Combat Terrorist Organization

The Combat Terrorist Organization (Russian: Боевая террористическая организация) was a short-lived Russian neo-Nazi gang active from 9 August 2003 to 2006. It was formed in Saint Petersburg by two members of the Mad Crowd skinhead group, namely, Dmitry Borovikov and Alexey Voyevodin.

Combat Terrorist Organization

Founder	Dmitry Borovikov Alexey Voyevodin
Founding location	Saint Petersburg
Years active	2003–2006
Territory	Saint Petersburg and Lenoblast , Russian Federation
Ethnicity	Russians
Membership	Around 13
Leader(s)	D.A.Borovikov, A.M. Voyevodin
Activities	hate crime, murder, robbery, terrorism
Notable members	D.A. Borovikov

The gang used exceptional secrecy to hide their activities. In contrast to other neo-fascist groups, there were no skinheads among its members. The group also used exclusively confidential mobile phones to communicate. Authorities also discovered that they met very rarely in the open and avoided talking about ideology or tactics near power sockets, preferring to write their words on paper.

On June 14, 2011, the trial of eight members of the group began, with member Pavel Rumyantsev tried separately.

Ideology

The gang's main symbol was the swastika. By means of murder and terrorism, Dmitry Borovikov waged a campaign "to clear" St. Petersburg ("Nevograd") of non-white races such as Black, Armenoid, and Asians, who "fuck Russian women" and "by that profane race, give birth to bastards." His dream was allegedly to overthrow "the Jewish Russian Federation" and turn it into a monoethnic "Nordic Russia." The group sharply criticised Christianity while promoting neo-pagan ideology as an alternative. The group also introduced a propaganda that focused on the value of a healthy lifestyle and refusal of alcohol and drugs. Most members of the group were convinced hardline straight edgers. The group issued fanzines with titles such as Kill or To Be Killed, Straight Edge - Шторм Чистой Крови, Гнев Перуна, Smell of Hatred.

Weapons

The main weapons used by the gang were knives, crossbows, and guns, such as rifles (including Mosin rifles) and pump-action shotguns

Voyevodin, one of the gang's leaders, inherited two apartments when his mother and grandmother died. He sold one and used the money to buy a car, 4 Saiga carbines, and radio sets to listen to police radio.

Attacks

• Armenian citizens Makvela Elamiryana and Liana Tumanyan on August 9, 2003, at the Nikolskoye settlement.
• Nigerian citizen Omordion Lavrense on October 2, 2003, at Tankista Khrustitskogo Street.
• A citizen from Georgia at Bolshaya Monetnaya Street and a Pakistani citizen on Leo Tolstoy Street on November 11, 2003.

Murders

Date	Place	Name and age	Citizenship	Notes
9 November 2003	Kollontay Street	S. V. Bulantsov	Russia	Stabbed to death
14 December 2003	18 Marat Street	Kim Hyun-ik	North Korea	Killed with cold weapon and scraps of pipes. Group members stole more than 300,000 rubles from the victim
9 February 2004	Boytsova Lane	Hursheda Sultonova (8)	Tajikistan	Stabbed to death
7 June 2004	Zakhodskoye settlement	Rostislav Gofman (19) and Alexey Golovchenko (19)	Russia	Killed with knives and an arbalest, a type of crossbow.
19 June 2004	Victim's apartment	Nikolai Girenko (63)	Russia	Shot through a door
7 April 2006	Gorokhovaya Street	Samba Lampsar (28)	Cameroon	Shot in the neck by a pump-action shotgun

Sentences

No.	Name	Charge	Sentence
1	Dmitry Borovikov	Murder, incitement to hatred, public calls for extremist activity, brigandage, banditry, robbery, terrorism	Encounter killing
2	Alexey Voyevodin	Murder, brigandage, terrorism, incitement to hatred, banditry, public calls for extremist activity	Life imprisonment
3	Pavel Gusev	Murder	Justified
4	Alexey Kostrachenkov	Murder	18 years
5	Andrey Kostrachenkov	Murder	899 years
6	Andrey Malyugin	Murder	Justified. Subsequently, he was detained
7	Roman Orlov	Murder	11 years 6 months
8	Artyom Prokhorenko	Robbery, murder, incitement to hatred, public calls for extremist activity	Life imprisonment
9	Pavel Rumyantsev	Murder, incitement to hatred	Compulsory psychiatric treatment
10	Denis Kharchev	Murder	7 years 2 months (the term is reduced)

See also

• Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists
• NS/WP Crew
• The Savior (paramilitary organization)
• National Socialist Society
• Primorsky Partisans