Valentina Fotieva
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K014 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 14 · Incident group: Aslangeriev household
Age recorded: 67 · Reported death / discovery: Night of 10–11 January 2000 · Location: Aslangeriev family house, Grozny · Evidence classification: Body found shot by neighbouring family members
Documented circumstances
Valentina Fotieva was an elderly neighbour staying at the Aslangeriev family home. On 11 January the daughters of the family found her dead beneath the table where she slept, with a bullet wound to the neck. Abdulvagap Aslangeriev had also been shot, and the adjoining cellar was in flames. Neighbours buried the two recovered bodies in the garden.
Verification and unresolved questions
Valentina was a neighbour, not established as a member of the Aslangeriev family. The exact shooting time and the identity of the perpetrator were not witnessed directly.
The account reflects Human Rights Watch’s contemporary interviews and the numbered list issued in February 2000. Unless independently judicially established, the identification of an individual soldier as perpetrator is not asserted here. Source variants are preserved. Pseudonyms used to protect living witnesses have not been reverse-identified. No unverified photographs are reproduced.
Related recorded victims
Abdulvagap Aslangeriev · Hijan Gadaborcheva · Ismail Gadaborcheva
Sources
Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, Open letter dated 10 February 2000 (38 numbered names), record 14.
