Yury Budanov, a former Russian army colonel who symbolized army abuses in the war in Chechnya, was shot dead in central Moscow. Budanov, who had commanded a tank regiment during the second Chechen war, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003 for the kidnapping and murder of 18-year old Chechen woman Elsa Kungayeva three years earlier, and was released on parole in January 2009, 15 months early. His early release caused outrage in Chechnya. The Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, said at the time: "Budanov is the enemy of the Chechen people. He assaulted our people. Every man, woman and child thinks that while he lives the shame remains." The funeral service and burial in Khimki, just north of Moscow, were attended by several hundred people, including a number of uniformed servicemen. Budanov was seen off with a three-gun salute.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110610/164552848.html
http://en.rian.ru/crime/20110613/164596327.html
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1659554
http://www.regnum.ru/news/1118397.html (Kadyrov’s 2009 interview)
http://youtu.be/KdUfgSKGoFA (Al Jazeera’s video)
http://youtu.be/sREsi-L0DT8 (Russia Today’s video)
http://echo.msk.ru/blog/echomsk/784195-echo/ (surveillance video)
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