A 15-year-old schoolboy armed with a knife stormed a dormitory at Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa, targeting foreign students. Shouting nationalist slogans, he stabbed four students from India and injured two police officers before being detained. Investigators say the teenager held neo-Nazi views and even drew a swastika in blood on a dormitory wall. The attack comes amid a documented rise in hate-motivated violence in Russia, with human rights groups warning about increasing brutality and the growing involvement of minors in extremist movements. Experts say armed attacks on educational institutions are becoming disturbingly frequent. In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we examine what happened in Ufa, the broader trend of nationalist violence, and why foreign students say they have been facing mounting pressure and attacks long before this stabbing.
A 15-year-old schoolboy armed with a knife stormed a dormitory at Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa, targeting foreign students. Shouting nationalist slogans, he stabbed four students from India and injured two police officers before being detained. Investigators say the teenager held neo-Nazi views and even drew a swastika in blood on a dormitory wall.
The attack comes amid a documented rise in hate-motivated violence in Russia, with human rights groups warning about increasing brutality and the growing involvement of minors in extremist movements. Experts say armed attacks on educational institutions are becoming disturbingly frequent.
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we examine what happened in Ufa, the broader trend of nationalist violence, and why foreign students say they have been facing mounting pressure and attacks long before this stabbing.