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Vienna is the seat of peace-building institutions such as the OSCE (Photo: nonanet)

Russian hardman ordered hit in heart of EU, probe alleges

Austrian investigators have said that Russian regional chief Ramzan Kadyrov in 2009 ordered a political murder in Vienna, in the heart of the EU and the seat of international institutions such as the UN and the OSCE.

The Vienna Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism has said that "Kadyrov, Ramzan" was one of the "instigators" of the shooting of Chechen asylum seeker Umar Israilov, according to

Vienna is the seat of peace-building institutions such as the OSCE (Photo: nonanet)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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