1. Vladimir Vasilievich Kvachkov is a Russian former Spetsnaz colonel and military intelligence officer, known for being arrested and charged for the attempted assassination of politician Anatoly Chubais in 2005, for which he was jailed for three years until he was acquitted on 5 June 2008.
Vladimir Vasilievich Kvachkov was born on 5 August 1948, Kraskino, Primorsky Krai, Russian SFSR, the son of a military officer, and spent his childhood as a military brat in the town of Ussuriysk, where his father was transferred.
Vladimir Kvachkov started his military service as a commander of a Spetsnaz platoon stationed in Pskov, and later served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and Transbaikal Military District.
In 1978, Vladimir Kvachkov enrolled at the Frunze Military Academy and honourably graduated it in 1981.
Vladimir Kvachkov had studied within the same group as Pavel Popovskikh, a military officer later charged and acquitted by court with the contract killing of journalist Dmitry Kholodov.
In 1981, shortly after his graduation from the military academy, Vladimir Kvachkov began serving in Leningrad Military District.
From 1984 to 1986, Vladimir Kvachkov served in Pskov, and from 1986 to 1989 he was the Chief of the Staff of a brigade in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
In 1989, Vladimir Kvachkov became the commander of the 15th GRU Spetsnaz brigade located in the Turkestan Military District, and took part in military conflicts in Azerbaijan during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1990, and in the Tajikistani Civil War in 1992.
Vladimir Kvachkov later served as a military consultant for the movie Black Shark, devoted to Black Shark helicopter pilots and Spetznaz GRU, where he played a role as a Spetznaz colonel in the film.
In 1998, Vladimir Kvachkov retired from the active military service with the rank of colonel.
Vladimir Kvachkov started to work as a senior research fellow with the Center for Military and Strategic Research of Russian Defense Ministry, working on the theory and practice of modern guerrilla warfare.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta asserts that during the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladimir Kvachkov presented Slobodan Milosevic with his plan of an "alternative war".
Rossiyskaya Gazeta asserted that Vladimir Kvachkov was the author of the plan to mine the corridor which Chechen fighters led by Shamil Basayev used to break from the siege of Grozny during the Second Chechen War.
On 19 March 2005, Vladimir Kvachkov, who was a specialist in explosives, was arrested as a suspect in the Chubais assassination attempt.
Vladimir Kvachkov denied his involvement and refused to help the investigation.
Vladimir Kvachkov said that he was abducted by police soon after assassination attempt and tortured.
Vladimir Kvachkov provided audio recordings of some of his conversations with militia officers pressuring him, but the judge refused to make an examination of this tape and to file it to the case.
The next day, Vladimir Kvachkov's apartment was raided by FSB and he was arrested again on charges of raising an insurrection using crossbows.
Vladimir Kvachkov stated that the defense planned to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
The verdict says that it was established that in 2009 Vladimir Kvachkov offered his supporters in various cities to take part in an armed rebellion, which was supposed to begin on June 24,2010.
Vladimir Kvachkov's trusted man, Manrik, picked people up and they underwent military training at the training ground in Myakinino.
Vladimir Kvachkov was adamant to entreats of his supporters to run for the Duma mandate, which would set him free.
Vladimir Kvachkov continuously insisted that there was no wrongdoing in his actions, even if it was he who stood behind the assassination master plan, so he should not look for a way to avoid jail time.
Vladimir Kvachkov, received every third vote in the district, despite that he was only known to the public because of his alleged involvement in Chubais' murder attempt.
On 12 March 2006, Vladimir Kvachkov stood for the State Duma again, now in the Medvedkovo district of Moscow.
Andrey Savelyev from the Rodina faction announced that "Rodina members canvass Kvachkov's candidature in earnest," However, Rodina's leader Vladimir Rogozin refuted the statement nearly at once.
Vladimir Kvachkov said he had never considered the chances of taking part in elections until 8 September 2005.
Vladimir Kvachkov was not registered as a candidate by the regional Electoral Commission.
Vladimir Kvachkov has strongly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but criticized Russian military for insufficient successes and called for the general mobilization of Russian population.
Vladimir Kvachkov's plan was based on the legal loophole: a convicted felon cannot vote or stand for a parliament, but if his case is lodged with the Court of Appeal he still has all the electoral rights.