The Supreme Court of Chuvashia commuted the conviction of a defendant in a racist attack case
On May 27, 2010, the Supreme Court of Chuvashia commuted the sentence of Yakov Nikolaev (20 years old), who, along with three minor acquaintances, beat up two students from Equatorial Guinea in September 2009. The year of the colony-settlement, to which Y. Nikolaev was sentenced on April 12, 2010 by the court of first instance, was replaced by a year of probation, with a probationary period of 1 year. Sources Punishment for beating foreign students revised // Kommersant in Kazan. 2010. June 2.