A migrant worker from Tajikistan was beheaded, another wounded by suspected neo-Nazis last Saturday near Moscow.

Two migrant workers from Tajikistan (22 and 20 years old), working as loaders at a vegetable storehouse, were returning from work around 11:30 PM. In a grove near Zhabkino village (Leninskiy district of Moskovskaya oblast) they were attacked with traumatic pistols by unknown attackers with "Slavonic appearance". One of the Tajiks managed to run away despite being wounded into his head, MK newspaper was told in the prosecutor's office.

Another was later found beheaded, he was stabbed around six times with a knife. His severed head was discovered Wednesday in a trash can in Tolbukhin street in Moscow.

A previously unknown "Military organization of Russian nationalists" claimed responsibility for the murder in an e-mail message sent to Human Rights Watch. The letter contained a photo of the severed head and some details about the place where it was left, a security official told Interfax.

Migrant workers from Central Asia and Transcaucasus regularly become victims of neo-Nazis in Russia. Attacks on people with Asian, African and Middle Eastern appearance are reported almost every day.

In August 2007, a gruesome video titled "Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani" was posted on the web. Russian authorities initially said the video was fake, and only last May, after several examinations, it was recognized as authentic. The perpetrators of those murders were never found.