Aslan Maskhadov
Warlord, Politician
1951 – 2005
Who was Aslan Maskhadov?
Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was a leader of the Chechen independence movement and the third President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
He was credited by many with the Chechen victory in the First Chechen War, which allowed for the establishment of the de facto independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Maskhadov was elected President of Chechnya in January 1997. Following the start of the Second Chechen War in August 1999, he returned to leading the guerrilla resistance against the Russian army. He was killed in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in northern Chechnya, in March 2005.
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- Born
- Sep 21, 1951
Karaganda - Religion
- Islam
- Sufism
- Sunni Islam
- Ethnicity
- Chechen people
- Nationality
- Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
- Profession
- Lived in
- Karaganda
- Died
- Mar 8, 2005
Chechnya
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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