22:34, 2 February 2026

A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia was sentenced for the murder of a tourist.

The Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia sentenced a resident of the republic to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony for the murder of a tourist from Moscow committed in 2022.

As reported by Caucasian Knot, on February 17, 2022, investigators placed Abdullakh Bostanov, a 34-year-old native of the village of Storozhevaya, suspected of murdering a tourist from Moscow, on the federal wanted list. On February 18, Bostanov called the police department and confessed to the murder. He stated that he was ready to be punished and compensate the relatives of the victim.

According to investigators, the Moscow residents were driving to Arkhyz on February 16, 2022, and stopped near the village of Kardonikskaya. A car carrying two local residents approached them, and they had a dispute that escalated into a fight. During the fight, the suspect wounded the tourist in the stomach; the wounded man died en route to the hospital. According to unofficial reports, the tourist was urinating on the side of the road, which upset local residents, leading to the conflict. Bostanov later called the police and confessed to the murder, and the second local resident, who was involved in the fight, turned himself in to the police. Bostanov was placed on the federal wanted list, and in mid-2023 the suspect was found in Belarus.

The court found that on February 16, 2022, a group of Moscow residents traveling from Mineralnye Vody Airport to the village of Arkhyz made an emergency stop in a section of land near the village of Kardonikskaya. At that time, a car carrying two local residents pulled up, and they had a verbal argument with them that escalated into a fight. During an argument, the defendant stabbed the victim in the stomach. He died en route to the central district hospital, TASS reported on February 2, citing the regional prosecutor's office.

"He was found guilty of murder committed out of hooligan motives . Taking into account the position of the state prosecutor and the jury's verdict, the court sentenced him to 12 years' imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony with one year of restricted freedom," the prosecutor's office said in a statement on its Telegram channel.

The agency did not specify whether the defendant had admitted his guilt.

According to the case file on the website of the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia, Abdullakh Bostanov's case has been under review since June 2024. Today, February 2, the next hearing was held. Information about the verdict was not included in the file as of 10:20 PM Moscow time.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that in Karachay-Cherkessia, there is an unspoken code of conduct that both local residents and tourists must follow, but tour guides stated that deviation from it cannot result in murder. The murder of a tourist near Arkhyz is an exceptional case, which is related to the rise in crime in society and has nothing to do with tradition, commentators on social media pointed out.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/420458