The name of former Wagner member Vladimir Rogushkin appeared in the book 'The Long Road of Memory', released by the Tomsk Regional Organization 'Russian Union of Veterans of Afghanistan and Special Military Operations' and the Tomsk Regional Council of Veterans, writes TV2. It talks about Tomsk residents who died in the war with Ukraine.
Vladimir Rogushkin is presented as a 'good, kind, polite boy'. However, it does not mention that in June 2016, Rogushkin was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of a neighbor who was listening to loud music.
The murder occurred in Tomsk in September 2015. During the trial, Rogushkin's testimony given during the investigation was read, in which he said that he came home in a state of intoxication and wanted to sleep, but was disturbed by loud music. He decided to talk to the neighbor to turn down the music and took a kitchen knife with him for this purpose. According to Rogushkin, the neighbor attacked him. In response, Rogushkin stabbed the man in the stomach and arm. And left. After some time, he returned to the neighbor and delivered several more blows to the already motionless person, including to the neck. The neighbor died from these wounds.
During the session, the court studied Rogushkin's characteristics, including a comprehensive psychological and psychiatric expert commission, which established that Rogushkin possesses 'irritability, impulsive behavior, which intensifies in a state of intoxication'. Judge Alexey Karpov of the Leninsky District Court of Tomsk sentenced Rogushkin to ten years in a high-security colony. And ordered to pay 700 thousand rubles in moral compensation and 56 thousand rubles for the funeral of the person he killed. This compensation has not been paid by the convicted.
In the book, Rogushkin's sister said that her brother went 'as a volunteer, one of the first, as part of the PMC 'Wagner'.