Ramzan Hadschiev

Ramzan Khajiev ( Russian Рамзан Хаджиев * 14. November 1955 in the Kazakh SSR ; † 11. August 1996 near Grozny ) was a Chechen journalist and television correspondent who mostly in the North Caucasus was stationed and active. Ramzan Hadschiev was later the head of the Russian television channel ORT in Chechnya.

Life

Hadschiev served in the Red Army and then completed his studies in Riga . After he left Chechnya and worked as a journalist in Russia , he still worked for the Russian television station NTW . In the early 1990s, he was transferred to the war region in Chechnya from his new employer, ORT . When the first war in Chechnya broke out, Hadschiev planned to disappear from the Russian republic. On August 11, 1996, with the intention of leaving Chechnya, he drove with his family as a passenger to the Black Sea ; before that he had to stop at the state border. The Russian border guards allowed him and his family to pass further. Finally, he made it very clear that he was a journalist. After about 20 minutes a Russian tank came around the corner and started firing a machine gun at the car. Hadschiev got two bullets in the head and his family was unharmed. The ORT reported that the attackers were Chechen rebels because they supported the government attached to Moscow , but according to witnesses, it was the Russian soldiers who opened fire on Chadschiev.

His colleagues later confirmed that he was hit twice in the head by bullets from Russian federal soldiers. The case has never been resolved and the ORT has not made a general inquiry. Ramzan Hadschiev left a widow and a 4-year-old son.

He was the 19th and the last journalist to die in the first Chechen war. In early 2011, a street in Grozny was named after him.

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SURNAME	Hadschiev, Ramzan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chechen journalist and television correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kazakh SSR
DATE OF DEATH	August 11, 1996
Place of death	at Grozny