Nizhny Novgorod skinheads convicted of killing migrant workers

In Nizhny Novgorod, three local residents were convicted of attacking immigrants from the CIS countries with a knife. Last year they brutally dealt with two migrant workers, and the third victim was almost a random passer-by. At the trial, fighters “for the purity of the Russian race” tried to present the attacks as ordinary everyday fights, denying the first murder. But the court found that all the crimes were committed based on national hatred and sentenced the three defendants to a total of 68 years in a maximum security colony.

Yesterday it became known that the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court sentenced three people accused of murders motivated by hatred towards persons of non-Slavic nationality. According to the investigation, three young people - Kirill Blinov, Vladislav Sivachenko and Ilya Sobolev - shared the ideology of skinheads, preaching the “purity of the Russian race.” As the court found, the first attack was committed by Kirill Blinov and his friend Sivachenko (both football fans) on the evening of February 27 last year. Together with a third accomplice, whom the investigation was unable to identify, they killed the Uzbek Boyigitov. In the evening he replaced his partner at a shawarma stall at the Kanavinskaya bus station. Having entered the stall, three criminals began to fiercely beat the seller with their hands, feet and a teapot that came to hand. Then they stabbed him three times in turn and ran away - the entire attack at the bus station took several minutes and happened in front of numerous witnesses. The bleeding merchant was taken to hospital, but died a few hours later.

A few months after this attack, in May 2010, Kirill Blinov was sentenced to three years probation for also attacking and beating a random passerby in the Nizhny Novgorod region. However, as it turned out, the suspended sentence did not stop him.

The next two attacks, according to the court, took place on the same day in August. Near a construction site in the Meshcherskoye Lake microdistrict, three accomplices waylaid an Azerbaijani working there and beat him; the man died on the street after being stabbed 19 times. While running away from the construction site, Blinov, Sivachenko and Sobolev noticed a man and woman hiding from the rain under a pedestrian bridge. Mistaking the man for a non-Russian, they attacked him and began to beat him severely. In the fight, he managed to knock the knife out of Blinov’s hands and this probably saved his life. The woman, who tried to pull the attackers away, was knocked down and kicked, breaking her sternum and threatening to kill her if she did not stop screaming and calling for help. The investigation classified this attack as attempted murder.

At the trial, the accused themselves completely denied their participation in the murder at the bus station, and tried to present the other two attacks as ordinary domestic quarrels that escalated into a fight, and said that they did not want to kill anyone. However, according to state prosecutor Oleg Gromov, the defendants were unable to explain the origin of the many knife wounds on the body of the Azerbaijani killed near the construction site. In the last word, Kirill Blinov, who had a shaved head (it was he who, according to the investigation, wielded the knife), seemed to sincerely not understand why he, the “Russian man,” was going to be imprisoned. As a result, the court sentenced him to 25 years in prison in a maximum security colony for two murders and an attempted murder, motivated by hatred of people of non-Slavic nationality. His accomplice Vladislav Sivachenko was sentenced to 23 years, Ilya Sobolev received 21 years in prison. In addition, the court decided to recover a total of 150 thousand rubles from the defendants. as compensation to the relatives of those killed. The convicts themselves will likely appeal the verdict.

Ivan Sergeev

68 years in prison for three