On 12 August 2007, a video depicting their deaths called Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani (Russian: Казнь таджика и дагестанца, romanized: Kazn' tadzhika i dagestantsa) was posted on the social media site LiveJournal.

According to Martsinkevich, among his accomplices were Sergei "Malyuta" Korotkikh and Maxim Bazylev,[1][2] the former being a co-founder of the National Socialist Society (NSO);[3] his statements, however, have not been confirmed and neither of them have been convicted.

In 2006, Martsinkevich filmed a video depicting the staged execution of a Tajik drug dealer with the assistance of journalists,[4][5] allegedly on the behalf of a Russian branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

They were both buried in pre-dug graves.On 12 August 2007, a video called Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani was posted on the LiveJournal blog of the user vik23, which included footage of the murders.

[8] A few hours later, the video was also posted on the news website of Russian neo-Nazi group National Socialist / White Power (NS/WP)[13][15] and on the LiveJournal blog of the user antigipsyone.

"[19][20] Aleksandr Belov, leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, claimed that the murders might have been done with the assistance of members of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Calling themselves an "independent militant wing" of the NSO, they demanded the transfer of political power to the group's leader, Dmitry Rumyantsev, the release of all "Russian national socialists convicted in recent years", and the eviction of all non-Slavs from the country.

[15][23] On 16 August, an anonymous source within the Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed that "experts have doubts about the authenticity of the recording" and that the video might have been staged.

[24][25] On 21 August, Oleg Elnikov, head of the Internal Affairs' press center, said that the preliminary results of the video examination showed "obvious signs of editing.

[citation needed] In 2015, former Israeli soldier Vladi Antonevicz[33] released a documentary called Credit for Murder, accusing members of Format18 and the NSO.

[34] According to Antonevicz, at the end of his investigation, he wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, asking him to pay more attention to the murder,[35] after which he was invited to testify in Moscow.

[citation needed] In an interview with Meduza, he stated how he believed the video's publication was connected with a wave of ethnic killings that swept Russia six months later on the eve of the 2008 presidential elections.

[2] On 14 January 2021, Vladi Antonevicz published a letter that Martsinkevich allegedly addressed to his closest accomplices, Andrey "Grandfather" Chuenkov and Alexander "Schultz" Filyushkin, in which he warned that he had confessed to "basically everything" and suggested they leave the country at once:[37] "I also took part in the execution of a Tajik and a Dag.

[3][42] On 27 July 2022, Maxim "Romeo" Aristarkhov and Sergei Marshakov were sentenced to 16 and 17 years in prison respectively for their involvement in the murders by a Mytishchi court.