Russian Professor Accused Of Heading Neo-Nazi Group - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010
Viktor Lukonin, a professor in the academy’s physical education department, is suspected of leading a neo-Nazi group that calls itself “the head of groups linked to the Central Black-Earth Region of occupied Russia.”
Lukonin, 31, was fired from the FSO academy on July 29 and was arrested by police on August 8.
Law enforcement officials said today that from July 16 to August 5 the neo-Nazi group attacked several businesses and police stations in Oryol.
An Oryol court is charging the group with at least four crimes, including setting fire to a police station, an explosion at a local prosecutor-general’s office, and an explosion at the cafe Idira, which was owned by people from the North Caucasus.
Yulia Dorofeeva, an aide in Oryol’s investigation office, told RFE/RL that a probe into the explosion is still ongoing. Four people were injured in the incident.
“Currently we have seven people in jail aged 18-32,” she said. “We have also determined their connections to several other crimes.”
The neo-Nazi group claims on a website to have taken in part in “the destruction of seven police stations, two prosecutor-general’s offices, the destruction of the store Eros, and attacking meetings and stores owned by people from the North Caucasus,” among other incidents.