Timur Mutsurayev

Timur Khamzatovich Mutsurayev (; ; born 25 July 1976), also spelled Mucuraev or Mutsuraev, is a Chechen singer-songwriter or bard who sang in Russian and, rarely, in Chechen. A majority of his songs are about the conflict in Chechnya.

Biography Mutsurayev was born in Grozny on 25 July 1976. In 1991, he became the champion of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR in karate. Mutsurayev's most famous song, titled "Jerusalem", gained airplay during the 1999–2000 Battle of Grozny. He participated in the Chechen Wars under the command of Ruslan Gelayev. He also has many songs on Islamic themes. More than 30 of his songs were banned by the Russian government as they were labeled "extremist". From May to June 2008, Mutsurayev made two audio recordings in the Chechen language, in which he addressed the “people of Khamzat” (meaning Ruslan “Khamzat” Gelayev) He no longer writes or performs music. It was initially unknown how many songs were considered in court, but according to the Sova Analytical Center, the prosecutor's office tried to ban about 100 songs. Most of Mutsurayev's songs are still available for listening, but the songs included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials are banned. For example, on 25 January 2013 the magistrate of precinct No. 37 of the Maloyaroslavets district of the Kaluga region brought to administrative responsibility and fined a resident of the district who posted the song "Chechens" on his VKontakte page.

Other songs of Mutsurayev do not cause complaints from the Russian authorities, and other artists even perform them in public. On 28 December 2020, on the basis of the decision of the Sovetsky District Court of Bryansk on 7 September 2020, the compositions "Gelaevsky Special Forces" and "Shamil Leads a Detachment" were added to the list of extremist materials on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Discography

Welcome to Hell (1995)

"Welcome to Hell" "Bloody horizon" "Years fly by" "Peacekeepers" "Chechen, I" "Grozny, you held the Enemy" "My Father's Land" "Night longing" "My city" "Pervomaiskoe" "Chechen special forces" "Chechnya - the groan of the Departed Sons" "What the Mountains Say"

Gelaevsky Special Forces (1996)

"Allahu Akbar" "Gelaevsky Special Forces" "The fire is burning" "The city lives" "Cherish your friends" "Your name is Grozny" "The king and the shepherd" "Blood for love, or witch mother" "I'm in pain, I'm tired" "Oppositionist" "Dedicated to Aslan Yakhyaev" "Dedicated to Magomed Khachukaev" "Serzhen-Yurt" "Fate does not spoil" "Price of freedom" "Pervomaiskoe"

Chechnya on Fire (1996)

"Chechnya on Fire" "Samashki" "Chechens" "We'll be back, Grozny" "Shamil leads a detachment"

Paradise in the Shadow of Sabers (1997)

"For the Motherland, for faith, for freedom" "Daimokhk" "Baysangur" (dedicated to Baysangur of Benoa) "Paradise under the shadow of sabers" "War" "Dzhokhar" (dedicated to Dzhokhar Dudayev) "Holy warriors of Chechnya" "Get up, Chechnya!" "Avar village" "City of death" "Gazotekh khelkhina kenti" "Tears of sadness"