Basmanny Court of Moscow has sanctioned the two-month detention of Shamil Buraev, on the photo, former chief of Achkhoi-Martan region of Chechnya.
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Chechnya’s Buraev Arrested for Politkovskaya Murder
Basmanny Court of Moscow has sanctioned two-month detention of Shamil Buraev, former chief of Achkhoi-Martan region of Chechnya. The prosecutors suspect him of arranging the murder of Novaya Gazeta investigating journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The investigators of Russia’s Prosecutor General Office detained Shamil Buraev September 12, when he was on way to Novy Arbat St., Moscow, intending to meet his friends there. Buraev’s car was blocked by a few other cars and officers in civilian clothes led him to temporarily isolation ward of Moscow Main Interior Department (GUVD).
On the same day, Moscow Military Court gave the third sanction for arrest of FSB Half Colonel Pavel Ryaguzov. Past September, the prosecutors say, Ryaguzov found out home address of Anna Politkovskaya by using the office database and informed Buraev about it.
Basmanny Court sanctioned Buraev’s arrest in two days after the detention.
Former chief of Achkoi-Martan region of Chechnya, Shamil Buraev, resigned in 2003. On the same year, he ran for Chechnya’s presidency at elections, where Akhmat Kadyrov prevailed by the overwhelming majority (Buraev was sustained by 3.3 percent of voters, or by 13,000).
Although Anna Politkovskaya mentioned Buraev several times, she wrote just a single article about him. Released in 2003, that article described how Buraev suffered from Kadyrov's comb-out and could have hardly be viewed as a motif for killing.
Novaya Gazeta investigating reporter Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead past October when she left her apartment. Her murder triggered a wave of international condemnation and the Kremlin has been chastised for the failure to protect freedom of speech ever since.
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