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Russian skinheads charged with 27 murders to face sanity tests

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Four Russian skinheads charged with 27 race-hate murders are to undergo psychiatric examinations, a lawyer for one of the group said on Thursday after a court hearing in Moscow.

Four Russian skinheads charged with 27 race-hate murders are to undergo psychiatric examinations, a lawyer for one of the group said on Thursday after a court hearing in Moscow.

The four defendants are all part of the former National Socialist Society, a nationalist group that was formed in January and banned one month later.

The group's leader, Lev Molotkov, has pleaded not guilty to the charges, Dmitry Bakharev said.

Russian media say the group had a number of branches, including ones in Belarus, the U.K., Canada and France. It members were engaged in combat training, and even produced their own publication to promote national socialist ideology.

Russia has seen a wave of racially motivated crimes since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Routine attacks by skinheads and gangs of youths on foreigners and people with non-Slavic features are a regular occurrence in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as the city of Voronezh, which hosts many foreign university students.

MOSCOW, July 22 (RIA Novosti) 

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