Chechen field commander Said Buryatsky (Alexander Tikhomirov). Death of Said Moved away from the cross

About the destruction of the leader of the bandit underground, Said Buryatsky, according to his passport - Alexander Tikhomirov. One of the militants had documents in this name. The body is badly damaged, so genetic testing will be needed to establish his identity. After all, Said Buryatsky, who was involved in the assassination attempt on the President of the Republic Yunus-bek Yevkurov, faked his death more than once.

This is how the special operation took place in the village of Ekazhevo, during which Said Buryatsky was supposedly killed: FSB special forces move from house to house, covering each other; The militants tried to resist and hide in houses, but not all of them succeeded. Just after this battle, a passport in the name of Alexander Tikhomirov was found in the burnt clothes of one of the killed militants. This is the real name, or now, you can probably say, the name, of one of the main ideologists of the militants.

The biography of Alexander Tikhomirov is completely atypical and noticeably different from other militant leaders. Tikhomirov was born in Buryatia, Buryat father, Russian mother. First he studied at a Buddhist datsan, then, at the age of 15, he converted to Islam. According to one version, after reading some books on Islam, according to another, Ingush friends introduced him to the faith.

Then a new page began in Tikhomirov’s life. He is a student of the madrasah in Orenburg region, then goes to study in Egypt, and later in Kuwait. Tikhomirov was indeed a strong theologian, and for the time being he not only gave lectures, but also worked in an Islamic publishing house, wrote works about Islamic movements.

And now it’s impossible to understand what happened, but, probably, already at that time there was some kind of internal transformation of Alexander Tikhomirov into Said Buryatsky. From a certain point, his lectures and articles begin to differ in their radical orientation.

In 2008, he is said to have received a video letter from the Arab warlord Muhannad, abandoned his family and went to North Caucasus, where he joined the terrorists. He met and took part in militant attacks. Said Buryatsky becomes a kind of symbol of the terrorist international - he is not from the Caucasus, he is not a Muslim by birth, but he is a militant and a terrorist.

But perhaps his main work is ideological. Said Buryatsky writes video messages to militants, to Caucasian youth, where he calls on everyone to wage a holy war and join the terrorists. He speaks beautifully, gives lengthy quotes in Arabic, he knows how to convince, which is not strange, given his education.

According to some reports, it was Said Buryatsky who psychologically processed young people and trained them to become suicide bombers. For example, he trained Rustam Mukhadiev, who...

By the way, in his video messages, the terrorist himself admitted to involvement in the most notorious crimes - attacks on police officers in Ingushetia, an explosion on the Theater Square in Grozny, etc.

Information about the death of Said Buryatsky already passed in August 2009. Afterwards, another video message from the terrorist appeared on the militants’ Internet resources and a message that, they say, it was Said Buryatsky who personally rammed the city police department building in a mined GAZelle. But two days later, terrorist Buryatsky, as if nothing had happened, personally said: I .

This time there is no definitive information about whether Said Buryatsky has been killed. The security forces speak cautiously: yes, the documents have been found, yes, there will be an examination, and after that we’ll talk.

But in general, the leaders of the bandit underground in the Caucasus are destroyed regularly. Almost all the major field commanders were killed, most of the Arab terrorists and financiers were killed, and odious leaders like Basayev and Maskhadov were killed. If it is true that Said Buryatsky was included in the list of killed underground leaders, then this is an undoubted success of the special services. Because the terrorists do not have another equally strong propagandist.

On the evening of March 4, security forces announced the destruction in Ingushetia of the militant ideologist and closest associate of Doku Umarov, Said Buryatsky, known in the world as Alexander Tikhomirov. A simple guy from Ulan-Ude two last year was a real headache for the intelligence services, who could not capture this talkative preacher of Islam. In the past, he has already fooled them several times, so the FSB will officially announce Tikhomirov’s liquidation only after a molecular genetic examination has been carried out.

Said Buryatsky was killed basically by accident. On the morning of March 2, security forces received information that the militants holed up in the village of Ekazhevo were preparing some kind of major terrorist attack, after which special forces of the Ingush FSB and soldiers internal troops blocked several houses on the outskirts of the village. According to a RIA Novosti source in the power structures of the North Caucasus Federal District, before the operation, the special services had no information that Said Buryatsky was located in Ekazhevo.

The blocked militants fired back at the employees for several hours law enforcement, but they couldn’t even hurt anyone. The security forces, in turn, hit the houses with heavy fire and even used flamethrowers. In addition, they were supported by snipers, who, according to Kommersant, managed to shoot two militants who tried to escape from the besieged building.

Those who managed to escape settled on a farm nearby, where they continued to hold out. In the end they won federal forces, who managed to kill six militants and capture 15 or 16 people alive. At the same time, security forces found an entire arsenal on the farm: an RPG-7 grenade launcher, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Kedr submachine gun, a Makarov pistol, a shot for a grenade launcher, a hand-held anti-personnel grenade, five thousand rounds of ammunition and nine barrels with 450 kilograms of sodium nitrate.

On March 2, during a special operation in Ingushetia, the main ideologist of North Caucasian militants, Alexander Tikhomirov, better known as Said Buryatsky, was killed. Vlast correspondent Sergei Dyupin believes that his death could have an unexpected effect.

The large-scale FSB operation in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo was prepared and carried out in complete secrecy, even from local security officials. “When I arrived at the scene, the FSB officer standing in the cordon thanked me for my help, politely informing me that they did not need it,” one of the leaders of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs commented on the events.

Unofficial sources familiar with the details of the operation claim that its target was not any specific person or gang: simply the special services, receiving and comparing reports from their agents, came to the conclusion that some houses in Ekazhevo could be used by terrorists as staging areas bases, and decided to clear suspicious objects for preventive purposes. The prevention was extremely successful: one of those killed was 28-year-old militant from Buryatia Alexander Tikhomirov, better known in the ranks of the North Caucasian resistance as Sheikh Said Buryatsky. As the participants in the special operation admit, he ended up in the surrounded house by accident - late the night before he came to his friends in Ekazhevo to spend the night, and in the morning he ended up with them under a clean-up operation. The Buryat militant, again according to the security forces, accepted his death calmly: a few minutes before his death, he read his last sermon to his comrades, recording it on a video camera mobile phone, and said goodbye to them. The FSB did not make the video itself public.

The federal authorities attached great importance to the death of Buryatsky: on March 6, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, personally reported to President Dmitry Medvedev on the liquidation of the militant in front of a television camera. Similarly, on July 10, 2006, the then head of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, reported to President Vladimir Putin about the destruction of Shamil Basayev.

The phenomenon of Said Buryatsky is that he, not belonging to the Caucasian or Arab peoples by blood, was able to become almost the main ideologist of the terrorist underground and enjoyed great respect from the militants. This is all the more surprising since Alexander Tikhomirov was born and lived in Ulan-Ude, the majority of whose residents learn about the events taking place in the North Caucasus and Moscow only from television news broadcasts. Both of these regions are called in Buryatia in one word - Russia.

The son of a Russian and a Buryat, Tikhomirov grew up without a father. From childhood, he became interested in religion - first, traditional Buddhism for Buryatia, which he abandoned at the age of 15, converting to Islam. According to some reports, this was due to the appearance of 15-year-old Tikhomirov’s Caucasian stepfather, who professed Islam.

For most of his adult life, Tikhomirov studied Islam: first in two Russian madrassas (in Moscow and in the Orenburg region), then at the Al-Azhar Muslim University in Cairo, and finally in private lessons received from Islamic experts in Egypt and Kuwait.

Returning in 2005, Moscow was already under Muslim name Said Abu Saad al-Buryati, he began working at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, but after some time he quit due to disagreements with the management. The fact is that, while living abroad, Tikhomirov became an adherent of one of the most radical forms of Islam - Salafia, or Wahhabism, which calls for returning to the roots of religion, eliminating any kind of mediation between man and God, and waging an armed struggle for the spread of Islam throughout the world. As a Salafist preacher, Said Buryatsky gained international fame. The young scientist cogently criticized other movements in Islam, entering into discussions with world-class religious authorities, and his lectures, written in a simple and accessible language, enjoyed great popularity among Muslim youth in Russia and the CIS countries. By the age of 26, Said Buryatsky was already considered a sheikh in the Salafi community - an elder and an expert on religion. The main topic his sermons were a theoretical justification for the need for jihad - an armed struggle for the rights of Muslims and self-sacrifice in this struggle.

The popularity of the young scientist among Muslims grew, however, as Said Buryatsky himself admitted, his supporters increasingly began to reproach him for insincerity, making it clear that beautiful words"armchair" jihadist are very at odds with his own way of life. The preacher, as they say, accepted the challenge: in May 2008, he came to the North Caucasus, secretly contacted the local gang underground, swore allegiance to its leader Dok Umarov, who proclaimed himself the military emir of the Caucasus Emirate, and joined his detachment.

“Only here did I understand the essence of all our kitchen jamaats (Muslim community.— "Power") and online mujahideen (fighters for the faith.— "Power") who don’t want to come here,” Said Buryatsky wrote to his wife. “A real jamaat is only where you went through difficulties together.”

These letters, after the death of Buryatsky, were posted on one of the websites of Caucasian extremists. Based on them, one can reconstruct the image of a terrorist preacher, not devoid of sentimentality.

Constant work with future “live bombs” did not pass without a trace for the Wahhabi ideologist himself. At some point, the propagandist’s psyche failed

By his own admission, Tikhomirov, who was not distinguished by his heroic physique and health, did not turn out to be a militant. He informed his wife that he gradually got used to life in hiding and even fell in love with “these mountains and this forest”; I got used to the cold and damp (“you won’t believe it, it sometimes rains for four days without stopping”), long walks on foot and even the roar of shells, under which you have to sleep (“when they stop shooting, you can’t sleep anymore”). Immediately, the scientist who went out for jihad complains of pain in his back, which appeared either from drafts, or from the fact that he “strained himself on the load.” According to Said Buryatsky, his comrades, sparing him during his marches on foot, almost forcibly took away his heavy luggage, but his back still hurt, so he had to spend almost the entire winter in a dugout.

The main base of Emir Doku Umarov, according to Said Buryatsky, was about an hour’s walk from the small village of Dattykh, located on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, in a ravine between the hills. Taking advantage of the natural shelter, the militants, as he writes, thoroughly settled in this place: they put up tents, built dugouts, one of which housed a dining room, and even built “a mosque for 20-25 people from oilcloth and frame” (according to the FSB, the number the detachment consisted of about 60 people).

The shelter was named New Dattykh, and the passage between the dugouts was called Umarov Avenue. However, in May last year, the base was declassified by one of the residents of the real Dattykh. The federal command considered that it was too risky to storm the Umarov fortified area with special forces, and it was simply razed to the ground missile strikes from the air. Examining the corpses after the air raid, experts expected to find the body of Doku Umarov among them, but the extremist leader managed to escape the attack and withdraw about half of his squad. Among the survivors was Said Buryatsky.

Around this time, Emir Umarov, apparently, entrusted the failed militant with the ideological training of the members of his detachment, and it was in this capacity that Said Buryatsky made full use of his fundamental knowledge and organizational talent.

On June 22 last year, in the Center-Kamaz microdistrict of Nazran, an unknown terrorist in a Toyota Camry filled with explosives rammed the motorcade of the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. As a result of the assassination attempt, one of the security guards of the head of the republic was killed, and Yevkurov himself was seriously injured. His life was literally miraculously saved by Moscow doctors.

“I also prepared the brother who went to Yevkurov,” Said Buryatsky wrote to his wife, making it clear that on June 22 it was not his first student who was blown up. According to the ideologist, the militant went to his death “without worrying at all, as if he had gone to have tea.”

About a month later, on July 26, a pedestrian suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the theater center on Teatralnaya Square in Grozny, killing four police officers who stopped him before entering the hall and two bystanders. The terrorist attack was apparently being prepared for Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, who was planning to visit the theater that day, but was late for the performance and was not injured. Said Buryatsky didn’t even have to prepare this terrorist. In any case, he told his wife that “Kharun, who exploded in Grozny,” committed a self-detonation without any preliminary ideological treatment. “I saw in him a desire to die, which resembled wild hunger,” wrote Buryatsky.

Three days later, the remains of Shahid Harun were identified. At the same time, the President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for the first time called Tikhomirov the main ideologist of the bandit underground and his personal enemy. "Buryatsky and similar terrorists from normal person“, the young athlete Rustam Mukhadiev was turned into a suicide bomber, pumped full of various intoxicating drugs and subjected to psychological treatment,” Kadyrov said. “The days of terrorists are numbered.” Police officers and other departments are following their trail." It was not possible to quickly catch the organizers of the terrorist attack in Grozny, but the police in Chechnya suffered new losses on the same day when loud statements were made. On July 30, in the village of Valerik, Achkhoy-Martan district, law enforcement officers accidentally They shot a policeman-driver from Yakutsk, Arkady Savvinov, and his partner, who were sent to Chechnya, mistaking a Yakut for a wanted Buryat. A criminal case was opened against those who used weapons; the incident received a loud response in police circles. The OMON detachment under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia even raised the question of refusing. business trips to the North Caucasus.

Another serious crime, which investigators suspect Said Buryatsky of organizing, is a terrorist attack in Nazran committed on the morning of August 17 last year. Then the suicide bomber driving a bomb-laden Gazelle, ramming the gate, drove into the courtyard of the city police department, where the police were lined up for the morning divorce. As a result of the explosion, 25 people were killed, more than a hundred were injured, and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, Ruslan Meyriev, lost his post. Shortly after the explosion, a video appeared on the Internet with the participation of Said Buryatsky, in which he explains the need for self-sacrifice in jihad, sitting in the back of a Gazelle next to a two-hundred-liter metal barrel filled, according to him, with explosives. This video gave reason to believe that Buryatsky himself was driving the car that exploded. However, two days after the attack, militant websites denied this, and the would-be suicide bomber himself soon publicly explained that he was only going to carry out this action, but at the last moment the command entrusted it to another executor.

According to Ingush operatives, having headed the ideological service of the “Imarat”, Said Buryatsky formed an international brigade of 30 of his closest supporters, who, taking advantage of connections in the Islamic world, sent for training in an extremist madrasah located in one of the neighboring countries. The militants returned from there as supposedly convinced supporters of istishhad (fanatical readiness for self-sacrifice). According to police officers monitoring all suicide bombings committed in the North Caucasus, only nine students of Said Buryatsky have self-destructed so far. The remaining 21 are waiting for commands and target instructions from their military emir, Doku Umarov.

Constant work with future “live bombs” did not pass without a trace for the Wahhabi ideologist himself. At some point, the propagandist’s psyche failed. "I'm so tired of this dunya (earthly life.— "Power"), as if he had already lived for centuries,” Said Buryatsky wrote to his wife. “You know, I began to dream of brothers who had gone to Istishhad operations. Abu Dujana, Adam, Bilal, Harun, Abu Muslim and many more brothers are no longer there. And I’m still alive... You know, every time they leave, terrible fatigue falls on me... I will never forget those who helped me carry things, with whom we were in the cold and spent the night in a tent under a layer of snow , with whom we sat in the rain under an oilcloth in the forest, with whom we shared the last candy. I have been asking Dokku for a long time to allow me to go to istishhad, but every time I am denied this - they say you are still needed here. I myself don’t think so and I envy those who went down this path..."

On March 2, in Ekazhevo, the ideological “death machine” was finally stopped completely, and this can be considered an unconditional success for the Russian special services. However, if you look at the problem in the long term, we can assume that the death of Said Buryatsky is fraught with almost a greater danger than all the “live bombs” prepared by him during his lifetime. A young man of non-Muslim origin, who converted to Islam, studied it perfectly and told others about it, became a respected religious figure, even while remaining in the status of a “kitchen” mujahid. After Said Buryatsky abandoned worldly values ​​in favor of armed struggle, his rating completely soared to prohibitive heights. From the point of view of his comrades, the martyrdom of the scientist may well turn him into a symbol of the armed struggle against the infidels. In this case, extremists will not even need to waste energy on promoting their views - the very example of a young Muslim who said his word and confirmed it with deeds can attract new supporters to the side of the armed underground. Moreover, thanks to the international image of Said Buryatsky, among them may well be not only natives of the North Caucasian republics, but also people generally far from the problems of this region.

“With his life and his death, Said Buryatsky made a huge contribution to strengthening the ranks of the armed opposition in the North Caucasus,” the head of the Islamic Committee of Russia, Heydar Dzhemal, is convinced. “The ideas that he propagated will now acquire the character of absolute truth for his followers, since this man paid for your beliefs with your own life."

To the question of whether any other scenario was possible other than the physical elimination of Said Buryatsky, Heydar Dzhemal, after thinking, did not find an answer. “His ultimate goal, as I think, was to reformat the Russian and world space, and any negotiations with the authorities on this topic would certainly reach a dead end.”

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Abu Saad Said al-Buryati(Arab. أبو سعد سعيد البورياتي ‎‎) (known as Said Buryatsky; birth name Alexander Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov; February 10, 1982, Ulan-Ude, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic - March 2, 2010, Ekazhevo, Ingushetia, Russia) - member of terrorist groups, Islamic preacher and one of the ideologists of the North Caucasian armed underground. On March 4, 2010, sources in Russian security forces disseminated information that Said Buryatsky was killed in Ingushetia. The identity of the murdered man was confirmed by the results of a forensic examination carried out in Rostov-on-Don. On March 6, 2010, the President of Ingushetia Yunus-bek Yevkurov confirmed the death of Said Buryatsky.

Biography

Alexander Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov was born on February 10, 1982 in the city of Ulan-Ude, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Father is Russian, mother is Buryat. According to the Trud newspaper, “from an early age he was raised by his Chechen stepfather.” IN adolescence studied at a Buddhist datsan. At the age of 15 he converted to Islam. Independently (according to other sources, under the influence of Chechen friends) he studied Islamic literature. I took it for myself islamic name Said.

Later he studied with various authoritative sheikh scholars in Egypt and Kuwait. Attended lectures by Sheikh Mahmoud Misri and Sheikh Muhammad Yusri, and also studied with the famous sheikh and preacher Muhammad Hasan. According to the Guraba website, “among the students of that time he was known for his sincerity towards religion and constant reading of Islamic books. Knew by heart “40 hadiths” of Nawawi with sharkh, “Aqida at-Tahawi”, “Umdat al-Ahkam”.

He worked in the Dar ul-Akram organization and collaborated with the religious publishing house Umma.

Since 2002, he began recording lectures on religious topics, which quickly spread among Islamic youth. Among his most famous lectures are the cycles "Righteous Predecessors", "Trip to eternal life» , "Talbis Iblis"(from Arabic “Satan’s veil”), “100 stories of unjust deaths” and others. Also engaged in translation from Arabic into Russian of religious documentaries(“Crimes of the Shiites through the ages,” “Description of the Prophet’s prayer”).

Caucasus Emirate

At the beginning of 2008, Said Buryatsky received a video letter from the famous Arab field commander Muhannad and decided to join the North Caucasian armed underground. A few months later, he secretly arrived in Chechnya, where he met with the leader of the underground, the so-called. "amir" terrorist organization“Caucasian Emirate” (Caucasus Emirate) by Dokka Umarov and gave him the Islamic oath (bayah).

Tikhomirov's joining the armed underground caused a mixed reaction among Russian-speaking Muslims. Publicist Heydar Dzhemal, who has repeatedly expressed sympathy for terrorists, called Tikhomirov “a symbol of a new generation in the epic of the Caucasian struggle,” emphasizing that “we have seen preachers (bearers of da’wah) belonging to various ethnic groups. We saw Avars, Laks, Karachais, Circassians, Arabs... But all these worthy people were either representatives Caucasian area, or, at least, belonged to one or another traditionally Muslim people. In this case, for the first time, on behalf of the Caucasus Emirate, a person of Eurasian origin, in whose veins Russian and Buryat blood flows, acts as an ideologist, as an authoritative representative.”

Echo of Moscow journalist Yulia Latynina said about Said Buryatsky: Such a Buryat Che Guevara, a Mujahideen internationalist...

In the following months, Said Buryatsky took part in sabotage operations and militant attacks. While in the forest, he recorded several video messages, audio lectures and articles about jihad and the situation in the North Caucasus, which were published on Kavkaz Center and other extremist websites.

Participation in terrorist activities

According to Russian law enforcement agencies, Said Buryatsky was involved in the assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia Yunus-bek Evkurov and the organization of a terrorist act in Nazran. Said Buryatsky also took responsibility for blowing up the Nevsky Express train.

The former intelligence chief of the disbanded Vostok battalion, Khamzat Gairbekov, said: “Tikhomirov was one of the most dangerous figures in the leadership of the Caucasus Emirate - he was responsible for training suicide bombers and ran a network of sabotage schools.”

According to the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, Alexander Tikhomirov - "the main ideologist of the bandit underground" and it was he who prepared the suicide bomber Rustam Mukhadiev, who detonated a bomb on Teatralnaya Square in Grozny on July 26, 2009. Said Buryatsky did not deny his involvement in such attacks, but, according to him, his help consisted of preparing “suicide belts”, cutting reinforcement to create fragmentation damage, etc. The news agency “Chechnya Today” assessed Tikhomirov negatively, characterizing him as “an ignoramus who has picked up the tops of religion,” “a werewolf in a turban,” who “needs the blood of the Chechen people.”

On July 30, 2009, the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic opened a criminal case against Alexander Tikhomirov on the grounds of a crime provided for in Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of Russia: “participation in an armed formation not provided for federal law" The basis for starting an investigation before opening a case was video recordings and photographs in which Tikhomirov appeared with militants and which were posted on the Internet.

Ramzan Kadyrov, assessing Tikhomirov’s calls, said: “This is said by a person who has no idea about Islam. Dokku Umarov and similar bandits listen to him. These people call on Chechens to hate their history, traditions, and culture.”

Terrorist attack in Nazran

At the end of August 2009, on the Hunafa website ( information resource Ingush armed underground) there was a message that Said Buryatsky was personally driving the mined GAZelle car, which rammed the gates of the Nazran city police department on the morning of August 17, 2009 and blew up the building. The power of the explosion, which according to official data killed 25 police officers and injured 260 people, ranged from 400 to 1000 kg of TNT, according to various estimates. The building of the Nazran City Department of Internal Affairs was completely destroyed.

Two days later, this information was refuted by the command of the Ingush underground, and after some time a video appeared on the Hunafa website in which Said Buryatsky personally denied his death and said that another militant was driving the car.

Death

On March 4, 2010, reports from Russian security forces appeared that Said Buryatsky was killed during a counter-terrorist operation in the Nazran region of Ingushetia near the village of Ekazhevo.

According to the FSB, on the morning of March 2, special forces units discovered and blocked a group of militants on the outskirts of the village. The militants dispersed across several houses and on the territory of an abandoned farm. During the shootout, which lasted several hours, several militants were killed, and the survivors surrendered. After a special operation in Ekazhevo, law enforcement officers discovered a large number of weapons and explosives (several grenade launchers, a machine gun, machine guns and pistols, more than three thousand rounds of ammunition, nine 50-liter barrels of sodium nitrate, three powerful homemade explosive devices).

At the scene of the collision, a badly burnt corpse was discovered, with almost no head, and with it a passport was found in the name of Alexander Tikhomirov (real name of Said Buryatsky). Forensic examination in Rostov-on-Don also confirmed this information. RIA Novosti, citing a high-ranking source in the North Caucasus Federal District, reported that Tikhomirov’s corpse will be buried in an unmarked grave, which is due to the practice of not releasing the bodies of terrorists to relatives.

On March 6, 2010, the head of the FSB of Russia, A.V. Bortnikov, reported to the President of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev that Said Buryatsky and the four Kartoev brothers were killed, and 10 more people involved in the explosion of the Nevsky Express train in November 2009 were arrested. . Bortnikov said that “genetic examinations of the bandits were carried out to determine their involvement in the bombing of the Nevsky Express train, committed in November last year. All these materials give reason to believe that they took part in this crime.” According to him, material evidence was found at the site of the special operation that is directly related to the train bombing. In addition, components of explosive devices were found “identical to those used in the bombing of the Nevsky Express train in 2007.”

As the FSB Central Operations Center reported, “in one of the households (in Ekazhevo) an underground workshop was discovered that was used by bandits to make homemade explosive devices.” “During its inspection, material evidence was found indicating the involvement of T. Kartoev’s gang in the bombing of the Nevsky Express in 2009, as well as technical equipment identical to those seized from the site of a similar terrorist attack in the Tver region in 2007.”

Ramzan Kadyrov expressed satisfaction with the liquidation of Tikhomirov, noting that the same fate awaits Dokku Umarov. Kadyrov also called Tikhomirov a bandit who worked for Western intelligence services.

According to Vadim Rechkalov: “After being exhausted from running through the mountains, starving and freezing, Said Buryatsky ran to his old friends Kartoev and called his mother in Ulan-Ude from their home phone. I miss you. And my mother’s phone, of course, was wiretapped.” It was thanks to this that the FSB was able to get on the trail of Said Buryatsky.

Religious and ideological position

A significant part of Said Buryatsky’s activities before he went underground was criticism of various Islamic movements - Shiites, Sufis, and others. In a generalized form, information about the existing 73 currents in Islam was presented by Said Buryatsky in his lectures on the book of Abul-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi "Talbis Iblis".