MOSCOW. Jan 23 (Interfax) - Terrorist Doku Umarov should be counted as alive as long as there is no evidence confirming his death, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with CNN.
"I believe that before we have the proof of the death of this or that terrorist (I will not speak names), special services should count him as alive. If there are such proofs, then of course this terrorist should be signed out from the list of the living," Medvedev said, when answering a question concerning reports about Umarov.
The leader of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said recently that Umarov was dead. However, security services have so far been unable to confirm this claim.