Gorets mutiny

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.

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]

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]

References

1. ^ Land of the warlords | World news | guardian.co.uk
2. ^ The Jamestown Foundation
3. ^ Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review