[2] He presided over the trials of a number of corrupt government officials and Islamic fundamentalists and rebels in Ingushetia, one of Russia's poorest and most troubled provinces.
[2] Yandiev was born into an Ingush family in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR (now Almaty, Kazakhstan).
(Following the 1940–44 insurgency in Chechnya, the Soviet government forced hundreds of thousands of Chechens and Ingush to move to Central Asia.)
[1] Khasan Yandiev was killed on 13 April 2008, as he changed a tire near the Ingushetian town of Karabulak.
Police believe he was killed by a sniper or assailants armed with an assault rifle using a silencer, since no one in the area heard a gunshot.