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“Yes, we saw these reports that were published in one of the newspapers, we took note of them, and we also took note of the denials of this information that were made by the internal affairs bodies of the Chechen Republic. The information is quite anonymous, the sources of information are unclear,” the spokesman said.

It should be noted that earlier the Chechen Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information, Dzhambulat Umarov, said that he considers the investigation of Novaya Gazeta as "another batch of misinformation directed against the Chechen Republic."

“I am absolutely sure that this is a lie not supported by any arguments, sources and evidence, which has a very definite and very bright political coloring. I have always said this and I repeat it again.<…>This is another round and surge of the unhealthy fantasy of Ms. Milashina [the author of the investigation], who, apparently, wants to further develop this long-forgotten topic,” Umarov said.

On July 9, Novaya Gazeta published the names of 27 people who were shot in Grozny without charge. According to the publication, the detentions began on December 17, 2016. The detainees were placed in the basements and back rooms of the police departments, no charges were brought against them, but for a month and a half, under pressure, they themselves confessed. In total, about 200 people were detained, the newspaper writes. A study of the lists of detainees indicates that the decision to kill was taken spontaneously.

Novaya Gazeta insists on initiating a criminal case, in which it will be possible to verify the authenticity of these facts.

Let us recall that on April 1, Novaya Gazeta published an article about mass detentions, torture and reprisals against people of homosexual orientation in Chechnya. The publication referred to anonymous sources in law enforcement agencies, as well as victims, whose names were not disclosed. The publications caused a wide resonance in society both in Russia and abroad. The head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, called Novaya Gazeta's articles "provocative." He later stated that such publications were a "massive information attack" on Chechnya.

On the night of January 26, 27 people were killed in Chechnya. According to Novaya Gazeta, these people were detained at various times for unspecified reasons. The publication indicates that we can talk about 56 executed residents of Chechnya

In Chechnya, on the night of January 26, a massive extrajudicial execution took place, the victims of which were 27 residents of the republic. Novaya Gazeta writes about this with reference to sources in the administration of the Chechen branch of the Investigative Committee (TFR) and in the administration of the head of the republic.

The editorial staff of Novaya Gazeta notes that they cannot say for sure whether an “extrajudicial execution of unprecedented scale” really took place on the night of January 26. Killed, according to data not yet confirmed by the publication, there may be more - 56 people, but the publication does not provide details.

The press secretary of the head of Chechnya, Alvi Karimov, did not answer RBC's call. RBC also sent a request to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to the publication, the execution took place on the territory of the deployment of the regiment of the patrol police service named after the Hero of Russia Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov (PPSP named after Kadyrov). At the time of the alleged execution, there were several high-ranking Chechen officials, including the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the Terek SOBR, the head of the personal bodyguard of the head of the republic Abuzeil Vismuradov, the commander of the PPSP named after. A. Kadyrov Aslan Iraskhanov and the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of those regions of Chechnya where the detainees were registered. After the execution, the bodies of the dead were "carried" to different cemeteries - both Muslim and Christian, where they were buried "in hastily opened graves."

Novaya Gazeta emphasizes that the decision to extrajudicial execution was made "centrally and spontaneously", without specifying by whom and under what conditions. The publication also publishes a list of the names of the dead.

All of them, according to the newspaper, were detained in the course of mass investigative actions on the territory of the republic, which began in mid-December 2016. In January 2017, special operations took place, during which law enforcement officers also detained residents of Chechnya. According to Novaya Gazeta's investigation, the detainees were not formally formalized, they were not charged, but simply placed in the basements and back rooms of the republican police departments. In total, according to the publication, the police detained about 200 people.

Some of the detainees were formally arrested at the end of February under various articles, including Art. 222 (illicit arms trafficking) and art. 208 (participation in an illegal armed formation) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.​

Most of the people, according to the list of residents of the republic detained in January, which was given to journalists by a source in the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, were taken by law enforcement agencies in the village of Shali - 28 people. The journalists established their addresses, but it was not possible to find out about the fate of these people.

“All attempts to find out something about the fate of these people stumbled upon the incredible fear of our interlocutors. One of them, an employee of the city administration of Shali, in a panic refused to get acquainted with the names of the Shali residents we identified and said: “Everyone who was detained in Shali in January, they are no more. Do not search, ”the newspaper writes.

At that time, in Chechnya, information about the mass execution was called a "lie" with "political overtones." This was stated by the Minister of the Republic for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information Dzhambulat Umarov. He also described the publication of Novaya Gazeta as the author of the material and the editor of the special projects department of the newspaper, Elena Milashina.

As human rights ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova clarified to RBC, she received information about executions in Chechnya from Novaya Gazeta in March 2017. “I sent a request to the Investigative Committee, I reported this information to the president at the meeting, and now an audit is underway,” she said. According to Moskalkova, so far it has been possible to find out that two of the 27 people on the list did not live in Chechnya. “For the rest, the verification is still going on, slower than it could,” she added.

At the same time, the HRC, as the chairman of the council, Mikhail Fedotov, told RBC, there is no information about the execution of people in Chechnya. “As for Chechnya, we are only dealing with the old story about people with non-traditional sexual orientation, and on this occasion we have specific promises from the head of Chechnya,” he explained, adding that “the Investigative Committee is looking into this.” “But we don’t have new information about executions,” RBC’s interlocutor concluded.

Igor Kalyapin, member of the Human Rights Council and chairman of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, in turn, told RBC that he had heard about the executions that took place in January in Chechnya, even before the publication of Novaya Gazeta. “But these were rumors, and we cannot use rumors as a basis for our work,” he specified, adding that “moreover, we have information about other episodes in Chechnya, when people were detained and disappeared without a trace.” . “But we can’t check them yet,” he said. According to Kalyapin, the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” will be able to get involved if the relatives of the victims apply there or if the Investigative Committee starts an investigation into the publication. “And then we will be happy to make sure that this check is carried out with high quality,” the human rights activist added.

10 July. reaction

Memorial partially confirmed Novaya Gazeta's information about mass executions in Chechnya.

Novaya Gazeta asked the head of the Human Rights Council to draw the attention of human rights activists around the world to the investigation into the mass execution in Chechnya.

The Kremlin "took note" of the publication of Novaya Gazeta about extrajudicial executions in Chechnya.

For many years, Novaya Gazeta has regularly published information about massacres in Chechnya. The motives for which the inhabitants of the republic were persecuted were very different. In early April, Novaya Gazeta published facts testifying to mass persecution. In connection with the huge international pressure from the law enforcement agencies of Russia, for the first time (and then with difficulty) it was possible to achieve a pre-investigation check on the facts of extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. And that was already an incredible achievement.

On April 20, we handed over to the investigation the personal data of two people who, according to the newspaper, were killed during the anti-gay campaign in Chechnya. It was with clarification of the fate of these people that our journalistic investigation began.

We passed all the information about the dead as they became available to the investigation for verification. We also handed over to the Russian Investigative Committee anonymous testimonies of surviving victims who were held in secret prisons and survived terrible torture. This evidence allowed the investigators to independently establish the personal data of the victims, which, according to Novaya Gazeta, they managed to do.

Igor Sobol, Deputy Head of the Directorate of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the North Caucasus Federal District for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases, who conducted the inspection, intended to meet with the victims and try to convince them to give explanations. However, Igor Sobol was engaged in verification for only two weeks, and then he was unexpectedly appointed to a new position. And the check was assigned to another investigator. It was after the castling that the official investigation ceased to be active and took a predictable position: since the victims of the crime themselves do not file statements, then there was no crime.

Moskalkova's position

We assumed such an outcome. It is the silence of the living victims, frightened to death by the unlimited possibilities of the Chechen security forces, that is the main argument of the investigation in response to all appeals about human rights violations in Chechnya.

Therefore, in addition to the names of the murdered gays, we handed over to the investigation a list of more than 20 residents of Chechnya, detained since the end of December 2016 and, according to our information, killed in January of this year. These people were detained during several special operations carried out in Chechnya after December 17, 2016. No formal charges were brought against them. In relation to these people, as, in fact, in the case of gays, most likely, a decision was made to liquidate. And the order was carried out.

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December 17, 2016 a group of young people attacked and killed a police officer they knew. The attackers stole a police car. During the chase, they shot down a traffic police officer in this car. All attackers were killed, including three detainees.

According to the Caucasian Knot website, they were shot in a hospital in Grozny. Memorial Human Rights Center later indirectly confirmed the violent death of these people, having received official answers to their requests.

After that, mass detentions began throughout Chechnya, and two preventive and demonstrative counter-terrorist operations were also carried out.

All data about, as we believe, the killed residents of Chechnya were transferred not only to the investigation, but also to high-ranking officials. Including the Commissioner for Human Rights of Russia Tatyana Moskalkova.

In our appeals, we specifically stipulated: here - presumably killed on suspicion of homosexuality, here - for a completely different motive. (Most likely, on suspicion of extremism, although we cannot confirm this - precisely because no official charges were brought and the Chechen police also did not have sufficient data to bring charges.) violence, humiliation, and even more deprivation of life,” Tatyana Moskalkova publicly stated then and handed over our appeal to the TFR for verification.

July 6, preliminary results of the check, which the Investigative Committee of Russia has been conducting for more than two months. Russian Human Rights Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova reported on the reaction of the ICR to her request: “I received such an answer that it says that they have not established facts confirming violent actions, due to the fact that they do not have specific data on these citizens.”

Tatyana Nikolaevna had every reason to put a bullet in this story, as many high-ranking officials did before her. But Moskalkova took a principled position in this situation. “Since my request and the letter that I forwarded from Novaya Gazeta contain the names of people who allegedly died, the check on this is not considered complete, and I will ask you to write a clarifying answer for those names that are listed in the letter,” said Tatyana Moskalkova.

In a commentary to the TASS agency, Tatyana Nikolaevna also said that in the list that Novaya Gazeta handed over to her, “only surnames and first names are indicated, there is no more data.” Moskalkova expressed her hope that "the investigating authorities will be able to talk with the author of the article, obtain from him additional information about the year of birth, the place of burial, about relatives, about the former place of residence." The fact is that in the course of communication with the investigator conducting the check, we transmitted more complete data that allows us to identify people from the list and establish their fate. At that time, we had information about the place of residence of these people and their dates of birth.

One January night

Having handed over the list to the official investigation, we did not stop our own investigation and continued to find out in parallel what happened to these people.

And since we no longer have confidence that the new investigator conducting the check will want to communicate with the Novaya Gazeta journalists, we decided to publish everything we know about the circumstances of their disappearance.

After December 17 last year, mass detentions of people began in Chechnya. In early January, special operations were carried out in the Groznensky, Kurchaloyevsky and Shali regions of Chechnya, during which mass arrests took place. The detainees, however, were not formalized in any way, they were not charged, but instead they were placed in the basements and utility rooms of the police departments. The detentions continued until the end of January, in total, according to the newspaper, about 200 people were detained.

Novaya Gazeta carefully followed these events and repeatedly wrote about the fate of the detainees. So, on January 12, we were detained after a special operation in the Kurchaloy district . Some people from this list were "legalized" only on February 20. This means that they were formally arrested only a month and a half after their actual detention. These people were formally charged with illegal arms trafficking (Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), units were added to 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in an illegal armed formation).

We believe that after a month and a half of illegal detention, under pressure, confessions were obtained from these people, which are often the only evidence of guilt in Chechnya. It is easy to be convinced of this by raising criminal cases that are now being investigated by the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Chechnya. Evidence of the illegal one and a half month detention, which in fact, from the point of view of the law, levels out all the so-called confessions, can be published on January 12 on the Novaya Gazeta website by the names of 22 detainees on January 9-10.

When comparing these data, it turned out that six people detained on January 9-10 are on the list of allegedly killed, which we handed over to the ICR.

List "with notes"

In the course of a journalistic investigation, we were able to obtain from a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya a list of residents detained in January. We were also able to match the detainees to the following locations in Chechnya:

• Shawls (28 people),
• Kurchaloy (9 people),
• Tsotsi-Yurt (11 people),
• Mairtup (6 people),
• Germenchuk (3 people),
• Komsomolskoye (1 person),
• Avtury (2 people),
• Old Sunzha (4 people),
• Serzhen-Yurt (2 people),
• Belgatoy (1 person).

Comparing this document with the list of alleged dead, handed over to the ICR by Novaya Gazeta, we found out the fate of 21 more people who were detained and subsequently, according to our information, killed. The largest number of detentions was in Shali, we were able to identify the addresses of Shali residents from the list. But all attempts to find out something about the fate of these people ran into an incredible fear of our interlocutors. One of them, an employee of the Shali city administration, in a panic refused to get acquainted with the names of the Shali residents we had identified and said:

“Everyone who was detained in Shali in January is no more. Don't look."

In total, at the moment we already know about 27 allegedly killed(see the list of Novaya Gazeta at the end of the article), although, according to our information, we can generally talk about 56 residents of Chechnya. All these people were detained at different times (we managed to establish the dates of detention of thirteen detainees - January 9, 10, 21, 24). However, the date of death, according to our information, is the same for all these people. Night from 25 to 26 January.

That night, all the detainees were kept in Grozny on the territory of the deployment of the regiment of the police patrol service named after Hero of Russia Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, which is headed by police colonel Aslan Iraskhanov. At this time, on the territory of the PPSP them. A. Kadyrov, according to the testimony of a relative of one of the victims, an influential Chechen official who managed to find out the circumstances of the disappearance of the detainees, were

• First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Czech Republic Apti Alaudinov,
• commander of SOBR "Terek", head of personal security of the head of Chechnya Abuzeid Vismuradov(nickname "Patriot")
• commander of the PPSP them. A. Kadyrova Aslan Iraskhanov
• and the chiefs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Chechnya of those regions in which the detainees were registered.

According to the information we have, the detainees were shot that night and taken to various cemeteries, including Christian ones, and buried in hastily dug graves (some burial places are known to Novaya Gazeta).

A careful study of the lists of detainees leads to the conclusion that the decision on extrajudicial execution was taken centrally and, oddly enough, spontaneously. However, this is how key decisions are made in today's Chechnya.

This follows at least from the analysis of the document that was handed over to us from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic. It is a typical photo table, which is used by all policemen and is apparently drawn up according to a single template (it can be assumed that Chechen policemen keep records of their "unofficial" actions in accordance with the practice generally accepted in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs). The photographs were apparently taken immediately after the arrest, and not in official police departments. Many detainees are handcuffed to the wall bars or even to the battery, which is more typical for the basement. In front of some of the photographs, marks were made, and, apparently, at different times. If there are no marks, this means that the detainee has been released. The marks containing the numbers of criminal articles mean that the detainee was subsequently brought to criminal responsibility. These notes were made in the same column of photo tables - after the personal data of each detainee.

That is, up to a certain point, the detainees had two options: either to be released, or to be prosecuted. But then marks appeared in the margins of the list of detainees, which in general are in no way consistent with police expediency. This is plus and minus. "Plus" most often stands where criminal articles appear. "Minus" can only mean one thing. Liquidation.

The dead are talking

We emphasize. Despite the fact that our information was confirmed by two sources (in the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya and in the administration of the head of Chechnya), we cannot say that on the night of January 25-26, an extrajudicial execution, unprecedented in its scale even for Chechnya, took place in Chechnya.

But we can insist on initiating a criminal case, in which it is not so difficult to verify these facts. First, we gave the Russian Investigative Committee more than enough facts about the personal data of the victims. Secondly, the exhumation and post-mortem forensic examination of corpses is quite capable of revealing traces of bullet wounds - they remain on the bone remains forever. Establishing the identity of the alleged victims is also easy - for this, DNA samples must be taken from the relatives of the victims for comparative analysis. Unlike the situation with the persecution of gays, when the families of the victims, albeit under pressure, took an active part in the repressions, in this case, the relatives of those detained on suspicion of extremism will assist the investigation. Not everyone, moreover, knows about the true fate of their loved ones. Many still hope that the detainees will return home alive. People who disappeared in January are still looking for their loved ones, they come to the police, they ask.

In response, for many months they have been hearing the same excuses: “maybe they are already in Syria somewhere”, “they themselves should monitor their relatives, what do you want from us.” At best, people are told: “When the time comes, you will find out.”

With our repeated and now public appeals to the Investigative Committee of Russia, we are trying to convey to the leadership of the country and the investigation evidence that leaves little doubt about the existence of an active practice of extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. We are sure that it was the long-term connivance of such practice that made possible the mass persecution of gays in Chechnya. And if this practice is not finally severely stopped, the next time we will face an even more defiant crime than killing people just because someone found their sexual orientation unacceptable.

We publish these facts because the state, represented by authorized law enforcement agencies, has left us no choice. For two months we hoped for cooperation, which at the very beginning was effective. Today it is already obvious that the Investigative Committee of Russia is losing ground on this situation exactly as it gave up on the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. That is why we are publishing a list of those who, according to our data, became victims of perhaps the worst extrajudicial execution in Grozny. And now the investigation, which refers to the absence of living applicants, will have to deal with special witnesses.

Because only the dead in Chechnya have nothing more to fear.

List of Novaya Gazeta

1. Abdulmezhidov Adam Isaevich, born May 27, 1987
2. Abumuslimov Apti Khasanovich, born February 6, 1989, Shali, Shkolnaya street, 16.
3. Abdulkerimov Said-Ramzan Ramzanovich, born March 25, 1990, registered at the address: Kurchaloy village, Dokhtukaev street, 18.
4. Alimkhanov Islam Alievich, born June 7, 1998
5. Abubakarov Adam Dzhabrailovich, born May 5, 1995
6. Bergaev Ismail Shadidovich Born 08/19/1998
7. Dasaev Adam Ilyasovich, born June 16, 1988, Shali.
8. Dzhabaev Zelimkhan Khizirovich, born December 18, 1993
9. Ilyasov Adam Khuseinovich, 09/22/1997
10. Lugaev Rizvan Said-Khamzatovich, 09/13/1987, Shali.
11. Malikov Rizvan Agdanovich, born June 1, 1990
12. Muskiyev Mokhma Turpalovich, born on July 19, 1988, registered at the address: Tsotsi-Yurt village, Novaya street, 10.
13. Muskhanov Temirlan Akhmadovich, born April 28, 1986 Shali, Chicherina street, 2.
14. Ozdiev Usman Vakhayevich, born December 24, 1989, registered at the address: Shali, Groznenskaya street, 39.
15. Rashidov Doku Ibragimovich, born May 30, 1995
16. Siriev Magomed Musaevich, born February 23, 1993
17. Soltakhmanov Ismail Ezer-Alievich, born on March 30, 1994, registered at the address: Mayrtup village, Nuradilov street.
18. Suleimanov Magomed Arbievich, 01/03/1987, Shali, Kavkaz settlement, house 8, apartment 4.
19. Tuchaev Akhmed Ramzanovich, born February 23, 1987, Shali, Shkolnaya street, 30.
20. Khabuev Khamzat Slaudinovich 14.02. born in 1993
21. Khakimov Alvi Aslambekovich, 16.11. born in 1992
22. Khamidov Shamil Akhmedovich, born November 14, 1986
23. Tsikmaev Ayub Sultanovich, born April 2, 1984, Germenchuk village, Molodezhnaya street.
24. Shapiev Muslim Isaevich, born on November 28, 1989, registered at the address: Shali, Kutuzova street, 12.
25. Eskarbiev Saikhan Vakhamsoltovich, born May 23, 1992
26. Yusupov Sakhab Isaevich, born January 19, 1990
27. Yusupov Shamkhan Shaikhovich, born June 17, 1988, registered at the address: Kurchaloy village, st. Soviet, 11.

Novaya Gazeta reported on an alleged mass execution in Chechnya. The newspaper published a list of 27 people who, according to the publication, were killed on the night of January 26, 2017 in Grozny after being detained as a result of a series of special operations.

The data was collected on the basis of information from two sources - in the administration of Chechnya and in the Investigative Committee of the republic. The newspaper indicates that the total number of those killed may exceed 50 people.
Two names from the Novaya list are similar to the names of those detained after the attack on policemen in Grozny on December 17, 2016. Human rights activists claimed that three detainees were killed. It was after this date that mass raids began in Chechnya, during which, according to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the detainees were executed on the night of January 26.
“These people were detained during several special operations carried out in Chechnya after December 17, 2016. No formal charges were brought against them. In relation to these people, as, in fact, in the case of gays, most likely, a decision was made to liquidate. And the order was carried out,” says NG. Because of the summary executions, it is difficult to establish the exact motives, the publication believes that those killed were suspected of extremism.
Information about the executed was transferred to the Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, as well as to the Investigative Committee.
Novaya claims that after the initial effective work, another investigator was assigned to check at the request of the media, who took a passive position, and therefore the newspaper decided to publish the data of its investigation.
Moskalkova in early June reported on the reaction of the ICR to her request: “I received such an answer that it says that they have not established facts confirming violent actions, due to the fact that they do not have specific data on these citizens.”

December detentions and - presumably - January execution

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Update 18:00

Mass detentions in Chechnya after an emergency in the village of Naurskaya

According to the "Caucasian Knot", after the attack on military unit No. 3761, relatives of the killed Chechens were detained. Detentions also took place in other settlements of Chechnya, in particular in Chernokozovo and Grozny.

A source in the power structures of the North Caucasian Military District did not confirm to Interfax the fact of mass detentions. Literally, the source said that not a single person was detained.

However, Isa Minazov turned to Novaya Gazeta and said that around midnight on March 24, his nephew Rizvan Ramzanovich Minazov, born in 89, was detained in Grozny. In his apartment, where he himself, his wife and two small children (2.5 years and 11 months old) live, armed men in the form of law enforcement officers came. They were accompanied by people in civilian clothes. They didn't introduce themselves, they didn't show any arrest warrant or search warrant. Rizvan Minazov was detained without explanation, his phone, computer, and his wife's phone were illegally confiscated. To all the questions about what caused the arrival of the security forces, an employee in civilian clothes in the Chechen language said that "they will figure it out on the spot."

On the morning of March 25, Rizvan Minazov's wife turned to the district police officer at the place of residence, but the district police officer did not know which security forces and why Minazov had been detained and where he was.

Through contacts in law enforcement agencies, Minazov's relatives managed to find out that Rizvan was taken to the village of Naurskaya and that his detention could be related to an emergency that occurred on the night of March 23-24 in military unit No. 3761.

Relatives of Rizvan Minazov are planning to apply with official statements to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, the Chairman of the ICR Alexander Bastrykin and to the hotline of the Internal Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with a statement about the abduction and illegal detention of their relatives by unidentified Chechen security forces.

According to the official version, confirmed by the press service of the National Guard, on the night of March 23-24, six residents of the village of Naurskaya (identities have been identified) attacked military unit 3761. During the “shootout”, the attackers were eliminated, six National Guard servicemen were killed, three were injured. However, the official version of the attack on the National Guard unit stationed in the village of Naurskaya raises serious doubts. Novaya Gazeta obtained unretouched photographs of Chechens who allegedly died during the "clash". These photographs were taken at the scene by one of the members of the investigative-operational group. The photographs clearly show that all the "attackers" were killed in almost the same way - by a shot in the head.

Novaya Gazeta showed these pictures to forensic experts, criminologists and ballistas. The interviewed specialists did not have any contradictions in their judgments about the nature and method of injury. Experts confirmed that the people in the photographs were shot almost point-blank; all those killed had a bullet entry hole located in the area of ​​the auricle.

Assailant killed

"Typical" Chinese execution ". So both sides fighting in the Chechen campaigns called the execution of prisoners of war

(by analogy with public executions in China, which are characterized by two features: mass character and the method of murder - the victim kneels, and the executioner shoots in the head, most often in the back of the head).

There are no other bullet wounds, except for wounds to the head, on the bodies of the Chechens who allegedly “attacked” military unit 3761. These photographs practically disavow reports of an armed clash that took place on the night of March 23-24 and at least testify to the fact that all the "attackers" were detained alive.

Of particular interest is a photograph of a murdered Chechen with a dummy of an improvised explosive device (IED). (The fact that the IEDs were not real was officially confirmed by the National Anti-Terrorism Committee).

On the left hand of the victim, a fresh, even bruise is clearly visible, resembling a strangulation furrow from handcuffs. It is also clearly seen that the IED is taped to the body of the deceased - with yellow tape OVER the fresh stains from the earth, grass and blood on the "attacker's" jacket.

In fact, this means that someone has already strapped an IED to the corpse of the “militant”.

If there was no clash (and the photographs of the killed Chechens are objective confirmation of this), then the question arises: under what circumstances were nine servicemen of military unit 3761 killed and wounded?

Novaya Gazeta has data on the nature of the wounds of four guardsmen. Major S. (all names are available in the editorial office) was diagnosed with an open craniocerebral injury and lacerated wounds of the head and face. Senior Lieutenant S. received a gunshot wound to the right thigh, Private I. received a tangential gunshot wound to the knee joint.

It is also known that at least one of the six dead - Senior Lieutenant Ermolaev - died from gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen.

However, according to an official of the prosecutor's office who was directly involved in the examination of the scene, the Chechens who "attacked" military unit 3761 were armed only with sticks and knives.

This fact is also confirmed by the official reports of the National Guard (see photo). That is, the Chechens did not have firearms with them.

According to the official version of the National Guard, the “attackers” failed to penetrate the territory of the military unit and take possession of the weapons of the servicemen. Thus, it is not clear under what circumstances the soldiers of the National Guard received gunshot wounds and who actually fired at them.

According to Novaya Gazeta, military unit 3761 is mainly served by military personnel sent from other regions. According to information from the residents of the village of Naurskaya, there may have been a conflict on ethnic grounds between local Chechens and servicemen of military unit 3761. This could be the reason for the showdown, during which the Chechens could be detained. However, this version still does not clarify the circumstances of the wounding and death of nine guardsmen.

Information on the killed from the bases of accounting