Leading Moscow judge gunned down

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 07:11 GMT, Monday, 12 April 2010 08:11 UK
Leading Moscow judge gunned down

A leading judge from Moscow's city court has been shot dead at his apartment building in the Russian capital, court officials have said.

Eduard Chuvashov was shot by unknown gunmen who fled the scene, police told the Ria Novosti news agency.

He had presided over several cases involving nationalist organisations and had received many death threats.

In February, he sentenced nine members of a neo-Nazi skinhead group called the White Wolves to up to 23 years in jail.



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[earcandle]

1. These are the terrorists. The nazi riff raff.

[Rapier09]

2. White Wolves?

I am just shocked that this country has the influence it has with the kind of idiocy that goes on its borders.

[nodehopper]

3. Russia is a cesspool of feudal mentality

And it runs on institutionalized rampant racism and homophobia.

[MattSh]

4. You always go broad brushing...

140 million people?

Or maybe you have something to back this up??

[Posteritatis]

5. A cesspool of feudal mentality can still be largely populated by fine people

Russia's government and large chunks of the higher levels of its business world and the like can be pretty goddamned vile, and some pretty overt bigotry has been fed in parts of the country recently, but I think that's an indictment of those layers of society. Russia's got major problems in that regard, but I at least know better than to jump from that to assuming any particular Russian is a skinhead, mobster or James Bond supervillain - even if it is depressingly easy to find examples of each.