Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Natalia Eroshkina
[REGNUM] A 14-year-old teenager committed suicide in Kalmykia because of bullying. According to the investigation and his relatives, the schoolboy could not stand the bullying from his peers. A criminal case has been opened.
It turned out that the gang of minors who abused the boy had been terrorizing the entire village for a long time. Local residents told IA Regnum about this.
14-year-old Artem is a student at one of the schools in the village of Sadovoye, located in the Sarpinsky District of the Republic of Kalmykia. The teenager's mother, Svetlana, works as a nurse at a local hospital. She was the only one raising Artem and his sister.
The boy was quiet and calm, participated in Olympiads and won prizes. Everyone who knew him speaks well of him. It became known only after his death that the teenager had been a victim of bullying by his peers for a long time.
A few hours before his suicide on March 10, Artem mentioned to his friend Sergey (name changed) that he was thinking about death. When his friend came to visit Artem, it was already too late, the guy committed suicide.
According to the investigation and his relatives, the teenager was driven to such an act by humiliation from his peers. The last straw was a situation that happened the night before, on the night of March 8-9.
"PUT IT ON THE GROUND"
That night, Artem's mother was on duty, his friend Sergei came to visit the boy, and the boy also invited a girl, Sveta (name changed), to visit. The guest did not notify her relatives where she had gone.
Her cousin didn't like this. He gathered six more guys - Boris, Hasan, Ivan, Alexander, Rustam and Arsen (names have been changed) - and went to Artyom's house to sort things out.
The teenager was called in for a talk and was humiliated, insulted and beaten at the gate of his own home. Then they threw him to the ground, spat on him, urinated on him and wiped their feet on Artem. Sergey stood up for the boy, but was hit in the face. The attackers recorded everything that happened on video.
The footage shows Artyom alone, surrounded by larger guys; the teenager is scared and tries not to get involved in the conflict.
One of the participants, Galdan (name changed), tries to provoke him: "Who do you think you are? Did you take responsibility for taking the girl there and back for a walk, to your home for the night? Her mom, dad, sister are looking for her, why didn't you tell her? What did you say to me when you were walking? What did you suffer, f*****g? Why are you silent?"
Then the offender suggests that his friends choose who will beat Artyom. Hasan takes up the matter, he delivers several blows. Then Galdan stops him and orders: "Throw him down on the ground and spit."
The next day, a video of the bullying was uploaded online and distributed throughout the school.
"At school, he again met one of these guys, Boris, who was also present during the humiliation and video recording. He and another eighth-grader began to bully him again, they say that they shoved Artem's head into the toilet, forced him to kiss their shoes.
After that, the boy came home and didn't know how to live with this shame, he said that now everyone would humiliate him. After all, this video was spread all over the school. He told his friend that he wanted to commit suicide.
Now the boy blames himself for not having time to save Artyom, because he didn’t think that everything would go so far,” said the mother of one of the school’s students.
Only after the teenager's death did the village begin to talk about the bullying that Artyom had been subjected to for a long time.
"My relative works as a social worker. After what happened, when talking about what happened, she said that Artyomka was in her group. He was very cheerful, open. Then she went on maternity leave for 3 years, returned in 2023 and did not recognize the boy: Artyom was completely different, his gaze became dull.
Now there are rumors that he has been bullied for a long time. Why didn't his mother, the school, anyone see this? I feel very sorry for the boy," said a former colleague of Artem's mother.
"THE INVESTIGATION IS MARKING TIME"
The mother and sister of the deceased boy recorded an appeal demanding that all those involved in his death be held accountable.
"I am the deceased's older cousin. His mother, Svetlana Nikolaevna, is next to me.
Please help me make this public. My cousin was driven to suicide by humiliation, bullying, beatings, and insults. All of this was filmed, but after the incident, all the videos were deleted from the Internet. There is a fragment of an incomplete video that was sent to me by a concerned person. We doubt the actions of law enforcement agencies, since the death certificate was issued without the time of death.
"They refused to give us a certificate of the beatings, citing the fact that an investigation was underway. The incident is not being publicized on the Internet in the Republic of Kalmykia," says Artem's sister.
I, the mother of a dead son who was driven to suicide, ask that those who disgraced him in front of the entire country not escape punishment. This video, which we are attaching to the video message, is real. It happened from March 8 to 9.
The children came to Artem specifically to mock him, film him and send him online to humiliate the child. The reason for this bullying is the deceased's girlfriend. Everyone who took part was questioned and released. The investigation is marking time. We don't know what will happen next," says the teenager's mother.
The relatives' appeal caused a wide public resonance not only in the village itself, but also beyond its borders. Residents of Sadovoye demanded that the gang of teenagers be held accountable for bullying and other crimes, from which many had suffered for a long time, but were afraid to seek help.
"THEY ATTACK ADULTS TOO"
IA Regnum talked to the villagers and found out details from the lives of the gang members who bullied Artem. One of them is 14-year-old Boris, who studies at the same school.
"He is the middle son, his mother has two more, she raises them alone, without a father. Well, how does she raise them, she is constantly drunk. So they do whatever they want. Boris walks around the school like a boss, no one tells him what to do, he has repeatedly come to class drunk this school year, he curses, calls names, pushes everyone.
The children complain, saying that they called the local police officer, but he simply said that Boris was not drunk, they didn’t even take him for an examination,” says Veronica (name changed), the mother of one of the students, indignantly.
The woman said that Boris and other gang members tried to attack her son, but the boy was saved in time by neighbors and his father.
"They almost beat him up with Galdan and took his bike. It's good that the neighbors noticed in time and were able to protect my child, otherwise it's unknown how all this could have ended. They attack adults too," Veronica said.
According to Veronika, at 14, Boris is in the 6th grade because he was held back twice: "He should be in the 8th grade, but he's in the 6th and terrorizes everyone there. He and his older brother Anton (name changed) always went together, he's 18 now. They go in a crowd of 5 or more people, steal cars, break into stores. The village suffers greatly from this gang, I don't understand why no one can do anything. They're probably afraid that things will only get worse, they're minors."
After the news of Artem's death, Boris was not afraid to show up at his relatives' home. And it was not remorse that brought him there.
"When Artem's body was brought home from the morgue, Boris came to his relatives' house. I was standing there, I couldn't stand it and started telling him, why did he come, he had enough conscience. He then threatened to burn everyone. And on the day of the funeral, he came again and threatened, demanded that the police statement be withdrawn, can you imagine? There are many witnesses to this. And then he disappeared. Now they are looking for him," the woman said.
Six days after Artem's death, Boris left home and never returned. His current whereabouts are unknown. Law enforcement officials have sent out wanted notices, and the missing man's mother hopes that her son was simply scared of threats from online commentators and is hiding somewhere.
Boris's older brother Anton had already been prosecuted for car theft. According to law enforcement officials, three local motorists contacted the Sarpinsky District police in early January. Two of them did not find their cars in the yard on January 1, 2025, and the third noticed signs of a break-in on his.
The perpetrator was identified thanks to cameras and shoe prints. Anton used a screwdriver to open a VAZ-2114, drove it around and returned it to its place. Then he stole a Niva from the yard of another house, but lost control on the way and flew into a ditch. He left the wrecked car there. Then he tried to open two more cars - a Gazelle and a Lada Priora.
The police established that the guy was intoxicated during the thefts. A criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal seizure of a car or other vehicle without the purpose of theft." "He has a criminal record, it seems he now has to pay damages to the car owners, one of them is a former policeman, and he was not afraid to steal even his car," the neighbor explained.
But Anton and Boris Alexander's mother defends her sons and puts forward alternative hypotheses about the causes of Artyom's death. She suggests that his suicide was due to a coincidence - his inability to fight and financial difficulties.
"I feel incredibly sorry for this boy. Considering that he has always been such a poor guy. Artyom had a difficult life, I think that everything just piled on top of each other. Why did no one care how this boy lived, if they say that he was bullied for two years at that school?
"If my boy had been jumped by a crowd there, they would have picked out their offenders one by one and snitched on them! We have sections: boxing, wrestling, martial arts. Why not send the child there so that he can learn to stand up for himself?" - said Alexandra.
Earlier, IA Regnum published a detailed conversation with Boris’s mother.
Another gang member and the main ringleader in the video is Galdan, also from a large family. He has two sisters and a brother.
"Mom doesn't drink, she works in a store, but she can't find a way to control her children. Their father is Georgian, but he doesn't live with them. There's only one mother for everyone. When people tell her about her children, that they've done something again, she shrugs her shoulders: what can I do? How many times have they approached her, each time the same answer," Veronica complained.
The third gang member, Hasan, who beat Artem in the video, turned out to be a dark horse. The neighbors could not say anything bad about him.
"I'm surprised that he took part in this, I've never seen him with them, and I can't say anything bad about his family either. His father is from Chechnya, his mother is Russian. They say he studies in Volgograd. Apparently, that's where he went when the fuss started," the neighbor explains. But local residents managed to notice comments from Khasan on social networks, in which he claims that he is not afraid of anything and is confident in his impunity. Later, the young man deleted everything, and now his page is blocked.
The fourth participant in the events, Ivan, is from a very respectable family. His father is a major in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, he heads one of the local fire and rescue units. And the guy himself was awarded a certificate and a medal for successful participation in a military-patriotic tournament. When the village learned of Artem's death, Ivan went to the police with a confession.
"He immediately came to the duty station and said that he was there that evening when they all came to Artyom. But he didn't touch him, he only filmed the video. This doesn't justify him either, it's just awful. I don't understand why he should participate in this, why he should film it," our agency's interlocutor is indignant.
Little is known about the rest of the gang members.
"I know that Alexander's dad is fighting in the SVO. I don't know who the others were, I didn't see them. I heard that the police were checking seven teenagers. Now we are waiting for news from law enforcement agencies," the woman says.
After Artem's death, social and preventive work began in the region. The administration reported on holding a meeting of parents of students in grades 8–11 of educational institutions in the village of Sadovoye. The republic's prosecutor appointed a reception for residents of the Sarpinsky District on issues of observing the rights of minors. The Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Republic of Kalmykia also opened a personal reception for citizens on issues of protecting children and ensuring their rights.
The investigation of the criminal case is under the control of the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin.
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