A scientist from the Russian Academy of Sciences died after a brutal attack in the Urals — he was beaten by the parents of children who rode through experimental fields and damaged crops.
68-year-old employee of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Ural Federal Agrarian Scientific Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences" Nikita Zezin, together with his deputy Alexander Shanin, was inspecting experimental fields and crops in the village of Istok in mid-July.