What a wonderful life Russia’s North Caucasus leads.
The head of one federal subject says—at a meeting of the Interior Ministry board—that the mayor of a major city in a neighboring region is a bandit and a terrorist.
And that the police chief is a bandit and a terrorist too.
Just an ordinary sort of news item.
_GROZNY, April 25. The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, accused Khasavyurt mayor Saigidpasha Umakhanov of ties to militants and said that Dagestan posed a threat to Chechnya’s security. He made these statements at a meeting of the Interior Ministry board for the Chechen Republic, a video recording of which was published on YouTube._
The head of Chechnya noted that the work of the security forces along the republic’s administrative borders needs to be stepped up, since, according to him, religious extremists, drug traffickers, and other criminals often cross into the republic. He placed particular emphasis on the negative role of Khasavyurt.
The video recording shows Kadyrov calling Umakhanov a “bandit.” “Everyone knows that the head of Khasavyurt, Saigidpasha Umakhanov, is a bandit, and that the police chief is too. That his brother provides financing. That he financed Rappani (apparently field commander Rappani Khalilov — editor’s note), that his nephew is an active amir. When we were tracking Abu Hafs, we were supposed to eliminate Abu Hafs together with Rappani (Abu Hafs, deputy military amir of ‘Ichkeria’ (the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) — editor’s note), and the mayor’s nephew was also supposed to be there. We have all the recordings and everything else in full. And everyone knows it. They searched the house and seized illegal weapons,” Kavkazsky Uzel (Caucasian Knot) quoted Ramzan Kadyrov as saying at the meeting.
Going to the Khasavyurt website, we want to see what this terrorist mayor looks like—the kind of man who can be called a terrorist in front of the media and officers from the Interior Ministry and the FSB.
You expect a photo of him in the woods, surrounded by bearded fighters.
Instead, the photo looks like this:
_S.D. Umakhanov was born on April 3, 1962, in the Dagestani village of Burtunay, Kazbekovsky District. Before being elected head of the Khasavyurt city administration on April 6, 1997, he worked as manager of a Sberbank branch. Since 2005, he has been head of the municipal entity of the urban district “City of Khasavyurt.”_
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He was awarded a personalized watch by the head of the FSB of the Russian Federation and by the chief of Russia’s Anti-Terrorist Center for the best counterterrorism work among municipalities in the Southern Federal District. In 2008, for his professional achievements and many years of conscientious service, he was awarded the ORDER OF HONOR.
http://xacavurt.ru/sd-umahanov.html
As I recall, the city’s police chief is appointed directly by Putin. So Kadyrov has officially stated that President Putin appointed a terrorist and militant as police chief.
What one word could describe this? Probably “stability” fits best.