Prosecutors in St. Petersburg, Russia charged two high school girls with a hate crime, according to a July 22, 2008 report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center. The 16 and 17 year old girls allegedly assaulted a fellow student in an attack motivated by ethnic hatred. The charges of violating Article 116 of the Criminal Code ("simple assault motivated by ethnic hatred") stem from a campaign launched in the city's Kolpinsky district aimed at targeting youthful offenders. The report did not mention the ethnicity of the victim.

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