Caucasian Common Market
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The Caucasian Common Market (founded in 1997) was a private holding company created to bring prosperity and well-being to the Caucasus region, and in addition, its recognition by the world community as an important subject of international commodity exchange and, consequently, international law
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Among the company's co-founders were former Chechen mafia
boss and Chechen First Deputy Premier Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev
and Margaret Thatcher
's close friend, Lord Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine, of the Goldsmith family interests in London
. The company's aim was to collect $3 billion USD as the initial capital for investment projects in the region.
Excerpt from Forbes Russian Editor Paul Klebnikov
Conversation with a Barbarian: Interviews with a Chechen Field Commander on Banditry and Islam:
"In his official biography Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev aka. "Hozha" reports that appeared in Moscow in 1974. According to him, he joined the Faculty of Moscow State University, although the degree never received. In 1980 e Nuhaev became one of the leaders of the Chechen community Chechen mafia
in Moscow. Several times sitting.
Freed at last from prison in 1991, Noukhayev engaged in politics, approached the Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev, conducted clandestine financial transactions for obschaka independent Ichkeria. In 1994, when federal troops entered Chechnya, Hozha took part in the defense of Grozny. In January 1995 the first was wounded in the battles for the presidential palace - he still walks with a limp and a cane. After treatment in Turkey assumed the post of the Deputy Prime Minister Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
. In early 1997, the political situation in Chechnya has changed is not in favor of Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev. Was elected president of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov
, who appointed his prime minister known field commander Shamil Basayev
. Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev decided to leave - he lived in Istanbul, in Baku, where he had bank accounts and their homes. Engaged in what is ridiculous economic projects (under the name Caucasian Common Market), opened a representative office in Kiev, Warsaw, Brussels, London, Washington, Houston and Tokyo. The idea was tempting: to create the Common Market of independent peoples of the Caucasus and connect it to the world economy. Preaching to the idea, as well as the economic independence of Chechnya, Nuhaev in 1997, met with Margaret Thatcher
, the former secretary of Homeland Security Zbigniew Brzezinski
, a former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker
, chairman of the World Bank James Wolfensohn
. Advisory council organization «Caucasian Common Market» led the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Jacques Attali
.
The outbreak of the second Chechen war
in 1999 meant the definitive end of this initiative.
International law
Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
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Among the company's co-founders were former Chechen mafia
Chechen mafia
The Chechen mafia is one of the largest organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia gangs, which originally consisted of criminals of Chechen ethnicity who later also tried to recruit former Russian special military forces, police and army officers...
boss and Chechen First Deputy Premier Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev
Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev
Khozh-Ahmed Tashtamirovich Noukhayev , also spelled Hozh-Ahmed Nukhaev, Nukhayev or Noukhaev, was a leader of the Chechen mafia known as Obshina and a prominent figure in Chechen politics...
and Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
's close friend, Lord Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine, of the Goldsmith family interests in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. The company's aim was to collect $3 billion USD as the initial capital for investment projects in the region.
Excerpt from Forbes Russian Editor Paul Klebnikov
Paul Klebnikov
Paul Klebnikov was a Russian-American journalist and historian of Russian history. He worked for Forbes Magazine for over 10 years and at the time of his death was Chief editor of the Russian edition. His murder in Moscow in 2004 was seen as a blow against investigative journalism in Russia...
Conversation with a Barbarian: Interviews with a Chechen Field Commander on Banditry and Islam:
"In his official biography Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev aka. "Hozha" reports that appeared in Moscow in 1974. According to him, he joined the Faculty of Moscow State University, although the degree never received. In 1980 e Nuhaev became one of the leaders of the Chechen community Chechen mafia
Chechen mafia
The Chechen mafia is one of the largest organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia gangs, which originally consisted of criminals of Chechen ethnicity who later also tried to recruit former Russian special military forces, police and army officers...
in Moscow. Several times sitting.
Freed at last from prison in 1991, Noukhayev engaged in politics, approached the Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev, conducted clandestine financial transactions for obschaka independent Ichkeria. In 1994, when federal troops entered Chechnya, Hozha took part in the defense of Grozny. In January 1995 the first was wounded in the battles for the presidential palace - he still walks with a limp and a cane. After treatment in Turkey assumed the post of the Deputy Prime Minister Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
Zelimkhan Abdumuslimovich Yandarbiyev was a Chechen writer and a politician, who served as acting president of the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria between 1996 and 1997...
. In early 1997, the political situation in Chechnya has changed is not in favor of Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev. Was elected president of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov
Aslan Maskhadov
Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was a leader of the Chechen separatist movement and the third President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.He was credited by many with the Chechen victory in the First Chechen War, which allowed for the...
, who appointed his prime minister known field commander Shamil Basayev
Shamil Basayev
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev was a Chechen militant Islamist and a leader of the Chechen rebel movement.Starting as a field commander in the Transcaucasus, Basayev led guerrilla campaigns against the Russian troops for years, as well as launching mass-hostage takings of civilians, with his goal...
. Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev decided to leave - he lived in Istanbul, in Baku, where he had bank accounts and their homes. Engaged in what is ridiculous economic projects (under the name Caucasian Common Market), opened a representative office in Kiev, Warsaw, Brussels, London, Washington, Houston and Tokyo. The idea was tempting: to create the Common Market of independent peoples of the Caucasus and connect it to the world economy. Preaching to the idea, as well as the economic independence of Chechnya, Nuhaev in 1997, met with Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
, the former secretary of Homeland Security Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981....
, a former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker
James Baker
James Addison Baker, III is an American attorney, politician and political advisor.Baker served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration and in the final year of the administration of President George H. W. Bush...
, chairman of the World Bank James Wolfensohn
James Wolfensohn
Sir James David Wolfensohn AO KBE FKC was the ninth president of the World Bank Group.-Early life:James Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, on 1 December 1933...
. Advisory council organization «Caucasian Common Market» led the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali is a French economist, writer and senior civil servant.Former adviser to President François Mitterrand and first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he founded the non-profit organization PlaNet Finance and was nominated President of the Commission for...
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The outbreak of the second Chechen war
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War, in a later phase better known as the War in the North Caucasus, was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade ....
in 1999 meant the definitive end of this initiative.