The unchecked violence did not deter the Moscow-based businessman, however, and he decided to invest millions of dollars into Chechnya's economy to revive factories destroyed in the war. This should provide jobs for 15,000 people, he said. Masayev and his partners are following the path of Khanpasha Amirov, who reopened a Gudermes brick factory in March. It was the first factory damaged in the war to be reconstructed and it quickly began to turn a profit. I have spent the last two months there.
People suffer from attacks by the military every day.
Something needs to be done. We should not sit here in Moscow doing nothing when our people are in trouble. Masayev heads Diaret, a Moscow-based investment firm involved in the coal and metals industries. His partners also work outside Chechnya in St. Petersburg, the Urals and Siberia. He and other Chechen businessmen participated in a meeting Friday of government officials, bank representatives and members of Arkady Volsky's Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.