The Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced Magomed Tagayev, a Wahhabi ideologue, to ten years in a high security institution on Monday, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom. The Dagestani resident was charged under seven articles of the criminal code with fanning ethnic, racial and religious enmity, setting up an illegal armed formation, illegal possession of arms, armed robbery, theft of firearms, armed mutiny and forging documents. The court dropped two of the charges - establishing an armed formation and armed mutiny. Tagayev, 56, has been on an international wanted list for several years. In 1996, he published several pamphlets in which investigators found clear calls for waging hostilities against infidels, training religious fighters, seizing power and changing the political system. Also during 1996, he moved to Chechnya, where he acted as an ideologue for an armed invasion against Dagestan, but did not take direct part in it. In autumn 1999, immediately after militants were routed in Dagestan, Tagayev was declared wanted by Interpol. At the beginning of 2000, he moved to Turkey where he was arrested. However, the local authorities refused to extradite him to Russia and an Istanbul court ruled to release him. Later, Tagayev moved to Azerbaijan. On April 8, 2004, Russian security officers detained him crossing the Azerbaijan-Russian border. (Interfax)