Probation for five beaten people
On October 9, 2006, in the Sverdlovsky District Court of Kostroma, four skinheads were sentenced under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity, with the use of violence") for attacking students from China and a girl born in Azerbaijan. Kostroma residents Denis Mikhaylin, Igor Utkin, Yevgeny Batov, Andrey Zaitsev were given suspended sentences ranging from one to three and a half years.