Russian antifascists keep up the fight!

Further information about what happended with our Russian friend.

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Yesterday evening Monday 16th, 26 year old Ivan Khutorskoy aka
Vanya-kostolom was shot dead at the entrance of his house. This name is not well-known among the general public, but he was a colossal figure among Russian antifascists and left activists. First of all he is known as one of the informal leaders of the youth antifascist movement, and
one of the founders of R.A.S.H. (Red and Anarchist skinheads) – community of skinheads antifascists adhering to the left political views. It’s obvious for most of his friends that the murder has been committed by Russian neo-nazi.
Ivan’t initials, photos and home address, as well as ones of many other antifascists like Fedor Filatov and Timour Dzhaparidze were repeatedly published on nazi-websites in order to call nazi-bastards for his destruction. It was the 4th attempt on Ivan’s life. First he was assaulted by nazi in 2005. This incident was fixed by a camera and was shown in a documental program “Ordinary antifascism”. Then attackers waited for Ivan in the entrance of his house, stabbed him in the neck with a screwdriver, and inflicted several blows with a baseball bat - he miraculously survived. The third attack was carried out in January, 2009
Ivan was stabbed in the stomach during a street fight, this wound was also almost lethal but he survived again. And now, when everything else had failed, Nazis decided to try guns.
He was a kind-hearted and responsive man, he was always ready to help his friends in any situation. Ivan was an example of indomitable will and courage for all of us. He remained faithful to his convictions till the end. With Ivan, any other claims post-mortem would be a misrepresentation any way around, as every clique and crew in the scene considered him as one of them, and he was respected and loved by absolutely everyone. Ivan considered himself a RASH skinhead, which did not bother apolitical and patriotic Moscow Troyan Skinheads to
consider him as one of them. And anarchists of course considered Ivan one of the anarchists, and it is true that Ivan had anti-authoritarian and social positions and was always ready to provide security for anarchist events. But he did not live for activism – he lived for the streets and forpunk rock.

Perpetrators will be prosecuted – we will do all our best for it. Our
duty is to continue activities started by him.

here is link with bank details for donations to support Ivan's family
http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2250