The St. Petersburg Times - News - 2 More Charged With Murder

The city prosecutor’s office has charged five suspects with the murder of 20-year-old anti-fascist student Timur Kacharava. The charges do not yet include the incitement of racial, religious or national hatred, though these may follow, said St. Petersburg prosecutor Sergei Zaitsev at a news conference on Thursday. Zaitsev also said that the investigators identified two more suspects who are still at large. “They fled the city after they received information about arrests of their gang,” Zaitsev explained, and promised more arrests in connection with the murder soon. “We believe there were at least ten assailants.” Kacharava was stabbed to death outside the Bukvoyed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt opposite the Moskovsky Railway Station at around 7 p.m. on Nov. 13, when about ten teenagers armed with knives attacked him and his friend Maxim Zgibai, another student. Kacharava received five wounds in the throat and died before the ambulance arrived at the scene.