Simply Killed Russians: The Crimes of Ramses Gaichayev
In the lawless years between the Chechen wars, families in a small village vanished overnight. Homes were entered. Occupants were never seen again. The victims were almost always ethnic Russians.
This episode of A True Crime Podcast, hosted by Alexander Lawson, examines the 1997–1999 crime spree led by Ramses Lobazanovich Gaichayev and his gang. Prosecutors tried to charge him with genocide — the first such attempt in modern Russian court history. The court rejected that count. Gaichayev’s reported response: he had done nothing wrong. He had simply killed Russians.
He received a death…
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