Murder without identification in the village. Chernorechye, the execution of a former militiaman in Starye Atagi

August 10, 2001

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In the village of Chernoreche, Ruslan Balaudinovich Elderbiev, born in 1984, living at the address: Grozny, Orenburgskaya st., 48/4, bathed in the Sunzha River together with teenagers. While they were in the water, military men drove up to them in a UAZ vehicle and, without warning, opened fire to kill; a young resident of the village of Katyr-Yurt, who was swimming nearby, was killed, Ruslan Elderbiev was wounded in the head. The military seized one of the teenagers and, pointing to the dead man, asked: “Is this Kazbek?” To which he replied that he did not know him, but only knew the wounded man - he was his neighbor. Having released the boy and without helping the wounded, the military fled the scene of the crime. Ruslan Elderbiyev was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

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At noon in the village of Starye Atagi, Ruslan Edilbekovich Khasarov, born in 1972, who lived at 61 Argunskaya Street, was shot from a machine gun near his house by unknown people who arrived in a white VAZ-2106 car without registration numbers.

According to prosecutors, the murder was carried out by the Russian military after he allegedly offered armed resistance. The locals deny this.
Ruslan Khasarov was a member of the militia before it was disbanded. He is survived by two minor children.

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At 15:00 in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny (the beginning of the village of Katayama), near the Sovetskaya bus stop, a Ural car belonging to the district commandant's office was blown up. An employee of the Staropromyslovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, Kasum Kuraevich Imkhazhiev, born in 1982, who lived at the address: Lakha Nevre village, Sadovaya street, died. Eight employees of the commandant's office were wounded: Andrey Idrisovich Karimov, Vitaly Vyacheslavovich Sitanov, born in 1971, Igor Vladimirovich Vasekin, born in 1981. (Irkutsk), Petr Alexandrovich Khil, born in 1982, Sergey Vladimirovich Yagunov, Dmitry Shenkevich, born in 1972, Sergey Krylov, Sergey Vasilyevich Denisyuk.

After providing first aid in the city hospital No. 9, all the wounded were taken to a military hospital in the village of Khankala.


From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006

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