Mad Crowd
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Mad Crowd is an extremist group of Nazi Skinheads, led by Ruslan Melnik, Alexey Voevodin and Dmitry Borovikov. It existed in St. Petersburg from August 9, 2002 to July 15, 2003. The ideological platform was National Socialism. Members of the group
| Mad Crowd | |
|---|---|
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Foundation | August 9, 2002 |
| Dissolved | July 15, 2003 |
| Active region(s) | Saint Petersburg |
| Ideology | Neo-Nazism |
subsequently committed racially motivated murders, including the murder of an 8-year-old girl, Khursheda Sultonova.[1]
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The first actions were the beatings of two Chinese students at the Dostoevskaya metro station in St. Petersburg on October 19, 2002 and an attack on an Armenian citizen on December 21 of the same year on the Aleksandrovskaya platform.
On April 6, 2003, they attacked McDonald’s cafe (45 Nevsky Prospekt) and the Three Steps cafe.
Arrests and convictions
On December 14, 2005, 6 members of the group found themselves in the dock and were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment
- Pavel Deshivkov - 3 years
- Alexey Berezin - 2 years probation
- Dmitry Korobeinikov - 2 years
- Yuri Ivanov - 2 years
- Kirill Miloradov - 3 years
- Alexey Voevodin - 3 years (since 2012 for life).
The group also included Dmitry Borovikov and Ruslan Melnik, who at that time managed to escape from justice. At the time of the trial, members of the group created a clandestine terrorist organization known as the “Combat Terrorist Organization.”
In 2011, 12 members of the Mad Crowd group were found guilty by a jury of committing a number of murders, including that of Khursheda Sultonova, banditry, and illegal possession of weapons. Two gang members - Alexey Voevodin and Artyom Prokhorenko - were sentenced to life imprisonment, others received from 3 to 18 years in prison, several people were sentenced to suspended imprisonment
References
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- ↑ "Russia Detains Extremists In Connection With Tajik Girl's Murder". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 2012-02-02. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
