Excerpt from Forbes Russian Editor Paul Klebnikov Conversation with a Barbarian: Interviews with a Chechen Field Commander on Banditry and Islam: "In his official biography Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev aka.
Freed at last from prison in 1991, Noukhayev engaged in politics, approached the Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev, conducted clandestine financial transactions for obschaka independent Ichkeria.
Engaged in what is ridiculous economic projects (under the name Caucasian Common Market), opened a representative office in Kiev, Warsaw, Brussels, London, Washington, Houston and Tokyo.
The idea was tempting: to create the Common Market of independent peoples of the North Caucasus and connect it to the world economy.
Advisory council organization «Caucasian Common Market» led the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Jacques Attali.