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ASLAKHANOV, Aslanbek Akhmedovich
Presidential Advisor
 Aslanbek Aslakhanov (Асламбек Аслаханов) was born March 11, 1942, in the village of Novye Atagi in the Shalinsky Region of what was then the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and is now Chechnya.
Aslakhanov’s family were deported to Kyrgyzstan, where he lived until he finished his schooling. After completing his military service, he attended Kharkov State Pedagogical Institute. In 1967 he joined the police force and in 1988 played an instrumental role in saving hostages on board a plane in Mineralnye Vody, for which he was awarded the order of the red star.
President Yeltsin twice offered Aslakhanov the position of minister of internal affairs., but in the early 1990s he left the ministry, initially supporting Dzhokhar Dudayev. In 1992, he headed the temporary administration of Ingushetia. During the Chechen wars he was a strong critic of violence and offered his services as a negotiator. In August 2003, he took part in informal negotiations with Akhmed Zakayev in Lichtenstein, which resulted in a peace plan.
In 2000, as the Duma deputy for Chechnya, he joined the “Fatherland – All Russia” faction. Since 2002 he has headed a Duma committee on state organization and acted as deputy head of the Duma Commission for Ensuring and Observing Human Rights in the Republic of Chechnya. Since August 2003 he has been an advisor to the president on issues relating to the North Caucasus region. During the Beslan siege he was granted the authority to negotiate by President Putin, but he arrived in North Ossetia after the school had already been stormed. Aslakhanov is the author of more than 100 works, a doctor of law and a professor of the Academy of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Contact information
Administration of the President of the Russian Federation
4 Staraya Ploshchad
Moscow 103132
Office of Aslakhanov
Tel. +7 (095) 206 43 65
Fax +7 (095) 206 29 22
E-mail: maksimova_si@gov.ru
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