Skinhead Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years

The Moscow Times:

Skinhead leader Ruslan Melnik was sentenced Tuesday by St. Petersburg’s Pushkinsky District Court to 3 1/2 years in prison for his role in the violent group Mad Crowd.

Mad Crowd members have been charged with beating and killing several dark-skinned foreigners.

The district court also found Melnik, 22, guilty of organizing specific attacks, including beatings of Chinese and Armenian citizens and an attack on a McDonald’s restaurant. The verdict said Melnik vandalized McDonalds because he believed it served “Zionist food, which promotes and enforces the American lifestyle.”

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