The uncertainty over whether or not Sulim Yamadayev, former commander of the controversial Vostok (East) battalion, survived the March 28 attempt to kill him in Dubai continues. While the local ...

MOSCOW — A Chechen gunned down in the United Arab Emirates was identified Monday as Sulim Yamadayev, a defiant militia leader who had clashed bitterly with the Kremlin-backed president of the ...

According to some sources, Sulim Yamadayev, former Chechen rebel commander and former commander of the Russian Vostok (“East”) Battalion, was assassinated in Dubai on March 28. According to other ...

GROZNY -- The home of Sulim Yamadayev, a former Chechen insurgent turned Russian commander, was set alight by unknown people in the Chechen city of Gudermes, RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service reports.

The murder of Sulim Yamadayev is the latest in a line of killings of Chechens who opposed the rule of Mr Kadyrov and again raises questions about the nature of his rule. Mr Yamadayev, like Mr ...

Diplomats said Sulim Yamadayev's body had been identified by his relatives. Mr Yamadayev fell out with Mr Kadyrov last year and was sacked as commander of an elite security forces battalion.

Previously, Mazaev was wanted internationally on charges of the murder of Sulim Yamadayev, the former commander of the battalion Vostok. The court found Mazaev and his two accomplices guilty of an ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Dubai police accused a former deputy prime minister of Chechnya of masterminding the assassination of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev in an ...

A Dubai court convicted two men on Monday of involvement in the 2009 assassination of Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai, and handed them a life sentence. The men, Makhsood Jan ...

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The suspects include a Russian MP, Adam Delimkhanov, who police in the emirate accuse of masterminding the assassination of Sulim Yamadayev. Yamadayev was shot dead on 28 March in the car park of his ...

"Adam Delimkhanov is the man behind the assassination of Sulim Yamadayev," the head of Dubai police, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, said. Tamim said Delimkhanov was "wanted in the (United ...