One of the heads of the powerful Chechen Yamadayev clan, Ruslan Yamadayev, was gunned down in central Moscow late Sept. 24. His death diminishes the only opposition group left standing against Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Sources told STRATFOR that Yamadayev was on his way to meet with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev — to speak yet again about the dangers of Kadyrov ruling Chechnya — when he was gunned down (almost certainly on Kadyrov's orders). The Russian Prosecutor General's office and Interior Ministry said an unidentified attacker walked up to Yamadayev's Mercedes S500 as it was stopped at a red light near Russia's White House in Moscow and shot into the car 10 times. His passenger, former Chechen military commander Sergei Kizyun, was critically injured.