On October 3, 2019, reports began to emerge about wide-scale fights being arranged between students at a school in Moscow — a case that has since spiralled into a full-blown fight club with more than 160 student members.
A journalist working for local news outlet okha65.ru discovered a group page on Russian social networking site VKontakte that invited teenagers to take part in full-contact fights without rules. The group page featured several videos, all of which showed teenagers dressed in torn gloves and fighting in front of at least 50 classmates.
The fight club, which took place at Moscow school no.