This is a list of people confirmed to have been assassinated by the government of the Russian Federation.[1] Some of the assassinations or targeted killings took place overseas.
Russian assassinations edit
| Target | Position | Date | City | Country | Killed | Injured | Perpetrators | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akhmadov brothers[2] | Chechen generals and high-ranking military commanders | 1999-2002 (7 brothers killed) |  Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
|
7 Targets | Unknown | FSB | ||
| Ruslan Alikhadzhiyev | Chairman of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | 2000-05-17 | Shali | 1 (target) | 0 | Forcibly disappeared, possibly tortured to death. | ||
| Apti Abitayev[3] | Prime suspect in the 1998 kidnapping incident | 2001-05-06 | Somewhere in Russia |  Russia
|
1 (target) | 0 | ||
| Dzhokhar Dudayev | President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | 1996-04-21 | Chechnya | Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
|
1 (target) | 0 | Russian Air Force | Attack by two laser-guided missiles. |
| Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev | 2004-02-13 | Doha |  Qatar
|
1 (target) 2 unconfirmed | 1 | SVR / GRU | Explosive placed on private SUV.[4] | |
| Aslan Maskhadov | 2005-03-08 | Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya | Russia
|
1 (target) | FSB | FSB special forces raid. Grenade thrown in hiding bunker. | ||
| Abdul-Halim Sadulayev | 2006-06-17 | Argun, Chechnya | 9 (including target) | 5 | FSB police raid. Hand grenade thrown through window (disputed).[5][6] | |||
| Arbi Barayev | Leader of Special Purpose Islamic Regiment | 2001-06-22 | Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya | 18 (including target) | Unknown | FSB special forces raid. Possibly tortured to death.[7] | ||
| Ibn al-Khattab | Emir of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya | 2002-03-20 | Chechnya | 1 (target) | 0 | Poisoning with poisoned letter.[8] | ||
| Abu al-Walid | 2004-04-16 | Chechnya | 1 (target) | 0 | Ambushed by FSB snipers.[9] | |||
| Abu Hafs al-Urduni | 2006-11-26 | Chechnya | 5 (including target) | Unknown | FSB Special forces raid.[10] | |||
| Muhannad | 2011-04-21 | Chechnya | 2 (including target) | Unknown | FSB search & destroy operation. | |||
| Abdulla Kurd | 2011-05-03 | Chechnya | 2 (including target) | Unknown | Shot during FSB scout operation. | |||
| Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev | Deputy Prime Minister and National Security Minister of Chechnya | 2002-08-18 | Yekaterinburg | 1 (target) | 0 | Unknown Russian agents | Possibly tortured to death.[11] | |
| Salman Raduyev | Chechen separatist warlord and rebel commander | 2002-12-14 | Solikamsk | 1 (target) | 0 | Possibly executed in prison.[11] | ||
| Ruslan Gelayev | Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya | 2004-02-28 | Bezhta, Dagestan | 35-40 (including target) | Unknown | Border Security Service | Shot by rifle during gunfight, died from exsanguination after cutting off his hand. | |
| Abu Umar Mohammed Al-Sayyaf | Senior leader of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya and Ibn al-Khattab's deputy | 2001-07-11 | Mayrtup, Chechnya | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev | Field commander of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and deputy of Shamil Basayev | 2002-08-26 | Shali | 1 (Target) | 0 | |||
| Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi[12] | One of the founders of EIJ and Al-Qaeda affiliate | 2005-??-?? | Chechnya | 1 (Target) | 0 | FSB special forces raid.[13] | ||
| Magomedzagir Akayev | Senior commander of Shariat Jamaat | 2005-01-15 | Kaspiysk, Dagestan | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Abu Omar al-Kuwaiti | Al-Qaeda agent and involved in Beslan school siege | 2005-02-16 | Ingushetia | 1 (Target) | Unknown | FSB special forces raid.[14] | ||
| Rizvan Chitigov | Senior Chechen intelligence chief and alleged CIA agent | 2005-03-23 | Shali, Chechnya | 1 (Target) | Unknown | FSB special forces raid.[15] | ||
| Akhmed Avdorkhanov | Head of security for President Aslan Maskhadov | 2005-09-19 | Somewhere in Chechnya | 1 (Target) | Unknown | FBS special forces raid. | ||
| Abu Omar al-Saif[16] | Mufti of Arab fighters in Chechnya and Al-Qaeda affiliate | 2005-12-10 | Dagestan | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Shamil Basayev | Senior Chechen military commander | 2006-07-10 | Ingushetia | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Mine-explosive (possibly remotely detonated).[17] | ||
| Amir Khayrullah (Suleiman Imurzayev) | Senior Chechen commander and prime suspect of the 2004 Grozny stadium bombing | 2007-04-05 | Grozny, Chechnya | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Khura-Magomed Ramazanov | Senior Islamic cleric | 2007-07-26 | Makhachkala, Dagestan | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Ratmir Shameyev[18] | Senior Chechen militants | 2011-04-29 | Progress, Stavropol Krai | 9 (including 7 targets) | Unknown | Killed in gunfight.[19] | ||
| Aslanbek Khamurzov[18] | 1 (Target) | Unknown | ||||||
| Alexander Litvinenko | Defected lieutenant colonel of FSB | 2006-11-23 | London |  United Kingdom
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1 (Target) | 0 | SVR | Poisoning with radionuclide polonium-210.[20] |
| Umar Israilov | Ex bodyguard of Ramzan Kadyrov / Critic of the Chechen government | 2009-01-13 | Vienna |  Austria
|
1 (Target) | 0 | Shot twice in the head after trying to flee.[21] | |
| Movladi Baisarov | Ex commander of the Special Battalion Vostok | 2006-11-18 | Moscow | Russia
|
1 (Target) | 0 | Kadyrovtsy | Shot by automatic weapons. |
| Sulim Yamadayev | Lieutenant Colonel of Special Battalion Vostok | 2009-03-28 (Died 03–30) | Dubai |  United Arab Emirates
|
1 (target) | 1 | Shot in the neck. | |
| Said Buryatsky | Commander of Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs's suicide bombers brigade | 2010-03-02 | Ekazhevo, Ingushetia | Russia
|
1 (Target) | 0 | FSB / MVD | |
| Yassir al-Sudani | Commander of Caucasus Emirate | 2010-06-08 | Vedeno, Chechnya | 8 (including target) | Unknown | |||
| Eldar Magatov[22] | Senior Islamist militant | 2014-01-21 | likely Dagestan | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Russian police and pro-government militia | ||
| Vakha Arsanov | Vice president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | 2005-05-15 | Ivanovo | 4 (including target) | Unknown | Either shot during gunfight or tortured to death in private prison. | ||
| Supyan Abdullayev | 2011-03-28 | Ingushetia | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Russian Air Force | Targeted airstrike. | ||
| Zaurbek Avdorkhanov[23] | Field commander of Caucasus Emirate | 2012-07-31 | Galashki, Ingushetia | 1 (Target) | Unknown | FSB | ||
| Ibragim Avdorkhanov[23] | Chechen separatists and part of 2010 Tsentoroy attack | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||||
| Ayub Khaladov[23] | 1 (Target) | Unknown | ||||||
| Dokka Umarov | Emir of the Caucasus Emirate | 2013-09-07 | Ingushetia | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Poisoning. | ||
| Aliaskhab Kebekov | 2015-04-19 | Buynaksk, Dagestan | 1 (Target) | 0 | FSB security forces raid.[24] | |||
| Magomed Suleimanov | 2015-08-11 | Gimry, Dagestan | 1 (Target) | 0 | FSB security forces raid.[25] | |||
| Zalim Shebzukhov | 2016-08-17 | Saint Petersburg | 3 (including target) | 0 | FSB security forces raid.[26] | |||
| Rasul Makasharipov | Emir of Vilayat Dagestan | 2005-07-06 | Makhachkala, Dagestan | 1 (Target) | 0 | FSB special forces raid.[27] | ||
| Anna Politkovskaya | 2006 | Russia | 1 (Target) | 0 | ||||
| Rappani Khalilov | 2007-09-17 | Novy Sulak, Dagestan | 3 (including target) | 12 | FSB special forces raid. Killed by gunfight and/or collapse of residence by tanks.[28] | |||
| Abdul Madzhid | 2008-09-07 | Magaramkentsky, Dagestan | 2 (including target) | Unknown | Ambushed by FSB special forces. | |||
| Omar Sheikhulayev | 2009-02-05 | outside Makhachkala, Dagestan | 1 (Target) | 0 | Killed in gunfight with FSB security forces. | |||
| Umalat Magomedov | 2009-12-31 | Khasavyurt, Dagestan | 1 (Target) | Unknown | FSB security forces raid. | |||
| Magomed Vagabov | 2010-08-21 | Gunib, Dagestan | 5 (including target) | 0 | FSB special forces raid. | |||
| Israpil Velijanov | 2011-04-18 | Dagestan | 1 (Target) | 0 | FSB security forces raid. | |||
| Ibragimkhalil Daudov | 2012-02-14 | Dagestan | 2 (including target) | 0 | Died from wounds and exposure after fleeing from FSB security forces raid. | |||
| Rustam Asildarov | 2016-12-03 | near Makhachkala, Dagestan | 5 (including target) | 0 | FSB special forces raid. | |||
| Said Kharakansky | 2017-02-07 | Dagestan | 1 (Target) | 0 | ||||
| Muslim Atayev | Emir of Vilayat KBK | 2005-01-27 | Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria | 2+ (including target) | 0 | Cornered and killed by FSB police force. | ||
| Anzor Astemirov | 2010-03-24 | 4 (including target) | 0 | Killed in gunfight with FSB officers after routine identity check. | ||||
| Asker Dzhappuyev | 2011-04-29 | Progress Stavropol Krai | 10 (including target) | 0 | ||||
| Alim Zankishiev | 2012-03-27 | Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria | 1 (Target) | 0 | FSB security forces raid.[29] | |||
| Khuseyn Gakayev | Commander of Vilayat Nokhchicho (Eastern Sector) | 2013-01-24 | Vedeno, Chechnya | 11 (including target) | 0 | Killed in gunfight after FSB scout operation. | ||
| Dzhamaleyl Mutaliyev[30] | Emir of Vilayat Galgayche | 2013-05-21 | Nazran | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Arthur Getagazhev | 2014-05-24 | Sagopshi, Ingushetia | 7 (including taget) | 0 | FSB security forces raid. | |||
| Beslan Makhauri[31] | 2015-10-31 | Nazran | 1 (Target) | Unknown | ||||
| Ilyas Vedzizhev[31] | Insurgent of Vilayat Galgayche | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||||
| Zaur Prokopchuk | Senior Caucasus Emirate militant | 2015-04-16 | Nalchik | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Ali Osaev[32] | Istanbul representative of the Caucasus Emirate | 2009-02-26 | 1 (Target) | Unknown | ||||
| Robert Zankishiev | Head of Kabardino-Balkaria's terrorist organization | 2015-11-10 | Unknown | 1 (Target) | Unknown | |||
| Berg-Hadj Musayev[32] | Senior chechen separatists | 2011-09-16 | Istanbul |  Turkey
|
1 (Target) | Unknown | SVR | Shot.[33] |
| Zaurbek Amriyev[32] | 1 (Target) | Unknown | ||||||
| Rustam Altemirov[32] | 1 (Target) | Unknown | ||||||
| Abdullah Bukhari[33] | Usbek-chechen Islamic cleric | 2014-12-10 | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Shot with a handgun.[33] | |||
| Abdulvahid Edelgiriev[33] | Chechen commander during the Chechen-Russian conflict | 2015-11-01 | Başakşehir, İstanbul Province | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Shot while fleeing and stabbed in the neck.[33] | ||
| Ruslan Israpilov[33] | Chechen fighter during the Chechen-Russian conflict | 2016-05-11 | Kocaeli Province, Turkey | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Shot in the head, neck and heart.[33] | ||
| Oleksandr Kharaberiush | SBU colonel | 2017-03-31 | Mariupol |  Ukraine
|
1 (Target) | Unknown | SVR / FSB | |
| Yurii Vitalyevich Voznyi (Yuri Vozny) | 2017-06-27 | Kostiantynivka | 1 (Target) | Unknown | ||||
| Maksym Shapoval | HUR MOU colonel | Kyiv | 1 (Target) | 2 | Explosive placed underneath private car. | |||
| Timur Makhauri (aka Ali Timaiev)[34][35] | Chechen battalion commander / fighter | 2017-09-08 | 1 (Target) | Unknown | Explosive placed on car.[34][35] | |||
| Zelimkhan Khangoshvili | Military commander of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and Western intelligence agent | 2019-08-23 | Berlin |  Germany
|
1 (Target) | 0 | GRU[36] | Shot twice in the head with a Glock 26 by a Russian contract killer. |
| Yevgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Utkin, Valery Chekalov, and seven others | Russian oligarch and leader of Wagner Group, Wagner commanders, air crew | 2023-08-24 | Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast | Russia
|
10 (including 7 targets) | 0 | Killed in plane crash after likely bomb exploded on board.[37][38][39] Putin's right-hand man Nikolai Patrushev is believed to have orchestrated the assassination of Prigozhin.[40] |
See also edit
- List of assassinations in Europe § Russia/Soviet Union
- Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople (2022–2024)
- List of deaths during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- List of Soviet assassinations
- List of assassinations by the United States
- List of Israeli assassinations
- List of journalists killed in Russia
- List of Second Chechen War assassinations
- Operations conducted by the Mossad
- Operation Condor
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- Groll, Elias (27 December 2023). "A Brief History of Attempted Russian Assassinations by Poison". Foreign Policy.
- Price, Rob; Ghosh, Shona (6 March 2018). "All the times Russia allegedly carried out assassinations on British soil". Business Insider.
- Свобода, Радіо (3 March 2015). "Жертви політичної епохи Путіна". Radio Svoboda (in Ukrainian).