Kadyrov’s former press secretary Alvi Karimov has died – Kommersant

Alvi Karimov, former press secretary of Ramzan Kadyrov and assistant to Akhmat Kadyrov, has died. He was 73 years old. His death was reported “Grozny-inform”.

“For me, first of all, he was an outstanding son of the Chechen people, who from the first days showed himself to be a devoted and faithful ally of my beloved father, our first president, Hero of Russia Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov,” Ramzan Kadyrov wrote in Telegram. According to him, in recent years Alvi Karimov was seriously ill.

Alvi Karimov was a correspondent for RIA Novosti and Interfax in the North Caucasus. In 2000, he became an assistant to the head of the republic, Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, and remained so until the death of the first president of Chechnya in 2004.

Alvi Karimov held the position of press secretary of Ramzan Kadyrov from 2009 to 2020, after which the head of Chechnya sent him to a “well-deserved pension.” As the press secretary of the head of Chechnya, in 2017 Alvi Krimov statedthat Ramzan Kadyrov is the most important human rights activist.

Grozny-inform writes that during the period of active hostilities in Chechnya at the end of 1999 – beginning of 2000, Alvi Karimov was the only journalist who transmitted information about the events in Grozny. He was seriously wounded on December 27, 2002 during a terrorist attack in front of the Chechen Government House. Awarded the medals “For Services to the Chechen Republic” and “For the Development of Parliamentarism in the Chechen Republic.”

Anastasia Larina