Russian teacher forces student to kneel and strikes him during ‘patriotic’ lesson, claims pro-Kremlin youth group members staged a provocation

A physical education teacher from the village of Kosulino in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Pavel Kudrin, made a ninth-grader kneel and struck him on the back during an “Important Conversations” class, Yekaterina Mizulina reported. According to the class monitor, the student and his friends had been insulting the teacher and disrupting classes. The teacher himself told Yekaterinburg’s Channel Four that the class had staged a provocation against him, instigated by members of “Yunarmiya”. The prosecutor’s office is conducting an investigation. Following the incident, the teacher decided to resign.At Meduza, we are committed to transparency about our use of artificial intelligence in the newsroom. The story you’re reading was written by one of our living, breathing journalists and translated from Russian using an AI model configured to follow our strict editorial standards. This translation process is the result of extensive testing and refinements to ensure our English-language coverage is timely and accurate. A Meduza editor reviews every draft before publication.If you find any errors in this translation, please contact us at [email protected].To read Meduza’s exclusive content in English, please subscribe to our newsletter.