August 8, 2009 - 13:00 AMT
Voronezh inhabitant received 4 years' prison sentence for attacking an Armenian
The railroad district court of Voronezh found 22 year-old Alexander Chalenko guilty of causing grave health damage to an Armenian, Voronezh Investigative Committee Department's press service reports. On the night of September 2, 2008, a 25 year-old Armenian, citizen of RF, was attacked and beaten by teenagers aged 16-20 while accompanying his relative home. According to the conclusions of the court and prosecutor's office, Chalenko took out a knife and beat the victim on the back several times. "Then attackers hid away, and the aggrieved was moved to hospital. Court found Alexander Chalenko guilty and sentenced him to 4 years and 10 months in prison. The convict will serve his sentence in a correctional colony of general regime," Kommersant periodical reports.