Ruslan dudayev biography
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PROFILE: Dzhokhar Dudayev: Lone wolf of Grozny
HE ALWAYS has freshly ironed clothes - camouflage fatigues, spiffy dark pinstripes or, when in a melodramatic mood, an all-white "death" suit. And, says the man now commanding a war from a bunker somewhere in Grozny, he adores fresh flowers, reve res Pushkin and Lermontov. A vain, meticulous and profoundly eccentric man of 50, Dzhokhar Dudayev, president of Chechnya, also takes great pride in his moustache, which, even when everything around is ablaze, he trims to approximate the aerodynamic line s of the nuclear bombers he used to pilot as a general in the Soviet Air Force.
Before the Russians shelled his presidential palace, his spotless office on the eighth floor revolved around a Chechen flag. It was attached to a metal stand, so small and tidy it looked like a sand-castle pennant, and stood on a polished wooden table. The fastidious order of the room was underscored by a sedate tick-tock from a mock-antique, Chinese-made grandfat
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"They were just throwing the corpses into the snowdrifts". The brutal deportation of Chechens and Ingush began 80 years ago
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Load 3D tourOn February 23, 1944, the deportation of Chechens and other Caucasian nations to Central Asia began. Hundreds of thousands of people became victims of Stalin's deportations
Chechens are one of the most tested nations today. After losing the wars with Russia in the 1990s, they are now brutally controlled and subverted from within by pro-Kremlin ruler Ramzan Kad
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Ruslan Labazanov
Chechen mob boss and warlord
Ruslan Khamidovich Labazanov (1967 – disappeared 1 June 1996) was a pro-Russian Chechen mob boss turned warlord who led the Russian-supported Chechen anti-Dzhokhar Dudayev faction in the First Chechen War.
Early life
[edit]Labazanov was born in internal exile in Kazakhstan in 1967 in the Chechen family of a teyp Nohch-Keloy (clan). He became an Eastern martial arts expert and served in the Soviet Red Army as a physical training instructor. After leaving the army, he became known as a flamboyant, charismatic and extremely violent gangster.[1][page needed][2][page needed] In 1990, he was convicted of murder in Rostov-on-Don and sentenced to death before escaping from prison in 1991.[1] According to han själv , he actually escaped from Grozny pretrial detention center: "During the 1991 coup, I freed the whole prison, nearly 600 dock, ahead of time. They obeyed me."[