A student in the southern republic of Adygeya was convicted Wednesday and sentenced to one year in prison for posting a video purportedly showing the execution of two men on the Internet.
A court in Maikop, the republic’s capital, handed down the sentence after Viktor Milkov was convicted for inciting ethnic hatred by posting the three-minute video on his Livejournal blog in August, Gazeta.ru reported.
The video appeared on ultranationalist web sites under the title “The Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani” and showed the two dark-skinned men kneeling, bound and gagged in front of a Nazi flag. The two men say, “Russian national-socialists have arrested us,” before masked men appear to cut one’s head off and shoot the other at point-blank range.
Milkov was arrested Aug. 15 and admitted to posting the video, authorities said. He maintained that he received it as an email attachment from a stranger.
It was unclear whether authorities had made any progress in determining who made the video and, if it was authentic, who carried out the killings.
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