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2022-08-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Two residents of Stavropol were convicted from an attack in Dagestan
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found two residents of the Stavropol Territory guilty of encroachment on the lives of servicemen during the attack by Basayev's group and Dagestan. Surtlanbek Adzhinyazov was sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison, Ruslanbek Arslanov - to 13 years, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 17, 2020, two residents of the Neftekumsky district of the Stavropol Territory, Surtlanbek Adzhinyazov and Ruslanbek Arslanov, were detained in connection with the attack on Dagestan in 1999 as part of the gangs of Basayev and Khattab. On February 3, their cases were brought to court.
The first hearing in the case of natives of Stavropol Surtlanbek Adzhinyazov and Ruslanbek Arslanov, accused in the case of an attack on Dagestan in 1999 as part of the gangs of Basayev and Khattab, was held in the Southern District Military Court on April 12, 2021.
According to investigators, Surtlanbek Adzhinyazov and Ruslanbek Arslanov voluntarily joined an armed group organized by a resident of the village of Kayasula, Neftekumsky district, Keldimuratov, nicknamed "Muslim", in the training center "Islamic Institute of Caucasus" near the village of Serzhen-Yurt, Shali district of Chechnya. It included 25 people from Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia and Stavropol.Adzhinyazov and Arslanov are accused of committing crimes under Article 317 (encroachment on the life of military personnel), Part 2 of Article 209 (banditry) and Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (armed rebellion).
Residents of the Stavropol Territory Surtlanbek Adzhinyazov and Ruslanbek Arslanov were found guilty of encroachment on the lives of Russian servicemen, the Southern District Military Court said today.
The investigation and the court established that in August 1999, Adzhinyazov and Arslanov took part in the attack on the Botlikh district of Dagestan and fired repeated shots from machine guns at servicemen, according to a message on the Telegram channel of the press service of the court. The court sentenced Ardzhinyazov to 14.5 years in prison, and Ruslanbek Arslanov to 13 years in a strict regime colony, the report said.
The criminal case against Ardzhinyazov and Arslanov went to court on February 12, 2021, 34 court sessions were held, the verdict was announced today, follows from the case file on the website of the Southern District Military Court.
The case card states that the charges against the defendants were brought under articles on encroachment on the life of military personnel, banditry and armed rebellion. The press service of the court noted in its report that the verdict was passed on Ardzhinyazov and Arslanov under Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on encroachment on the lives of servicemen. Article 317 of the Russian Criminal Code (encroachment on the life of military personnel) provides for punishment up to life imprisonment or the death penalty.
The mass infiltration of Chechen fighters into Dagestan began on August 7, 1999. On that day, more than a thousand armed militants from Chechnya entered the territory of the republic. The villages of Ansalta, Rakhata, Shodroda and Godoberi of the Botlikh region were immediately captured, and over the next few days other settlements in the Botlikh and Tsumadinsky regions were captured, the "Caucasian Knot" report, "Invasion of militants into Dagestan," says.
A resident of Stavropol, nicknamed Muslim,
| ...a decidedly suggestive name, given the location... |
with whom the investigation links Adzhinyazov and Arslanov, is known as the head of the so-called "Nogai battalion." Such criminal cases often turn out to be fabricated, lawyer Narine Hayrapetyan, who deals with cases of illegal armed formations, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent earlier. "For all people from Stavropol, the plot is the same everywhere," she said.
The Nogais are a Turkic people descended from the Qipchaks who in the 13th and 14th centuries coalesced with their Mongol conquerors to form the Nogai Horde. They adopted Sunni Islam in the 14th century. Their language is most closely related to Kazakh and Kara-Kalpak. In other words, the Nogais are not ethnically or linguistically even remotely related to the Chechens and Ingush.
According to the brief history of the Nogais in Shirin Akiner's "Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union," which still remains an invaluable reference source 15 years after the demise of the USSR, the Nogai Horde split in the mid-16th century, with the Great Horde remaining on the lower Volga and the Little Horde settling on the right bank of the Kuban River and the shores of the Sea of Azov, and in southern Ukraine.
The two groups reunited in the mid-17th century after the Great Horde moved southwest, and became nominally subject to the Crimean Tatar khanate. In the 18th century, under pressure from the Tsarist Russian authorities, many Nogais moved either west to present-day Ukraine, south into the Caucasus, or emigrated to Ottoman Turkey.
At the time of the 1979 Soviet census, there were just under 60,000 Nogais in the USSR, while a decade later, that number had increased to some 75,500. Of those, roughly 28,000 lived in Daghestan, primarily in the northern Khasavyurt district. The Nogais constitute the eighth-largest of Daghestan's numerous ethnic groups.
There are also Nogai communities in neighboring Chechnya, Stavropol Krai, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria. In 1979, over 90 percent of Nogais in the USSR considered Nogai their native language, and 75 percent also claimed fluency in Russian.
An informal Nogai association, Nogai Birlik (Unity), representing the Nogais in Daghestan, in 1991 called for a separate Nogai state, according to a 1995 briefing paper compiled by the British nongovernmental organization International Alert. At that time, the Nogais reportedly opposed sovereignty for Daghestan on the grounds that it would make it more difficult for them to maintain contacts with their coethnics in other regions of the Russian Federation.
Possibly because they considered themselves victimized, oppressed, or simply neglected and forgotten by the Russian authorities, the Nogais, who are overwhelmingly rural dwellers engaged in agriculture, were among the first non-Chechens to join the Chechen resistance.
In a 13 February article, "Nezavisimaya gazeta" traces that involvement as far back as 1996, claiming that between 1996-99 a group of Nogais from Neftekum traveled to Chechnya for training at so-called "Wahhabi camps," presumably meaning the training camp established in Serzhen-Yurt by Saudi-born field commander Khattab.
The Russian daily further claims that the so-called Nogai battalion participated in the 1999 incursion into Daghestan spearheaded by Khattab and radical field commander Shamil Basayev that precipitated the second Chechen war. Whether Nogais from other regions of the North Caucasus have since formed comparable, separate djamaats remains unclear.
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