Movladi Udugov
| Movladi Udugov | |
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| Мовлади Саидарбиевич Удугов | |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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In office August 1996 – February 2, 1997 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Movladi Saidarbievich Udugov 9 February 1962 Germenchuk, Chechen-Ingush ASSR of the Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Chechen |
| Political party | NCCP, IU, CPID (currently none) |
| Alma mater | Grozny State University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Movladi Saidarbievich Udugov (Russian: Мовлади Саидарбиевич Удугов; born February 9, 1962 in Germenchuk, Shalinsky District, Chechnya into the Shirdi teip) was the First Deputy Prime Minister of the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). As a Chechen propaganda chief, he was credited for the Chechen separatists' victory on the information front during the First Chechen War.
A highly-controversial figure, following a particularly fundamentalist strain of Islam that is not shared by most Chechens, he is currently one of the ideologues and the main propagandist behind the Caucasus Emirate (a Pan-Islamic militant movement that is rejecting the idea of a merely independent Chechen state in favor of an Islamic state encompassing most of the Russia's North Caucasus and based on Islamic Sharia law).
From 1983 to 1988, Udugov studied in Checheno-Ingushetia State University. Since 1988, was editor in chief of the newspaper Orientir, which was banned by the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1989. Soon, he became a member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the National Congress of Chechen People (NCCP). In NCCP, Movladi Udugov became the chairman of the Information Committee and simultaneously an employee of the local television station; during the 1991 revolution in Grozny, Udugov used this position to broadcast Dzhokhar Dudayev's address to the people.
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