Khasan Iragiyevich Yandiyev (russian: Хаса́н Ира́гиевич Янди́ев; 17 July 1948, Almaty,

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– 13 April 2008, Karabulak) was a Russian judge who served as the deputy head of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia. He presided over the trials of a number of

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government officials and

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s and rebels in Ingushetia, one of Russia's poorest and most troubled provinces. Yandiyev was born into an Ingush family in

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(now Almaty, Kazakhstan). (Following the

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, the Soviet government forced hundreds of thousands of Chechens and Ingush to move to Central Asia.) In 1980, he graduated from Andijan State Pedagogical Institute in Uzbekistan, where he studied physical education. He was a wrestling coach until 1986, when he earned a law degree from Tashkent State University. Khasan Yandiyev was killed on 13 April 2008, as he changed a

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near the Ingushetian town of Karabulak. He was 52 years old at the time of his death. Police believe he was killed by a sniper or assailants armed with an assault rifle using a silencer, since no one in the area heard a gunshot. Russian and Ingushetian authorities blamed both local Islamic fundamentalists, as well as Islamic rebels from neighboring Chechnya. Opponents of the government blamed Ingushetia's ineffective and repressive policies for the rise in the attacks. Yandiyev's successor as deputy Chief Justice on the Supreme Court,

Aza Gazgireeva Aza Adlopovna Gazgireyeva (russian: Аза Адлоповна Газгиреева; 29 October 1954, Saran, Kazakhstan – 10 June 2009, Nazran), also known as Aza Gazgireeva, was an Ingush jurist who served as the deputy chief justice of the Su ...

, was herself assassinated on 10 June 2009, just 18 months after Yandiyev's assassination.

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