deaths
March 8, 2005
Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen commander and politician, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1951)
Aslan Maskhadov
Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov was a Soviet and Chechen politician and military commander who was the third president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
President of Ichkeria
The president of Ichkeria, formally the president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was the head of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from 1991 to 2007, the Islamic Republic that existed until the victory of the Russian Federation in the Second Chechen War.
March 8
March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 298 days remain until the end of the year.