Sergei Mozgalev and Yury Pliyev, sentenced for beating three restaurant employees, will serve their prison terms in a high-security prison.
Kondopoga, in the Republic of Karelia, experienced a wave of racial violence in September last year after two local Russian residents were killed and nine others injured in a restaurant brawl with Chechens August 30.
The incident sparked racially motivated violence in the community, and a wave of nationalist protests elsewhere in the country. A total of 109 people were detained in the city on suspicion of involvement in pogroms and arson attacks, and 25 rioters were arrested. Seventeen criminal cases were opened following the incident.
Lawyers for the defendants, who partially admitted their guilt, said they will not appeal the sentence.
