Two men attacked a black lawyer who works for the Kaliningrad regional legislature, according to a May 21, 2008 article in the national daily Komsomolskaya Pravda. Aleksandr Burger-Gasanov was attacked on the evening of May 9 (Victory Day) near his home. The victim noticed two men approaching him, but the attack happened too fast for him to react. He lost two liters of blood as a result of the ferocity of the attack, which was accompanied by racist abuse, including the "N word" which has migrated from English to the lexicon of the Russian far-right. In what may be a coincidence, a few days before the attack, the far-right rock band "Korroziya Metalla" played in Kaliningrad and allegedly performed a song calling on its listeners to kill black people. Police are investigating the attack as an incident of "hooliganism." Last year, the victim's younger brother was stabbed, and police eventually closed that investigation, arguing that there "was no crime" committed.

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