Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court remanded 15-year-old Timofey K. in custody over the attack that took place on the morning of December 16, 2025, at Uspenskaya Secondary School in the settlement of Gorki-2 in the Odintsovo district. According to investigators, the ninth-grade student came to school with a knife and pepper spray, wounded a security guard, and fatally stabbed 10-year-old fourth-grader Kobiljon Aliyev. Several other teenagers were injured and hospitalized.
In a video circulated online, the teenager is seen entering a primary school classroom and asking about a teacher, then saying he “didn’t care” if he got a life sentence and that he “hadn’t done anything yet.” One version of events says his intended target may have been a math teacher who had criticized his academic performance. The day before the attack, he sent classmates a manifesto quoting school shooters, complaining about the unfairness of the world, and describing “hatred” as his motive. On the day of the attack, he was wearing a vest with the words No lives matter.
Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry issued a protest note demanding an immediate, objective, and impartial investigation and said the attack was motivated by ethnic hatred. The victim’s mother, 35-year-old Nilufar Safoeva, worked as a cleaner at the same school and also as a caregiver. After the death of her husband, who had served in Tajikistan’s border troops, she moved to Russia about four years ago and supported the family on her own. Kobiljon was buried on December 18 in the village of Ajam in Tajikistan’s Shahritus district, next to his father’s grave.
After the tragedy, officials said security had been tightened in schools across the Odintsovo district, but residents described the measures as largely cosmetic. In comments online, they wrote about long lines at school entrances, bag checks, and the lack of systemic changes. The mother of one Uspenskaya school student said that the wounded guard had been replaced with “a new guard, an elderly man,” and that metal detectors and additional cameras were not expected to be installed during the current school year.