Ella Gedeyeva was killed in Moscow by russian skinheads
27-years-old Kalmykia-born Ella Gedeyeva was killed severely in Moscow on March 23. Two young people attacked her near Rechnoy Voksal metro station in the yard of the house #53-5 on Festivalnaya Street.
They beat her using a knife striking her a half of dozen times and stabbed her throat, eyewitness said.
The woman was assaulted by two young people when she was leaving the store, eyewitness added. She died before first aid came.
Medical examination confirm that the death was resulted by the knife's strikes.
A 25-years-old Buratia-born woman was killed in S.Peterburg on March 25, when skinheads attacked her on the railway station and stabbed her in the back 16 times. Investigation see the nationality ground as the key version of her murder.
Representatives of human rights organizations in Russia warned on March 27 against the escalation of violence and crimes related to racism and xenophobia in the country.
The number of race-related crimes at present has exceeded predictions and statistics from previous years.
Generally, the most common victims are foreign students and citizens (mainly workers) from the Caucasus and the former Soviet republics in Central Asia.
So far this year, skinheads have killed 37 people and wounded more than 100, according to Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy director of the analytical center Sova.
Ultranationalists killed 72 people last year and more than 30 in just three months in 2008, so that kind of action is getting crueler, the Russian expert added.
According to Sova, race-related attacks took place in 13 Russian regions, and Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other big cities continue to be the leading regions in xenophobic attacks.
The director of the Human Rights Bureau in Moscow, Alexander Brod, pointed out that the spread of neofascist ideas shows in some way the mood and health of Russian society.
Surveys show that xenophobia and other racist expressions affect 50 percent of Russians, Brod added.
He noted that it is a paradox that within the framework of the domestic situation, ideologists of racism from the United States and Europe will meet here for the third year in a row, and authorities have not taken a stance in that regard.
According to the president of the nongovernmental Helsinki Group, Liudmila Alexeeva, slogans like "Russia for the Russians" and the escalation of xenophobic actions will become a great danger for the State in a short term.
Recently, a group of skinheads stabbed a member of the antifacist organization ANTIFA to death in front of nightclub in Moscow.
According to social organizations, neofacists have formed an army of 50,000-70,000 members.
