Foreign students are one of the most common and favorite targets of racist and xenophobe gangs in Russia.
According to a news report dated 16 December 2008 by Mr. John Wendle of The Moscow Times, a Kazakh student was stabbed to death at a bus stop in southwest Moscow in what authorities say may have been a hate crime.
Yerlan Aitymov, 18, was stabbed in the stomach by an unidentified assailant Sunday evening near the Kaluzhskaya metro station. Aitymov, a first-year student at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, lived in a dormitory near the university. He died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital.
The investigators are “not ruling out” the possibility that Aitymov's murder was racially motivated, RIA-Novosti cited, via The Moscow Times. "Detectives have no direct evidence that skinheads are responsible for the murder …At the same time, police officers note that southwestern and southern Moscow see the most attacks on natives of the Caucasus and Central Asia."
The Kazakh government has contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry and demanded "maximum cooperation" in solving the crime.
3 Killed / Month & 1 Injured / Day
At least 85 people – not all foreign students – have been killed and 367 injured in hate crimes so far in 2008 in Russia, according to the Sova Center, a nongovernmental organization that tracks racist violence in the country.
The week prior, an obscure group calling itself the Militant Organization of Russian Nationalists claimed responsibility for the murder and decapitation of a Tajik worker.
The group emailed a photo of the victim's severed head resting on a wooden chopping block as evidence of their role in the crime, said Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy head the Sova Center.
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According to a news report dated 16 December 2008 by Mr. John Wendle of The Moscow Times, a Kazakh student was stabbed to death at a bus stop in southwest Moscow in what authorities say may have been a hate crime.
Yerlan Aitymov, 18, was stabbed in the stomach by an unidentified assailant Sunday evening near the Kaluzhskaya metro station. Aitymov, a first-year student at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, lived in a dormitory near the university. He died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital.
The investigators are “not ruling out” the possibility that Aitymov's murder was racially motivated, RIA-Novosti cited, via The Moscow Times. "Detectives have no direct evidence that skinheads are responsible for the murder …At the same time, police officers note that southwestern and southern Moscow see the most attacks on natives of the Caucasus and Central Asia."
The Kazakh government has contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry and demanded "maximum cooperation" in solving the crime.
3 Killed / Month & 1 Injured / Day
At least 85 people – not all foreign students – have been killed and 367 injured in hate crimes so far in 2008 in Russia, according to the Sova Center, a nongovernmental organization that tracks racist violence in the country.
The week prior, an obscure group calling itself the Militant Organization of Russian Nationalists claimed responsibility for the murder and decapitation of a Tajik worker.
The group emailed a photo of the victim's severed head resting on a wooden chopping block as evidence of their role in the crime, said Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy head the Sova Center.
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