Ilya Milstein First, his name was Vadim Sokolov, a Russian traveler who received a Schengen visa in the French consulate in St. Petersburg and reached Berlin in a circular way, where Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, an ethnic Chechen, a Georgian citizen, and a resident of the German capital, shot on August 23. Then it opened that the killer was very similar to the former police major Vladimir Stepanov, sentenced by a 24-year term for murder and other crimes.