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Army General
Alexander Ivanovich Baranov
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Russian Ground Forces Army General Alexander Baranov
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In office
July 2004 ? May 2008
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Army General
Alexander Ivanovich Baranov
(
Russian
:
Александр Иванович Баранов
; born 13 May 1946) is a Russian general, and was the Commander of the
North Caucasus Military District
from July 2004 to May 2008. He is a recipient of the
Hero of Russia
award.
Yandiev case
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In July 2006 the
European Court of Human Rights
found the government of Russia guilty of the failure to protect from ill-treatment and a violation of the "right to life" of an alleged Chechen
rebel
fighter,
Khadzhi-Murat Yandiev
. Key
evidence
in the case, according to court documents, was
video
footage
filmed by a
reporter
for
NTV
and
CNN
television
showing an
army officer
, later identified as Alexander Baranov, ordering soldiers to "finish off" and "shoot" Yandiev after an argument between the two. Yandiev was then separated from the other prisoners and has not been seen since.
Baranov, who has been questioned twice over the matter, has denied he sent Yandiev to his death. He argues that his "intervention" was meant to calm Yandiev down, and that the soldiers were not his direct
subordinates
and therefore could not have taken orders from him.
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Honours and awards
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