RUSSIAN TEEN CLAIMS TO BE SERIAL KILLER

United Press International
May 29 2007

MOSCOW, May 28 (UPI) — An 18-year-old Moscow skinhead claims he was
racially motivated when he killed 37 people to "clean up the city."

But authorities, who pegged the number killed at 32, told Regnum.ru
the presumed motive was robbery, The Moscow Times reported Monday on
its Web site.

The Moscow newspaper Vremya Novostei reported the suspect, Artur
Ryno, is a student at an icon painting school, who allegedly told
investigators he started his killing spree Aug. 21, 2006 — the day
13 people were killed by a bomb in Moscow’s Cherkizovsky market. Ryno
said he and a group of skinheads started a fight that day with a group
of people from central Asia and that he stabbed one immigrant to death.

Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for the Moscow prosecutor’s office,
said only that details would be available "sometime next week."

Ryno and fellow student Pavel Skachayevsky, 18, were arrested last
month in the stabbing death of an Armenian businessman.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress