The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan sentenced 64-year-old Irina Nikolskaya to three years of probation and four years of prohibition on administering websites and any communication on the internet, reported the project "First Department"*. Nikolskaya did not plead guilty.
Irina Nikolskaya taught history for over 25 years in a school in Chuvashia. After the start of the war, she helped refugees from Ukraine who ended up in Kazan.
On August 6, 2024, Nikolskaya was searched, and a criminal case was initiated against her for "discrediting" the Russian army. The reason again was comments on "VKontakte", one of which was: "I believe in Russia, that it will once again be able to emerge into the light".
In September 2022, she was already fined 30,000 rubles for "discrediting" the Russian army over a comment about the events in Mariupol in the community "We are pensioners!" on "VKontakte".
* Recognized in Russia as a "foreign agent".
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