Chechen leader blames foreign spies for slaying his critics
Source: Associated Press
Updated 9:40 am CDT, Thursday, July 9, 2020
MOSCOW (AP) — The regional strongman leader of Russia's province of Chechnya on Thursday blamed unidentified foreign spy agencies for the recent killing in Austria of a Chechen man who criticized him.
Ramzan Kadyrov claimed on his blog that the ethnic Chechen who was shot dead in a Vienna suburb over the weekend fell victim to “special services working against Russia and myself.”
The 43-year-old Chechen leader rejected allegations of his involvement in the slaying, saying that the killing in Vienna and earlier slayings of ethnic Chechens in Europe were performed by foreign spies to compromise him and tarnish Russia's image.
Police in Austria didn't name the victim. Russian news reports identified him as Mamikhan Umarov, who called himself “Anzor from Vienna” in his blog and reported that he recently had put out a video in which he denounced Kadyrov using obscenities.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Chechen-leader-blames-foreign-spies-for-slaying-15396294.php
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