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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http://www.sptimes.ru/story/16097
Via the BostonAnarchists Listserv:
Timur was an active member of St. Petersburg’s hardcore punk and anarchist community, and our dear friend. On the evening of November 13, Timur became the victim of a nazi attack. After a Food Not Bombs action on Vladimirskaya square Timur and a few other kids went to a Bukvoyed bookshop on Ligovsky prospect. Around 7 p.m. he and his friend Max “Zgibov†Zgibai were smoking outside when they were attacked by a group of 8 to 10 nazis. Timur suffered multiple stab wounds in the neck. Zgibov is in the hospital in a stable condition with five stab wounds.
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That's terrible. I can't believe something like that would happen. Thank you for bringing this tragedy to my attention.