DUSHANBE, October 14, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- Over the past several days, the number of cases of skinheads'' attacks on people “of non-Slavonic appearance” has increased in Russia. 

The St. Petersburg law enforcement authorities are currently investigating in killing of two labor migrants.  According to Internet-SMI, bodies of Tajik national Firdavs Boboyev and Moldavian national Yevgeny Yakubenkon with numerous stab wounds were found in St. Petersburg on October 10.  Both of them worked with the St. Petersburg company, Roskonstrutsiay.  Criminal proceedings have been instituted under provisions of Article 105, part 2 of Russia’s Penal Code – deliberate killing of two and more persons.   

Two days later, October 12, two Tajik nationals were attacked by a group of unidentified youths in the center of Moscow, according to Interfax.  They received stab wounds but survived and were taken to hospital.  The Moscow law enforcement authorities are investigating the case.    

On October 13, resident of Moscow was detained on suspicion of having killed the Uzbek national.    

On the night of October 11-12, body of Armenian national with mortal stab wound was found on the Ilimskaya Street in Moscow on the night of October 11-12.    

            On Sunday October 12, the 43-year-old national of turkey with craniocerebral injury was taken to the hospital in the city of Lyubertsy.  He died in the hospital.  The 19-year-old resident of Lyubertsy was detained on suspicion of having committed this crime.

Russian sociologists have struggled to explain the phenomenon of rising neo-Nazism and xenophobia in a country that lost millions of its citizens fighting against Nazi Germany during the Second World War.