. "For this reason, ethnic leaders of the Lak people were especially outraged by the work being carried out by ???Osanna.??? At the end of the 1990s, Nadir Khachilaev, the leader of the Lak people who is an advocate of an Islamic state, spoke out publically on several occasions, uttering threats toward Suleymanov. A special meeting was eventually arranged between Suleymanov and Khachilaev, and after" . . .