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Two Skinheads Sentenced in Hate Killings

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Two members of an ultra nationalist gang in Moscow were convicted on Saturday of a race-hate killing and sentenced to six and eight years in prison, Moscow City Court said.

Two members of an ultra nationalist gang in Moscow were convicted on Saturday of a race-hate killing and sentenced to six and eight years in prison, Moscow City Court said.

Eighteen-year-old Georgy Golovanov and 21-year-old Yevgeny Marenchuk were found guilty of killing an Uzbek national at a Moscow railway station in May 2010 as well as five other race-hate attacks on migrants from a number of former Soviet republics including Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan.

Golovanov was sentenced to a six-year jail term while Marenchuk will spend eight years in prison.

Both culprits will serve their terms in a maximum-security prison.

At least 20 people of "non-Slavic appearance" were murdered in racist killings across Russia last year, according to Sova, a rights group that monitors ethnic hatred in the country.

The Interior Ministry said race-hate crimes have grown six-fold since 1995.

 

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