Yusup temirkhanov where he lay in a coffin. Devoted warrior colonel budanov

“He died in the medical unit of the colony from cardiac arrest. He always had health problems, the defense tried to secure his release due to illness, but failed, ”Magomedova said.

In May 2013, by the verdict of the Moscow City Court, Yusup Temerkhanov was convicted of. h. 1 tbsp. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to 15 years in prison for the murder of Yuri Budanov, as well as for possession and carrying of firearms.

September 2014 lawyer Murad Musaev reported that Yusup Temerkhanov was taken to a hospital at the colony in serious condition. “Doctors first assumed a stroke or a brain tumor, then - a malignant tumor in one of the abdominal organs, then - tuberculosis. We have consistently excluded all these diseases by means of all kinds of CT, MRI, ”the lawyer said. The defense lawyer insisted on the transfer of the convict from the prison to an ordinary hospital.

The Budanov case

The commander of the 160th Guards Tank Regiment, Yuri Budanov, was arrested on March 27, 2000 on charges of kidnapping, rape and murder of eighteen Elza Kungaeva.

Colonel Budanov, who went through the First Chechen Campaign and had several wounds, was awarded the Order of Courage in January 2000.

According to the materials of the preliminary investigation, at about 1 am on March 27, Budanov arrived in the village of Tangi in an infantry fighting vehicle. Together with the military Grigorievand Lee Young Shawhe entered the Kungaevs' house, where Elza Kungaeva was with four minor brothers and sisters. By order of Budanov, Grigoriev and Lee Yong Shou wrapped Kungaeva in a blanket and placed her in an infantry fighting vehicle. Then Kungaeva was taken to the territory of military unit 13206 to the premises where Budanov lived.

The colonel himself explained that in the area where the regiment was located, female snipers were acting on the part of the militants. Budanov interrogated Kungayeva, although, according to his testimony, her relative was not among the suspects. During interrogation, the officer strangled Kungaeva, and then ordered to bury the body. A few hours later, Budanov came to major General Valery Gerasimov, Acting Commander of the West Group and wrote a confession.

Elza Kungaeva's friend, for whose abduction and murder Yuri Budanov was convicted, holds a photograph of the murdered woman. Photo: RIA Novosti / Said Gutsiev

"If he had not been convicted, there could have been big troubles."

During the entire investigation and trial of Budanov, the question of his mental state remained open. On December 31, 2002, the North Caucasian District Military Court found Budanov insane and released him from criminal liability. On February 28, 2003, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the decision, sending the case for a new trial.

Forensic psychiatrist of the highest qualification category, Doctor of Medical Sciences Fedor Kondratyevwho participated earlier in the examination Andrey Chikatilo and other serial killers, in an interview with Neskuchny Sad magazine, stated: “I had many hours of conversations with him and am still absolutely convinced that at the time of the crime he was in a state of temporary mental breakdown. This state was provoked by a Chechen woman, who told him that she would reel the guts of his daughter on a machine gun, and grabbed a weapon. And his daughter just had a birthday. But the court ordered a second examination, when she repeated my conclusion - a third. And the third examination made the same conclusion. Then an expert examination was appointed in Chechnya. There, psychiatrists decided that he could be held accountable for his actions, and he was convicted. Of course, if he had not been convicted, there could have been big troubles, new terrorist attacks, attacks on psychiatrists, but I repeat: I am sure that we have made the correct conclusion. "

Pardon and threats

On July 25, 2003, Budanov was found guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: Art. 286, part 3 ("Exceeding official powers"), art. 126, part 3 (“Kidnapping”) and art. 105, part 2 ("Premeditated murder with aggravated circumstances"). By adding up the sentences partially, the court sentenced Budanov to 10 years in prison. In accordance with article 48 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Yuri Budanov was deprived of the state award - the Order of Courage - and the military rank of "colonel".

Yuri Budanov, charged with the murder of a Chechen woman Elza Kungaeva, at a trial at the North Caucasian District Military Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don. Photo: RIA Novosti / Sergey Venyavsky

Even after Budanov ended up in the colony, passions continued to boil. For example, petitions for clemency filed by convicts provoked violent protests from human rights activists and the Chechen community.

Ramzan Kadyrov, who served as deputy prime minister of the Chechen government in 2004, said at a meeting of the commanders of the security forces: “Even in a war, murder and violence against civilians is a crime. We do not admit the possibility of freeing the criminal. If Budanov is pardoned, we will find an opportunity to pay him what he deserves. "

And yet, at the end of 2008, Budanov's next petition for clemency was granted. In January 2009 he was released.

Shooting in the center of Moscow

Despite the fact that the figure of Budanov was popular in nationalist circles, he was not involved in political activities. With the help of army friends, he got a job as the head of the passenger car fleet of the State Unitary Enterprise "EVAZD" (for the operation of high-rise buildings).

Yuri Budanov was killed demonstratively, in broad daylight, not far from the center of Moscow. On June 10, 2011, he arrived at the notary office located at 38/16 on Komsomolsky Prospekt in order to formalize the consent for his minor daughter to travel abroad.

The killer fired six bullets at Budanov, four of which hit the head. He had no chance of surviving. The killer and his accomplice fled the scene in a car.

For the authorities, the murder of Budanov was no less a problem than the murder of Elza Kungaeva, which he himself committed. If in Chechnya many considered the massacre of Budanov as a triumph of justice, in other regions there were many who wanted to take revenge again, now for the murdered colonel. This could only be prevented by prompt disclosure of a new crime.

He laughed as he listened to the verdict

On August 30, 2011, a certain Magomed Suleimanov was detained, who in reality turned out to be a native of Chechnya, Yusup Temerkhanov. The suspect refused to cooperate with the investigation. According to law enforcement agencies, Temerkhanov, whose father died during the counter-terrorist operation, decided to take revenge on Budanov. Temerkhanov did not know the specific killers of his father, and decided to deal with the one whom “the whole of Chechnya hated”.

On July 6, 2012, the Main Investigation Department of the TFR in Moscow brought Temerkhanov a final charge under clause "l", part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to this document, the accused killed the former colonel of the Russian army "for reasons of political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or for reasons of hatred or enmity towards any social group." In addition, he was charged with illegal arms trafficking (Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). On April 29, 2013, the jury of the Moscow City Court found Temerkhanov guilty of the murder of Budanov. As already mentioned, on May 7, 2013, Yusup Temerkhanov was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The convict greeted the verdict with laughter.

The death of Temerkhanov puts an end to this whole story. At least one would like to hope so.

Yusup Temirkhanov, convicted of the murder of former Colonel Yuri, died in the Omsk colony. This was reported to journalists by his lawyer Roza Magomedova.

According to her, Temirkhanov was ill for a long time and was in the medical unit at the colony, where he died of cardiac arrest.

She also noted that her client was on the mend recently, so his death was unexpected. For a long time, lawyers unsuccessfully tried to secure the release of Temirkhanov precisely because of his health problems, Magomedova emphasized.

The defender added that the convict had serious problems with his heart and intestines, which could also cause death. In addition, he was very poorly transferred and was weak, the lawyer said. The exact cause of death will be established after a medical examination.

Temirkhanov will be buried in his homeland, in Chechnya, where his body will be sent in the coming days, the RT lawyer quotes.

Temirkhanov's health problems became known back in 2014, after being transferred to the Omsk region. Then suddenly it became bad, and after eating, he fell into a coma. According to the doctors, the convict was dying, but experts could not understand what he was dying from. Later he came out of a coma, but remained unconscious and did not recognize those around him. Some media and human rights activists suggested that Temirkhanov could have been poisoned with heavy metals.

In 2015, Temirkhanov felt much better and thanked local doctors for curing him. He also told reporters about plans to get married: after release or before. About his chosen one, he only said that she was a native of Chechnya and had already agreed to marry him, since he made an offer to her when he was still at large.

Colonel Yuri Budanov was arrested in 2000 on charges of kidnapping, rape and murder of an 18-year-old Chechen resident Elza Kungaeva during the fighting. Later, the charges of rape were dropped from him, and another person involved in the case claimed responsibility.

In 2003, Budanov was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was also stripped of the Order of Courage and military rank.

Budanov's trial was one of the first to be connected with the actions of the Russian military during the Chechen campaign. The colonel did not deny the fact of the murder of Kungaeva, but explained that he considered this 18-year-old resident of the village of Tangshi-Chu a sniper of one of the gangs and tried to find out from her the location of the militants. He ordered his subordinates to take the girl to the location of the regiment, after which he strangled her during interrogation, as Kungaeva allegedly resisted and tried to take possession of the weapon. Subsequently, Budanov, without denying the fact of the murder, insisted that he acted in a state of passion.

In 2004, the ex-colonel filed a petition for clemency, which was approved. This caused a wave of protests from the Chechen public.

The future head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that if Budanov is released, "we will find an opportunity to give him what he deserves." Soon the convict withdrew the petition.

In 2009, Budanov was released on parole. Two years later, he was shot dead on Komsomolsky Prospekt in Moscow. The offender fired several shots, four bullets hit the victim's head.

A month later, Islamic religious leader Yusup Temirkhanov was detained on suspicion of murder. In addition to the murder of the ex-colonel, he was charged with illegal arms trafficking.

In 2013, Temirkhanov was sentenced to 15 years in prison. During the trial, the accused did not admit his guilt.

In the courtyard of the house where Budanov was killed, there is a memorial plate. Last year, an unidentified man and a woman wearing a hijab threw a Molotov cocktail at her. As a result of the incident, a fire occurred and the stove was damaged.

In 2016, in St. Petersburg, next to the bridge over the Duderhof canal, graffiti appeared with a portrait of ex-Colonel Budanov and the Order of Courage, which the soldier was once awarded. Thus, the street artist expressed his political protest against the bridge being named after the first Chechen President -. After a photograph of the graffiti appeared on the Internet, controversy once again flared up on the network over the name for the new bridge. In 2016, he nevertheless received the name of a Chechen leader.

Colonel Budanov's killer dies in colony

On August 3, lawyer Roza Magomedova said that Yusup Temirkhanov, sentenced to 15 years for the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, died in the Omsk colony. “He died in the medical unit of the colony from cardiac arrest. He always had health problems, the defense tried to get him released due to illness, but failed, ”Magomedova said.

According to the representative of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Temirkhanov died in the city hospital of Omsk. “He died in the city hospital, where he was transferred from the hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The decision to transfer was made on August 1, as his health deteriorated. He had chronic health problems, which is why he died, ”- said an employee of the department.

Initially, Temirkhanov was serving his sentence in a strict regime colony; for health reasons, the conditions of his detention were softened. When the prisoner's condition worsened, he was transferred to the medical unit of the colony, and from there to the city hospital.

Death of Temirkhanov caused a huge resonance in Chechnya

Relatives made a decision about the funeral of the deceased in his homeland, in the Chechen Geldagan - the family village of Temirkhanov. “He will be buried in his homeland, his body will be sent there in the next few days,” lawyer Roza Magomedova added on August 3, adding that her client was ill, but was on the mend. “Everything happened unexpectedly,” Magomedova added.

The death of Temirkhanov caused a wide response among the residents of Chechnya. According to media reports, residents of the Republic began to gather in Geldagan on August 3, while the funeral was planned for August 4. Thousands of people attended the Temirkhanov memorial service, and the flow of cars to Geldagan was practically not interrupted. From the entrance to Geldagan to the mosque where the ceremony took place, security officials were on duty, who sometimes asked not to film the events on cameras. The staff of the Chechen state television and radio company Grozny also expressed condolences to the relatives of the deceased.

A video appeared on social networks showing a convoy of dozens of cars moving near Geldagan, including a black Mercedes policeman. Hundreds of citizens are greeting cars with shouts of "Allahu Akbar".

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Ramzan Kadyrov arrives to say goodbye to Budanov's killer

On August 4, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, held a mourning ceremony and expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased.

“Today I came here to say my word to my relatives and my people: he was illegally convicted, imprisoned, and he died a natural death, by the will of the Almighty,” said the head of the republic. He assured that the Chechen authorities will seek a fair attitude of law enforcement agencies towards the residents of the region.

“We urge to observe the law and the Constitution and treat us as citizens of Russia,” Kadyrov stressed.

The head of Chechnya calls the deceased a people's hero

In his Telegram channel, Ramzan Kadyrov says that the late Yusup Temirkhanov will forever remain a hero in the memory of fellow citizens.

“The court, by its guilty verdict (...) made him a hero who avenged the outraged honor and imprisonment of a Chechen girl, a citizen of Russia, Elza Kungaeva. So he will forever remain in the memory of the people, even if over time the verdict will be recognized as erroneous! " - the politician expressed his confidence.

Kadyrov reiterated that he considers Temirkhanov a victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Temirkhanov shot Budanov in 2011

On June 10, 2011, Temirkhanov, as established by the investigation and the court, fired eight bullets at the former colonel of the Russian Armed Forces, Yuri Budanov, a veteran of the second Chechen war. Shots rang out as Budanov left the notary office in the center of Moscow. Killed with military honors.

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Good news! The vile Chechen bandit and murderer Yusup Temirkhanov, convicted of the murder of the Russian hero Colonel Budanov, died in prison.

Yusup Temirkhanov, convicted of the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, died in the Omsk colony, a lawyer, a certain Roza Magomedova, told RIA Novosti.

"He died in the medical unit of the colony from cardiac arrest. He always had health problems, the defense tried to secure his release due to illness, but failed, "she said.

Temirkhanov received 15 years in prison for the murder of Budanov in June 2011. An incredibly short term for premeditated murder, the Chechen murderer was sure that he would not serve him either and would be released on orders from above ahead of schedule. But, there is God's judgment and the murderer died where he belongs in prison!

Stop guessing: Basayev's friend and "the hero of Putin's Russia" Kadyrov killed him, with the tacit consent of the Kremlin ... The Russian national hero Yuri Budanov was killed because he loved our Motherland, Russia!

Chechen bandit and murderer Yusup Temirkhanov

Let's remember how it was!

On June 10, 2011, Yuri Budanov was killed by a dastardly shot in the back ... a Russian soldier, a colonel-tanker, betrayed and sold by those who sent him to defend his homeland. He was stripped of his ranks and awards, but they could not deprive us of our memory of him, just as they could not deprive him of the honor of a Russian officer. Yuri Dmitrievich Budanov was killed openly, in broad daylight, in a crowded place, on the eve of the day that the modern Russian authorities is presented as the "Independence Day of Russia".

The Internet, the media with relish placed a photo of a military officer lying on the ground and reminded everyone that he was a former colonel of the Russian army accused of murder and rape, a demoted and deprived of military awards, a former colonel of the Russian army, keeping silent about the fact that the investigation under the article on rape had collapsed in court , and the girl is a sniper, on whose account the lives of many Russian soldiers. In the press, the words of the father of a Chechen sniper strangled by Budanov, uttered in Norway, immediately appeared and were widely disseminated: "Death to a dog for a dog" ...
Correspondents tried to photograph the soldier's face in order to place it on the pages of their liberal publications to the delight of his enemies. The soldier did not give them such an opportunity, he lay face down ... The speaking and writing brethren immediately began to put forward versions of the murder ... Revenge of the Chechens or the intrigues of provocateurs ...

Enough guessing: he was killed because he loved Russia!

This is how the life of one of the best Russian officers ended! He endured everything: the envy of his superiors, the betrayal of his subordinates, the deception of the leadership, slander, trial, prison and threats. He endured rejection, deprivation of merit, awards and general indifference with the greatest humility, and was afraid only for the lives of his relatives and friends.
He received bullets from an unknown assassin as payment for the fear that led to the Chechen bandits. He was killed when, as they say, it is customary to file revenge: in the Russian Federation they have already forgotten about his case, which became a show trial of the "crimes" of the federal forces in the second Chechen military campaign. Only in Chechnya did many shudder with hatred at the mention of his name, and the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, publicly stated that he would find an opportunity to "give what he deserves" upon learning of his parole.

For Chechens, Budanov is a symbol of a strong Russia, a symbol of a Russian soldier who instills fear in his enemies.

A man was boldly and openly killed who saved hundreds of lives of his soldiers and officers in Chechnya, and for each of them was ready to gnaw the throat of the enemy. The commander was killed, who experienced the death of his subordinates as a deep personal tragedy. Are there such officers in our army now? After the murder of Budanov, all officials were silent, without making a single statement.

Putin was silent, Medvedev was silent, the United Russia party was silent, the newborn People's Front took water in his mouth ... They have nothing to say ... The crippled fate of Budanov is the work of those people who invented the term "counter-terrorist operation" and ordered to carry it out in combat parts of the Russian army. They have nothing to say, because it was only thanks to people like Budanov that the Russian army was able to crush a bandit den in Chechnya in 2000 and ensure the Russian authorities have a relatively peaceful decade of rule.
The martyrdom of Budanov is only a confirmation of his sacrificial life. He became the victim that the cowardly Russian authorities agreed to make to their liberal god with the aim of the mythical pacification of Chechnya. The words in defense of a soldier who fell from bandit bullets and who defended Russia in spite of everything is not heard on the central channels. In an era of general betrayal, the pursuit of profit, contempt for sacred things, he showed himself the image of a real officer, contrary to the order of the incompetent leadership, coming to the rescue of the dying special forces, honoring his military duty, faithful to the oath.

He's gone. What a pity that he no longer exists! He did not participate in any political actions, did not rush to power and did not lie to the people, as many false patriots do. He simply loved Russia and the Russian people and always liked to say that he served not in the Russian, but in the Russian army. He just did what he loved, which he dreamed of since childhood: to be a soldier. And he did it well. His 160th Tank Regiment was the best in General Shamanov's strike group when Russia needed a victory over rebellious Chechnya. And the Chechens called him “beastly”: tankers spoiled the blood of the militants too much ... The fact that he was one of the best officers is confirmed by the facts: in his regiment losses were an order of magnitude lower than in other regiments, and Khattab promised 100 thousand for Budanov's head dollars.

Those who sent Colonel Budanov to Chechnya with arms in hand to defend the peace of Russian cities, put him on trial and tried not according to the laws of wartime, but according to the laws of peacetime to please the PACE and Chechen bandits ...

Yuri Budanov ... How much dirt was poured on him in the lengthy opuses of our pseudo-human rights defenders who faithfully worked out foreign currency, how much betrayal and slander in court! The fate of a man that became a bargaining chip: the Russian officer was exposed by the Russian authorities as a boy for public whipping ... He had his own truth, and this truth is much closer to ordinary Russian people. She is close to the soldiers of his regiment: 1,500 soldiers and officers, under pressure, refused to testify against their commander, and ready for an uprising, did not want to extradite him to the tribunal ... Budanov's truth turned out to be clearer to the judges of the North Caucasian District Military Court, who released him from criminal liability.

But his enemies had a different truth ... Three Moscow lawyers repeated at the trial the accusations against Budanov that were heard in PACE and the OSCE against Russia, and declared that they would not allow the process of the Russian officer to be transferred from political to criminal. The MEPs who were not killed at Stalingrad were constantly interested in the course of the trial, and the foreign media were delighted to “suck” the details of the “crime”.

The Russian supreme power was silently observing the show trial ... Silently? Have you watched? His regiment, which defended its commander, was disbanded in four days ... The acquittal was canceled, the composition of the court was changed ... They were sentenced to 10 years. They were stripped of two Orders of Courage and demoted to the ranks ...

Anyone would have broken ... But it was Budanov. An unyielding man ... He calmly accepted his lot and performed a new, spiritual feat, enduring all the suffering, blaming no one for anything ... Only sometimes, when they were about to accuse him of new "crimes", he declared that he would file a counterclaim about hundreds of those killed, tortured, executed, strangled, buried, burnt in Chechnya Russian soldiers and officers ...

Russian Colonel Yuri Dmitrievich Budanov, with his entire life, has confirmed the truth of the old Russian proverb: “And there is only one soldier in the field - if he is tailored in Russian”! Having passed the difficult life path of a Russian officer through the crucible of reforms and the collapse of the army, Budanov became a person who personifies the best cadres of the Russian army during the sad Yeltsin-Putin reforms. Having survived the retreat from Eastern Europe and the collapse of the USSR, he refused to swear allegiance to Belarus, where he found himself, and to go to live in Ukraine with his parents. He wanted to serve Russia. And he served her at the risk of his life, while living at the same time in a wretched barracks "Khrushchob" in Transbaikalia with his wife and two children ...

After serving almost the entire term assigned to him, he was released from prison on parole. But his war was not over. He was threatened and he understood that sooner or later they would get it ... He applied for protection to the Russian law enforcement agencies, but he was denied protection ... He was killed on Friday, on the last working day on the eve of a long weekend, on the eve of the day of Yeltsin's Russia, which he served and who openly betrayed him ...

It is hard on the soul ... People like Budanov suffer and tragically die in Russia ... But people like Abramovich, Chubais, Kadyrov and a whole legion of similar enemies of Russia live well ... It is hard because there is no end in sight this timelessness ...

He was deprived of his titles and awards, but they could not deprive us of our memory of him, just as they could not deprive him of his honor as a Russian officer.

Sleep well, the great Russian soldier!