The case of Roman Rudakov has been sent to court. Private Rudakov has been in the hospital for almost five months; on October 29, at a military hospital in St. Petersburg, he underwent surgery to remove the small intestine, after which Rudakov simply died quietly in the hospital. The scandal hit the press in January thanks to Soldiers' Mothers. Then the military authorities, including Sergei Ivanov, stated that “hazing has nothing to do with it.” Now the investigation has established that the cause of the disease is hazing. The name of the serviceman who beat Rudakov is not known.