25-year-old singer Zelimkhan Bakaev disappeared in Grozny

On August 8, 25-year-old singer Zelimkhan Bakaev disappeared in Grozny. Radio Liberty was confirmed by several sources, including a close friend of Zelimkhan, who asked not to name his name.

According to the Caucasus. Realia , Zelimkhan went to Grozny to the sister’s wedding, was supposed to return to Moscow on August 9 immediately after the wedding, but on the 8th was detained in the center of the Chechen capital in military uniform, presumably representatives of the Terek. According to other unconfirmed information, the abduction is associated with the name of the State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov.

On August 15, on August 15, on August 15, on Bakayev’s Instagram , however, according to his friend, this account does not belong to Zelimkhan, his real page was closed immediately after the detention, and the posted photograph was taken at the Fish House restaurant in Grozny last year, and not in the summer - Zelimhan puts on a leather jacket on it.

It was not possible to contact the relatives of Zelimkhan Bakayev RS, but according to some reports, a couple of days after his loss they received a message in WhatsApp from his number, where he reported that he was all right, he was going to go abroad in Moscow. It seemed strange that Zelimkhan rarely wrote in WhatsApp, preferring to send voice messages, besides, according to his friends, the singer was not going to emigrate.

Zelimkhan sang mainly in Chechen , performed with concerts in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Moscow, and, according to the artist’s same friend, he was forbidden to perform in Chechnya, because "his music was too different from the one in Chechnya."

In Moscow, Bakaev tried to take part in the New Factory of Stars on the Muz-TV TV channel, his questionnaire was posted on the show website, where he says that he has been engaged in music from five years, all childhood was dancing under Britney Spears and Michael Jackson. “He wanted to sing and become famous,” said Bakaev's friend Bakaev. “He was very talented. He tried to break through in Moscow in every possible way. He participated in competitions, was engaged in vocals and studied here, worked to help his mother material” (Zelimkhan’s mother works as a confectioner, his father is unemployed).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic stated that no applications about Bakayev’s disappearance of Bakayev received the department.