The defendant in Russia’s first case of “fake news” about the army was fined one million rubles. She asked to be sent to a colony because there was no money for a fine.
The Seversky City Court of Tomsk sentenced 65-year-old lawyer Marina Novikova, a defendant in one of the first two criminal cases in Russia regarding “fakes” about the army, to a fine of one million rubles. The convict’s husband, Alexander Gavrik, reported this to OVD-Info. “After the debate, the judge kicked me out of the room and didn’t even let me in for the verdict.