Adygea resident who placed the video clip arrested

In Maikop (Adygea), a man pled guilty of disseminating a video record in the Internet depicting a murder of two persons, the appearance of which has caused this week a broad public resonance. This information has arrived from a source in law enforcement bodies of Adygea who reported by telephone:

"According to the man, he has been disseminating for two years through the Internet materials aimed to excite ethnic enmity, including the video clip about the murder of residents of Tajikistan and Dagestan, which he had received by E-mail from an unknown woman." The RIA "Novosti" reports that a check is underway.

"Currently, in relation to him (the suspect) a restriction measure in the form of detainment has been applied, later, within 48 hours, the court will make a decision on the freedom restriction measure," Vasily Guk, official spokesman of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic, has stated.

Mr Guk has explained that a criminal case was initiated in relation to the resident of Adygea under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (kindling of enmity), which assumes punishments in the form of a fine, or deprivation of the right to take certain posts, or corrective works, or imprisonment for the term of up to two years.

He has added that during a search at the suspect's residence, extremist literature and leaflets were found, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

According to Alexander Verkhovskiy, Director of the "Sova" Information and Analytical Centre, who has been studying national extremism in Russia for more than ten years already, the authors of the "film" were deliberately imitating the well-known videos of Chechen militants with demonstrative executions, willing to show that the executors will be treated same severely as they did with their victims.

The statement of the Executive Committee of the Public Movement "Russian Congress of Caucasian Peoples" (RCCP), which was disseminated today, runs that an indirect guilt of executing the natives of Dagestan and Tajikistan is on legal leaders of ultranationalist organizations, who are "ideological inspirers of such 'heroes of direct actions'."