The explosion of a military vehicle in Starye Atagi and the targeted “special operation” that followed

July 24, 2001

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In the village of Starye Atagi, near the village police department, a Ural military vehicle exploded. During the so-called. In a targeted special operation, employees of the Russian law enforcement agencies detained two local residents. At the same time, they beat the shepherd Idris Matsiev, who was grazing cattle on the outskirts of the village.

Next to the shepherd was another resident of Starye Atagi - Beslan Kurbanov, born in 1980. At the sight of the security forces, he quickly got into his car and drove towards residential buildings. Shots rang out after him; the young man was wounded in the arm and detained. He was released after the intervention of the village administration workers. Representatives of the local authorities also contributed to the unblocking of a scheduled bus with people returning from Grozny. Employees of Russian law enforcement agencies kept them cordoned off for more than an hour.


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

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