16th of April 6:20 PM a 19 year anti-fascist Aleksandr "Shtopor" Ryukhin was murdered near club "Planeta Lda", where German punk hardcore band "Tackleberry" was about to play later in the evening. Aleksandr was approaching club with his friend, when jumped by 6-8 Nazis. There was no any fight, Aleksandr was immediately stabbed to heart and died before paramedics arrived 30 minutes later. His friend was also wounded to head, but not seriously.

Fascists wore special gloves and were clearly prepared to kill. But unlike with murder of Timur Kacharava in November of 2005, fascists were not targeting any particular person - despite his anti-fascist sympathies and the fact that police discovered anti-fascist stickers in his pockets, it is likely that he was targeted first of all just as a random guest of a punk hardcore concert as he is not a political activist. Such a tactic of indiscriminate terror is also applied against immigrant groups and foreign students. Currently there are no arrested suspects - the same evening police arrested people unrelated to murder, and they were released in Tuesday.

19th of April Aleksandr was buried in his hometown which is a Moscow suburb. He was a student of 3rd year in Moscow institute of electronics and mathematics. He used to have a live journal page in sht0por.livejournal.com/

Just 3 days before murder, there was a major fascist pogrom in city of Volzhk of Volgograd region, known for its active anti-fascist movement. 20-30 people attacked local Roma community, murdering two and wounding at least two others.

7th of April another fascist murder in St. Petersburg made headlines, when student and member of "African unity", Senegalese Lanzar Samba, born 1978 was shot dead with a shotgun 6 AM where returning to home with friends from nightclub "Apollo". Murderers left a shotgun with Swastika written on it to place.

Editorial collective of www.avtonom.org

from www.avtonom.org/index.php - check for picture of Aleksandr