Mowladi Saidarbijewitsch Udugow

Mowladi Saidarbijewitsch Udugow ( Russian : Мовлади Саидарбиевич Удугов; born February 9, 1962 in Germentchuk , Shalinsky Rajon , Chechnya ) is a Chechen activist, former deputy prime minister, head of propaganda of the Chechen Republic , head of propaganda . He was also the press spokesman for the first Chechen President Jokhar Musayevich Dudayev .

biography

Between 1983 and 1988 Udugov studied at the Chechen-Ingush State University (now the Chechen State University ). During his student days he was investigated for fraud. As a result, he was forced to renounce his family name Temishev and to take the maiden name of his mother Udugow.

From 1989 to 1991 Udugov was already an active member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of Chechnya. Here he held the post of chairman of the information committee. In the fall of 1991 he organized Jokhar Dudayev's live address to the Chechen people on the local television station. A short time later, Udugow became Dudayev's press spokesman and rose to become one of his closest colleagues in the following years.

During the First Chechen War between 1994 and 1996, Udugov carried out professional propaganda activities against Moscow's military intervention and was far superior to the Russian media landscape in the information war. For his propagandistic talent, which contributed significantly to the Chechen victory, he was awarded the highest order of Ichkeria "Honor of the Nation". In the Kremlin , officials compared Udugow to Joseph Goebbels .

In January 1997 Udugow ran unsuccessfully for the post of President of the TRI. In the elections he received only 1 percent of the vote. In September / October 1999 he supported the armed Chechen rebels under Shamil Basayev in the Dagestan War . This time Udugov's propaganda efforts were doomed to failure. In the autumn of the same year he emigrated from Chechnya to the west.

Because of the organization and participation in the armed attack on the Novolaksky Rajon in Dagestan in September 1999, Udugow was placed on the international wanted list by the Russian government in March 2000.

In April 2006, he announced his intention to declare "total war" on Russia and to send terrorists to every corner of the country.

In February 2008, the Chechen religious scholar Shamsudin Batukaew Udugow appointed director of the information and analysis center of the internationally unrecognized Caucasus emirate . But in the summer of 2010 he was dismissed by Doku Umarow as "head of information" for the emirate.

To date, the Russian security authorities have not been able to find the precise whereabouts of Udugow. In May 2011, the Russian daily Moskowski Komsomolez claimed that Uduogow led a luxury life in the Czech Republic . Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, however, suspects that Udugov is hiding in Turkey .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Кавказский Узел: Удугов Мовлади Саидарбиевич . In: Кавказский Узел . ( kavkaz-uzel.eu [accessed August 12, 2018]).
2. ^ Caucasian Knot: Persons. October 26, 2007, accessed August 12, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Что стало с « чеченским Геббельсом » Мовлади Удуговым? ( russian7.ru [accessed August 12, 2018]).
4. ↑ Андрей Сидорчик: Тени прошлого. Что стало с лидерами «независимой Ичкерии»? Retrieved August 12, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Чеченский Геббельс . In: Газета "Коммерсантъ" . October 1, 2002, p. 3 ( kommersant.ru [accessed August 12, 2018]).
6. ↑ « В повестке дня - тотальная война » . In: Газета. Ru . ( gazeta.ru [accessed August 12, 2018]).
7. ↑ Памятные даты русско-кавказской войны (январь-март 2008). December 9, 2008, Retrieved August 12, 2018 (Russian). 
8. ↑ Умаров и Удугов сцепились между собой . ( mk.ru [accessed August 12, 2018]).
9. ↑ Зря уморили Умарова . ( mk.ru [accessed August 12, 2018]).
10. ↑ Кадыров рассказал о чеченских террористах на « турецком берегу » . ( lenta.ru [accessed August 12, 2018]).