10 June 2011 Last updated at 07:18 ET
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Russian colonel who killed Chechen girl is shot dead
A Russian colonel who was jailed for
murdering a Chechen teenager has been shot dead in central Moscow.
Yuri Budanov was killed on Friday by an unidentified gunman on Komsomolsky
Prospekt, a busy avenue in the capital, state prosecutors said.
In 2003 a court upheld his 10-year jail sentence for strangling an
18-year-old girl in war-torn Chechnya in 2000.
But he was released early from jail in January 2009 – a move that angered
human rights activists.
Russian media say the gunman, wearing a blue jacket and hood, attacked
Budanov at about 1230 (0830 GMT), shooting him six times with a pistol, then
fled by car.
The Mitsubishi Lancer getaway car was later found abandoned and on fire, the
reports said. A pistol and silencer were found inside.
High-profile case
The Budanov trial was big news in Russia, where very few officers have been
prosecuted over abuses committed during Russia’s two campaigns against Chechen
separatist rebels.
He was the only senior officer to be jailed for crimes committed in
Chechnya.
He was found guilty of the kidnapping and strangling of Elza Kungayeva in
2000. An allegation that he had also raped her was dropped.
The murder provoked outrage in Chechnya, where many civilians have died at
the hands of Russian forces and the local pro-Moscow militia, during the long
war against rebels.
At his re-trial in 2003 Budanov accused Russian media of having swayed the
judge, insisting that he was “a Russian soldier who defended his country for the
past 20 years”.
Budanov was acquitted at his first trial in December 2002, when the court
accepted his plea that he had been temporarily insane at the time of the
killing.
But the Russian supreme court ordered a re-trial, where he was found to have
been of sound mind at the time. He was found guilty and stripped of his rank and
the Order of Courage, which he had won in breakaway Chechnya.
Budanov told the court he believed that Kungayeva was a Chechen sniper and
that a fit of rage had come over him as he interrogated her.
The lawyer representing Kungayeva’s family, Stanislav Markelov, was shot dead
in Moscow in January 2009, along with a journalist, Anastasia Baburova, who was
with him at the time.
Last month a court in Moscow sentenced a Russian nationalist to life
imprisonment for the double murder. His partner was also jailed.
from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13725805
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Yuri Dmitrievich Budanov was born on November 24th, 1963 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Budanov
November 24th, 1963
11 + 24 +1+9+6+3 = 54 = his life lesson = what he was here to learn = Interrogator.
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