A Stavropol resident was convicted of inciting hatred.

A Stavropol Krai resident was sentenced to three years in prison for extremism after insulting two acquaintances based on their ethnicity.

A court in the Krasnogvardeisky District of Stavropol Krai sentenced a local resident charged with inciting hatred and enmity based on ethnicity with the use of violence (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code).

The incident occurred in late January 2025 in the village of Privolnoye. According to the prosecution, the villager had a conflict with three acquaintances. "During the argument, the perpetrator insulted the two men based on their ethnicity, using violence against one of them," the regional Investigative Committee reported.

Prior to the verdict, the man, now 33, was held in a pretrial detention facility. The court sentenced him to three years in a general regime penal colony. Caucasian Knot has no comment from the accused or his lawyer regarding the verdict. Caucasian Knot reported that a 30-year-old foreigner was arrested on the same charge in Stavropol. Investigators claim that in April 2024, in the same village of Privolnoye in the Krasnogvardeisky District, he had a conflict with a local resident. During the argument, the foreigner insulted the Stavropol resident based on his ethnicity.