of whom all sorts of suspicions fall on him. Currently, Ruslan is in a temporary detention center in the town of Gradiska d Isonzo.

The fact that the terrorist's brother ended up on Italian territory causes great concern among local counterintelligence officers. Now they are trying to establish how long Umarov was in the Apennines and with whom he communicated

Escape from Moscow

02/28/2011, Svetlana Emelyanova,

At the Kievsky railway station, officers of the FSB of the Russian Federation, while trying to escape abroad, detained Khasu Batalov, a native of the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya who had been on the federal wanted list since 2009.

As reported by the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC), the militant is suspected of involvement in the preparation of suicide bombers and the terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport on January 24, as well as connections with the leader of the criminal underground, Doku Umarov.

— There is information about his close connection with the wanted man Aslan Byutukaev, born in 1974, who is suspected of involvement in organizing a terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport. Byutukaev, in a video message from Doku Umarov published on one of the gangster sites about sending a militant named Seifulakh to Moscow to carry out terrorist attacks, was captured together with the leader of the gangster formations, the NAC explained.

According to operational information, in December 2009, Batalov was appointed by Umarov as the leader of a bandit group with a zone of responsibility in the Achkhoy-Martan region of Chechnya. He was involved in organizing a number of terrorist crimes, attacks on representatives of federal forces and republican law enforcement agencies, including the shelling of a checkpoint on December 15, 2010, as a result of which a policeman and a civilian were injured.

Batalov, along with several accomplices and his sister, intended to travel abroad using forged documents. The fact that four Chechens were detained in the capital was announced on February 16 by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, Ruslan Alkhanov. Then a special operation to capture dangerous criminals was carried out at the Kievsky railway station a few minutes before the militants were about to leave the capital. 26-year-old Khasan Nazhaev, 30-year-old Ruslan Yusupov, 28-year-old Ramzan Khaliev and 39-year-old widow of one of the field commanders, Angela Batalova, bought train tickets to Chisinau, but were unable to leave Moscow - criminal investigation officers took all four of them before departure .

According to operational information, it was Khasu Batalov’s sister Angela Batalova who tried to organize the travel abroad of three people, one of whom was on the federal wanted list and two of whom were accomplices of members of illegal armed groups. The group also included Khasu Batalov, who had fake documents in his hands in the name of Ruslan Yusupov. Batalov was taken to Grozny.

Doku Umarov's closest accomplices were killed during a special operation in Ingushetia

31.03.2011
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - www.rg.ru

According to RG, the result of a recent large-scale special operation in Ingushetia was the liquidation of the inner circle of the leader of gangster groups in the North Caucasus, Doku Umarov.

Last Monday, as a result of a fierce battle near the village of Verkhniy Alkun in the Sunzhensky district of the republic, in which aviation was involved, a large gang of militants was eliminated - according to preliminary data from the special services, 17 bandits were killed. 14 bodies and human remains were found, which may belong to three more members of the gang.

Among the killed militants, the closest ally of the current number one terrorist, Supyan Abdullayev, was visually identified, who was not without reason dubbed “Doki’s dog.” He was the second person in the hierarchy of the gangster underground in the Caucasus, the so-called Caucasus Emirate, and was considered one of the most seasoned bandits. 54-year-old Abdullaev held the “position” of the supreme qadi among the militants - an expert on religious issues.

In addition, another odious figure was identified among the killed “forest brothers” - Doku Umarov’s personal doctor, Yusup Buzurtanov.

The identity of one of the two bandits who opened fire on law enforcement officers on Wednesday near a bus stop in the village of Nizhny Alkun during a police raid to check documents has been identified. As is known, the unknown people were in camouflage and armed with machine guns, as well as homemade grenades - “khattabs”, which they did not have time to use. One of them was identified as Ibragim Tsoroev, who was on the federal wanted list, whose relatives had previously claimed that the guy was allegedly kidnapped by law enforcement officers. As it turned out, the young man joined illegal armed groups, for which he paid with his life.

The identification of other bandits killed during the special operation continues. A genetic examination of the bodies of killed militants is currently being carried out. Whether Doku Umarov himself is among them is still unknown. By the way, the leader of the gangs has already “died” eight times, but until now reports of his death have turned out to be false. Whether he was lucky this time, time will tell. In any case, a deafening blow has been dealt to the bandit underground, from which it is unlikely to recover soon.

The United States will pay five million dollars for information about Doku Umarov

26.05.2011

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - www.rg.ru

The United States will pay a reward of $5 million for information about terrorist Doku Umarov, according to a joint Russian-American statement following negotiations between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama.

“Today the United States also announces the inclusion of Doku Umarov in the national program

“Reward for Advancement of Justice,” offering up to $5 million for information leading to the location of this key terrorist leader who has claimed responsibility for, among other things, the Moscow subway bombings and the 2010 St. Petersburg-Moscow railway attack. year, as well as for the explosion at Domodedovo airport,” says the joint statement, RIA Novosti reports.

The US announcement of a $5 million reward for information about the location of Doku Umarov is purely declarative in nature and signifies Washington’s desire to publicly demonstrate its readiness to cooperate with Russia, says Alexey Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

“This is an absolutely declarative step. The Americans thereby declare that they have some common points of contact with Russia. Washington publicly expresses its desire to help Russia. And, in general, this is good,” Malashenko said.

At the same time, according to the political scientist, the practical side of this issue is of much greater interest.

In turn, Russia, as stated in the document, welcomed the US decision “to add Doku Umarov to the list provided for by Executive Order N13224 of Specially Wanted International Terrorists, and to add his group “Caucasus Emirate” to this list as a separate item.”

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Doku Umarov is an active participant in the terrorist movement in Chechnya (1990s - 2000s, one of the leaders of illegal armed groups). The last president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (2006-2007). Since October 2007 - emir (amir) of the virtual state of the Caucasian Emirate (Caucasus Emirate), recognized by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization.

Doku Umarov at various times, through video messages, stated that the largest terrorist attacks in Russia in recent years: the bombing of the Nevsky Express train (November 27, 2009), explosions in the Moscow metro (March 29, 2010), the explosion at Domodedovo airport on January 24, 2011 years), as well as a number of other terrorist attacks were carried out on his personal orders.

He is currently on the federal wanted list on charges of robbery, murder, kidnapping, committing terrorist acts, disseminating calls to overthrow the government and inciting ethnic hatred. Former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Arkady Edelev claimed that Umarov was hiding in the mountainous and wooded areas of the North Caucasus. According to Ramzan Kadyrov, Umarov personally kidnapped and shot people.

On June 23, 2010, the United States officially included Doku Umarov on the list of international terrorists. On March 11, 2011, the UN Security Council included Doku Umarov in the list of terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda.

Umarov took responsibility for Budanov's death

Last weekend, a new video message from the leader of the Caucasian separatists, Doku Umarov, appeared on the Internet. The formal reason for the appeal was the death of Colonel Yuri Budanov. His real goal is to show that after the spring defeat, the bandit underground has been reorganized and is capable of continuing terrorist activities.

In the video, Umarov was filmed together with one of his deputies, Aslan Byutukaev, also known as Amir Khamzat. Byutukaev in the video does not say a word and does not look at the camera at all. At the same time, the cameraman tries to ensure that Byutukaev is in the center of the frame, while the speaker Umarov stays as if to the side. Thus, the message that the militants wanted to send with this video is quite obvious: “Khamzat is alive.”

The fact is that when at the end of March, during a special operation, a large militant base in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia was destroyed, official sources reported: Byutukaev’s body was discovered and identified at the site of the airstrike. In addition, before the video that appeared the day before, there was no reliable evidence that Umarov himself was alive, although after a DNA examination it became clear that he was not among the found corpses.

Now there is irrefutable evidence on the Internet that both militant leaders are alive and well. And Budanov’s death was used only as an informational occasion and a way of timing - supposedly the filming took place the day after the murder in Moscow, June 11.

Despite the fact that news agencies initially reported that Umarov and the bombing wing of his organization, Riyadus Salihiin, took responsibility for the murder of a colonel accused of murdering and raping the Chechen girl Elza Kungaeva, such a conclusion cannot be drawn from the video itself. The leader of the militants only expresses his joy over the death of the “sadist, wicked, murderer Budanov.”

The very nature of the murder does not allow us to assume that Riyadus Salihiin organized the murder of Budanov. The “Gardens of the Righteous”, the newest Uravo call, is responsible for such actions as last year’s terrorist attacks on the market in Vladikavkaz, in the Moscow metro and Domodedovo airport, and the assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. In all these actions, the main weapon was explosives, not firearms, and the perpetrators were most often suicide bombers.

Budanov, on the contrary, was shot by a hired killer with a pistol, after lengthy surveillance and preparation. The style of this execution allows us to place it on a par with the murders of Ruslan and Sulim Yamadayev, Anna Politkovskaya, for which no terrorist organizations took responsibility.

Nevertheless, the mention of “Riyadus Salihiin” is not accidental. Aslan Byutukaev is the leader of this organization. He personally prepared for the terrorist attack on Magomed Evloev, who exploded at Domodedovo. According to some reports, at a recent gathering of militants, Byutukaev, who a year ago was an ordinary fighter in the bandit underground, was recognized as Umarov’s deputy. Such a rapid rise of “Emir Khamzat” in the separatist hierarchy is explained by the fact that he actively supported Umarov during last year’s split in the ranks of the Caucasus Emirate.

According to the separatist information portal, at the same congress there was a reconciliation between Umarov and the initiators of the split: Aslambek Vadalov and Khusein Gakalov. If this information is confirmed, then all the triumphant statements of officials that the underground is bloodless and close to collapse will be called into question.

Dokka (Doku) Khamatovich Umarov, aka Abu Usman(Chech. Ӏumaran Khyamadi kӀant Dokka, April 13, 1964, village of Kharsenoy, Chechnya - presumably summer 2013, place of death unknown) - leader of the Islamist separatist terrorist movement in Chechnya (from the 1990s to January 2014, one of the leaders of illegal armed groups) and in the North Caucasus. Last president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (2006-2007, government in exile). Since October 2007, he has been the emir (amir) of the virtual state “Caucasian Emirate” (Caucasus Emirate), recognized by the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization, at the same time the emir of the “vilayat Nokhchiycho” (Former territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria).

At various times, through video messages, he stated that the largest terrorist attacks in Russia in recent years: the bombing of the Nevsky Express train (11/27/2009), explosions in the Moscow metro (03/29/2010), the explosion at Domodedovo airport (01/24/2011), and also a number of other terrorist attacks were carried out on his personal orders.

He is currently on the federal wanted list on charges of robbery, murder, kidnapping, committing terrorist acts, disseminating calls to overthrow the government and inciting ethnic hatred. According to Ramzan Kadyrov, Umarov is a specialist in kidnapping, “personally shot them, demanded ransom for the kidnapped people.”

On June 23, 2010, the United States officially included Doku Umarov on the list of international terrorists. On March 11, 2011, the UN Security Council included Doku Umarov in the list of terrorists associated with al-Qaeda. On May 26, 2011, the United States announced a $5 million reward for information about the location of Doku Umarov.

Biography

Doku Umarov was born on April 13, 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy, Shatoisky district, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Belongs to the Mulkoy teip. Graduated from the Grozny Oil Institute, civil engineer. He worked on construction sites in different regions of Russia.

In the 1980s, he was convicted of negligent homicide. He served time in Grozny prison. Having freed himself, he got a job in the Tyumen region, soon taking the position of commercial director of the Tyumen-Agda F-4 company. It is alleged that in July 1992, Umarov and the head of the department of the same company, Musa Ataev, nicknamed “Mosol,” had a conflict with two young men who lived in one of the regional villages. Umarov and Ataev arrived there and tried to break into the house of one of them. Their entrance was blocked by the father of a young man, who was the first to be wounded with a pistol (he survived), then they killed the two people inside, after which they took valuables from the rooms and disappeared. On July 13, 1992, the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region charged Umarov and Ataev with murder in absentia and put them on the federal wanted list. (This criminal case was closed in 2010, as the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution had expired.)

Said Buryatsky testified: “Yes, before the start of the first jihad, Abu Usman Dokku Umarov was a racketeer in Russia, and this is no secret to anyone.”

Hiding from law enforcement agencies, Umarov went to Chechnya. Before the start of the First Chechen War, he served in the Borz special forces regiment under the command of Ruslan Gelayev, who was his distant relative.

First Chechen War and interwar period

He took part in hostilities against Russian troops in the First Chechen War, and at the end of 1994 he led one of the militant detachments operating in the area of ​​his ancestral village. According to some allegations, his marriage to the daughter of the influential field commander Daud Akhmadov - a close ally of Dzhokhar Dudayev - allowed him to receive a worthy post in the circle of the President of Ichkeria. By 1996 he became a brigadier general of the ChRI. In the summer of 1996, Umarov was one of the accomplices in the execution of thirty police and military Chechens who defended Grozny. Since the end of 1996, together with Arbi Barayev, he has been involved in kidnappings in order to obtain ransom for them. According to law enforcement agencies, Umarov was directly involved in the abduction in March 1999 of the special representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya, Gennady Shpigun, for whose release they demanded $15 million.

In the government of CRI President Aslan Maskhadov, he was Secretary of the National Security Council (from June 1, 1997), head of the headquarters for coordinating the fight against crime (from November 1997). In 1998, by decree of Maskhadov, he was removed from all posts for an attack on employees of the ChRI prosecutor's office and involvement in kidnappings. According to Said Buryatsky, Umarov and Gelayev visited Pakistan. Umarov publicly promised to shoot Maskhadov if he negotiated with the Russian leadership.

Second Chechen War

With the beginning of the Second Chechen War, Umarov actively participated in hostilities on the side of the militants. In January 2000, during the breakout from Grozny, he was seriously wounded in the jaw - he received a maxillofacial injury while crossing a minefield, after which he was treated in Nalchik at the maxillofacial surgery clinic in 2000, which was provided by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, this issue was supervised Minister Vladimir Rushailo personally (“the Ministry of Internal Affairs had long-term plans for Doku Umarov”; later, with his help, a number of foreign hostages were released). As Said Buryatsky wrote about this: “When leaving Grozny, he was seriously wounded - a blast wave and shrapnel pierced his head, crushed his jaw and tore the skin from his face. But, despite the lack of medical care and the wounds festering, when they had to drill into the skull to remove the pus, he survived.” Then he was in Georgia, after which, leading a small group of militants, he returned to Chechnya.

Since August 2002, Maskhadov was appointed commander of the Southwestern Front of the Armed Forces of the ChRI, and since August 2004, director of the National Security Service of the ChRI.

In August 2002, Umarov participated in the seizure of settlements in the Vedeno and Urus-Martan regions. In March 2004, he declared himself the successor of the murdered Ruslan Gelayev and took control of militant detachments in the Achkhoy-Martan, Urus-Martan and Shatoi regions. Participated in the kidnapping of Alexey Klimov and Nadezhda Pogosova, employees of the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic (kidnapped on December 27, 2002 on the way from Grozny to Mozdok airport, released a year later as a result of a special operation by the FSB). Involved in the explosions of the building of the FSB Directorate of Ingushetia and the train in Kislovodsk in September 2003. As a result of the explosion of a truck with explosives in the FSB building, 3 people were killed and more than 20 were injured, and as a result of the explosion of an electric train, seven people were killed and more than 50 were injured.

He was the commander of a large (up to several hundred members) detachment, which was replenished in 2004 with members of the detachment of the murdered Ruslan Gelayev. At the beginning of 2004, the President of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, lists Basayev, Umarov, Arsanov as “the main clan of Wahhabis in Chechnya.” He was one of the organizers of the militant raid on Ingushetia on June 22, 2004 and the leader of the attack on Grozny on August 21, 2004.

On June 2, 2005, by decree of the President of the ChRI, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, he was appointed vice-president of the ChRI, retaining the post of director of the National Security Service. Umarov himself recalled this later in such a way that in 2002, the then President of the ChRI Aslan Maskhadov chose Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev as his chief vice-president, and made the latter a veset (will), so that in the event of his death (and therefore, Sadulaev’s taking up the post of president ) he chose Umarov as his naib (vice-president).

The “unexpectedly large influx of dollar cash” refers to the $5 million received by Umarov in May 2006 as ransom for a wealthy hostage, of which Umarov sent $1.5 million to Sadulayev.

President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

On June 17, 2006, in connection with the death of Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, Umarov began to serve as president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. This was expected: “Sadulaev himself promised last year that in the event of his death, his vice-president Doku Umarov would become the new leader of the Chechen separatists,” the BBC noted. “Umarov is one of the most experienced field commanders, whose authority among militants is comparable to the fame of Shamil Basayev,” the Caucasian Knot noted in those days. With his first decrees, Umarov relieved Shamil Basayev from the post of Deputy Prime Minister and appointed him to the post of Vice President.

Umarov’s address as the new president of Ichkeria, published on the Internet on June 23, 2006, stated that Ichkeria continues to remain, although occupied, an independent state, and “the Chechen people pursue one single goal - to be free and equal among all the peoples of the world.” Announcing plans to expand the combat zone into Russian territory, Umarov noted: “However, at the same time, I responsibly declare that the targets of our strikes and attacks will be exclusively military and police facilities... I, like my predecessors in the presidential post, will also resolutely suppress all strikes against civilian objects and persons.” Umarov threatened Chechens working in state structures created by Russia with “curse and contempt” of their descendants, promising to create special units in the structures of all active “fronts” whose task would be to eliminate “the most odious national traitors and war criminals from the occupation forces sentenced to death.” capital punishment by the Sharia court."

It is known that in the summer of 2006, Kadyrov “worked with Umarov’s relatives and through intermediaries to surrender him,” then Doku Umarov’s younger brother surrendered (it was initially reported that Doku Umarov himself surrendered, but later this information was refuted).

In September 2007, Doku Umarov addressed the Muslims of the Caucasus and Russia via the Internet, congratulated them on the arrival of the blessed month of Ramadan - the month of purification and success, and once again recalled the situation of their fighting brothers in the Caucasus: “Muslims must remember their brothers and sisters, those who went out to Jihad, and help with property, weapons, words, support for the families of Mujahideen and Martyrs, help for the wounded and disadvantaged.”

On October 3, 2007, he posthumously reinstated the rank of Brigadier General Arbi Barayev, who was actively involved in kidnappings for ransom, and also posthumously awarded the rank of Generalissimo to terrorist Shamil Basayev.

Amir of the Caucasus Emirate

In October 2007, Umarov announced the creation of the “Caucasian Emirate” and called on supporters to fight not only against Russia, but also against other countries:

We are an integral part of the Islamic Ummah. I am saddened by the position of those Muslims who declare enemies only those infidels who attacked them directly. At the same time, they seek support and sympathy from other infidels, forgetting that all infidels are one nation. Today our brothers are fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Palestine. Everyone who attacked Muslims, no matter where they were, is our common enemy. Our enemy is not only Russia, but also America, England, Israel, everyone who is waging war against Islam and Muslims. Is the Caucasian Emirate a Threat to the Western World?

Akhmed Zakaev sharply opposed this line, inspired by the Islamist ideologist Movladi Udugov. According to Zakaev’s supporters, by “telephone voting” among members of the so-called. of the “Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” Zakayev was elected “Prime Minister” of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, since Umarov “withdrew from performing the duties of the President.” For its part, the leadership of the “Caucasian Emirate” declared Zakayev’s activities anti-state, instructing the Sharia court and the Mukhabarat security service to deal with him, accusing him of involvement in the deaths of the CRI presidents Maskhadov and Sadulayev.

Shamsuddin Batukaev testified that the announcement of Umarov as amir occurred “with the consent of the mujahideen and amirs,” by their majority.

The President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov repeatedly suggested that Umarov surrender to law enforcement agencies:

I strongly urge Doku Umarov to kneel down and, with tears in his eyes, ask for forgiveness from the people.

Your fellow terrorists fled to the West, and I advise you to do the same if you don’t have the courage to kneel before the people. ...I see a worthy way out for Umarov - to shoot himself or stand trial if he considers himself innocent.

Kadyrov also repeatedly stated that Umarov was seriously ill and wounded:

“I have reliable information that Umarov is seriously ill, he does not have a single tooth in his mouth, and his legs are rotting from hypothermia. The winter will be cold, he won’t survive it.”

In December 2007 - January 2008, during an inspection tour of the regions of Ichkeria and Ingushetia, Doku Umarov noted that this year was the first since the beginning of the second war when the Mujahideen remained in almost full strength at their bases in the winter.

A special linguistic-semantic examination of the video recording of Umarov’s address established that “his address contains statements aimed at inciting hatred on grounds of nationality, attitudes towards religion, in particular, it contained calls for violent actions against persons of a certain nationality, and against other social groups (law enforcement officers and representatives of state government agencies)»

According to the Rosbalt agency, citing a source in the special services, in November 2009, poisoned products were sent to Umarov. Having received information that Umarov had taken poison and having established its approximate location, the troops launched a missile strike at this place and began combing the forest. Umarov was not among the corpses found. According to the source, he managed to survive, however, “there is information that due to the poison, Umarov developed several serious illnesses.” (In August 2010, the head of the Center for Strategic Studies in the North Caucasus, Abdula Istamulov, testified that “various rumors that Doku Umarov was seriously ill have been circulating in the region lately. Either he was wounded or poisoned. Our sources also confirm the information about his serious illness.")

In his interview in February 2010, summing up the results of the past year, Doku Umarov noted the establishment of strict discipline in the ranks of the Mujahideen and streamlining the recruitment of recruits. He stated that since he became the Amir, the past year has been the most successful. Doku Umarov also noted the strengthening of the “awakening of Muslims in recent years,” he stated that “for the Kremlin today, the biggest enemies are us - the Mujahideen, who woke up from hibernation and came out to establish the word of Allah and the laws of Allah on this earth” (in confirmation of his words can be indicated that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev noted that “the biggest internal threat to Russia is terrorism and instability in the North Caucasus”).

On June 23, 2010, the United States officially included Doku Umarov on the list of international terrorists. Umarov's inclusion in this list occurred during the visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the United States; the decision to include it was made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In July 2010, Doku Umarov announced the appointment of Aslambek Vadalov as his deputy (naib) and successor in the event of his death.

On August 1, 2010, a video message from Doku Umarov became available to the general public, in which he stated that his health did not allow him to fulfill the duties of emir, and proposed Aslambek Vadalov as his successor. Umarov also noted that the jihad should be led by younger and more energetic amirs and especially emphasized that he himself intends to continue the jihad and will help in every possible way in word and deed.

The next day, August 2, 2010, Doku Umarov made a special address in which he stated that “due to the current situation in the Caucasus” he did not consider it possible for himself to resign as Emir of the Caucasus Emirate and disavowed his previous video message about resignation.

On August 13, 2010, Seifullah Gubdensky, who was appointed a month earlier as the supreme qadi of the Sharia Court of the Caucasus Emirate (he was killed a few days later), confirmed that “the only legitimate ruler of the Muslims of the Caucasus is and remains Amir Abu Usman.”

In an interview with the BBC, the editor-in-chief of the online publication “Caucasian Knot” Grigory Shvedov, commenting on Umarov’s appointment of the new Emir of Dagestan, noted that although “Umarov cannot act in a primitive authoritarian manner and appoint whoever he wants and who he wants, his influence is great "

Former Minister of Press of Chechnya Ruslan Martagov noted in the newspaper “Vzglyad” (10.28.2010) that funding from Arab countries passes through Umarov.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, at the beginning of 2011, Umarov was in the North Caucasus Federal District.

In January 2011, Doku Umarov made a comment in a public discussion on the issue of the state language of the Caucasus Emirate, separately considering the variants of the Ottoman and Arabic languages.

In his video message at the beginning of February 2011, Doku Umarov threatened Russia with new terrorist attacks and promised to give it a “year of blood and tears.” At the same time, Doku Umarov took responsibility for the explosion at Moscow Domodedovo airport on January 24. He noted that this special operation was carried out on his orders and that the explosion in Domodedovo is a response to “the oppression and murder of Muslims not only in the Caucasus, but throughout the Islamic world.” Somewhat later in the same month, the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Khloponin, said that he “can honestly say” that Doku Umarov is “no longer so influential in the Caucasus in terms of determining positions and setting tasks.”

On March 11, 2011, the UN Security Council Committee on Sanctions against Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and individuals and organizations associated with them decided to include Doku Umarov in its consolidated list, which obliges UN member states to immediately introduce In relation to Umarov, a sanctions regime provides for the freezing of all financial assets belonging to him, a ban on movement and the provision of any assistance, including the supply of weapons and financial resources.

On March 28, 2011, in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, a large-scale special operation was carried out aimed at eliminating Umarov, during which the militant base was destroyed - 19 militants were killed, including Supyan Abdullaev and Umarov’s personal doctor. It was assumed that Umarov could also be among the killed militants (see section Reports of death), but it later turned out that he managed to leave the base several hours before the start of the operation.

On May 26, 2011, the United States, as part of the national Rewards for Assistance to Justice program, announced a $5 million reward for information about the location of Doku Umarov. This was announced in a joint statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama. On May 28, 2011, the acting chairman of the Federation Council, Alexander Torshin, proposed adding another $5 million for the capture of Umarov, thus estimating the reward at $10 million.

According to Forbes magazine in June 2011, Umarov was one of three Russians on the list of the ten most dangerous criminal leaders in the world wanted by the FBI, the other two were Semyon Mogilevich at No. 5 and Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, nicknamed Taiwanchik, at No. 8, Umarov took the last, tenth place).

Apparently, having left Russia at the end of March 2011, Doku Umarov was in Turkey for at least a month, where he was recuperating in one of the provinces on the seashore (his brother Vakha lives in Istanbul (current as of October 2011), who, according to his own statement at the beginning of 2010, “he regularly communicates with Doku Umarov”). It is also known that Umarov received outpatient care in one of the military hospitals in Turkey. “Argumenty.ru” cites the words of an unnamed intelligence service representative working at the Russian Embassy in Turkey that Doku Umarov “lives modestly and quietly” in Turkey, being under the secret surveillance of both Turkish and Russian intelligence services: “The Turks fear that his underground and terrorist experience may be of interest to Kurdish terrorist organizations.”

According to information as of October 2011, Doku Umarov returned to Russia and reappeared in Ingushetia. Doku Umarov is probably located somewhere in the forest on the border of Chechnya with Ingushetia, notes Nezavisimaya Gazeta (10/18/2011).

It is believed that Doku Umarov spends most of his time in Ingushetia. “Umarov appears very rarely on the territory of Chechnya. A large reward has been announced for information about his whereabouts. And in Ingushetia he has many supporters, there are hard-to-reach areas where the federal government does not enter at all,” Argumenty.ru quotes a high-ranking officer in the security forces of Chechnya as saying.

On February 3, 2012, in another video message to Doku Umarov, as reported by the BBC, he called on his supporters to stop attacks on the civilian population of Russia, who, according to him, “are hostages of Putin,” and who, by their participation in protests, demonstrated their unwillingness to support Vladimir Putin’s policy: “Since civil protest processes have begun, and the population no longer accepts Putin’s policies, I order all groups carrying out special operations on Russian territory not to subject civilians to suffering.” It is also reported that Umarov issued an order obliging the “Mujahideen to carry out targeted and selective strikes on Russian territory against the targets of security forces, the army, intelligence services and the political leadership of Russia,” and responsibility for all possible attacks against the civilian population that may occur after the publication of his the order, Doku Umarov blamed on the “agonizing KGB regime.” A few days later, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed concern about the possible activation of the North Caucasus underground in connection with the upcoming presidential elections in Russia.

At the Shura of the vilayat of Nokhchiycho (Chechnya), held on April 29, Umarov addressed the Chechens: “Today we have a big request to you from me, Dokku Umarov, and from my soldiers: if it’s somehow difficult for you from us and from our government, then forgive us Muslim brothers and sisters.” He also noted: “...We are doing everything possible, and you do and follow this path with us, and be my warriors’ comrades and help them... Today they don’t need anything from you, but they need your brotherhood and help. We endure everything for your sake.” “Today on the street, from our religion, from our people, they abandoned us and left. There are many such people, they separated from us! For the sake of Allah, this cannot be done, our soldiers do not act this way, they are at home. They are not here for money, but for the sake of Allah and their land. They are tired. They do all this for you!”

From the Versiya newspaper in early June it became known that Umarov was hiding in one of the villas in the Turkish city of Izmir. At the very beginning of August, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, noted that Umarov may periodically appear in Ingushetia: “There is no exception that Doku Umarov may sometimes be in the Republic of Ingushetia.” In an interview with The New Times (October 1, 2012), in response to the journalist’s remark “Isn’t Doku Umarov abroad?” Yunus-Bek Yevkurov noted: “Wherever he is, he still manages the process.”

In the second half of 2012, there was an intensification of the armed Islamist underground in the North Caucasus. Thus, “in Ingushetia, the last 1.5-2 months have been intensifying,” notes its president Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (09/26/2012). The murder of Sufi Sheikh Said of Chirkey caused a wide resonance.

At the end of the year, on the eve of the New Year holidays, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, said that Umarov could be in the mountainous and wooded area of ​​the republic.

According to some reports, on January 10, 2013, an active search for Umarov’s group began in the Vedeno region of Chechnya, during which they managed to find Khusein and Muslim Gakayev and destroy them. On February 18, security forces resumed the search for militants in the Vedeno region, having reason to believe that Doku Umarov was hiding in the same places as the Gakaev brothers.

In April, in the village of Arshty, Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, a serious incident occurred between Chechen and Ingush security forces, the reason for which was the appearance of police officers from Chechnya in the village with unseemly, in the opinion of their Ingush colleagues, intentions. As Ramzan Kadyrov explained, the republic’s security forces received operational information that Doku Umarov and his entourage were hiding in Arshtakh. The operation to capture Umarov failed.

In May, after the holidays, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, did not rule out that Doku Umarov had long been dead, but noted that the special services were continuing to search for the terrorist.

On July 2, the rebel leader of the Caucasus Emirate appeared with a video message in which he called on his supporters to do their best to disrupt the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He also announced the lifting of the moratorium on operations in Russia, due to the fact that this was perceived in Moscow as weakness, and the persecution of Muslims intensified. This video message was the last in which Umarov was shown alive.

On December 15, the National Post newspaper, citing sources in Canadian intelligence, reported that Doku Umarov had not abandoned plans to carry out terrorist attacks during the Olympics in Sochi. The French newspaper Le Figaro recalls that Emir Doku Umarov called on his supporters to do everything to disrupt the Olympics, which, according to Vladimir Putin, should become “a symbol of the country’s newfound power.”

On January 16, 2014, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, stated that, according to his information, Doku Umarov was killed in early January as a result of a special operation. At the same time, Russian special services reported that they did not confirm Umarov’s death.

On the same day, a video appeared on YouTube in which an unknown representative of the armed underground confirms the death of Umarov, without providing any details.

On March 18, 2014, the extremist website Kavkaz Center officially confirmed the death of Doku Umarov. The date, place, circumstances of death and burial place of Umarov are unknown.

The pursuit

“Doku Umarov is one of the most famous separatist and terrorist leaders. He occupies one of the central places among the preachers of Islam in the Wahhabi sense. He is among those who incline the youth of the Caucasus to terrorist attacks and opposition to the authorities. Umarov is one of the most dangerous terrorists" (Pavel Danilin, 2011).

In January 2010, Ramzan Kadyrov said: “We do not intend to allow Umarov to sit in a rat hole while the young people he deceived and the civilian population die. If there is resistance, I have given the order to destroy this rat.”

The newspaper “Vzglyad” (01/29/2010) notes that Kadyrov does not call Umarova anything other than a “rat” for the last few months. So, in November 2009, the President of Chechnya said about him: “He, like a rat, is buried somewhere in the mountains, there are fewer and fewer people around him, and it is unlikely that he will be able to survive the autumn and winter, because they are following on his heels.” At the same time, Kadyrov stated: “There is nothing to talk about with this man, his place is in prison or underground.” In December 2009, Kadyrov, calling Umarov “a product of foreign intelligence services,” indicated that he is “for us (Chechens), as well as for the entire Russian people, for me personally, enemy number one.” In June 2011, Kadyrov said about Umarov: “We would like the rat to end up in the dock and while away his life in a Siberian colony. If he resists, no one will stand on ceremony.” “Umarov is a sick, frightened person who is sitting somewhere in a dugout and does not want to leave it... we can guarantee him only one thing: if he comes to confess to law enforcement agencies, he can count on a fair trial, otherwise we will find him and destroy him,” said the head of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ruslan Alkhanov, in August 2010. In August 2011, R. Alkhanov said: “Umarov is like a rat that constantly moves from place to place. He understands that law enforcement agencies do not sit idly by, so while he is alive, he cannot be safe. That's why he's constantly moving. If we knew exactly where he was at this time, we would have sent him to his friends Basayev and Maskhadov long ago.”

The difficulty of his pursuit is explained by the mountainous and wooded, extremely inaccessible nature of the area where he is hiding, and his high mobility (“Umarov never spends the night in the same place. He constantly moves,” - Isa Yamadayev). Yunus-bek Evkurov notes (September 2012): “He has a pretty serious counterintelligence regime. The approaches to Umarov have been cut off.”

In the summer of 2009, Ramzan Kadyrov stated that he had information that “Doku Umarov was seriously wounded during a special operation led by State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov. The bodies of four militants were found at the battle site.” According to Kadyrov, Umarov, despite being seriously wounded, managed to escape. Delimkhanov then stated that the four killed militants were Doku Umarov’s guards.

In 2005, a criminal case was opened against Umarov under the article “Organization of illegal armed groups.”

On June 23, 2010, the United States officially included Doku Umarov on the list of international terrorists. On March 11, 2011, the UN Security Council included Doku Umarov in the list of terrorists associated with al-Qaeda. On May 26, 2011, the United States included Doku Umarov in the national “Reward for Assistance to Justice” program and announced a reward of $5 million for information about his whereabouts (for comparison: for information about the whereabouts of Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, the Russian FSB announced a reward in 2004 $10 million, for any information leading to the capture of bin Laden's successor Ayman al-Zawahiri, the United States is currently offering $25 million, and $10 million was announced for the head of Iraqi al-Qaeda cell leader Abu Dua in October 2011) . However, the reward initially announced by the United States for the head of Osama bin Laden was also $5 million.

In response to Doku Umarov’s call to his supporters to disrupt the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said in July 2013 that “shaitan Umarov” would probably be destroyed before the start of the Games: “He is a shaitan, we will have him before the Olympics, I think , I am sure that we will destroy it. We look for him every day, he doesn’t appear anywhere,” Kadyrov said. At the same time, he stated that Doku Umarov is only a tool in the hands of “Western, European” enemies of Russia, who do not like the idea of ​​holding the Olympics in Sochi, and called him a “mother rat.”

Reports of death

Russian officials and media reported several times about the death of Doku Umarov, but then this information was officially denied. At present, the question of whether Doku Umarov is alive remains open: for example, the President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, claims that Doku Umarov was killed, but other sources in the special services do not confirm the death of Umarov.

The first report of Umarov’s death came on March 27, 2000, when the command of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus announced his death in battle in the Nozhai-Yurt region of Chechnya.

In September 2004, during the seizure of a school in Beslan, one of the teenagers allegedly identified Umarov, but Umarov was not among the killed terrorists.

On April 15, 2005, it was reported that 6 militants were blocked in a multi-story building in the Leninsky district of Grozny. It was reported that Umarov could be among them. As a result of the special operation, 5 militants were killed, one managed to escape. It was suggested that it was Umarov.

On June 8, 2009, the media spread the news that Doku Umarov was killed during a special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in May near the village of Dattykh, Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, but this information was subsequently refuted.

His death was reported on November 13, 2009 (a special operation in a forest area in the vicinity of the village of Shalazhi, Urus-Martan region), but this information was not confirmed.

In January 2011, information about the death of Doku Umarov reappeared. According to a source from the Lenta.ru website, “over the past few days, in the mountainous regions of Chechnya, facts have been promptly recorded by local residents discussing the possible death of the leader of the remnants of gangs, Doku Umarov.” But on February 7, 2011, a video recording of Doku Umarov’s appeal appeared on the Internet, which was distributed among the media, where the militant leader takes responsibility for the terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport on January 24 and promises to make 2011 “a year of blood and tears” for Russia. This recording is also being investigated in connection with the terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport.

On March 29, 2011, information appeared that Umarov could have been killed along with other militants during a special operation in Ingushetia on March 28, 2011. As a result of a targeted strike by the Air Force and a ground operation, 19 militants were killed, among those identified were field commander Supyan Abdullaev and other people close to Umarov, who were usually always with him, including, according to ITAR-TASS, the common-law wife of the leader of the Caucasus Emirate. (Kavkaz-Center later clarified that the deceased woman was not related to Umarov).

On April 8, 2011, the North Caucasian office of Radio Liberty received a call from a person who introduced himself as Umarov and stated that he was alive (experts confirmed that it was indeed Umarov who called). On April 14, 2011, according to the LifeNews news agency, the examination refuted the death of Doku Umarov. DNA analysis showed that Umarov was not among the killed militants (DNA isolated from tissue samples of Doku Umarov’s father Hamad, killed in Chechnya in 2007, did not match the analyzes of any of them). Moreover, in mid-May, the leader of the North Caucasus separatists gave an interview in which he expressed regret about the destruction of bin Laden and promised to make the territory of all of Russia a “battlefield.”

On December 18, 2013, at a press conference in Moscow, Ramzan Kadyrov expressed confidence that Umarov had already been “long dead” and stated that whoever found his corpse would become a “great warrior”: “According to our information, Doku Umarov has been dead for a long time.” . We're just looking for a body. Whoever finds the corpse will become a great warrior.”

On January 16, 2014, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, stated that, according to his information, Doku Umarov was killed in early January as a result of a special operation. In support of his words, Kadyrov referred to the recording of negotiations between emissaries of Caucasian militants, who expressed condolences in connection with the death of Umarov and discussed the candidacy of a successor as emir of the Caucasus Emirate. At the same time, Russian special services reported that they did not confirm Umarov’s death.

On March 18, 2014, information about the death of Umarov was confirmed by the website of the Chechen separatists “Kavkaz Center”. He was replaced as leader of the Caucasus Emirate by Ali Abu-Muhammad.

Family

He was married to the daughter of field commander Daud Akhmadov (a close associate of Dzhokhar Dudayev). Had six children.

On May 5, 2005, Doku Umarov's 70-year-old father, Hamad, as well as his wife and 6-month-old son were kidnapped. A few months earlier, his brother, 43-year-old Akhmad Umarov, was also captured. In 2003 and 2004, Doku Umarov’s cousin Zaurbek and nephew Roman Ataev were captured. On the night of August 12, 2005, Umarov’s sister Natalya Khumaidova was kidnapped in the southwest of Chechnya.

The terrorists claimed that all those abducted were placed in Ramzan Kadyrov’s personal prison in the village of Khosi-Yurt.

In 2006, his older brother Akhmed Umarov voluntarily surrendered to the Chechen authorities, saying that he last saw his brother in 2004.

In April 2007, representatives of the Russian side approached the terrorists through intermediaries with a proposal to show the burial place of Hamad Umarov. Doku Umarov confirmed the information about the murder of his father.

Also, two of Umarov’s brothers, Musa and Isa, were killed during the fighting.

In 2010, another brother of Umarov, Vakha, unexpectedly appeared. He stated that he lived in Istanbul (since 2005) and disowned the Chechen gang underground.

Awards

He was awarded the highest orders of the ChRI “Honor of the Nation” and “Hero of the Nation”, as well as a personalized weapon from Dzhokhar Dudayev.

From the message for the 4th anniversary of the proclamation of the Caucasus Emirate

Today, none of us knows where and when his life will end. Alhamdulillah, I am ready for death at any moment, I am calm and not worried about it. I am ready to die anywhere, even while driving a Kamaz with explosives.

Doku Umarov, August 2011

According to media reports, he was convicted of negligent homicide in the 1980s.

In July 1992, Umarov killed two people in the village of Patrushevo, Tyumen Region. He was charged by the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region, but, hiding from justice, Umarov went to Chechnya.

Before the outbreak of hostilities between the separatists and federal forces in Chechnya (1994-1996), Umarov served under the leadership of Ruslan Gelayev in the elite unit of the Chechen separatists "Borz" ("Wolf").

During the First Chechen Campaign, he led one of the militant detachments (1994), then became a brigadier general of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1996).

On June 1, 1997, by decree of the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI), Aslan Maskhadov, he was appointed Secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya. Since November 1997, he simultaneously headed the headquarters for coordinating the fight against crime.

In 1998, he was removed from all posts for involvement in kidnappings and attacks on employees of the Ichkeria prosecutor's office.

With the beginning of the second Chechen war in the fall of 1999. During the breakout from Grozny in January 2000, he was seriously wounded in the jaw.

In August 2002, he was appointed by the President of Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov as commander of the Western Front, then as director of the National Security Service of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (2004).

In March 2004, he declared himself the successor to the murdered field commander Ruslan Gelayev and took control of militant detachments in the Achkhoy-Martan, Urus-Martan and Shatoi regions.

In August 2004, he was appointed Minister of State Security of Ichkeria.

In March 2005, Aslan Maskhadov was killed, his successor Abdul-Halim Sadulaev appointed Umarov vice-president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria while retaining the post of director of the National Security Service (June 2005).

After the death of Abdul-Halim Sadulayev (June 2006), Doku Umarov became president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Active participant in the terrorist movement in Chechnya (1990s - 2000s, one of the leaders of gangs).

Doku Khamatovich Umarov (b. April 13, 1964) is an active participant in the terrorist movement in Chechnya (1990s - 2000s, one of the leaders of gangs). The so-called “president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” (2006-2007). In October 2007, he proclaimed himself the amir of the Caucasus Emirate organization. He is currently on the federal wanted list on charges of murder, kidnapping for ransom, organizing terrorist acts and participation in illegal armed groups. According to Ramzan Kadyrov, Umarov personally kidnapped and shot people. He was born in the village of Kharsenoy, Shatoi district, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Belongs to the Mulkoy teip. Graduated from the Grozny Oil Institute with a degree in civil engineering. He worked in different regions of Russia.

In the 1980s, he was convicted of negligent homicide. On July 13, 1992, the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region charged Umarov with murder. Umarov was accused of killing two people in the village of Patrushevo, Tyumen Region, in July 1992, together with Musa Ataev, nicknamed “Mosol”. After a conflict with teenagers, Umarov and Atayev burst into the house of the Subotin family, demanding to hand over their son. After a clarifying question from the head of the family, he was shot, and then his wife and a bystander were shot.

Hiding from law enforcement agencies, Umarov went to Chechnya. Before the start of the First Chechen War, he served in the Borz regiment under the leadership of Ruslan Gelayev

He took part in hostilities against Russian troops in the First Chechen War, and at the end of 1994 he led one of the militant detachments. By 1996 he became a brigadier general of the ChRI.

Since the end of 1996, together with Arbi Barayev, he was involved in kidnappings for ransom. According to law enforcement agencies, Umarov was directly involved in the abduction in March 1999 of the special representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya, Gennady Shpigun, for whose release they demanded $15 million.

In the government of Ichkeria President Aslan Maskhadov, he was Secretary of the National Security Council (from June 1, 1997), head of the headquarters for coordinating the fight against crime (from November 1997). In 1998, by decree of Maskhadov, he was removed from all posts for an attack on employees of the ChRI prosecutor's office and involvement in kidnappings.

With the beginning of the Second Chechen War, Umarov actively participated in hostilities on the side of the militants. In January 2000, during the breakout from Grozny, he was seriously wounded in the jaw. He is the commander of a large (up to several hundred members) detachment, which was replenished in 2004 with members of the detachment of the murdered Ruslan Gelayev.

Since August 2002, Maskhadov was appointed commander of the Western Front, and since August 2004, director of the National Security Service of the ChRI. In March 2004, he declared himself the successor of the murdered Ruslan Gelayev and took control of militant detachments in the Achkhoy-Martan, Urus-Martan and Shatoi regions.

In August 2002, he participated in the seizure of settlements in the Urus-Martan and Vedeno regions of Chechnya.

Participated in the kidnapping of Alexey Klimov and Nadezhda Pogosova, employees of the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic (kidnapped on December 27, 2002 on the way from Grozny to Mozdok airport, released a year later as a result of a special operation by the FSB).

Involved in the explosions of the building of the FSB Directorate of Ingushetia and the train in Kislovodsk in September 2003. As a result of the explosion of a truck with explosives in the FSB building, 3 people were killed and more than 20 were injured, and as a result of the explosion of an electric train, seven people were killed and more than 50 were injured.

He was one of the organizers of the militant raid on Ingushetia on June 22, 2004 and the leader of the attack on Grozny on August 21, 2004.

On June 2, 2005, by the decision of the head of the ChRI, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, he was appointed vice-president of the ChRI, retaining the post of director of the National Security Service.

In Umarov’s appeal, published on separatist websites on June 23, 2006, it was stated that in order to combat the “colonization of Chechnya,” the separatists intend, in addition to the existing six “fronts,” to create a number of “fronts” to expand the war “to the regions of Russia " In addition, Dokka Umarov promised to create special units in the structures of all active “fronts”, whose task will be the elimination of “the most odious national traitors and war criminals from the occupation forces sentenced to capital punishment by the Sharia court.”

With his first decrees, Umarov relieved the terrorist Shamil Basayev from the post of vice-premier and appointed him to the post of vice-president of the ChRI.

On July 6, 2006, Umarov signed a decree on the formation of the Ural and Volga fronts in the structures of the ChRI. Amir “Assadullah” (Mikhail Zakharov) was appointed commander of the Ural Front, and Amir “Jundulla” (Abdurrahman Kamalutdinov) was appointed commander of the Volga Front.

On September 24, 2006, Umarov’s decrees were published on the separatists’ website, according to which the North-Eastern (Tagir Batayev) and North-Western (Abubakar Elmuradov) fronts were created on the basis of the Northern Front of the Armed Forces of the ChRI, and the Eastern Front was transformed into the South-Eastern ( Suleiman Imurzaev - “Khairullah”). These fronts coexist with the Central and Southwestern.

On October 3, 2007, he posthumously reinstated the rank of Brigadier General Arbi Barayev, who was actively involved in kidnappings for ransom, and also posthumously awarded the title of “Generalissimo” to terrorist Shamil Basayev.

In October 2007, Umarov announced the creation of the “Caucasian Emirate” and called on supporters to fight not only against Russia, but also against other countries:

We are an integral part of the Islamic Ummah. I am saddened by the position of those Muslims who declare enemies only those infidels who attacked them directly. At the same time, they seek support and sympathy from other infidels, forgetting that all infidels are one nation. Today our brothers are fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Palestine. Everyone who attacked Muslims, no matter where they were, is our common enemy. Our enemy is not only Russia, but also America, England, Israel, everyone who is waging war against Islam and Muslims.

Akhmed Zakaev sharply opposed this line, inspired by the Islamist ideologist Movladi Udugov. According to Zakaev’s supporters, by “telephone voting” among members of the so-called. of the “Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” Zakayev was elected “Prime Minister” of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, since Umarov “withdrew from performing the duties of the President.” For its part, the leadership of the “Caucasian Emirate” declared Zakayev’s activities anti-state, instructing the Sharia court and the Mukhabarat security service to deal with him, accusing him of involvement in the deaths of the CRI presidents Maskhadov and Sadulayev.

On November 15, 2007, the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov invited Umarov to surrender to law enforcement agencies:

I strongly urge Doku Umarov to kneel down and, with tears in his eyes, ask for forgiveness from the people.

Your fellow terrorists fled to the West, and I advise you to do the same if you don’t have the courage to kneel before the people.

Kadyrov expressed concern about Umarov’s health: “I have reliable information that Umarov is seriously ill, he does not have a single tooth in his mouth, and his legs are rotting from hypothermia. The winter will be cold, he won’t survive it.” Kadyrov added that if he turns himself in, Umarov can count on receiving qualified medical care.[