Night fight between the Russian military for an oil well, the murder of a teenager

June 7, 2001

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Unknown people fired grenade launchers at the checkpoint "Kazbek" of the VOVD of the Nozhai-Yurt district. There is no information about victims.
 
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Around midnight, near the village of Raduzhnoye, Grozny region, a fierce firefight took place between two divisions of Russian law enforcement agencies contesting the right to operate an oil well.

The next day, an officer of the district's military commandant's office told concerned local residents that there were casualties as a result of the clash: four servicemen were killed, several were injured of varying severity.

Despite the fact that the battle took place in the immediate vicinity of the settlement, the inhabitants of Raduzhny, fortunately, were not injured.

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At about 6 p.m., on the outskirts of the regional center, the village of Kurchaloy, the Russian military killed 11-year-old Khamzat Magomedovich Tutaev. According to his mother, after asking for four rubles for chewing gum, the boy ran towards the grocery store, but dropped the money on the way. Leaning over the ground, he was trying to pick them up when a shot from an underbarrel grenade launcher was fired from the Russian checkpoint. The fragments of the exploding grenade shattered the bones of the boy's left leg. Another fragment hit the head, inflicting a mortal wound on Khamzat Tutaev. On June 8, his funeral took place at the Kurchaloy cemetery.
On the same day, according to the stories of local residents, the news program of ORT, the 1st channel of Russian television, reported that an 11-year-old boy was blown up in this village at the time of the installation of a mine.

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In the city of Grozny, a disabled person of the second group Ruslan Nasrudinovich Nazarov, b. He was taken to City Hospital No. 9, where doctors amputated both of his legs. Ruslan Nazarov was a native of the village of Alkhan-Yurt, Urus-Martan district.
 
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On the same day, in the 6th microdistrict of Grozny, the Russian military killed 26-year-old Rizvan Mukhtanov, a native of the village of Makhkety, Vedeno district.

 

From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006

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