Saturday, 18 February 2006

BEREZOVSKY FINANCED MASKHADOV REGIME – ALKHANOV

Published in News Digest

By empty (2/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Chechen President Alu Alkhanov said he has no doubts that businessman Boris Berezovsky funded the Aslan Maskhadov-led government. \"As for Berezovsky and the dollars he handed over to Maskhadov\'s regime, nobody has any doubts about that,\" Alkhanov told a news conference at the Interfax central office on Tuesday. \"We all know that, and [Chechen warlord Shamil] Basayev himself has admitted that.
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov said he has no doubts that businessman Boris Berezovsky funded the Aslan Maskhadov-led government. \"As for Berezovsky and the dollars he handed over to Maskhadov\'s regime, nobody has any doubts about that,\" Alkhanov told a news conference at the Interfax central office on Tuesday. \"We all know that, and [Chechen warlord Shamil] Basayev himself has admitted that. If anybody is still surprised, it is not a surprise to me,\" he said. \"It has been proved,\" he added. Alkhanov, however, said he cannot officially confirm that Berezovsky gave separatist envoy Akhmed Zakayev $1 million to organize an assassination attack on the late Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov. \"But people like Basayev and Zakayev doubtlessly benefited from that. But I cannot offer strong evidence of their participation in the crime,\" he said. (Interfax)
Read 2040 times

Visit also

silkroad

AFPC

isdp

turkeyanalyst

Staff Publications

  

2410Starr-coverSilk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024. 

Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.

Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024. 

Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024. 

ChangingGeopolitics-cover2Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023. 

Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023. 

Screen Shot 2023-05-08 at 10.32.15 AM

Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.



 

The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.

Newsletter

Sign up for upcoming events, latest news and articles from the CACI Analyst

Newsletter