Voronezh resident convicted for attacking Armenian native

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Voronezh has found Alexander Chalenko, 22, guilty of causing heavy health damage to a native of Armenia and sentenced him to 4 years and 10 months of imprisonment.

Let us note that attacks on natives of the Caucasus were committed earlier in Voronezh. Thus, in the end of July this year another man was sentenced in Voronezh for beating an Azerbaijani teenager. For his crime committed back in July 2007 he was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month of imprisonment.

The court has found out that in the evening on September 2, 2008, in the Zheleznodorozhny District, a native of Armenia, 25, and a citizen of Russia was accompanying his girlfriend home. They were approached by a group of teenagers aged 16-20, who, having offered the Caucasian to leave Russia, started beating him. This was reported by the "Interfax" with reference to the statement of Sergey Glaziev, senior assistant to the head of the regional department of Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of the Russian Federation, promulgated on August 7.

According to the investigation, Alexander Chalenko, informal leader of the grouping of teenagers, knifed the victim several times, causing a heavy damage to his health, as reported by the "Voronezh Media" Agency.

Alexander Chalenko was convicted under part 2, Article 111, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Wilful infliction of heavy damage to one's health on the motive of national hatred") and sentenced to 4 years and 10 months of imprisonment in a general-regime corrective colony.