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General Gennady Nikolayevich Shpigun (; February 5, 1947 – ca. March 2000) was the
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's special representative in
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. He was kidnapped from the
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in
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on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for
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. Shpigun's kidnappers, reported at various times to be different Chechen rebel warlords ( Shamil Basaev,
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, Magomed Khatuev), demanded a ransom of
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15 million for his release. On March 31, 2000, his body was found in southern Chechnya, near the village of
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. Neither the exact cause nor the date of his death could be determined. In June 2000, he was buried in
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's Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery.


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Miscalculations Paved Path to Chechen War
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