Akhmar Zavgaev

Akhmar Gapurovich Zavgayev (Russian: Ахмар Гапурович Завгаев; born 20 December 1947), is a Russian politician who served as a member of the State Duma of the fourth and fifth convocations.

He is a member of the United Russia faction. He was a member of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes (formerly a member of the Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, a member of the Commission on the Problems of the North Caucasus, a member of the Committee on Local Self-Government).

Zavgayev had also served as a Member of the Federation Council of Chechnya on executive authority.

He is the brother of Doku Zavgayev, a Chechen party functionary during the Soviet period.

Biography Akhmar Zavgayev was born on 20 December 1947 at the Nurinskaya station in the Tokarevka settlement of the of the Karaganda Region of the Kazakh SSR.

Zavgaev also condemned the killings of Russian residents in Ingushetia in 2007, calling them an attempt "to destabilize the situation in the republic, to scare the Russian-speaking population."