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Skinheads sentenced in Volgograd
at a closed court session On April 26, 2005, the Volgograd Regional Court, having considered the jury's verdict , pronounced a verdict on seven skinheads accused of killing three immigrants from Central Asia on the basis of "ethnic hatred."
The longest term - 10 years in prison in a general regime colony - was received by Andrey Bondarev, who was accused of "murder of two or more persons committed by a group by prior conspiracy motivated by national hatred . " First-year student of the Volgograd Pedagogical University Sergey Zaitsev and second-year student of the Volgograd Academy of Physical Education Alexander Shcherbakov received nine years each, the first - general, the second - strict regime (maximum sentences for minors). Alexander Ovcharenko, Vladimir Kuklyaev, Yevgeny Klimov and Mikhail Kamenev were sentenced to terms of imprisonment from four to five and a half years in a penal colony. For them, the prosecution asked for six years. The eighth defendant, a sophomore of the Volgograd Technical University, Sergei Lavrov, according to the jury's verdict, was acquitted by the court " "for not being involved in the commission of crimes .
The state prosecutor clarified that it was no longer necessary to talk about this trial as a "skinhead case", since the jury did not find confirmation of the conclusions of the preliminary investigation that the crimes were committed by an organized extremist group, qualifying the murders of immigrants from Central Asia as committed "on the basis of national hatred .
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