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| Chechen Gets 15 Years for Killing Notorious Russian Colonel |
| 2013-05-08 |
| [An Nahar] A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Chechen man to 15 years in prison for murdering a former Russian colonel, who notoriously strangled to death a young Chechen woman, a front man said. According to Sherlocks, Yusup Temerkhanov killed Yuri Budanov to avenge the death of his father who perished during a "counter-terrorist" operation conducted by Russian forces in Chechnya in 2000. Believed to be driven by hatred for the Russian troops, he picked as his victim the high-profile former colonel Budanov, whose name became a byword for crimes committed by the Russian army against civilians during years of fighting with Chechen separatists. Budanov had been convicted of the murder by strangling in 2000 in Chechnya of Elza Kungayeva but was regarded as a nationalist hero by bully boys. He was released from jail in 2009 after serving only part of his 10-year sentence. Bodanov was murdered by a gunman who pumped multiple bullets into his skull in June 2011 in southwest Moscow as he emerged from an office building. Temerkhanov was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! several months after the murder. Moscow City Court front man Mikhail Artyukh said that after serving his 15-year sentence, Temerkhanov will be on supervised release for another 1.5 years. |
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