The Omsk garrison military court issued a verdict in the case of Alexander Kozin, captain of the Russian army, who is accused of abuse of power with the use of torture (part 4 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). He was fined 100 thousand rubles.
Kozin was unhappy that an unnamed serviceman did not answer questions about the military helmet. For this, the captain hit him five times in the abdomen and once with his palm in the face. This was reported in the press service of the military courts of Siberia. The time and place of the incident were not specified.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced back in 2020 that it had eradicated hazing in the Russian army. “Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov paid special attention to the correctly chosen direction of joint actions to restore the statutory order in the Armed Forces, which resulted in a significant decrease in the number of military crimes, such a concept as “hazing”, “barracks hooliganism” was completely eradicated,” wrote RIA Novosti about the speech of Deputy Minister of Defense Andrei Kartapolov.
In fact, bullying still flourishes in the Russian army. One of the last known cases of abuse of authority occurred in early October. As Sota wrote, the commander of the grouping of Russian troops in Ukraine "Center", Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, personally put a pistol to the temples of the mobilized retreating to Svatovo and threatened them with execution.