Akhmed Zakayev
| Akhmed Zakayev Ахмед Халидович Закаев |
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| Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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In office 25 November 2007 – 23 August 2009 |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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In office 1997 – 6 February 2006 |
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| Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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In office 1997 – 29 July 1999 |
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| Culture Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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In office 1994 – 20 November 2007 |
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Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev 26 April 1959 Kirovskiy, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Almaty Region, Kazakhstan) |
| Religion | Islam |
Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev (Chechen: Заки Хьалид кlант Ахьмад, Zaki Halid kant Ahmad, Russian: Ахмед Халидович Закаев, Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev; born 26 April 1959) is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister of the unrecognised Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). He was also the Foreign Minister of the Ichkerian government, appointed by Aslan Maskhadov shortly after his 1997 election, and again in 2006 by Abdul Halim Sadulayev. During the First Chechen war Zakayev took part in the battles for Grozny and other military operations, as well as in high-level negotiations with the Russian side.
In 2002, Russia accused him, by then in exile, of having been involved in a series of crimes including involvement in acts of terrorism. In 2003, judge Timothy Workman of Bow Street Magistrates' Court in central London rejected the extradition request due to lack of evidence and declared the accusations to be politically motivated, also saying that there was substantial risk of Zakayev being tortured if he was returned to Moscow.
Akhmed Zakayev was born in the settlement of Kirovskiy, Kirovskiy Raion (nowadays called Balpyk Bi, Koksu District), in the Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, which is now in Almaty Region, in Kazakhstan; his family was deported by Stalin's regime along with the rest of the Chechens in 1944. He graduated from acting and choreography schools in Voronezh and Moscow and worked as an actor at a theatre in the Chechen capital Grozny, specializing in a Shakespearean roles. From 1991, he was the chairman of the Chechen Union of the Theatrical Actors. In 1994, Zakayev became a Minister of Culture in the Chechen separatist government of Dzhokhar Dudayev.
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