The Kushchyovskaya massacre, carried out on 4 November 2010, was the murder of 12 people including four children in the village of

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of southern

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family of wealthy local farmer Serever Ametov was targeted and stabbed to death, together with visiting friends and a bystander. The mass murder shocked Russia and highlighted links between criminals and corrupt officials, as the perpetrators were members of a gang who had received protection from the authorities and operated with impunity for years. Sergei Tsapok, the convicted gang leader and mastermind of the murders, died in prison following a

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on July 6, 2014. Three of his accomplices had recently committed

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The case was the subject of several documentaries aired in Russia. It also inspired the 2013 TV series ''Станица'' (''Stanitsa'', ''The Village''), a fictitious story loosely based on the events leading to the murder in Kushchyovskaya. In an article for

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, Grigorii Golosov wrote that the massacre ran contradictory to a perceived propaganda program led by

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to portray Yeltsin's government as allowing crime to run rampant through the country in contrary to Putin's leadership. Golosov noted that the heavy publicity the murders received had tarnished Putin's image.

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