A Nizhny Novgorod teacher was fined 30 thousand rubles for talking to students about the war

The Vorotynsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region fined English teacher Olga Lizunkova 30 thousand rubles for talking about the war in Ukraine with students. about this The teacher told the publication “Idel” . Realities."

The teacher was found guilty of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). A report was drawn up against her after a denunciation by one of the students. According to the testimony of the deputy director of the university, during classes Lizunkova “called for setting fire to military registration and enlistment offices,” said that “Ukraine is stronger than Russia” and “Russia will lose.”

Lizunkova added: “Other testimony from the student, where I allegedly spoke about the Molotov cocktail, is not true. And I didn't say that. And in the testimony of the deputy director it is written that I quit because I “expressed obscene words to one of the students,” this also, of course, did not happen. I didn’t talk about biological weapons either, that’s just fiction.”

After the student’s denunciation, the teacher was suspended from work, and the next day she wrote a letter of resignation of her own free will.

In April of this year, due to a similar complaint from schoolchildren against teacher Irina Gen, a case was opened regarding military “fakes” (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The court sentenced the 45-year-old English language teacher at the Olympic Reserve School to five years probation.