A court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on September 16 sentenced a Russian man to eight years in prison for stabbing to death a 32-year-old postgraduate student from Gabon. The court found Daniil Fomin, 23, guilty of murder. The student at the Urals Federal University, Francois Ndjelassili, was stabbed to death in a cafe in August 2023, with witnesses calling it "a racially motivated attack." Two traffic police officers who witnessed the attack but did not interfere were later fired. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
