Aslan Maskhadov

Aslan Maskhadov

male, deceased (2005)
Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was a leader of the separatist movement in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya. He was credited by many with the...
Shamil Basayev

Shamil Basayev

male, deceased (2006)
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev was a Vice-President of the internationally unrecognized separatist government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria,...
Doku Umarov

Doku Umarov

male, 45 years old
Shaykh Doku Khamatovich Umarov is the underground President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Umarov has fought for more than a decade against...
Akhmad Kadyrov

Akhmad Kadyrov

male, deceased (2004)
Mufti Akhmat Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was the president of the Chechen Republic (elected on October 5, 2003). He was assassinated in Grozny stadium...
Dzhokhar Dudayev

Dzhokhar Dudayev

male, deceased (1996)
Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev was a Soviet Air Force general and a Chechen leader, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, an...
Ilyas Akhmadov

Ilyas Akhmadov

male, 49 years old
Ilyas Khamzatovich Akhmadov served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from the Chechen rebel government. He currently resides in the United States,...
Akhmed Zakayev

Akhmed Zakayev

male, 53 years old
Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev is the Foreign Minister of Chechen Republic government-in-exile, appointed by the President Aslan Maskhadov shortly...

Sheikh Abdul Halim

male, deceased (2006)
Abdul-Halim Salamovich Sadulayev was the fourth Chechen rebel president to be killed in 12 years of separatist warfare in the southern Russian...

Ruslan Alikhadzhyev

male, deceased (2000)
Ruslan Alikhadzhyev was a former parliamentary speaker of Chechnya who was forcibly disappeared by the Russian soldiers. He was kidnapped by the...