Today (March 16) around 6.30 or 6.40 pm in the Moscow city centre at the exit of Kitai-Gorod metro station a group of about 15 neonazis armed with knives have attacked 5 people who were going to a hardcore / punk gig headlined by Karelian oi band NICHEGO KHOROSHEGO at Art Garbage club. As a result of attack a punk aged 21, Alexei Krylov from the Moscow Region town of Noginsk, has died due to multiple stab wounds some 15 minutes later, before the ambulance arrived. A girl attacked in the same incident survived by a chance - the knife got stuck in her backpack less than an inch from her body. There were several nazi mobs in the area each numbering 10-15 people attacking antifascists. The gig was cancelled a few bands in after some pepper spray was used and windows broken by persons unknown. The attack appears to have been planned in advance with involvement of some FC Spartak hooligans.
Alexei’s survived by his mother and two younger sisters. The family is poor and they need material help for the funeral. (Russian residents can send money via http://money.yandex.ru, account number 4100164493592).
Nearly two years ago in Moscow 19 years old Alexander Ryukhin has been murdered by a nazi gang on his way to a hardcore gig.
http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20208/index.php
http://avtonom.org/index.php?nid=1648
http://maximitch.livejournal.com/289528.html
http://tank-wwf.livejournal.com/13407.html (directions on using WebMoney account)
P.S. On March 19 between 200 and 300 antifascist activists have taken part in a march in Alexei’s memory between Kropotkinskaya and Smolenskaya metro stations in downtown Moscow. They carried banners, chanted slogans and burned torches. It went largely peacefully despite being illegal and despite fascists making plans to attack the marchers.
Tags: 2000s, hardcore, moscow, news, nichego khoroshego, obituary, petrozavodsk, punk, russia
March 17, 2008 at 11:51 pm
This is fucking horrible - what kind of solidarity action can be taken from people across the globe? I don’t think I can stomach reading this and sitting on my arse.
March 17, 2008 at 11:55 pm
This is horrible - what kind of solidarity action can be taken from people across the globe? I don’t think I can stomach reading this and remain sitting in my room.
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March 18, 2008 at 12:25 am
The suggestions would be organising against fascists where you live 1st & foremost, solidarity actions nr. Russian embassies / consulates to put the heat on the nazis by making our enemies the cops do something to [not just pretend to] tackle the problem, and sometimes material support to antifascists in gaol / in the dock / in hospital may be needed. If you monitor the likes of infoshop.org or read “Abolishing the Borders fron Below” mag then there’d be plenty of information regarding the situation in Russia. Oh, and the Russian bit on yr website was heaps amusing as it was.
March 19, 2008 at 10:45 am
we need solidarity with our russian friends in this moment of sadness.
ALEXEI KRYIOV R.I.P.
March 25, 2008 at 1:57 pm
nazi punks can fuck off.
these things just fuels my bonehead hate.
this is like the fourth nazi related murder like this i have heard about this year.
ANTIFA all the fucking way.
May 2, 2008 at 9:25 am
It seems things haven’t got a lot better in Russia since they reported about Russian nazi skins a few years ago. Is it true they even killed a Tajik kid? I wonder what it’s like for punks, blacks, etc to live in a Russian city… My band wanted to play a few gigs in Russia, but to me it seems it’s just too dangerous to go there.
May 2, 2008 at 9:44 am
Well, a lot of things have gotten so routine that they don’t deserve being reported about in the Russian, nevermind Western media. There was a pretty high-profile case of a nazi gang killing a 6 or 9 years old Tajik girl, yeah, it more or less fell to pieces at the court. It’s not terribly dangerous to play here by most part, unless the band’s explicitly associated with antifascist (skinhead) scene. Which is the case with NICHEGO KHOROSHEGO.