Mustafa Batdyyev

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Mustafa Azret-Aliyevich Batdyyev (Russian: Мустафа Азрет-Алиевич Батдыев) (born December 24, 1950, Kazakh SSR) is a current and the second president of Karachay-Cherkessia since 2003.

[edit] Biography

Mustafa Batdyyev is Karachay. Joseph Stalin ordered to deport almost all Caucasian peoples to Kazakh SSR and Uzbek SSR in 1944. His family repatriated in 1956. Mustafa Batdyyev finished a boarding school in Cherkessk and served in the Soviet Army from 1970 to 1972. In 1978 he was graduated M.A. from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University and in 1981 he got his doctorate.

[edit] Governmental career

After his studies, Mustafa Batdyyev returned to Karachay-Cherkessia where from 1981 to 1986 he worked as an economist in kolkhoz "Rodina". From 1986 to 1992 he successfully headed the Economics Department of the Oblast Communist Commettee. 1992 to 1997 Mustafa Batdyyev worked in the Government of Karachay-Cherkessia dealing with economic affairs.

In 1997 Mustafa Batdyyev was appointed as a chairman of the National Bank of Karachay-Cherkessia which was recognized as the best in Russian Federation.

On August 31, 2003 Mustafa Batdyyev defeated the first president Karachay-Cherkessia, Vladimir Magomedovich Semenov, in the presidential elections.