Police in St. Petersburg arrested an anti-fascist activist after charging him with stabbing an off-duty police officer whom he mistook for a neo-Nazi, according to a July 18, 2008 report by the local Fontanka.ru news web site. According to police, the officer in training and his friend encountered a large group of young men on the night of June 13, one of whom allegedly asked if they were skinheads because of the way they were dressed. When the officer replied something to the effect that it was nobody's business even if he were a skinhead, the suspect allegedly stabbed him and his friend with a knife, sending them both to the hospital. The suspect's lawyer has a different version of the events, claiming that the police officer and his friend were walking down the street screaming neo-Nazi slogans when his client confronted them with his provocative question, at which point the officer allegedly broke a bottle and menaced him with it, forcing his client to use a knife in self-defense. Police arrested the suspect a month later and a court ordered that he remain in pre-trial detention.

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