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A physical education teacher from the village of Kosulino in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Pavel Kudrin, reportedly made a ninth-grader kneel and struck him on the back during an Important Conversations class, Meduza reported on November 11, 2026. According to the class monitor, the student and his friends had been insulting the teacher and disrupting classes. The teacher told a Yekaterinburg outlet that the class staged a provocation against him, instigated by members of Yunarmiya, a pro-Kremlin youth group.