Russian Islam Specialist Found Killed

The attack occurred at 12:30 p.m., when unknown assailants stormed Bondarevsky’s apartment and struck him on his head with a hard object.

The daily said the main reason behind the killing of the 83-year-old expert is his unique researches on the Chechen struggle, noting that the attackers had not stolen anything from his apartment except a Chechnya-related research.

However, the Russian interior ministry suggested the killers might have been members of the Russian Mafias.

The paper further said that the Russian academic joined hands in preparing a research on Chechnya at the request of the Russian interior ministry in 2002.