On May 15, 2018, the trial of a mixed martial arts fighter who formed a neo-nazi gang that allegedly murdered an Armenian man commenced in at the Omsk Regional Court in Russia.
Nikita Fedonenko, a 24-year-old MMA fighter who represented the Omsk regional branch of the Russian MMA Union, was arrested and charged in 2016 with “causing grievous bodily harm that negligently caused the death of a person”. According to news agency “SuperOmsk,” Fedonenko attacked Vahe Zalibiakan, an Armenian immigrant ten years his senior, and sent him to the hospital, where he died of his wounds.