1. Maxim Martsinkevich received three prison sentences for inciting racial or ethnic hatred.
19 Facts About Maxim Martsinkevich
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Maxim Martsinkevich confessed to murders and cooperated with investigating authorities, but soon he was found dead in his prison cell.
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Maxim Martsinkevich was born in 1984 in Moscow to Sergey Yevgenyevich Martsinkevich and Viktoriya Leonidovna Martsinkevich.
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Maxim Martsinkevich was conscripted into the Russian Army, although he claimed that he was released after a few days, following a mental health evaluation caused by him having beaten up a fellow soldier of Azerbaijani ancestry.
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Maxim Martsinkevich graduated from a secondary vocational school for architecture and was expelled from the Russian State Social University.
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Maxim Martsinkevich said he had been employed as an engineer for three and a half years.
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Maxim Martsinkevich sold his videos and tried to sell music through his website.
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Maxim Martsinkevich sold ads in his videos and tried to organize a financial pyramid scheme called Tesak Money.
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Maxim Martsinkevich made fictional videos promoting hatred towards black people and antifascists.
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The most recognized video of that kind has been described as the "execution of a Tajik and a Dagestanian", released in August 2007, at a time when Maxim Martsinkevich was already incarcerated.
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Maxim Martsinkevich was charged with inciting ethnic hatred with the threat of violence.
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On 18 March 2015, it was reported that Maxim Martsinkevich had been charged with robbery and hooliganism.
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Maxim Martsinkevich's lawyer said that the charges were related to Tesak's activities against smoking blends dealers.
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One of Maxim Martsinkevich's lawyers made a public statement in October 2014, saying that his client had been charged with hooliganism for cutting off a man's hair.
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The investigation of the above-mentioned murder of a Tajik and a Dagestanian gradually led to Maxim Martsinkevich, who was at that time serving his fourth prison sentence.
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Maxim Martsinkevich confessed of participating in a series of murders motivated by racist ideology.
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Maxim Martsinkevich testified against other participants of the murders and led the investigators to some of the victims' bodies.
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On 16 September 2020, Maxim Martsinkevich was found dead with signs of torture in a pre-trial detention centre in the Chelyabinsk region, reportedly from taking his own life.
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Maxim Martsinkevich had been due to travel to Moscow for questioning regarding a criminal case originating from 1999.