After regaining consciousness, Janner told police he was sharing a baht bus around 4 a.m. with two Russians on his way back to his hotel with a woman. The Russians, he said, began teasing the woman and, when he asked them to stop, they spit in his face.
Janner said he decided to change to another baht bus, but when they stopped, the Russians followed him out of the bus and began beating him until he lay unconscious in the street.
Babin and Bakanov have been charged with assault.
Artem Babin.
Artem Bakanov.
