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Two Russian soldiers jailed for killing Tajik taxi driver
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Dushanbe, Tajikistan (AFP) Aug 26, 2015


Russian conscript kills three before committing suicide
Moscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2015 - A Russian conscript on Wednesday killed an officer and two soldiers at an army camp before turning the gun on himself, investigators said.

A serviceman armed with an automatic rifle fired shots at a military field camp in the Kostroma region on the Volga, killing the three, the Investigative Committee in charge of major crimes said in a statement.

He also wounded two other servicemen and then committed suicide, investigators said.

Citing preliminary information, the defence ministry said there was a personal motive behind the attacks.

The Investigative Committee, which reports directly to President Vladimir Putin, gave few details, saying only that it had opened a probe into multiple murder.

Spokespeople for the defence ministry were not immediately available for further comment.

Since coming to power in 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to boost the armed forces, which received new aircraft, tanks and missiles after years of post-Soviet neglect.

But hazing in the army remains a major problem and sometimes leads to suicides or murders. Rights campaigners accuse the military top brass of seeking to cover up instances of bullying.

A Russian military court in Tajikistan on Wednesday sentenced two soldiers from Moscow's largest foreign military base to lengthy prison terms for murdering a local taxi driver.

Fyodor Basimov and Ildar Sakhapov, both 24, were stationed at Russia's 201st military base in Tajikistan when they killed 36-year-old Rahimjon Teshaboev last year.

On Wednesday, Basimov and Sakhapov were sentenced to 17 and 13 years in prison respectively.

Under the terms of an agreement between Russia and Tajikistan, crimes committed by Russian soldiers in the country are subject to Russian law.

Teshaboev's body was found with knife wounds last August seven kilometres from the Russian military base outside the capital Dushanbe.

Nigora Khaitova, representing the family of the murdered father-of-three, said he was killed after loaning money to one of the soldiers.

"After the murder, the soldiers stole a further 37,500 roubles ($542 at the current rate) belonging to the taxi driver," Khaitova told AFP.

The sentencing comes amid periodic tensions between the local Tajik community and Russian soldiers serving in the ex-Soviet country.

In a separate incident in Tajikistan last week, a Russian soldier attacked a 24-year old taxi driver with a knife leaving him in a critical condition.

In July, allegedly drunk Russian soldiers and Tajik locals were involved in a massive brawl in the provincial Tajik town of Kulob.

Around 7,000 Russian soldiers are stationed in the impoverished Central Asian country that shares a border more than 1,200 kilometres long with Afghanistan.

In 2012, Russia and Tajikistan agreed to extend the agreement for the 201st military base -- which consists of three separate military installations -- until 2042.

Earlier this month a Russian military court sentenced a soldier accused of killing a family of seven in Armenia to 10 years in jail for deserting his base in the ex-Soviet state.


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