Farid Babayev

Farid Nametalievich Babayev was a Russian politician with the liberal anti-Kremlin Yabloko party. He was assassinated in 2007.

Career

Babayev was a candidate of the regional list for the party in the 2 December elections.

Babayev was shot late 21 November 2007 in the entryway of his apartment building in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. Doctors said he was shot four times, including at least once in the head. He died on 24 November of his wounds.

Yabloko party leader, Grigory Yavlinsky called Babayev "one more victim of the authoritarian regime of Putin, where the physical destruction of your political opponents has become the norm."