Timofey’s attack wasn’t the first instance of brutality among schoolchildren in Russia last month. Two weeks earlier, a ninth grader had beaten an eighth grader so severely that the latter couldn’t remember what had happened by the time he got to a hospital. The next day, a group of teenagers tortured a schoolgirl in the Ural region, cutting into her back with a knife. Less than a week later, schoolboys repeatedly kicked a 10-year-old student in the head. Several days after that, a ninth grader stabbed his math teacher in the back.