<Sergej Nikolaev (27.09.1961 – 20.10.2007)

Sergej Nikolaevich Nikolaev, international master, the author of one of the projects at our site, was killed yesterday by young villains in Moscow near his house.> http://www.e3e5.com/?lang=1

It seems that there were 25 teenagers (14 to 15 years old) who attacked random people and beat them up. Two of them were wounded an one died (IM Sergey Nikolaev).

Nikolaev was a contributer to e3e5.com:
Interview with GM Panchenko
http://www.e3e5.com/article.php?id=...

The murderers seem to have been racists indeed.

And it seems that he has published articles on http://crestbook.com/

Here's more on him:
http://www.mk.ru/blogs/MK/2007/10/2...

<IM Sergey Nikolaev killed in racist attack

A baseball bat and a knife were used to brutally kill 46-year-old Sergey Nikolaev, originally from Siberia, who died at the site of the attack. Police suspect up to nine teenagers attacked Sergey Nikolaev, who had a Eurasian complexion. Those responsible were reportedly wearing black coats which, combined with the weapons, match characteristics of racist gangs across Russia. The young people, aged 14-16, had disappeared by the time the police got there.

The violence broke out after a soccer match. The group of youths marched around the southern part of the city, attacking anybody they saw who did not look like an ethnic Russian. Despite numerous witnesses, nobody came to his aid and nobody alerted police for 30 minutes. Konstantin Chernobaev, an eye-witness, says, "I think they were skinheads. After the attack, they divided into two groups. The first ran away, the other went to a block where there are lots of skinheads. In this block there are lots of symbols used by nationalists."

Another victim of the attack – Nikolaev's Tajik friend Galijan Gulyashov – was also badly beaten, but survived. Now in hospital, he's said to be in a serious yet stable condition. A criminal case has been launched into this event, and police are also completing a finger-tip search of the area.

If the attack does prove to be racially motivated, it will add to Moscow's rising number of hate crimes. In June this year, clashes erupted between members of nationalist movements and people of ethnic Asian and Caucasian origin.

At least that's how it seems to me. Maybe I'm badly informed.

The jailing of the 'Yukos' magnate Khodorkovsky and the stripping of his assets (Kasparov called it "the greatest robbery of the 21st century") was supported in large part by the public because the tycoon was a Jew. Even though he made his money in a fashion that, at the time, was not only legal but encouraged (when they privatized Russian businesses to stimulate the economy)...But of course they saw it as a Jew taking all the money. Putin took full advantage of that racist sentiment.

This is one of the fruits of Putin's "Russia for the Russians" demagoguery.

Source: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-f...

Date: 2008.09.22, Moscow
Prison Sentence: 3 to 10 years

Excerpts:

<According to prosecutors, the gang carried out a series of attacks on dark-skinned people of Asian appearance, including the murder of international chess player Sergey Nikolaev.

Nikolaev was attacked last October because of his Asian appearance. It was alleged they battered him to death with a baseball bat.

All the 13 people were found guilty on various charges, including murder and numerous assaults. The racial motive was proved in most of the cases. They used to record their attacks to post the videos on the web.>

<Most of the accused are under 18 or at least had been underage at the moment of the arrest, that is why media was not allowed to attend the trial.>

Ten Russian youths, reportedly skinheads have been sentenced to between three and ten years for the murder of IM Sergei Nikolayev during a drunken rampage in Moscow that followed a football match. Nikolayev, from Siberia had Eurasian features and the Moscow police confirmed it was a racist attack