About this on his page in the social network reported Arkady Babchenko: In KhMAO after the Cossack banquet dismembered a veteran of the Chechen campaign. Investigators of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug find out the circumstances of the brutal murder committed in one of the cultural centers after the solemn feast on the occasion of the Cossack oath. A brutal murder was committed in the cultural center, the former building of the Center for the Arts for Gifted Children, located opposite the government building of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District. And the victim of the criminal was an officer, Alexander Lavrov, who is a veteran of the fighting in Chechnya.

"The solemn ceremony of taking the oath by the Cossacks of the Siberian Cossack army was held in Khanty-Mansiysk on December 16 at the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On this occasion, there was a banquet. All guests were drinking. Between the murdered and the suspect there was a domestic conflict, which led to tragic consequences, "- said the interlocutor. The Center for the Arts for Gifted Children of the North was established in 1997 by the Governor-Governor Alexander Filipenko as an educational institution for the development of talents among the young generation of the inhabitants of Yugra.