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Friends of the missing singer Zelimkhan Bakayev are afraid that he can be killed
On September 24, a video appeared on the website of the Grozny ChGTRK, on which 25-year-old singer Zelimkhan Bakaev, who disappeared on August 8 in Grozny, addressing his friend Islam, reports that he is in Germany. Radio Liberty talked with Bakaev’s friends, they are sure that the video is setting, and the singer is in mortal danger.
Zelimkhan Bakaev on YouTube video
They showed everyone that he is abroad and this is not their problem, and now they can simply get rid of it
“When I saw, I did not recognize him at first,” says M., a close friend of Zelima. “Irong, haggard, some kind of swelling on my face.” “And they put him a beard in a hurry, as he would never have made him, and he had a haircut,” says another friend B. Zelima B. “He is naturally strong, large biceps, and then he is very thin, I have never seen him like that, he has a belt around the waist almost twice, in my opinion, wrapped around,” another close friend of Zhelim is agreeing with them. “This is Zelim. But not the one I know,” R. says Zelima for a very long time, we have been friends with him for more than a year. His behavior in the video is his complete opposite to him. The absurd dancing, constrained movements, an idiotic hairstyle. ” The last time R. spoke with Zelim the day before his disappearance, the young people laughed at the singer’s new haircut: "He had almost hungry. In the video says that mid -August - how could hair grow in such a short time?" The singer’s friends are afraid that the appearance of the video can finally take the hope of the liberation of Zelim: “To take it off, they probably promised him that they would let him go, but in fact they showed everyone that he was abroad and this is not their problem, and now they can simply get rid of him,” says the CC, who cannot cope with excitement and trembles, as if he was ready to cry.
Zelim Bakaev: on the left - a screenshot with a video of the ChGTRK, on the right - the last selfie before departure to Chechnya, shot on an airplane. Bakayev’s plane is almost shaved whiskey, in the video “from Germany” hair is long
Two videos with Bakayev appeared on YouTube on a page of a certain Artem Lebedev, there are no other materials on this page. CHGTRK gave the news literally two hours later, and the signature under the video by Lebedev is similar in style to the text of the Chechen television. Zelim is in a room with a certain Rus who holds the camera, and turns to a friend Islam. Radio Liberty managed to find out the names and places of residence of both men. Islam really lives in Holland, but he did not receive any video from Bakaev and recently he did not communicate with him. “Yes, Islam is generally“ hello, ”says M.,“ if we won with someone to contact, he would write to me. ” Rus is also a friend of Zelima, who has not seen him from the moment of his departure from Russia, and has been living far from Germany and did not talk with Zelim for a long time. Islam and Rus are familiar, Rus does not pronounce a word in the video, and Zelim at the same time promises to introduce Islam with some of his "friend", without specifying whether he has in mind Rus or not.
Four friends of Bakaev confirmed the RS that Zelim behaves unnaturally, speaks from the memorized text, reporting, as a report, location, time of the year and even pointing to the new song of the singer Rihanna Wild Thoughs, published in June 2017. “I know Zelima as a flashed, I know how he behaves when he drinks when he is bad, when he is good,” says M. “He is a singer, he is not an actor, he does not know how to play, in addition, he would never record such a video: he always sent voice messages, in extreme cases he wrote, if he could not speak.”
The RS showed materials to the psychologist Olga Makhovskaya and the neurologist Semen Galperin, the president of the interregional public organization "League of the Protection of Doctors". “I noticed that the hero is not in the best condition: the circles under his eyes, as if he hadn’t slept, or sobbed for three days,” says Makhovskaya. “The impression is that he is very tired and his joy is ostentatious, that he is trying to talk funny, but this is agitation against the backdrop of depression. We [psychologists] always distinguish what level of vitality is, here there is a busters between this braworal text. exhausted view. " Semen Halperin noted that Bakaev was “relaxed and slightly inhibited, possibly under the influence of alcohol or some other means,” however, the specialist did not see traces of torture: “He moves independently, there is no obvious injuries, but he suffered torture, it makes no sense to speak without examination,” says Semen Galperin.
Russian sofas
He was like all young people. Well, who is drinking energy now to get high?
A friend of L. Bakayeva, who worked at the CGTRK, pointed out that the situation in the room where the video was recorded, not only does not look like a German apartment, but resembles the scenery: “They are constantly engaged in such fakes,” L. says, if they forgot to remove something at some important meeting with officials, to recreate a similar room in the editor Statists. " According to the KCh and M., the hookah did not smoke the hookah (all the more on the video, the coals are not burning in it), and when I was resting, drinking alcohol, and not energy drinks popular in Chechnya, where alcohol is not easy: “Well, what is it? He sat at the table, like some kind of baron from the 80s,” he says, he was so young, he was like all young people. Well, who is now drinking energy. Kaifute? " Moreover, the Mediazona publication with reference to the Pepsico press service wrote that one of the power engineers standing on the table-Drive ME- is not sold in Germany .
Lord, at least they turned the carpet! This can be found in any market
Both Zelima’s friends and other Chechens, with whom the RS talked about the situation, said that both furniture and decor were typical of Chechnya, and readers of the Mediazones indicated in the comments that on the video of Bakaev sits on the sofa of “ Nova 140 ” from the Moscow factory Rival, there is a rocking chair “ Vega ”, the production of the Russian company Elegy is standing next to the sofa. From Borovichi. “This is even funny: the prefix and two remote controls on the storyteller are nearby - from the TV and from Tricolor ( “ Tricolor TV ”is popular, including the Caucasus, the telecommunications company. - Approx. ) - a typical combination in Chechnya. Are you like these, you have entered the cheaps in a vase - also their favorite design element, Chechens love Baroque. Lord, at least the carpet turned! The RS asked the same questions to the inhabitants of Germany, according to them, such prefixes are sometimes bought by immigrants from Russia to watch Russian television channels, sockets are actually uncharacteristic for a German apartment, and the situation is generally not like Germany, and the curtains are also drew in the room, so it is not only where Bakaev is located, but even the time and time of the year, when the video was shot.
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Where do we winter Bakaev?
Bakayev’s friends assure: he went to the wedding of the younger sister, which took place without him on August 9, but he had lured him to Chechnya for a long time: “There were different rumors about him that he lived incorrectly in Moscow, some of them were just fantasies, but they could angry someone,” M. says, according to the two interlocutors of the RS, one of the working contacts of Bakaeva urged him to return to Chechnya, about this. In an interview with "Caucasus. Realia", the mother of Zelim also stated. RS is known for the name of this person close to the Chechen leadership ( the editors decided not to betray it.-Approx. ): “Zelim had a casting in Moscow on the“ Factory of Stars ”on August 10 ( on the MUZ-TV website there is a survey of the singer. -Approx. ),-says M.-and now the XX calls him and says that he should come to Grozny because some producer with Muz-TV and Muz-TV and Muz-TV come. He wants to introduce them to Zelim’s 10th “Green Light”, he asks why he cannot get to know this producer in Moscow, especially since he, according to XX, returned to Moscow the next day, but he said that this is necessary in Grozny, ”says M.
It is curious that the Chechen authorities suggested that the singer could flee the country, when a scandal erupted around the disappearance of the singer. The very next day after the appearance of news in the media, the Minister of the Chechen Republic on National Policy, Foreign Relations, Printing and Information Dzhambulat Umarov called the "stupidly" reports of Bakaev’s disappearance. According to Umarov, the singer will appear " after a while ." The former manager of Bakaev from Chechnya Gilani Stadnik also informed reporters that Bakaev could hide due to a conflict in a family caused by a negative attitude of relatives to his work, which did not bring money and seemed “extravagant”. The herd did not answer the calls of the RS Gilani.
Friends and relatives of the singer unanimously say that Zelim was not only not going to Germany, moreover, in principle, he refused the emigration: “I constantly said to him:“ Leave, ”but he said that now his second sister would be married, his mother would be left alone. He generally wanted to take his mother to Moscow,” says M. “They were very close to his mother and his cousin, to his cousin, to to his cousin, to to He would definitely tell him that everything was in order with him, ”I agree with M. KCh. “Germany is the last place where I would go,” Zelima quotes R., adding that his friends called the young man and to other countries, but he flatly refused to leave Russia.
Tea with Kadyrov
M. says that on August 8, on the day of the abduction of Zelim, she left for Makhachkala with her sister, went to the beach, leaving the phone at home, and when she returned, she found a bunch of messages from Bakaev, in which he complained that he had come home in vain and asked her to return quickly. "I had to return to the 9th, but went on the same day. I tried to get through to him, but he did not pick up the phone, I thought that she was busy preparing for the wedding. At 18:30 I wrote to him that I was in Grozny, the message was delivered, but he did not read it. At 18:45 I already found out that he was missing."
Friends of the singer told the RS that Zelim Bakaev studied at Moscow, then the family returned to Grozny, Zelim worked for a year and a half in the Department of Culture of the Grozny City Hall - was one of the soloists of the Song and Dance Ensemble, performed with concerts in Chechnya and other North Caucasus republics. “Then he also took this photograph with Kadyrov. Kadyrov loves artists, he buys cars. Once they were assembled all of them in his residence for tea,” says the CC. In the department, he worked "a year and a half", he was fired "for an unknown reason", after which he came to Moscow, where he tried to build a career as an artist. “He was looking for a meeting with the producers, tried to break through,” says the CC. “Money earned money at Chechen, Dagestan events: at weddings, at concerts, at the Silver Benching Awards, he worked,” he recalls the CC. “He is generally a very creative person, I believe in Zelima Bakaev.”
The mother of the missing singer wrote a statement to the police on August 18, on September 16 it became known that she had addressed the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov for help, but the Chechen law enforcement agencies still did not report the criminal case. The video published by official Chechen television may be the basis for the police to completely stop looking for a singer.