12 Facts About Yuri Budanov

Yuri Budanov was born in 1963 in Khartsyzk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

In 1999 Yuri Budanov graduated from the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy, receiving the rank of Guards Colonel.

Yuri Budanov was home for a leave in February 2000, where had talked about the killed officers in the Argun River gorge with his family, showed photographs of the fallen, looked nervous, depressive.

The father of Elza Kungayeva reported that Yuri Budanov had been encamped with his tank regiment outside the village of Tangi-Chu in the Urus-Martanovsky District district of the Chechen Republic since February 2000.

Legal proceedings against Yuri Budanov, who underwent several retrials, lasted a total of 2 years and 3 months.

In February 2006, a Russian prison official announced that Yuri Budanov, who was serving his 10-year sentence, might be released early on good behaviour.

Yuri Budanov was released on 15 January 2009,15 months before completion of his conviction term.

The lawyer for the Kungayeva family, Stanislav Markelov, who had attempted a last-minute appeal against the release of Yuri Budanov, was shot dead in Moscow on 19 January 2009 along with Anastasia Baburova, a 25-year-old journalist for Novaya Gazeta.

Yuri Budanov was assassinated around 11:30 on 10 June 2011 in central Moscow.

Yuri Budanov's wife witnessed the assassination and was held by Russian authorities.

Yuri Budanov's funeral was attended by right-wing leaders such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky and included a three-gun salute.

Yuri Budanov died while serving his sentence in a penal colony in Siberia in August 2018.