Part One Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the Chechen Republic, called the killing of Yuri Volkov a “tragedy” on his blog, noting that “the death of every young person is, in effect, a loss for the entire country.” (source) Part Two
Today, Bekhan Ibragimov, a resident of the Naursky District, came to me and complained about bribery by employees of the Russian Federal Migration Service’s office in the Chechen Republic in the Naursky District.... (source) Part Three. Internet users identified Bekhan Ibragimov in an Instagram photo posted by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov; he had been convicted for taking part in the fight during which football fan Yuri Volkov was killed. The photograph, published on May 14, shows three people: Kadyrov, Bekhan Ibragimov (in the center), and an unidentified young man. The caption says that Bekhan Ibragimov, a resident of the Naursky District, complained to Kadyrov that the local branch of the Federal Migration Service was extorting money to speed up the issuance of his passport, and that after meeting with both men, the head of the republic fired the official. In the comments on the photo, Dmitry Varskoy, who introduced himself as a friend of the deceased, asked for an explanation of how Ibragimov—sentenced in 2011 to five years and three months in prison—ended up in the posted image. In response, the user hyseingroznyi (judging by the photos, he appears to be the third person in the picture) first said that Ibragimov had already “served” his sentence (the comment was later deleted), and then added that the Chechen man’s passport had been lost “when they were transporting him in stages to White Swan.” (Original spelling preserved; this likely refers to the “White Swan” penal colony in Perm Krai, Russia — Lenta.ru). Eduard Oganyan, the lawyer who defended Ibragimov during the proceedings in the Volkov murder case, told Lenta.ru that the man in the photo published on Kadyrov’s Instagram is “one hundred percent” his client. In theory, Ibragimov could already have been released if he had behaved properly in the penal colony and the court had granted him parole. (source)