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Stavropol resident Rustam Yarbuldyev, who was found by the court to have participated in the attack on the Botlikh region of Dagestan as part of Basayev’s group, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
 Another jihadi from the time before Chechnya’s jihadis formally pledged to Al Qaeda, becoming the Caucasus Emirate. At the rate the Spetznaz hunters find thrm and bring them to justice, this could go on for another decade or two.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in June 2023, the FSB reported the arrest of Rustam Yarbuldyev in Stavropol Krai in connection with the attack on the Botlikh District of Dagestan in 1999. In September 2024, the case went to court.
On August 7, 1999, more than 1,000 armed fighters from Chechnya under the leadership of Shamil Basayev and Jordanian Amir Khattab
| …that year they called themselves the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB). They apparently peaked — briefly — at 10,000 turbans… |
entered the territory of Dagestan. Fighting continued in the republic for more than a month. Only on September 15, 1999, the Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev reported that the territory of Dagestan had been completely liberated, according to the "Kavkazsky Uzel" report " Invasion of Militants in Dagestan (1999)".
The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Stavropol resident Rustam Yarbuldyev in the case of the 1999 attack on military personnel in Dagestan as part of Shamil Basayev's group. He will spend 13 years in a maximum security penal colony, TASS reported today, citing the FSB Directorate for Stavropol Krai.
According to the investigation and the court, "Yarbuldyev, as part of an illegal armed group led by Basayev, participated in an attack on servicemen of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Botlikh District of the Republic of Dagestan in August 1999," the report says.
Yarbuldyev was found guilty of participating in an armed gang (Part 2 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), armed rebellion (Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and attempting to kill a serviceman (Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Vesti.ru reported.
As follows from the case file on the website of the Southern District Military Court, Yarbuldyev's case was heard from September 2024, 26 hearings took place, and the verdict was announced on July 30.
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