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Vakha Arsanov

October 15, 2023

Vakha Arsanov (Russian: Ваха Арсанов; 1950 – 15 May 2005) was a vice president in the Aslan Maskhadov government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Vakha Arsanov
Ваха Хамидович Арсанов
Vice President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
In office
February 1997 – August 2001
PresidentAslan Maskhadov
Preceded bySaid-Khasanom Abumuslimov
Succeeded byAbdul-Halim Sadulayev
Personal details
Born
Vakha Khamidovich Arsanov

1958
Naurskaya, Checheno-Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died15 May 2005 (aged 46–47)
Grozny, Russia
AwardsOrder of Honor of the Nation
Award weapon

Biography Edit

Early life Edit

Vakha Arsanov was born in 1950 in the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Vakha was from the teip Keloi. He worked as a Soviet traffic police captain.

In 1991, Arsanov supported Dzhokar Dudayev's National Congress of Chechen People and became a deputy in Dudayev's parliament. During the First Chechen War, Arsanov became a military commander for the Chechen separatist forces, reaching the rank of Divisional General. He took part in the Battle of Dolinskoye, the Battle of Grozny, and others. After the Chechens retook Grozny in August 1996, Arsanov declared that "Russia does have a strong army, but they weaken themselves... The Chechens have morale and a spirit... We know what we are fighting for and what we are dying for. The Russians just want to go home to mother or to their beloved girl. They don't need this war."[1]

After the war, in January 1997, he ran on the same ticket as the separatist forces' chief of staff Aslan Maskhadov. The two won Chechnya's presidential election, garnering almost 300,000 votes.

Vice-President of Chechnya Edit

In February 1997, "a remote-controlled bomb blast damaged two cars" in Arsanov's motorcade in central Grozny; his press spokesman claimed the attack was "'a carefully planned operation by the Russian secret services,' designed to destabilize Chechnya by provoking conflict between supporters of [Maskhadov] and Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, the outgoing acting president."[2] In April, Russian Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov announced the arrests of two Chechen women suspected of involvement in the 1995 Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis and the April 28 bombing of Pyatigorsk that killed two. Arsanov denied a Chechen connection to the bombings in Pyatigorsk and Armavir, instead accusing the Russian secret services of organizing the Pyatigorsk bombing in order to "sabotage the peace process. He also suggested "that ongoing peace talks with Russia should be suspended until Kulikov apologized." However, Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Movladi Udugov stated that peace talks would continue.[3] In May, Russian leaders formally apologized for the incident in which Russian fighter aircraft intercepted Arsanov's plane shortly after it took off from Grozny to the Netherlands.[4] In September, Arsanov threatened to "execute" Russian Cabinet leaders for their "genocide" during the war and said to "spit" on Russia; the Russian government demanded that Arsanov retract his "insulting statements" and apologize, but he did not.[5] In November, Arsanov served as the acting president while Maskhadov was on vacation.[6]

In July 1998, together with Shamil Basayev, Arsanov saved the "Wahhabi" forces aided by renegade former generals Arbi Barayev and Abdul-Malik Mezhidov from total destruction during the confrontation with the Maskhadov's government forces in Gudermes.[7] In an August 1998 televised conference, Arsanov said that by attacking Afghanistan and Sudan, the United States had launched an "undeclared World War III" and ordered a global attack against the Americans; he said that Bill Clinton "had been put on the 'wanted list' for his crimes against the Islamic people and would be tried according to Shariah laws".[8][9] In December, Arsanov defected to the opposition, which was agitating for a new Islamist state constitution.[10]

Arsanov was accused of corruption and involvement in criminal activity,[11]: 149  including kidnappings of foreigners[12][13][14][15][16]: 379  and connections with the Chechen mafia in Moscow.[17] In February 1999, Arsanov was sacked when a presidential decree abolished his post, but he said he would not leave office unless President Maskhadov also stepped down. He said the republic's top Islamic body, the Shura, should be allowed to select a new national leadership to transform Chechnya into an Islamic state.[10]

After the Second Chechen War broke out in 1999, Arsanov announced in October that the State Defense Council "had decided to forbid Chechen leaders from conducting negotiations or getting in touch with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin". He also demanded that the Chechens would only meet with the Russians "on neutral ground"; that an international organization would supervise and implement a Russian-Chechen agreement; and that Russian forces would withdraw from Chechnya.[18] In October, Arsanov "ruled out holding political negotiations with Russia, saying that Chechnya expects Europe and the United States to pressure Russia into ending the military operation."[19] In February 2000, Arsanov, together with Basayev, were reported to have announced the start of "total military actions on the whole of Russian territory."[20] He soon disappeared in Georgia, where he was treated for an injury, appearing publicly in the presence of President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze,[21] and later reportedly moved to Nazran in Ingushetia.[22] He resurfaced in 2001 to call Chechen resistance against Russia "pointless," and Mashkhadov fired him, saying, "“He could have fallen into the hands of the Federals at any time and they could’ve forced him to take part in the negotiations."[23]

Late life and death Edit

In February 2003, the AFP reported that Arsanov issued a video call to the Chechen resistance to put stop attacks on pro-Moscow Chechen militias.[24] According to Russian media reports, he became close with Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow head of the republic, who asked the federal center for an amnesty for Arsanov;[25] other sources state that he and Isa Munayev remained the last commanders still fully loyal to Maskhadov.[26] According to the Kommersant report,[27] Arsanov was detained by the Chechen OMON, led by the former separatist commander Artur Akhmadov.[28] In February 2005, the separatists protested the alleged arrest and detention of Arsanov by the Russians.[29]

On May 15, 2005, Russia announced that during a raid in the village of Ivanovo, a suburb of Grozny, pro-Russian police and militia forces killed four militants, including Arsanov.[30] The death was shrouded in mystery; the bodies were reported to be burned too badly to be identified, and separatists alleged that Arsanov was actually in Russian custody at the time. According to some reports, Arsanov was held in Ramzan Kadyrov's private prison in Tsentoroi and unsuccessfully tortured there in an attempt to make him cooperate with the young Kadyrov against Maskhadov.[31] The Moscow Times also reported that Arsanov was being tortured at an unofficial prison run by Kadyrov in February.[32]

References Edit

  1. ^ Hoffman, David (August 25, 1996). "Russians' Morale at a Low in Grozny". The Washington Post.
  2. ^ Parrish, Scott (February 6, 1997). "Assassination Attempt on Chechen Vice President-Elect". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  3. ^ "Kulikov Accuses Chechens of Pyatigorsk Bombing". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. April 30, 1997.
  4. ^ "Moscow Apologizes for Interception of Chechen Vice President's Plane". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. May 21, 1997.
  5. ^ Edmund L. Andrews (September 13, 1997). "Russian-Chechen Agreement on Rebuilding a Major Oil Pipeline Is Beginning to Unravel". The New York Times. from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  6. ^ . July 11, 1997. Archived from the original on September 18, 2006. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  7. ^ "Religious–Political Conflict in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria". from the original on April 11, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  8. ^ "Chechnya declares war on USA". August 23, 1998. from the original on June 2, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  9. ^ . Russia Reform Monitor. August 28, 1998. Archived from the original on June 10, 2007.
  10. ^ a b "Islamist vice-president defies Chechen leader". BBC News. February 7, 1999. from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  11. ^ Lieven, Anatol (2000). "Nightmare in the Caucasus" (PDF). The Washington Quarterly. 23 (1): 145–159. doi:10.1162/016366000560610. S2CID 154497068.
  12. ^ Hawks and Doves Circle over Chechnya Retrieved March 23, 2008 January 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Chechnya Burning". The Independent. December 13, 1998. from the original on May 4, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  14. ^ "RSF publishes annual report on World Press Freedom Day". May 3, 2002. from the original on April 18, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  15. ^ Izmailov, Vyacheslav (November–December 2002). "The Drama Behind 'Nord-Ost'". Perspective. 13 (2).
  16. ^ Stanislawski, Bartosz; Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Katarzyna; Strachota, Krzysztof; Falkowski, Maciej; Crane, David; Levitsky, Melvyn (June 2008). "Para-States, Quasi-States, and Black Spots: Perhaps Not States, but Not "Ungoverned Territories," Either". International Studies Review. 10 (2): 366–396. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00795.x. JSTOR 25481982.
  17. ^ Anssi Kullberg (October 6, 2003). . Archived from the original on January 28, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  18. ^ Cockburn, Patrick (October 24, 1999). "Chechens trapped as Russians cut off escape". The Independent.
  19. ^ "Russia: Troops Near Chechen Capital". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. October 9, 1999.
  20. ^ . CNN. Archived from the original on January 12, 2005. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  21. ^ The Security Organs of the Russian Federation (Part IV) Retrieved March 23, 2008 April 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ U.S. Know-How Doesn't Work in Chechnya Retrieved March 23, 2008 March 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Shermatova, Sanobar. "Maskhadov's Last Earthly Comments about the Upcoming "Round Table"". Prague Watchdog.
  24. ^ "Unexpected announcement by Vakha Arsanov". February 18, 2003. from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  25. ^ Sanobar Shermatova (2007). . The Moscow News. No. 18. Archived from the original on August 10, 2007. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  26. ^ "Khambiev Surrender Seen as Heavy Blow to Maskhadov". The Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  27. ^ Report: Arsanov Arrested The Moscow Times February 17, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  28. ^ "Aslan Maskhadov Killed". Kommersant. March 9, 2005. from the original on April 3, 2005. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  29. ^ "Maskhadov's Last Earthly Comments about the Upcoming "Round Table"". March 20, 2005. from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  30. ^ "Arsanov Believed to Be Killed by Police Forces Near Grozny". The Moscow Times. March 16, 2005. from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  31. ^ Fate of Former Chechen VP Remains Mysterious The Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2008
  32. ^ "Chechen Vice President Reportedly Captured". HighBeam Research. February 14, 2005. from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2008.

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Vakha Arsanov Russian Vaha Arsanov 1950 15 May 2005 was a vice president in the Aslan Maskhadov government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Vakha ArsanovVaha Hamidovich ArsanovVice President of the Chechen Republic of IchkeriaIn office February 1997 August 2001PresidentAslan MaskhadovPreceded bySaid Khasanom AbumuslimovSucceeded byAbdul Halim SadulayevPersonal detailsBornVakha Khamidovich Arsanov1958Naurskaya Checheno Ingush ASSR Russian SFSR Soviet UnionDied15 May 2005 aged 46 47 Grozny RussiaAwardsOrder of Honor of the Nation Award weapon Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life 1 2 Vice President of Chechnya 1 3 Late life and death 2 References 3 External linksBiography EditEarly life Edit Vakha Arsanov was born in 1950 in the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Vakha was from the teip Keloi He worked as a Soviet traffic police captain In 1991 Arsanov supported Dzhokar Dudayev s National Congress of Chechen People and became a deputy in Dudayev s parliament During the First Chechen War Arsanov became a military commander for the Chechen separatist forces reaching the rank of Divisional General He took part in the Battle of Dolinskoye the Battle of Grozny and others After the Chechens retook Grozny in August 1996 Arsanov declared that Russia does have a strong army but they weaken themselves The Chechens have morale and a spirit We know what we are fighting for and what we are dying for The Russians just want to go home to mother or to their beloved girl They don t need this war 1 After the war in January 1997 he ran on the same ticket as the separatist forces chief of staff Aslan Maskhadov The two won Chechnya s presidential election garnering almost 300 000 votes Vice President of Chechnya Edit In February 1997 a remote controlled bomb blast damaged two cars in Arsanov s motorcade in central Grozny his press spokesman claimed the attack was a carefully planned operation by the Russian secret services designed to destabilize Chechnya by provoking conflict between supporters of Maskhadov and Zelimkhan Yandarbiev the outgoing acting president 2 In April Russian Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov announced the arrests of two Chechen women suspected of involvement in the 1995 Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis and the April 28 bombing of Pyatigorsk that killed two Arsanov denied a Chechen connection to the bombings in Pyatigorsk and Armavir instead accusing the Russian secret services of organizing the Pyatigorsk bombing in order to sabotage the peace process He also suggested that ongoing peace talks with Russia should be suspended until Kulikov apologized However Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Movladi Udugov stated that peace talks would continue 3 In May Russian leaders formally apologized for the incident in which Russian fighter aircraft intercepted Arsanov s plane shortly after it took off from Grozny to the Netherlands 4 In September Arsanov threatened to execute Russian Cabinet leaders for their genocide during the war and said to spit on Russia the Russian government demanded that Arsanov retract his insulting statements and apologize but he did not 5 In November Arsanov served as the acting president while Maskhadov was on vacation 6 In July 1998 together with Shamil Basayev Arsanov saved the Wahhabi forces aided by renegade former generals Arbi Barayev and Abdul Malik Mezhidov from total destruction during the confrontation with the Maskhadov s government forces in Gudermes 7 In an August 1998 televised conference Arsanov said that by attacking Afghanistan and Sudan the United States had launched an undeclared World War III and ordered a global attack against the Americans he said that Bill Clinton had been put on the wanted list for his crimes against the Islamic people and would be tried according to Shariah laws 8 9 In December Arsanov defected to the opposition which was agitating for a new Islamist state constitution 10 Arsanov was accused of corruption and involvement in criminal activity 11 149 including kidnappings of foreigners 12 13 14 15 16 379 and connections with the Chechen mafia in Moscow 17 In February 1999 Arsanov was sacked when a presidential decree abolished his post but he said he would not leave office unless President Maskhadov also stepped down He said the republic s top Islamic body the Shura should be allowed to select a new national leadership to transform Chechnya into an Islamic state 10 After the Second Chechen War broke out in 1999 Arsanov announced in October that the State Defense Council had decided to forbid Chechen leaders from conducting negotiations or getting in touch with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin He also demanded that the Chechens would only meet with the Russians on neutral ground that an international organization would supervise and implement a Russian Chechen agreement and that Russian forces would withdraw from Chechnya 18 In October Arsanov ruled out holding political negotiations with Russia saying that Chechnya expects Europe and the United States to pressure Russia into ending the military operation 19 In February 2000 Arsanov together with Basayev were reported to have announced the start of total military actions on the whole of Russian territory 20 He soon disappeared in Georgia where he was treated for an injury appearing publicly in the presence of President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze 21 and later reportedly moved to Nazran in Ingushetia 22 He resurfaced in 2001 to call Chechen resistance against Russia pointless and Mashkhadov fired him saying He could have fallen into the hands of the Federals at any time and they could ve forced him to take part in the negotiations 23 Late life and death Edit In February 2003 the AFP reported that Arsanov issued a video call to the Chechen resistance to put stop attacks on pro Moscow Chechen militias 24 According to Russian media reports he became close with Akhmad Kadyrov the pro Moscow head of the republic who asked the federal center for an amnesty for Arsanov 25 other sources state that he and Isa Munayev remained the last commanders still fully loyal to Maskhadov 26 According to the Kommersant report 27 Arsanov was detained by the Chechen OMON led by the former separatist commander Artur Akhmadov 28 In February 2005 the separatists protested the alleged arrest and detention of Arsanov by the Russians 29 On May 15 2005 Russia announced that during a raid in the village of Ivanovo a suburb of Grozny pro Russian police and militia forces killed four militants including Arsanov 30 The death was shrouded in mystery the bodies were reported to be burned too badly to be identified and separatists alleged that Arsanov was actually in Russian custody at the time According to some reports Arsanov was held in Ramzan Kadyrov s private prison in Tsentoroi and unsuccessfully tortured there in an attempt to make him cooperate with the young Kadyrov against Maskhadov 31 The Moscow Times also reported that Arsanov was being tortured at an unofficial prison run by Kadyrov in February 32 References Edit Hoffman David August 25 1996 Russians Morale at a Low in Grozny The Washington Post Parrish Scott February 6 1997 Assassination Attempt on Chechen Vice President Elect Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty Kulikov Accuses Chechens of Pyatigorsk Bombing Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty April 30 1997 Moscow Apologizes for Interception of Chechen Vice President s Plane Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty May 21 1997 Edmund L Andrews September 13 1997 Russian Chechen Agreement on Rebuilding a Major Oil Pipeline Is Beginning to Unravel The New York Times Archived from the original on November 5 2012 Retrieved March 23 2008 Chechen leaders deplore dismissal of Berezovskiy July 11 1997 Archived from the original on September 18 2006 Retrieved March 23 2008 Religious Political Conflict in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Archived from the original on April 11 2008 Retrieved March 23 2008 Chechnya declares war on USA August 23 1998 Archived from the original on June 2 2008 Retrieved March 23 2008 Chechen leader calls for terrorist war against U S and says President Clinton should be killed Russia Reform Monitor August 28 1998 Archived from the original on June 10 2007 a b Islamist vice president defies Chechen leader BBC News February 7 1999 Archived from the original on November 14 2012 Retrieved March 23 2008 Lieven Anatol 2000 Nightmare in the Caucasus PDF The Washington Quarterly 23 1 145 159 doi 10 1162 016366000560610 S2CID 154497068 Hawks and Doves Circle over Chechnya Retrieved March 23 2008 Archived January 15 2006 at the Wayback Machine Chechnya Burning The Independent December 13 1998 Archived from the original on May 4 2008 Retrieved March 23 2008 RSF publishes annual report on World Press Freedom Day May 3 2002 Archived from the original on April 18 2012 Retrieved March 23 2008 Izmailov Vyacheslav November December 2002 The Drama Behind Nord Ost Perspective 13 2 Stanislawski Bartosz Pelczynska Nalecz Katarzyna Strachota Krzysztof Falkowski Maciej Crane David Levitsky Melvyn June 2008 Para States Quasi States and Black Spots Perhaps Not States but Not Ungoverned Territories Either International Studies Review 10 2 366 396 doi 10 1111 j 1468 2486 2008 00795 x JSTOR 25481982 Anssi Kullberg October 6 2003 The Background of Chechen Independence Movement IV The Internal Power Struggle in Chechnya Archived from the original on January 28 2008 Retrieved March 23 2008 Cockburn Patrick October 24 1999 Chechens trapped as Russians cut off escape The Independent Russia Troops Near Chechen Capital Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty October 9 1999 Putin says Russia has taken Chechen capital Rebels say they re ready to fight for 50 years CNN Archived from the original on January 12 2005 Retrieved March 23 2008 The Security Organs of the Russian Federation Part IV Retrieved March 23 2008 Archived April 22 2008 at the Wayback Machine U S Know How Doesn t Work in Chechnya Retrieved March 23 2008 Archived March 12 2008 at the Wayback Machine Shermatova Sanobar Maskhadov s Last Earthly Comments about the Upcoming Round Table Prague Watchdog Unexpected announcement by Vakha Arsanov February 18 2003 Archived from the original on July 22 2011 Retrieved March 23 2008 Sanobar Shermatova 2007 Who Will Stand in for Maskhadov The Moscow News No 18 Archived from the original on August 10 2007 Retrieved March 23 2008 Khambiev Surrender Seen as Heavy Blow to Maskhadov The Jamestown Foundation Retrieved March 23 2008 Report Arsanov Arrested The Moscow Times Archived February 17 2005 at the Wayback Machine Aslan Maskhadov Killed Kommersant March 9 2005 Archived from the original on April 3 2005 Retrieved March 23 2008 Maskhadov s Last Earthly Comments about the Upcoming Round Table March 20 2005 Archived from the original on September 27 2007 Retrieved March 23 2008 Arsanov Believed to Be Killed by Police Forces Near Grozny The Moscow Times March 16 2005 Archived from the original on December 17 2014 Retrieved December 17 2014 Fate of Former Chechen VP Remains Mysterious The Jamestown Foundation Retrieved March 23 2008 Chechen Vice President Reportedly Captured HighBeam Research February 14 2005 Archived from the original on December 17 2014 Retrieved March 23 2008 External links EditChechen Republic of Ichkeria Top Rebel Figure Arsanov Detained in Chechnya Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization 2005 02 14 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Vakha Arsanov amp oldid 1175866949, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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