A court in Yekaterinburg refused to reduce the punishment of a young teacher for violence during a lesson.

      The Akademichesky District Court of Yekaterinburg dismissed the appeal against the sentence of physics teacher Sergey Perminov, who was sentenced for using physical violence against a pupil to mandatory community service and to pay the pupil a large monetary compensation.

      Both sides wished to appeal the magistrate's decision: the court (in a closed session, as before) considered the defense's appellate complaints and the prosecutor's appellate submission.

      Perminov's defenders asked that the judicial act be overturned and the criminal case returned to the prosecutor. The prosecutor, in turn, disagreed with the amount of compensation for moral damages awarded to the pupil (the prosecutor's civil claim in the interests of the minor victim was partially granted by the court) and asked that the case be returned to the magistrate for a new hearing to resolve the civil claim, the Unified Press Service of the Courts of the Sverdlovsk Region reported.

      At the court hearing held on November 10, the boy's father, who is an active employee of the National Guard (Rosgvardiya), was present, the EAN agency reports. As Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote, it was the parent who initiated taking the conflict out of the school and into the legal arena.

      The appellate court left the first-instance sentence unchanged. Both sides declined to comment on the court's decision to reporters.