In Odessa, the court sentenced a thief to read the works of Lev Tolstoy and Ivan Franko 
to a suspended sentence and reading the stories of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and the poems of the Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko. This was reported by the press service of the court.
According to the case file, in July the convict robbed his acquaintance, taking his mobile phone and 50 hryvnias from him. The total damage caused to the victim was estimated at almost 903 hryvnia (about 2.5 thousand rubles).
It is noted that as a child, the thief was engaged in vagrancy and ended up in an orphanage. He practically did not attend primary school, and after the ninth grade he immediately went to work. The court also found that in his entire life the man had not read almost a single book, and during the hearing on his case he read syllables.
The convict, who has a family and two children, fully admitted his guilt. The court assigned him a suspended sentence with a probationary period of one year and a number of obligations. In particular, during this time he must read the trilogy of Leo Tolstoy's stories “Childhood”, “Adolescence” and “Youth”, as well as the poem by Ivan Franko “Stanzas”.
In September, the court in the British city of Leicester sentenced the accused of terrorism of 21-year-old Ben John to reading classical literature. For downloading thousands of materials on white supremacy and claiming membership in the fascist underground, he will read the works of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, as well as books by Anthony Trollope, William Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy.