MOSCOW COURT SENTENCES NEO-NAZIS

Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
October 3, 2008
DC

A Moscow court sentenced three neo-Nazis to prison, according to
an October 3, 2008 report by the Regnum news agency. The Golovinsky
District Court found one adult, Aleksey Bersenev, and two teenagers
guilty of aggravated assault motivated by ethnic hatred in connection
with a December 30, 2007 attack during which the defendants pummeled
a 19-year-old Tajik student with baseball bats. The court found that
the neo-Nazis went out that night specifically looking for non-Russians
to attack. Two of the defendants were also found guilty of assaulting
an Armenian man later that day. The court sentenced Mr. Bersenev to
five and a half years in prison; the under-aged defendants got one
and a half and two years in prison, respectively.