Gorets mutiny

Last updated April 04, 2019

Gorets mutiny took place in Chechnya in 2006.

The Goretz (Mountaineer) detachment, once spetsnaz unit of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), was formally disbanded and its servicemen were to be reassigned to Chechen Interior Ministry but refused. Goretz was headed by Movladi Baisarov, formerly a close ally to Akhmad Kadyrov, but after the latter death became conflicted with his son Ramzan Kadyrov and was declared an outlaw.

Spetsnaz is an umbrella term for special purpose in Russian and is used in numerous post-Soviet states.

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a federal subject of Russia.

Movladi Baisarov was a Chechen warlord and former Federal Security Service (FSB) special-task unit commander. Baisarov was shot dead on the street in central Moscow by members of the Chechen extra-agency guard on November 18, 2006.

The Guardian in June 2006 detailed a showdown between Kadyrov's and Baisarov's forces that had taken place the previous month. The Kadyrovtsy ended up backing down in that confrontation when another Chechen warlord, Said-Magomed Kakiev, head of the Zapad (West) Spetsnaz GRU unit, came down on Baisarov's side.^[1]

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The Kadyrovtsy, also known in English as the Kadyrovites, is a paramilitary organization in Chechnya, Russia, that serve as the protection of the Head of the Chechen Republic. The term Kadyrovtsy is commonly used in Chechnya to refer to any armed Chechen men under the control of President Ramzan Kadyrov.

A warlord is a leader able to exercise military, economic, and political control over a subnational territory within a sovereign state due to their ability to mobilize loyal armed forces. These armed forces, usually considered militias, are loyal to the warlord rather than to the state regime. Warlords have existed throughout much of history, albeit in a variety of different capacities within the political, economic, and social structure of states or ungoverned territories.

While as for October 2006, Baisarov was in Moscow, it was believed he still commanded 50 to little over 100 men based in Grozny.^[2] On November 18, 2006, Baisarov was killed in central Moscow by a detachment of Kadyrov's police.^[3]

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References

↑ Land of the warlords | World news | guardian.co.uk
↑ The Jamestown Foundation Archived 2008-01-03 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review Archived 2008-01-03 at the Wayback Machine .

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[1] Land of the warlords | World news | guardian.co.uk

[2] The Jamestown Foundation Archived 2008-01-03 at the Wayback Machine .

[3] Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review Archived 2008-01-03 at the Wayback Machine .