A Moscow court sentenced three neo-Nazis to prison, according to an October 3, 2008 report by the Regnum news agency. The Golovinsky District Court found one adult, Aleksey Bersenev, and two teenagers guilty of aggravated assault motivated by ethnic hatred in connection with a December 30, 2007 attack during which the defendants pummeled a 19-year-old Tajik student with baseball bats. The court found that the neo-Nazis went out that night specifically looking for non-Russians to attack. Two of the defendants were also found guilty of assaulting an Armenian man later that day. The court sentenced Mr. Bersenev to five and a half years in prison; the under-aged defendants got one and a half and two years in prison, respectively.

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