Complex sentence: After the war, Gelayev became deputy a prime minister under the new Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov in April 1997; he went on a Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and took on the name Hamzat.
Split into simpler sentences: After the war, Gelayev became a deputy prime minister under the new Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov in April 1997. He went on a Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and took the name Hamzat.