Supporters of Chechnya`s Soviet ruler celebrate Kadyrov`s death - rebel agency
11 May: Members of the clan of Doku Zavgayev, the former first secretary of the regional committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic who is Russia's ambassador to
Tanzania now, are holding spontaneous gatherings in Chechnya's Nadterechnyy District, a Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency
source has reported. In these gatherings the clan members congratulate one another on Kadyrov's death. Some of
Zavgayev's relatives have even organized lovzars - parties to mark a pleasant and expected event - in their
families.
The Zavgayev clan is related to the so-called sectarian group of Nakshbandiya [Naqshbandi Sufi Way], which ruled
Chechen-Ingushetia in Soviet times and was supervised by the KGB. Bislan Gantamirov, who was the mayor of Groznyy under
President [Dzhokhar] Dudayev and staged a mutiny in 1993, belongs to the same group.
Kadyrov and his supporters are members of the more numerous Kadiriya clan [Qadiriya Sufi Way]. We have to say that
ordinary members of the clan were subjected to persecution and repression in the Soviet period, whereas their leaders
had positions in the KGB and were ruled and controlled by the Soviet state security agencies. The leaders of the two
sects have been enemies for the right to represent Moscow's interest in Chechnya. At one time, the KGB counted on
Nakshbandiya and cultivated the authority of the Arsanov clan who were honoured as saints by their supporters. The clan
members did not conceal that their leader Deni Arsanov was a colonel of Stalin's NKVD [forerunner to the KGB].
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