The criminal intent was not completed due to the child's fall being softened by the snow cover." The distressing footage, which came to the attention of the Russian authorities after it went viral ...

Police in Russia’s Leningrad region have arrested three schoolchildren aged 10 and 11 for extinguishing an eternal flame monument by throwing snow on it, the newspaper Fontanka reported on Thursday.

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