MOSCOW, July 9 — Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claimed today that foreign security services carried out the killing in Austria last week of a Chechen blogger who was an outspoken critic of the strongman. Austrian police have arrested two Russians from Chechnya over the fatal shooting of a Chechen...
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that foreign secret services were behind the killing in Austria. — AFP pic
Russian media named the victim as Mamikhan Umarov, who was using the name Martin Beck in Austria and had a YouTube blog critical of Kadyrov’s regime. He claimed these “corrupt mouthpieces receive money for their work... and then they are killed as allegedly innocent victims” of the Chechen regime they criticised.
The Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta wrote that the murdered man was a “personal foe” of Kadyrov, and his blog was popular because of the “outspokenness of its author”.
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