The Execution of a Tajiki and a Dagestani

The Execution of a Tajiki and a Dagestani (Казнь таджика и дагестанца) also referred to as The Russian Neonazi Beheading Video is a gruesome footage recorded by Russian skinheads who were members of a neo-Nazi organization. Originally considered to be fake, the video was posted on August 12, 2007, on the LiveJournal blog of the user vik23. However, later investigations proved that the video captured a genuine murder.

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The video, also known as the Russian neo-Nazi beheading video, features a swastika on a red digital background with the Russian folk metal band Arkona's "Русь" playing. The camera then focuses on the landscape and displays the text "Operation of the NSPR for the arrest and execution of two colonists from Dagestan and Tajikistan. 2007." The video then cuts to the victims, who are tied up with their hands and feet behind their backs. As the music fades, they say in Russian, "We were arrested by Russian national socialists." The camera then closes in on the face of the first victim, and a man wearing a camouflage suit with a serrated knife in his right hand stands behind him. The killer yells, "Glory to Russia!" and proceeds to saw off the victim's head in quick motions, accompanied by the sound of the spine being severed. In the next video, the camera is shot close-up in the back of the head, and the body falls into a pre-dug grave. The video ends with electronic music playing and two masked men performing the Nazi salute in front of a concrete wall with the inscription "NSPR" in Russian, accompanied by a drawn swastika. Widely considered a "cold case" until 2020, the murder of Shamil Odamanov is still a controversial and widely condemned act.

Background
In January 2008, the identity of one of the victims in the video was confirmed by his relatives, revealing that the young man who was brutally beheaded was Shamil Umakhanovich Odamanov, a resident of the Dagestani village of Sultan-Yangi-Yurt who had moved to Moscow for work and had lost all contact with his family since April 2007. The first mention of his identification was in Timur Mustafayev's article "Cinema and Murids" published in the Dagestani weekly Chernovik in February 2008. However, it was not until June 2008 that the execution video received attention on federal news channels. A few days after Mustafayev's article, the "Manifesto of the NSPR" was published by a certain "commander Branislav" claiming that the NSPR's August 2007 statement was not written by the actual murderers, and that the real killers did not recognize any political leadership. As proof of their involvement in the murder, "Branislav" attached two exclusive photos from the murder scene to the manifesto. The NSPR stated that their statements would always be distributed along with the video as evidence, and that any previously unpublished information would be presented as proof.

A documentary film titled "Credit for Murder" was released in mid-2015, directed by Vlady Antonevicz. The film presented a theory that the double murder in the woods was carried out by members of the Russian neo-Nazi groups Format18 and the N.S.S. ("National Socialist Society"). In 2016, Antonevicz openly named the three participants in the murder, Maxim "Tesak" Martsinkevich, Sergei "Malyuta" Korotkikh, and Dmitry Rumyantsev, with Korotkikh being the one who beheaded Shamil Odamanov, while Martsinkevich filmed the execution. These findings were officially confirmed by the police in 2021. Antonevicz stated that after years of investigation, he wrote a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, to bring attention to this murder, and subsequently testified before the Investigative Committee in Moscow. According to the filmmaker, Sergei "Malyuta" Korotkikh, one of the leaders of the N.S.S, was an agent-provocateur who worked for the Russian FSB. Antonevicz linked the publication of the murder video to the wave of ethnic killings that occurred in Russia six months later, on the eve of the 2008 presidential elections.

Links
NOTE : The following shock video contains extremely graphic content!
 * goresee.com/w/ext5FBfdo6STRuAdcsETKm
 * livegore.com/77970/russian-neo-nazi-beheading