Movsar Barayev

Movsar Bucharowitsch Barayev (Russian Мовсар Бухарович Бараев; born October 26, 1979 in Argun in Chechnya; † 26 October 2002, Moscow ) was a Chechen terrorist. He was a nephew of Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev.

He is best known as the leader of a group of Chechen separatists, who took 916 people hostage in October 2002 during a performance of the musical Nord-Ost in Moscow Dubrowka theater (see hostage-taking in Moscow Dubrowka theater). At the completion of hostage-taking by Russian special forces in the more than 130 (119 of them after the liberation, in hospitals ) of the hostages were killed, he was killed along with the other 40 members of the command.

Barayev to have been responsible for an attack with 20 deaths in the village Alchan -Yurt on December 9, 2000, according to the Moscow - loyal government of Chechnya.

In March 2004, identified a group who wanted to blackmail the French government to lift the headscarf ban in French schools command Movsar Barayev.