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Akhmed Zakayev was born in 1959 in the settlement of Kirovskiy, which is now in Almaty Province, in Kazakhstan ; his family was deported by Stalin's regime along with the rest of the Chechens in 1944.
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During the night, Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen envoy and associate of the separatist President Aslan Maskhadov, appealed to the extremists and asked them to " refrain from rash steps ".
Russia also accused Akhmed Zakayev of involvement in the attack.
Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev (, ) ( born April 26, 1959 in Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union ) is the former Deputy Prime Minister and the current Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria ( ChRI ), which is unrecognised by other countries.
In September 2008, Ramzan Kadyrov said he was now trying to persuade Chechens refugees and exiles to return, including Akhmed Zakayev, whom Kadyrov described as " a valuable artist who would be welcome to return to help revive Chechnya's cultural heritage.
* Who is Akhmed Zakayev ?, BBC Radio 4
* Profile: Akhmed Zakayev, Chechnya's voice on UK stage, The Guardian, September 2008
* The Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev has returned to London, where he is expected to seek asylum.
Three months later, the exiled leader of the separatist government, Akhmed Zakayev, called for a halt to armed resistance against the Chechen police force starting on 1 August, and said he hoped that " starting with this day Chechens will never shoot at each other ".
From his new home in the UK, where he and associates including Akhmed Zakayev, Alexander Litvinenko and Alex Goldfarb became known as " the London Circle " of Russian exiles, Berezovsky has publicly stated that he is on a mission to bring down Putin " by force " or by bloodless revolution.
In February 2006, Sadulayev announced a cabinet reshuffle targeting several top rebel representatives living abroad, including Akhmed Zakayev, who was dismissed as deputy prime minister.
The neighbour of Akhmed Zakayev, Krasnoyarsky Rabochy, 15 March 2007, ( computer translation )
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Ali Musaevich Taziev (), also known as Akhmed Yevloev ( Ingush: Йовлой Ахьмад, ), Magomet Yevloyev, and Emir Magas, is the former leader of both the Ingushetia-based Ingush Jamaat as well as the military wing of the Caucasus Emirate.
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Since October 2007, separatists and Caucasus Front soldiers led by Dokka Umarov and Akhmed Yevloyev have claimed all of the North Caucasian regions from Karachay – Cherkessia to the Caspian Sea as part of their territory invaded by Russia during the 18th century that expelled most of the Caucasians towards Turkey, Bulgaria, Syria, and Jordan.
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In June 2007, a court in Kabardino-Balkaria charged two Malgobeksky District ROVD police officials, Mukhazhir Yevloyev and Akhmed Kotiyev, with negligence, accusing them of failing to prevent the attackers from setting up their training and staging camp in Ingushetia.
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In addition, they said British police placed a squad of uniformed officers around the Chechen dissident Akhmed Zakayev's house in north London, and also phoned Litvinenko's widow, Marina, to urge her to take greater security precautions.
Investigators thought him to be Akhmed Yevloyev (" Magas "), an Ingush rebel leader also known as Ali Taziyev, but those reports were also declared incorrect later.
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When he visited Denmark for a peace congress in October 2002 ( the World Chechen Congress event in Copenhagen ), the Russians demanded his arrest and extradition ; Zakayev was held for over a month, but was released after Danish authorities stated they were not convinced that sufficient evidence had been provided.
In 2003 the British court rejected the extradition request due to lack of evidence and declared the accusations to be politically motivated, also saying that there was substantial risk of Zakayev being tortured if he was returned to Moscow.
During the early phases of the Second Chechen War in 1999-2000, Zakayev commanded Maskhadov's presidential guard ; he was also involved in negotiations with Russian representatives before and during the resumed hostilities.
In October 2002, Zakayev organized the World Chechen Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark ( which was attended among others by the former first speaker of the State Duma, Ruslan Khasbulatov ).
During the congress, Zakayev was accused by Russia of involvement in planning of the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
On December 7, 2002, Zakayev returned to the UK but the British authorities arrested him briefly at London Heathrow Airport ; he was released on 50, 000 GBP bail, which was paid by British actress Vanessa Redgrave, his friend who had travelled with him from Denmark.
He was accused by Russian authorities of 13 criminal acts Zakayev welcomed the British deportation hearings as an opportunity to put his case before an international public.
Dushuyev himself has escaped from Russia and then in a dramatic statement told the court that he was tortured at a Russian army base with electric shocks to extort the false testimony to be used against Zakayev.
According to Alexander Goldfarb, one of the defence's most important arguments was the 2001 meeting between Zakayev and General Kazantsev, since this meeting took place when the Chechen envoy had already been put by Russia on the international wanted list.
Therefore, on November 13, 2003, Judge Timothy Workman rejected the Russian request, deciding that it was politically motivated and that Zakayev would be at risk of torture in the case of " unjust and oppressive " extradition.
On November 29, 2003, it was announced that Zakayev had been granted political asylum in the UK.
In 2007, British police warned Zakayev that there was an increased threat to his personal security shortly before the alleged attempt to kill Berezovsky by the FSB-connected Chechen gangster Movladi Atlangeriyev ( or " Mr A ").
According to the KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky in 2008, Zakayev was placed # 2 on the FSB assassination list, between Berezovsky and Litvinenko.
In an interview for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Zakayev claimed to rebuff the Chechen president's reported offer and said that Kadyrov was only following the Kremlin's orders ; he also reinstates this stance two days later in the interview for the BBC Russian Service.
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The judge also said the crimes which involved Zakayev allegedly using armed force against combatants were not extraditable because they took place in the situation of internal armed conflict.
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In London, Zakayev became friends with the Russian dissident and former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, later murdered by radioactive poisoning in November 2006 ; Zakayev accused the Russian President Putin of ordering the death of Litvinenko.
* Let Mr Zakayev stay ; Chechen leader should not be extradited, The Guardian, December 13, 2002
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Since January 2002, Zakayev and his immediate family are residing permanently in the United Kingdom.
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On November 18, 2001, Zakayev, officially internationally wanted by Russia, flew from Turkey to the Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow to meet the Kremlin's envoy, General Viktor Kazantsev for the high-level talks since the start of the war.
In another accusation, Father Sergei, one of two Russian Orthodox Church priests allegedly murdered by Zakayev, turned out to be in fact still alive.
The witness Reverend Filipp, allegedly kidnapped by Zakayev in 1996, also refuted his supposed testimony and even denounced Russian authorities for " implicating the Church in politics ".
On February 11, 2009, Ramzan Kadyrov said he personally invited Zakayev to return to Chechnya if he doesn't want to be " used by special services and other forces against Russia ".
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During the First Chechen war Zakayev took part in the battles for Grozny and other military operations, as well as in high-level negotiations with the Russian side.
After the war, Zakayev became Chechen Deputy Prime Minister ( in charge of education and culture ) and a special envoy of elected President of Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov for relations with Moscow, taking part in the delegation that signed the official Chechen-Russian peace treaty at the Kremlin in 1997.
On July 18, 2002, Zakayev also met with the former Secretary of Security Council of Russia Ivan Rybkin in Zürich, Switzerland.
During the September 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, Zakayev consented to the request of the civilian negotiators and authorities of North Ossetia – Alania to fly to Russia to negotiate with the hostage takers.
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