On October 16, 2004, a 21-year-old Vietnamese student at the Polytechnic University was beaten up in one of the markets in St. Petersburg. She suffered a concussion and a jaw injury. The police connect the incidents with the students of the Polytechnic University not with the racist antics of teenagers, but with the hooliganism of sellers and market visitors.
Andreev D. Dangerous city. Beatings of foreigners continue in St. Petersburg // Vremya novostei. 2004. October 19.