Russia has asked Belgium to close the border to Akhmed Zakayev.

   Russian Ambassador to Belgium Vadim Lukov formally asked the Belgian authorities did not allow into the country of Chechen separatist emissary Akhmed Zakayev. On this March 17, RIA Novosti reported.
New and invited to attend the hearing to discuss the situation in Chechnya. The hearings in Belgium is organizing a group of deputies of European Parliament. The note, which Lukov sent to the Belgian Foreign Ministry, said that in Russia, Zakayev was accused of numerous crimes. In particular, we are talking about the charges of armed rebellion, the organization of illegal armed groups and attacks on the lives of law enforcement officers. He also is among the defendants in the case of a terrorist act in the theater center on Dubrovka. New and proclaimed in the international search.
Since 2002, New and lives in London, and since 2003 - to the rights of political refugees. In 2007, he became the head of the self-government of Chechen Republic Ichkeria.
In early 2009, the FSB announced that subordinates Zakayev restore him accountable gangs in Chechnya. This information is categorically denied by representatives of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov himself has called Zakayev to return to Chechnya and work for the profession: the actor or the officials from the Ministry of Culture. New and in response, announced that the return home only after you see "a political formula for coexistence between Russia and Chechnya." In the meantime, he intends to stay in the UK.