Maksharip Aushev
{{short description|Ingush-Russian businessman}}
{{family name hatnote|Magometovich|Aushev|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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|name = Maksharip Magometovich Aushev
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1966|02|16|df=y}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ingushetia.org/news/print.html?id=13658|script-title=ru:Макшарип Аушев. Краткая биография|date=17 March 2008|work=Ингушетия.Org (Ингушетия.Ru when first published)|language=ru|access-date=16 December 2009}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
|birth_place = Surkhakhi, Nazranovsky District, Ingushetia
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|10|25|1966|02|16|df=y}}
|death_place = Nartan, Chegemsky District, Kabardino-Balkaria{{cite web|url=http://www.ingushetia.org/news/20694.html |script-title=ru:Родственница Аушева с ранениями доставлена в больницу |date=25 October 2009 |work=Ингушетия.Org |language=ru |access-date=16 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029043630/http://www.ingushetia.org/news/20694.html |archive-date=29 October 2009 }}
|death_cause = Shot dead by gunmen
|resting_place = Surkhakhi
|native_name = Макшарип Магометович Аушев
|known_for =
|occupation = political activist (opposition), businessman
}}
Maksharip Magometovich Aushev ({{langx|ru|Макшарип Магометович Аушев}}; 16 February 1966 – 25 October 2009) was an Ingush businessman and opposition leader[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/8325317.stm Leading Ingush activist shot dead.] BBC News, 25 October 2009 in the Republic of Ingushetia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. Aushev had taken over the opposition website, Ingushetia.org, after its owner, Magomed Yevloyev, a vocal critic of the Ingush government, was shot and killed while in police custody.{{cite news |first=Ellen |last=Barry |title=Activist Killing Said to Be Tied to the Police |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/europe/27ingushetia.html|work= New York Times |date=26 October 2009 |access-date=21 November 2009}}
Biography
Aushev was a businessman and a member of a prominent Ingushetian family.{{cite news |first=Ellen |last=Barry |title=Ingushetia Opposition Figure Is Shot Dead in Car |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/world/europe/26ingushetia.html?_r=1|work= New York Times |date=25 October 2009 |access-date=21 November 2009}} In 2007, Aushev's son and nephew were both kidnapped. He blamed Ingush security forces under the control of then-President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov for the abductions. Aushev organized protests against the security forces and the Zyazikov government.
In 2008, journalist Magomed Yevloyev, the owner of Ingushetia.org and a critic of the Zyazikov government, was shot and killed while in police custody. Aushev personally took over ownership of Ingushetia.org following Yevloyev's death.
The Russian government removed Zyazikov in October 2008 and installed Yunus-Bek Yevkurov as president. Yevkurov offered dissidents in Ingushetia a certain amount of protection from politically motivated attacks. Aushev largely supported Yevkurov policies towards the opposition, and withdrew from his most vocal opposition to the government since Yevkurov's installation. Aushev accepted a position on a human rights council set up by the ombudsman of Russia's federal government. However, he remained a vocal critic of former President Zyazikov and his relatives, as well as the human rights violations allegedly committed by Russian special forces in Ingushetia and Chechnya.
Aushev survived an attempted kidnapping in September 2009. In an interview with an Australian television network, he revealed that he had “very strong information that I was going to be killed” during the failed abduction.
On 25 October 2009, Aushev was shot and killed on the spot when gunmen attacked his car on a road near Nalchik in the neighboring Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. He was buried in the Ingush village of Surkhakhi.
Post-death
On 8 December 2009, Aushev was posthumously awarded the Russian Federation's human rights ombudsman's medal “{{lang|ru|Спешите делать добро}}” ({{lang|ru-Latn|Speshite delat dobro}}).{{cite web|url=http://ombudsman.gov.ru/doc/vistup12/s09_12_09.shtml|script-title=ru:Сообщение пресс-службы Уполномоченного по правам человека в Российской Федерации|date=9 December 2009|work= Уполномоченный по правам человека в Российской Федерации|language=ru|access-date=16 December 2009}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:People from Nazranovsky District