Farid Babayev Explained

Farid Babayev
Birth Name:Farid Nametalievich Babayev
Birth Date:8 August 1959
Birth Place:Jaba, Akhtynsky District, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Death Place:Makhachkala, Russia
Nationality:Russian

Farid Nametalievich Babayev (Russian: Фарид Наметалиевич Бабаев; 1959  - 2007) was a Russian politician with the liberal anti-Kremlin Yabloko party. He was assassinated in 2007.

Career

Babayev was a candidate of the regional list for the party in the 2 December elections.

Death

Babayev was shot late 21 November 2007 in the entryway of his apartment building in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.[1] [2] Doctors said he was shot four times, including at least once in the head. He died on 24 November of his wounds.[3]

Reaction

Yabloko party leader, Grigory Yavlinsky called Babayev "one more victim of the authoritarian regime of Putin, where the physical destruction of your political opponents has become the norm."[4]

Notes and References

  1. News: Russian opposition candidate dies of gunshot wounds . https://archive.today/20130125073658/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200711250944.htm . dead . 25 January 2013 . 29 December 2012 . The Hindu . Associated Press. Moscow .
  2. News: Russian election candidate shot . 26 January 2024 . The Sydney Morning Herald . 22 November 2007.
  3. News: vanden Heuvel . Katrina . The Fight for Press Freedom in Putin's Russia . 26 January 2024 . The Nation . 26 November 2007.
  4. News: Kasparov arrested in anti-Putin protest . 26 January 2024 . Deseret News . 25 November 2007.