The former deputy mayor of Grozny, Gelani Shapiyev, was shot three times in the head and killed, outside his apartment building in an “affluent” neighbourhood in western Moscow, near the Krylatskaya metro station. He is the third former Chechan official to be shot in three years on the streets of Moscow, according to the Moscow Times.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 6 February 2009 at 7:18 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 6 February 2009.
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Tags: Chechan officials, Moscow, murder, shot
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