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MOSCOW — A Russian regional court on Monday convicted four teenagers of burning a man to death in the eternal flame of their town’s World War II memorial.
The victim, 25-year-old Alexei Denisov, came upon the teenagers while walking home on the night of Jan. 1 in the industrial town of Kolchugino, about 80 miles northeast of Moscow.
He reprimanded the teenagers, who were smoking and drinking around the town’s eternal flame, part of a memorial to Soviet soldiers killed in World War II, the magazine Ogonyok wrote. The teenagers beat Denisov unconscious and threw him face-first into the flame, said court spokesman Vladimir Ganenko.
