Relatives of the former President of Ichkeria ‘persecuted by Chechen authorities’
The son of Aslan Maskhadov, the late president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has accused the authorities in Chechnya of persecuting members of his family in an attempt to silence him. Anzor Maskhadov, who lives in Norway, told OC Media that his maternal relatives, who live in the village of Chulga-Yurt (Znamenskoye) in the Nadterechny District of northwest Chechnya, were facing a new wave pressure from the authorities. Aslan Maskhadov was a senior military figure in the First Chechen