| Farid Babayev | |
| Birth Name: | Farid Nametalievich Babayev |
| Birth Date: | 8 August 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Jaba, Akhtynsky District, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR |
| Death Place: | Makhachkala, Russia |
| Nationality: | Russian |
Farid Nametalievich Babayev (Russian: Фарид Наметалиевич Бабаев; 1959 - 2007) was a Russian politician with the liberal anti-Kremlin Yabloko party. He was assassinated in 2007.
Babayev was a candidate of the regional list for the party in the 2 December elections.
Babayev was shot late 21 November 2007 in the entryway of his apartment building in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.[1] [2] Doctors said he was shot four times, including at least once in the head. He died on 24 November of his wounds.[3]
Yabloko party leader, Grigory Yavlinsky called Babayev "one more victim of the authoritarian regime of Putin, where the physical destruction of your political opponents has become the norm."[4]