A Russian court sentenced a man to 14 years of hard labor for murdering a visiting Israeli student. Alexander Kosterov invited Nadir Torkman to his residence, killed him with an ax, dismembered the body, packed the parts in plastic bags and deposited them in different places in the city of Sevastopol.
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