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[[Image:Shpigun grave.jpg|thumb|300px|Gennady Spigun's grave in [[Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery]]]] |
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General '''Gennady Nikolayevich Shpigun''' ({{lang-ru|Геннадий Николаевич Шпигун}}; February 5, 1947 – ca. 2000) was the [[MVD|Russian Interior Ministry]]'s special representative in [[Chechnya]]. |
General '''Gennady Nikolayevich Shpigun''' ({{lang-ru|Геннадий Николаевич Шпигун}}; February 5, 1947 – ca. March 2000) was the [[MVD|Russian Interior Ministry]]'s special representative in [[Chechnya]]. |
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He was [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] from the [[airport]] in [[Grozny]] on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for [[Moscow]]. Shpigun's kidnappers, reported at various times to be different Chechen rebel warlords ([[Shamil Basaev]], [[Arbi Barayev]], [[Magomed Khatuev]]), demanded a ransom of [[US$]]15 million for his release.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vesti7.ru/news?id=624|title=Вести Недели : Березовского объявят в международный розыск|date=11 December 2007|publisher=Vesti7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211173424/http://www.vesti7.ru/news?id=624|archive-date=2007-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://polit.ru/analytics/2006/03/22/shpigun.html|title=Валерий Яременко: Генерал Шпигун: похищение и смерть|website=polit.ru}}</ref> |
He was [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] from the [[airport]] in [[Grozny]] on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for [[Moscow]]. Shpigun's kidnappers, reported at various times to be different Chechen rebel warlords ([[Shamil Basaev]], [[Arbi Barayev]], [[Magomed Khatuev]]), demanded a ransom of [[US$]]15 million for his release.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vesti7.ru/news?id=624|title=Вести Недели : Березовского объявят в международный розыск|date=11 December 2007|publisher=Vesti7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211173424/http://www.vesti7.ru/news?id=624|archive-date=2007-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://polit.ru/analytics/2006/03/22/shpigun.html|title=Валерий Яременко: Генерал Шпигун: похищение и смерть|website=polit.ru}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:16, 15 November 2021
General Gennady Nikolayevich Shpigun (Russian: Геннадий Николаевич Шпигун; February 5, 1947 – ca. March 2000) was the Russian Interior Ministry's special representative in Chechnya.
He was kidnapped from the airport in Grozny on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for Moscow. Shpigun's kidnappers, reported at various times to be different Chechen rebel warlords (Shamil Basaev, Arbi Barayev, Magomed Khatuev), demanded a ransom of US$15 million for his release.[1][2]
On March 31, 2000, his body was found in southern Chechnya, near the village of Itum-Kale. Neither the exact cause nor the date of his death could be determined. In June 2000 he was buried in Moscow's Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery.
References
- ^ "Вести Недели : Березовского объявят в международный розыск". Vesti7. 11 December 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-11.
- ^ "Валерий Яременко: Генерал Шпигун: похищение и смерть". polit.ru.
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