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LIANA HAYRAPETYAN
mainly involved in the robbery of weapons. By 2018 all members of the
terrorist organization are under arrest. In 2017 all six captured terrorists
(Galiev not included) were sentenced to 101 years in prison. 47
Chistopolsky Jamaat or Mujahedeen of Tatarstan
In the morning of July 19, 2012 in the courtyard of the house, six
shots from fi rearms killed Deputy Mufti of Tatarstan Valiulla Yakupov.
Later, at 10:15, in the other part of the city, there was an assassination at-
tempt on the Mufti of Tatarstan, Ildar Faizov, his car was blown up. Mufti
managed to get out of the car in a few seconds before the explosion. As a
result of the attempt, Faizov was only injured. 48
The event shocked Tatarstan. Ministry of Internal Aff airs took urgent
measures. All important people were taken under the protection. The “Vol-
cano Four” the operation of fi nding and detaining dangerous criminals was
launched. Though there is no offi cial number of arrested, some sources
mention that nearly 500 people were arrested. The president of the Repub-
lic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov mentioned that traditional Islam had
never allowed such things especially towards them who serve to Islam. 49
On the same day of the terror attack, a video appeared on the internet
where seven people, six in black masks, in the forest introduced them-
selves as mujahedeen of Tatarstan. Their head Muhammad, who called
himself the emir of Tatarstan pledged his loyalty to Doku Umarov. On
August 3, another video appeared where the emir took the responsibil-
ity for the attack. On that same day another important event happened.
During the extraordinary meeting of the State Council of the RT, the head
of the Ministry of Internal Aff airs Artem Khokhorin announced that over
13 years on the territory of the republic there had been an undeclared war.
According to Khakhorin extremism in Tatarstan had transformed from the
individual manifestations into a critical mass. He also added that the at-
tempt of assassination of Mufti was not just a crime, it was a political
challenge. 50
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Angelina Golovataja, “Ne snimajte nas!”.
Elena Gorbunchikova, “Glavarja terroristov pohoronili zanovo[The leader of the terrorists
was buried again,”] Kazan MK, May 7, 2014, http://kazan.mk.ru/articles/2014/05/07/gla-
varya-terroristov-pohoronili-zanovo.html(accessed 15 April, 2018).
“Pravoohranitel’nye organy ob”edinili usilija dlja raskrytija besprecedentnogo rezonansnogo
prestuplenija,” (in Russian), [Law enforcement authorities join forces to uncover an unprec-
edented resonant crime,”], Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del Po Respublike Tatarstan, July 19,
2012, https://16.мвд.рф/news/item/287040 (accessed April 15, 2018).
Artem Hohorin, “Obshhim frontom my dolzhny ogradit’ zhitelej RT ot zarazy jekstremiz-
ma,” (in Russian), [“We must protect the people of Tajikistan from the infection of extrem-
ism with a common front,”] Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del Po Respublike Tatarstan, August 3,
2012, https://16.мвд.рф/news/item/287085 (accessed April 15, 2018).
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