Murder without Islam

In Nalchik, the rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Agrarian University and the head of the United Russia faction in the local parliament, Boris Zherukov, was shot dead in his own office. According to information reported by Interfax from the words of a representative of the Investigative Department of the Republic, two unknown people fired shots. Zherukov died on the spot, the attackers fled.
Observers recall other stories related to the murders of Ministry of Education officials and university teachers in the North Caucasus. However, there appears to be little in common between them and the current murder. In the murder of the head of the Makhachkala Institute of Theology Maksud Sadikov and the dean of the Faculty of Ossetian Philology of the North Ossetian University, the poet Shamil Dzhigkaev, whose head was cut off, apparently for a satirical poem about the inhabitants of Chechnya and Ingushetia, who were performing the Hajj and urinated on the way near the memorial to the victims of the tragedy in Beslan, The religious component was important. In the story of the murder of Zherukov, it seems that religion did not play a role. However, no details have been provided yet.