A sentence was passed in the Penza region for an attack on the home of a family from Tajikistan
On August 5, 2010, the Penza District Court passed a sentence for hooliganism motivated by ethnic hatred (Part 2, Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Minors Artem D. and Sergey K. were on trial for the atrocities that they, along with two friends, committed in the yard of a private house in which a family from Tajikistan lived in September 2009. The attack was premeditated, the teenagers purchased medical masks from a pharmacy in advance to hide their faces.