“In connection with the incident, the university ceases relations with associate professor O. Sokolov: he will be dismissed, and his academic work will be distributed among other teachers,” the university’s press service said. University report leads TASS.
Earlier, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg decided to detain Sokolov in the case of the murder of graduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko.
The man was charged with murder.
According to the preliminary version of the investigation, Sokolov shot Yeshenko on November 7, and on the night of November 9 decided to get rid of the body and dismembered it. On the morning of November 9, an associate professor of St. Petersburg State University was picked up from the water near the Moika embankment with a backpack in which severed female hands and a traumatic gun were found.