| The eldest son of the first president of post-war Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov, 30-year-old foreman of the Chechen police Zelimkhan Kadyrov died yesterday in his family village of Tsentoroy. According to the official version, the cause of death was heart failure. His health problems began in October last year: according to official reports, just before the inauguration of his father, Zelimkhan Kadyrov’s “nine” crashed into a “four” near Tsentoroi, as a result of which the president’s son received a “blunt abdominal injury” and broke his arm. He was immediately taken for treatment to Moscow and his spleen was urgently removed. Later, the shock of his father’s death as a result of the terrorist attack in Grozny on May 9 completely undermined his health. According to another version, Zelimkhan Kadyrov himself became a victim of a militant attack: even before the news about last year’s road accident appeared, Chechen separatist websites on the Internet reported that Zelimkhan Kadyrov’s car was shot by militants right on election day, October 5. According to this information, Zelimkhan was urgently hospitalized with several wounds, but allegedly remained paralyzed. However, shortly before the death of Akhmat Kadyrov, the separatists also disseminated a report that turned out to be false about the serious injury of another presidential son, Ramzan, who now serves as Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya. Ivan SUKHOV
Moscow joined PSI
Yesterday, Russia joined the 14 founding countries of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in Krakow. The initiative to identify, prevent and suppress the illicit movement of materials and delivery vehicles for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was launched in May 2003 by US President George W. Bush. However, at that time it was not yet linked to the UN Charter, which held Russia back. The initiative was further developed in September in Paris and October in London. Now, as official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko emphasized to VN, it corresponds to “our line in the field of non-proliferation, and international cooperation on these issues fits within the framework of UN Security Council Resolution 1540,” which, in particular, talks about collective counteraction to black markets WMD. Katerina LABETSKAYA
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