"Maksharip Aushev was a leader who interfered with everyone"

Photo by Ekaterina Savina/The New Times

"Evkurov lost such a person!" The versions of the murder of Maksharip Aushev are multiplying every day. The second of the three most famous Ingush oppositionists was killed. The New Times turned to the closest friend and ally of Aushev Magomed Khazbiev and listened to his version

Maksharip Aushev, Ingush oppositionist and businessman (he was engaged in the trade in marble and tiles), the former owner of the Ingushetia.org Internet resource, was buried on Monday, October 26, in his family village of Surhaha. For days earlier his black “Lada Prior” was shot from machine guns on the 495th kilometer of the Caucasus federal highway, just a few kilometers from Nalchik. Maksharip Aushev died on the spot.
In parting with Aushev, almost 2 thousand people came to the house in Nazran. The main theme of all conversations is to whom could Maksharip prevent? They recalled the male predecessor Magomed Evloev, who was killed in August 2008, whose Internet portal Maksharip and inherited. They remembered the unkind word of security forces, bandits, but more often than others - some representatives of the authorities who could order Aushev.

Magomed, the information that an assassination attempt was being prepared on Maksharipa, appeared on September 12, and a few days later they tried to kill him or to kidnap him next to Magas ...
Not next to Magas! It was in the city. Moreover, the whole city (administrative capital of Ingushetia. - The New Times) is 3 administrative buildings and 4 residential complexes, it can be circumvented in 10 minutes. And no one saw anything, no one knows anything. Even the FSB.

Why then, after that, he did not take any precaution: he went to Nalchik without protection, on an unarous car ... At the same time, he had a whole fleet at his disposal.
Maksharip really had 10-15 cars, not counting the cars of his sons-the BMW X6, Z4, the BMW of the 5th series, several Mercedes. But he called his cousin and took his car. I thought so no one would know that it was he who was going. He did not carry weapons with him, although he had permission for him.

Did he even fear for his life?
He was more afraid for me than for himself. He said: "They need you first." On the night before the murder, he and I broke up at 3 o’clock, and he scolded me terribly, because I went out into the street. And in the morning he went straight into the hands of this evil spirits.

"He interfered with everyone"

After the resignation of Murat Zyazikov, when Yunus-Bek Evkurov became the president of Ingushetia, Maksharip announced that he had achieved his own and was leaving the opposition. What has he been doing lately?
Maybe he stopped openly opposing the authorities, but he did not leave the opposition. We continued to investigate every abduction, every murder. He helped people financially. When something happened, people went immediately to Maksharip. When they tried to kidnap (in mid -October of this year. - The New Times), they did not call the REN TV channel, they did not call the police, they called Aushev. In addition, we were both members of the Public Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin.

Your relationship has not changed after Aushev supported (president) Evkurov?
Maksharip and I met relatively recently, in 2008. I came to the rally that he organized when he abducted his relatives, and stood next to him. When he was imprisoned, I continued to fight for him. He said that life tied us up. He supported me, I consulted with him. Maksharip was like a brother to me. Nothing has changed.

To whom did he interfere?
Today I sent a letter to the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika and reminded him of hundreds of articles where Maksharip accused of everything that was happening in the republic, former president of Zyazikov, former Minister of Internal Affairs Musa Medov and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, chief of the regional operational headquarters for the counter -terrorist operation in the Chechen Republic Arkady Kholov. It seems to me that they were primarily interested. But in general, Aushev was a leader who interfered with everyone - both Zyazikov and Evkurov. He was respected. If Russia were a democratic country, Aushev would become the president of the republic. For this, the current government hated him, and the former - for the fact that Maksharip Pink under the ass drove them out of Ingushetia. We knew that werewolves were paid in uniform to eliminate me and Maksharip, Yevkurov himself recently said about it.
The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office puts forward other versions. They say that Aushev could have killed because of his business or because of the connection with the woman that it could be bloody feud ...
The woman who was with him in the car is his cousin. Her mother and other relatives also wrote to the Investigative Committee that his employees are bastards, they are pouring mud on a person who is no longer alive. They want to take away the trace. This is a political, deliberate murder. And no business, of course, has nothing to do with it.

Maksharip Aushev was buried in his family village of Surhahi, photo Reuters

Who won and who lost from this death?
Evkurov lost a lot. There is no longer a person who loves people who could influence people. Evkurov now needs to show the eruples that did this within a week. He lost such a person! He had to keep him next to him, give guard. Well, the holiday is in the house of Zyazikov and his friends.

Now they say a lot about the fact that Maksharip provided the president with intermediary services, connecting him with representatives of the underground.
I have not heard of any such services. Maksharip was never connected with gangs or Wahhabis. Although, of course, living in the republic, he was probably familiar with them. For example, the militants came to me, they wanted to know who I am and what I was achieving. They come to everyone.

And what is the Ingush underground now?
About 6–7 years ago there was nothing, no militants. In the days of Ruslan Aushev, when everything exploded around, in Ingushetia it was calm. And when they sent this bandit from the FSB Zyazikov and began to kill left-right, many went to the forest. That's all underground.

"Teip will tear off his head"

What will be the consequences of the murder of Maksharip? After all, Aushevs are perhaps the most influential teip in Ingushetia.
The one who is to blame must be caught. And if they don’t catch, then this teip will simply tear off their heads to those who are involved in this matter. I think that even Yevkurov himself does not doubt this. Mom will not grieve if they do not find the killers.

You remained the only one of the old opposition team - Evloev, Aushev, Khazbiev. Are you not afraid?
I belong to Tap Nalgiev. This is also one of the most influential teips. I am a native of the same sat as Maksharip Aushev. And I'm not alone. With me, the brothers, the Maksharipa family, the family of Evloev. I'm not afraid of anything.