Article posted by Komsomolskaya Pravda regarding the academy maniacs trial on October 3, 2012:
English translation (sorry for any inaccuracies):
The first witness is called to the stand. A burly young man in his 20s enters the room under guard and in handcuffs.
“Do you know the defendants?” the prosecutor asks.
“Only with Anoufriev. I don’t understand at all why you brought me here,” the witness muttered, sitting next to the “hammer guys”.
Among Irkutsk skinheads, he is considered the unofficial leader and is known as Boomer. Last year, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of people from Central Asia and an attack on an environmentalists’ camp near Angarsk.
“I spent some time with Anoufriev for a couple of months in 2009,” Boomer began, trying not to even look in the direction of the defendants. “But he was never a skinhead. We met a few times, after which I realized that our views differed”.
“Does Anoufriev have a nickname?”
“Yeah. Fascist-Nazi.” (Not too sure that I translated the first part of that right sorry)
“Was he the leader?” The lawyer interjected (Investigators have theorized that Anoufriev was the ideological mastermind behind the pair of murderers, but this theory is now being called into question. - Author’s Note).
“He can’t be a leader,” the skinhead declared right away. “He’s a loser, ruled by his own fears; everyone used to chase him around and kick him. We once got into a fight with some Caucasians, and Anoufriev didn’t do a thing. He ran away. He tried to stir up hatred against everyone; he didn’t care who we killed.”