"A citizen of Russia, Alexander Vladimirovich Kutuzov, born in 1988, who escaped from a psychiatric clinical hospital on November 4 this year, is wanted," the ministry said in a statement.

Among the special features of the criminal are a scar on his neck, a tattoo on the fingers of his left hand with the inscription "WOLF", and acne on his face.

Earlier, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Astrakhan region announced a reward of 100 thousand rubles for assistance in the search and capture of Basayev's gang member Magomed Alkhanov, who escaped from a mental hospital in Astrakhan.

Later he was detained in a cafe in the Trusovsky district of the regional center.