Dr. Mustafa Azret-Aliyevich Batdyyev (born December 24, 1950) is a Russian

Russians

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 politician of Karachay ethnicity, who was the second president of Karachay-Cherkessia

Karachay-Cherkessia

The Karachay-Cherkess Republic , or Karachay-Cherkessia is a federal subject of Russia . Population: -Geography:*Area: *Borders:**internal: Krasnodar Krai , Kabardino-Balkar Republic , Stavropol Krai ....

, serving from 2003 to 2008.

Biography

Mustafa Batdyyev was born to an ethnic Karachay family in Kazakhstan; his family repatriated in 1957. Mustafa Batdyyev finished a boarding school

Boarding school

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 in Cherkessk

Cherkessk

Cherkessk is the capital city of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia, as well as its political, economic, and cultural center. Population: 121,439 ; 116,244 ; -History:...

 and served in the Soviet Army

Soviet Army

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 from 1970 to 1972. In 1978 he was graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University

Moscow State University

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 and in 1981 he got his doctorate there. Batdyyev is married and has two children.

Governmental career

After his studies, Mustafa Batdyyev returned to Karachay-Cherkessia where from 1981 to 1986 he worked as an economist in the "Rodina" kolkhoz

Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz , plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms . The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective farm", while sovkhoz is a contraction of советское хозяйство...

. From 1986 to 1992 he successfully headed the Economics Department of the Oblast Communist Commettee. 1992 to 1997 Mustafa Batdyyev worked in the Government of Karachay-Cherkessia dealing with economic affairs. In 1997 Mustafa Batdyyev was appointed as a chairman of the National Bank of Karachay-Cherkessia which was recognized as the best in Russian Federation

Russia

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. On August 31, 2003 Mustafa Batdyyev defeated the first president of Karachay-Cherkessia, Vladimir Magomedovich Semenov, in the presidential elections. In the summer of 2008, Batdyyev was replaced as president of Karachay-Cherkessia by Boris Ebzeyev

Boris Ebzeyev

Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev ; , is a Russian politician and judge, who has served as president of Karachay-Cherkessia between 2008 and 2011.- Biography :...

, who was appointed by Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev.

Controversy

In November 2004, following the brutal killing of seven businessmen, Batdyyev's son-in-law was convicted for organizing the murders.