russian youths charged with 20 murders

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Russia: Skinhead gang accused of killing 20 in Moscow

Russian prosecutors yesterday charged a skinhead gang led by two teenagers with the racist murders of 20 people during a series of brutal attacks in Moscow.

Prosecutors said they had charged nine people aged between 17 and 22 with the murders. They identified the ringleaders as Artur Ryno - an art student - and Pavel Skachevsky. One of the gang members was a 22-year-old woman, who allegedly videotaped an attack on one of the victims - a student from Azerbaijan who was severely beaten but survived.

The gang targeted victims from post-Soviet republics who were working and studying in Moscow. Ryno was arrested after allegedly stabbing to death an Armenian businessman in April 2007. He told police he had killed more than 30 people, adding "the city needed to be cleaned" of foreigners who "oppressed Russians".

The case follows repeated accusations from human rights groups that authorities in Russia fail to investigate racist killings, often labelling xenophobic attacks as hooliganism. According to Sova, a rights group, there were at least 232 victims of hate crime in the first five months of 2008, including 57 murders. "It's clear that there is a kind of heroisation on the neo-Nazi scene for those who carry them out," said a spokesman, Alexander Verkhovsky. Some 600 racist attacks took place last year - but resulted in only 20 convictions, Verkhovsky said.

Russian sociologists have struggled to explain the phenomenon of rising neo-Nazism and xenophobia in a country that lost millions of its citizens fighting against Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Last month neo-Nazis daubed swastikas on a memorial in Moscow to members of the Jewish anti-fascist committee and hacked into the Holocaust Centre's website, decorating it with Nazi symbols. Jewish cemeteries are regularly desecrated.

Last year a video surfaced showing the killing by neo-Nazis of two men from the Caucuses, who were decapitated. Russian officials at first claimed the video was fake. They began an investigation only after Artur Umadanov from Dagestan recognised his missing brother Shamil, who went to Moscow to work and disappeared in the summer of 2007.


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[Warka]

This is unfortunate news. These young people were obviously only doing work their fellow countrymen won't do. Hopefully they'll be shown some leniency.

Russian sociologists have struggled to explain the phenomenon of rising neo-Nazism and xenophobia in a country that lost millions of its citizens fighting against Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Last month neo-Nazis daubed swastikas on a memorial in Moscow to members of the Jewish anti-fascist committee and hacked into the Holocaust Centre's website, decorating it with Nazi symbols. Jewish cemeteries are regularly desecrated.

People the world over realize the Reich's targeting of the Jews was correct. That people still today pretend to be befuddled by this fact is ridiculous.

Last year a video surfaced showing the killing by neo-Nazis of two men from the Caucuses, who were decapitated. Russian officials at first claimed the video was fake. They began an investigation only after Artur Umadanov from Dagestan recognised his missing brother Shamil, who went to Moscow to work and disappeared in the summer of 2007.

Shlemiel, er, Shamil would still be alive had he stayed where he belonged.

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Russian sociologists, still have yet to understand real organic tribalism and that cramming races together causes racial violence. And they have still yet to discover their ass from a hole in the ground.

That Russian was not the smartest, they caught him for one murder which he may or may not have been convicted off. And even then who knows what the sentence could have been..........so he decides to confess to 30 murders.

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The case follows repeated accusations from human rights groups that authorities in Russia fail to investigate racist killings, often labelling xenophobic attacks as hooliganism.

Does this group also complain about minority on white attacks almost always being labeled in the same kind of way in other white nations? Or, like I suspect, is it only an outrage to them when minorities are the victims and whites the perpetrators? Why not just investigate an attack as an attack? Why should racial attacks recieve special attention?

Russian sociologists, still have yet to understand real organic tribalism and that cramming races together causes racial violence.

The most uncompromising ones are not clueless about this. They just believe reality is of less importance than how they WISH things could be.

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Maybe but if the Russian system is like ours most people by the time they get though years of the public system and then university, they lack the ability to use critical thinking skills they have been conditioned what to think not how to think. It's always some other guys theory god forbid they think enough to create their own.

But maybe the educational system in Russia is different. And these guys are just about the paycheck.



The most uncompromising ones are not clueless about this. They just believe reality is of less importance than how they WISH things could be.