Doku Umarov

Dokka Umarov Ӏумар КӀант Доккa
Dokka Umarov during the Caucasus Insurgency
1st Emir of the Caucasus Emirate
In office 31 October 2007 – 7 September 2013
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Aliaskhab Kebekov
5th President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
In office 17 June 2006 – 31 October 2007
Preceded by	Abdul Halim Sadulayev
Succeeded by	Position abolished (Prime Minister in Exile: Akhmed Zakayev)
Personal details
Born	Doku Khamatovich Umarov Докка Хаматович Умаров (1964-04-13)13 April 1964 Kharsenoi, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, Soviet Union
Died	7 September 2013(2013-09-07) (aged 49)
Nationality	Chechen
Children	Six
Military service
Allegiance	Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1994–2007) Caucasian Emirate (2007–September 2013)
Years of service	1994 – 7 September 2013
Rank	Emir of the Caucasus Emirate
Battles/wars	First Chechen War Second Chechen War North Caucasus Insurgency Syrian Civil War

Doku Khamatovich Umarov (Chechen: Ӏумар КӀант Доккa, 'Umar K'ant Dokka; Russian: Доку Хаматович Умаров, Doku Khamatovich Umarov); also known as Dokka Umarov as well as by his Arabized name of Dokka Abu Usman; (13 April 1964 – 7 September 2013) was a Chechen radical Islamist militant in Russia. Umarov was a major military figure in both recent wars in Chechnya during the 1990s and 2000s, before becoming the leader of the greater insurgency in the North Caucasus. He was active mostly in south-western Chechnya, near and across the borders with Ingushetia and Georgia.

During the late 1990s, after Chechnya's first war against Russia, Movladi Udugov's status as war hero enabled him to take the post of the breakaway Republic's Security Minister. Between 2006 and 2007, following the death of his predecessor Sheikh Abdul Halim, Umarov became the underground President of Ichkeria of the unrecognized government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, the post that Umarov eventually abolished himself when he renounced and abandoned Chechen nationalism in favour of regional pan-Islamism and jihadist ideology. The political mantle of Chechen nationalist separatism was formally taken over by the self-exiled Akhmed Zakayev, Umarov's former wartime comrade and friend turned political rival. Having quit the position of Chechen separatist leader, Umarov subsequently became the self-proclaimed Emir of the entire North Caucasus region of Russia, declaring it a putative Islamic state of the Caucasus Emirate. In 2010, Umarov abortively resigned position and appointed Aslambek Vadalov as the new Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, but soon afterwards issued a statement annulling the previous declaration and stating he would remain in his position and rebel Sharia court ruled in favour of Umarov over the rift, following which most other Russian rebel leaders re-swore allegiance to him.