In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Saidarbievich and the family name is Udugov.
Movladi Udugov
Мовлади Саидарбиевич Удугов
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
In office August 1996 – 2 February 1997
Personal details
Born
(1962-02-09) 9 February 1962 (age 62) Germenchuk, Checheno-Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality
Chechen
Political party
NCCP, IU, CPID (currently none)
Alma mater
Grozny State University
Movladi Saidarbievich Udugov (Chechen: Мовла́ди Саидарби́евич Уду́гов, born 9 February 1962 in Germenchuk, Shalinsky District, Chechnya into the Shirdi teip) is the former First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). As a Chechen propaganda chief, he was credited for the Chechens' 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).[1]
Georgi Derluguian has described him as a "wonderfully opportunistic journalist" and an "autodidactic master of Chechen war propaganda" who, outside Islamic sources, also quotes Western authors such as Gramsci and Huntington.[2]
Udugov currently lives in exile in Turkey.[3]
^Elisabeth Smick. Russia's Chechen Resistance, Council on Foreign Relations, July 18, 2006 Archived July 22, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^Derluguian, Georgi (1999). "Che Guevaras in turbans". New Left Review. 237: 7.
^Fuller, Liz (8 July 2016). "Chechen Leader Demands Turkey Hand Over 'Terrorists'". RFERL.
Movladi Saidarbievich Udugov (Chechen: Мовла́ди Саидарби́евич Уду́гов, born 9 February 1962 in Germenchuk, Shalinsky District, Chechnya into the Shirdi...
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nationalist website rival to the Islamist Kavkaz Center website run by MovladiUdugov. In November 2007 the editors of Chechenpress declared it works since...
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target of several assassination attempts. The security detail was headed by Movladi Baisarov. Technically still a personal militia, the Kadyrovites functioned...
have been murdered, where Kadyrov's involvement is suspected, include Movladi Baisarov and Ruslan Yamadayev (both Moscow); Sulim Yamadayev (Dubai); Gazhi...
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