 She also worked closely with the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.According to Memorial investigators, Umazheva was killed by a group of Russian special forces soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms and armed with VSS Vintorez silenced sniper rifles, who arrived at the village in an armoured vehicle and a military truck on the night of 29–30 November 2002.The soldiers broke into her home, where she lived with her son and two adopted daughters, and took her outside.