A district court in the Kaluga region of Russia sentenced four under-aged youths and one adult to short prison sentences for attacking a Tajik man three years ago, according to a July 18, 2008 report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center. While the teenagers got six months in prison after the court found them guilty of "actions aimed at inciting ethnic hatred with the use of violence," the group's 20-year-old ringleader Mikhail Pustovoy received a two year sentence. In August 2005, the defendants went hunting for an ethnic minority to attack in order to film it and post their actions on neo-Nazi web sites. The video clip came to the attention of police recently, leading to the arrest of Mr. Pustovoy in Obninsk. Police found neo-Nazi literature, portraits of Hitler, and various other Nazi paraphernalia in his home, along with a video clip of a similar attack in the Kaluga region town of Zhukov. The defendants have appealed the verdict.

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