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unusual facts about President of Ichkeria



Aslan Maskhadov

Maskhadov nominated himself for President of Ichkeria on 3 December 1996, for the January 1997 free democratic presidential and parliamentary elections held in Chechnya under the aegis of the OSCE, running primarily against Shamil Basayev and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

In late 2007, the President of Ichkeria Dokka Umarov declared that he had renamed the republic to Noxc̈iyc̈ó and converted it into a province of the much larger Caucasus Emirate, with himself as Emir.

Movladi Udugov

Following the end of the First Chechen War, Udugov unsuccessfully ran for the post of President of Ichkeria in the January 1997 election, but got less than 1% percent of the votes (in his election campaign he was representing an unpopular radical Islamist platform).


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Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Dudayev, in his new position as president of Ichkeria, unilaterally declared the republic's sovereignty and its secession from the Soviet Union and Russia.