MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian decider who condemned neo-nationalists for hatred crimes was shot passed Monday in the stairwell of his section construction as he left for work, officials said.
Eduard Chuvashov, 47, was shot in the chest and head at 8:50 a.m. (1:50 a.m. EDT) and died on the mark outward his prosaic nearby the core of Moscow, the Prosecutor General"s inquisitive section pronounced in a statement.
Possible links in between his work and his attempted attempted attempted murder are being examined, the matter said.
Chuvashov last week condemned dual members of the far-right "Ryno Gang" to 10 years in prison. Convicted of murdering twenty people of "non-Slavic" appearance, they triumphantly posted videos of their heartless killings online.
"Everything will be finished so that the organizers and perpetrators of this asocial attempted attempted attempted murder be found and punished," President Dmitry Medvedev said, Interfax headlines organisation reported.
An unnamed law coercion source quoted by Russian headlines agencies pronounced neo-nationalists were expected to be at the back of the murder. That would have it the second high-profile murdering to be carried out by neo-nationalists in Russia in as most years.
Activists advise that augmenting xenophobia and a hurtful military force concede far-right groups to prosper.
At slightest 60 people were killed in Russia last year in hatred crimes, and 306 were injured, according to SOVA, a non-governmental classification that marks extremist assault in the country.
"It could be atonement from far-right groups," Allison Gill from the Moscow bend of Human Rights Watch (HRW) pronounced of Chuvashov"s death.
She combined that judges, lawyers, rights defenders and reporters have "now turn the transparent targets" of neo-nationalists in Russia.
Chuvashov additionally locked up at slightest 9 ultra-nationalists from the Russian nazi organisation well known as the "White Wolves" in February.
Mostly teenagers, the organisation were found guilty of eleven heartless murders. The victims were coloured migrants from Central Asia, Several of them had been bludgeoned to death.
In Jan 2009, human rights counsel Stanislav Markelov and antithesis publisher Anastasia Baburova were killed nearby the Kremlin. A Moscow justice blamed their murders on nationalists.
Markelov had represented the mom of an anti-fascist supporter in 2006 who pronounced her son was killed by neo-Nazis.
The one-year decoration of their deaths in Jan drew 1,000 people, who demanded a crackdown on neo-nationalists, an scarcely large throng for a Moscow demonstration.
(Additional stating by Ludmila Danilova; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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