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List of people allegedly involved in the 1999 Russian apartment bombings

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in November 2004, extradited to Russia, found not guilty on the charge of terrorism by the jury on January 24, 2006; found guilty of participating in an illegal armed force and illegal crossing of the national border,; he was retried second time, and on November 13, 2006, found again not guilty, this
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was hampered by government refusal to respond to its inquiries, and its chairmen admitted that he has no evidence to support any version of the events. Two key members of the Kovalev Commission,
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Adam Dekkushev (Ethnic Karachai, arrested in Georgia, threw a grenade at police during the arrest, extradited to Russia and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2004, after a two-month
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and two other Russian towns during ten days of September 1999. Altogether nearly 300 civilians were killed at night. The bombings, together with the
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Salikhov admitted that he made a delivery of paint for terrorist Ibn al-Khattab, although he did not check if that really was a paint.)
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agents who had planted the bomb were caught by the local police. This incident was declared to be a training exercise by FSB director
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According to official investigation, the following people either delivered explosives, stored them, or harbored other suspects:
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Zainutdin Zainutdinov (Ethnic Avar and native of Dagestan, sentenced to 3 years in March 2001 and immediately released under
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who allegedly supervised the attacks. At the time, he was one of the lead figures in the FSB's counterterrorism section.
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Makhach Abdulsamedov (Native of Dagestan, sentenced to 3 years in March 2001 and immediately released under amnesty).
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Timur Batchayev (Ethnic Karachai, killed in Georgia in the clash with police during which Krymshakhalov was arrested)
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filed two motions for a parliamentary investigation of the events, but the motions were rejected by the Russian
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The bombings ceased when a similar bomb was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of
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were blamed but no Chechen field commander accepted responsibility for the bombings and Chechen president
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One More Participant of Terrorist Act in Buinaksk, Dagestan, Detained in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
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Alisultan Salikhov (Ethnic Avar and native of Dagestan, sentenced to life imprisonment in March 2001)
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Ravil Akhmyarov (Russian citizen, Surname indicates an ethnic Tatar, killed in Chechnya in 1999–2000)
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in March 2000. An independent public commission to investigate the bombings chaired by Duma deputy
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FSB officers Vladimir Romanovich and Ramazan Dyshenkov who carried out the apartment bombings in
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Abdulkadyr Abdulkadyrov (Ethnic Avar and native of Dagestan, sentenced to 9 years in March 2001)
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time on all charges, including the ones he was found guilty of in the first trial. According to
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in 1999. In a video statement the captors coerced him to make, he said that a team of twelve
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Three FSB agents (two men and a woman) who conducted the "training exercise" in the city of
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who was leading the chain of command according to the book by Felshinsky and Pribylovsky.
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and who organized transportation of explosives to Moscow according to both versions
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Khakim Abayev (An ethnic Karachai, killed by FSB special forces in May 2004 in
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A number of people were convicted or accused of involvement in the bombings.
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The suspicious events led to allegations that the bombings were in fact a "
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praised the vigilance of the Ryzanians and ordered the air bombing of
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The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Magomed Salikhov (Ethnic Avar and native of Dagestan, arrested in
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Zaur Batchayev (Ethnic Karachai killed in Chechnya in 1999–2000)
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in December 2002, extradited to Russia and sentenced to
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Ziyavudin Ziyavudinov (Native of Dagestan, arrested in
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Magomed Magomedov (Sentenced to 9 years in March 2001)
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Yusuf Krymshamkhalov (Ethnic Karachai and Resident of
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Index

Russian apartment bombings
Russia
Moscow
Dagestan War
Second Chechen War
militants
Aslan Maskhadov
Ryazan
Vladimir Putin
Grozny
Second Chechen War
FSB
Nikolai Patrushev
Yuri Shchekochikhin
Duma
Sergei Kovalev
Sergei Yushenkov
Yuri Shchekochikhin
Mikhail Trepashkin
Mujahid
Ibn al-Khattab
Achemez Gochiyayev
Karachai
Tatar
Uzbekistan
Georgia
Ingushetia
Kislovodsk
Georgia
life imprisonment

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