20-year-old Yuri Vlasko, a Russian freestyle wrestler, was killed in a violent street fight. He was stabbed on the shore of Lake Baikal, near the village of Goryachinsk in the Baikal region of Buryatia, on July 29.
Vlasko was murdered during a mass brawl in which athletes from Dagestan and local residents took part. The deceased fighter’s friends said unknown persons struck Vlasko with a knife in the neck and the head during the fight.
Several days after the fight, operatives got on the trail of the killer. Siloviki detained the suspect in the residential quarter of Ulan-Ude on the eve of August 2. He is a 33-year-old man. During the interrogation, the man allegedly confirmed his involvement in the death of the athlete but said that he acted in self-defense. He alleged that he was arming himself against an attack by Yuri Vlasko.
Vlasko was the son of Transbaikal’s "authority" Vladimir Vlasko, known by the nickname "Volodya Khokhol". Vlasko Sr. died 7 years ago also by violent death. He was shot in October 2010 at the entrance of his house.
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