Russian Cossacks Sentenced to Three Years in Prison in Belarus

The District Court of Pinsk and Pinsk District has sentenced three Russians, members of Cossack equestrian hike Moscow - Berlin, which took place in the summer of 2014, to three years in prison.

They were found guilty of malicious hooliganism. The foreigners beat a student from the Pinsk Agricultural Technology College and destroyed his dorm room. It is known that the drunken Russians were harassing his girlfriend and the young man stood up for her, Euroradio reports.

According to the channel Varyag, all the convicts are citizens of Russia. The main bully will be serving his sentence in a penal colony. The Russian underage youngster will have to serve time in a juvenile correctional facility. The sentence has not come into force. One of the accused is trying to appeal the ruling.