The Caucasian Common Market (founded in 1997) was a private holding company created to bring prosperity and well-being to the North Caucasus, and in addition, its recognition by the world community as an important subject of international commodity exchange and, consequently,
international law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...
.
Among the company's co-founders were former
Chechen mafia boss and Chechen First Deputy Premier
Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev and Lord
Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine
Robert Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green (14 May 1942 – 17 January 2014) was a British businessman, politician and author who was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
McAlpine was descended from the McAlpine baronets ...
, of the Goldsmith family interests in
London
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.
["Grozny is lobbying for a Caucasus Common Market, hoping the ]profit motive
In economics, the profit motive is the motivation of firms that operate so as to maximize their profits. Mainstream microeconomic theory posits that the ultimate goal of a business is "to make money" - not in the sense of increasing the firm's s ...
will force the world community to recognize Chechnya's independence." Prism, Volume 3, Issue 20 (December 5, 1997) The company's aim was to collect US$3 billion as the initial capital for investment projects in the region.
Excerpt from Forbes Russian Editor
Paul Klebnikov
Paul Klebnikov (russian: Павел Юрьевич Хлебников, translit=Pavel Yurievich Khlebnikov; June 3, 1963 – July 9, 2004) was an American journalist and historian of Russia. He worked for ''Forbes'' magazine for more than ...
Conversation with a Barbarian: Interviews with a Chechen Field Commander on Banditry and Islam:
"In his official biography
Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev
Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev (russian: Хож-Ахмет Нухаев; born November 11, 1954) also known as ''Khozha'' was a Chechen gangster and boss of the Chechen mafia known as Obshina in Moscow and a prominent figure in Chechen politics. His wher ...
aka. "Hozha" reports that appeared in Moscow in 1974. According to him, he joined the Faculty of Moscow State University, although the degree never received. In 1980 e Nuhaev became one of the leaders of the Chechen community
Chechen mafia in Moscow. Several times sitting.
Freed at last from prison in 1991, Noukhayev engaged in politics, approached the Chechen president
Dzhokhar Dudayev
Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev (, ; russian: Джохар Мусаевич Дудаев; ; 15 February 1944 – 21 April 1996) was a Soviet Air Force general and Chechen separatist leader who was the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichke ...
, conducted clandestine financial transactions for obschaka independent Ichkeria. In 1994, when federal troops entered Chechnya, Hozha took part in the defense of Grozny. In January 1995 the first was wounded in the battles for the presidential palace - he still walks with a limp and a cane. After treatment in Turkey assumed the post of the Deputy Prime Minister
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. In early 1997, the political situation in Chechnya has changed is not in favor of Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev. Was elected president of Chechnya
Aslan Maskhadov
Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (russian: Асла́н (Хали́д) Али́евич Масха́дов; ce, Масхадан Али-воӀ Аслан (Халид), Masxadan Ali-voj Aslan (Xalid); 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was ...
, who appointed his prime minister known field commander
Shamil Basayev. Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev decided to leave - he lived in Istanbul, in Baku, where he had bank accounts and their homes. Engaged in what is ridiculous economic projects (under the name Caucasian Common Market), opened a representative office in Kiev, Warsaw, Brussels, London, Washington, Houston and Tokyo. The idea was tempting: to create the Common Market of independent peoples of the North Caucasus and connect it to the world economy. Preaching to the idea, as well as the economic independence of Chechnya, Nuhaev in 1997, met with
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. S ...
, the former secretary of Homeland Security
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. Secretary of State
James Baker, chairman of the World Bank
James Wolfensohn. Advisory council organization «Caucasian Common Market» led the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
Jacques Attali.
The outbreak of the
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War (russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, ) took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russia, Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from Augus ...
in 1999 meant the definitive end of this initiative.
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