Note: The mudered person was Timur Katscharawa who was an Russian anti-fascist activist and musicia; guitar player of the Russian Ska/Punk/HC bands "Sandinista" and "Distress".

Student Killed in City Center Attack
By Carl Schreck and Galina Stolyarova

Staff Writer

Two brutal incidents during the last week have left one dead and two hospitalized in what some are seeing as continuations of the racial tensions that have plagued the city over the last two months.

Timur Kacharava, a student at the St. Petersburg State University and frequent participant in anti-fascist meetings, was murdered on Ligovsky Prospekt on Sunday night. A preliminary police investigation revealed that Kacharava and his friend Maxim Zagibai, who is currently in hospital with severe injuries to his head and chest, were attacked by a group of youngsters at about 18.30 outside a bookstore, Interfax reported.

“The prosecutor’s office is considering all possible versions, including a nationalist attack as both students were active pacifists and took part in virtually all the anti-fascist events in St. Petersburg,” read the statement of the city prosecutor’s office quoted by Interfax.


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