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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Chechen war, cont'd: Another assassination in
the United Arab Emirates

ABU DHABI Ñ The United Arab Emirates has been the setting of the assassination of another Russian national.   

Officials said a Russian executive was killed in the UAE city of Sharjah on April 10. They said Yevgeny Kaprov, 51, was found dead in his car from apparent head injuries.

"This was a premediated murder," an official said.

This marked the second assassination of a Russian national in less than two weeks. On March 28, a Chechen exile and war veteran, Sulim Yamadayev, was killed in the parking lot of his beach residence in the UAE city of Dubai.

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Dubai police have identified a Russian parliamentarian as the mastermind of the killing and has asked Moscow for his extradition.

Officials said authorities have identified five suspects in the killing of Kaprov. Kaprov was the owner of an air cargo company and resident of Sharjah, the third largest city in the UAE.

The UAE has expressed concern that it has become a battleground for Russia. The emirates contains a large Russian expatriate community, including Chechen exiles.

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