Sentenced for comments on social networks
On September 12, 2014, 63-year-old Nail Mikeev was convicted in Ulyanovsk for making comments on the Internet. On September 12, 2014, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Ulyanovsk Region announced that a 63-year-old local resident, Nail Mikeev, had been sentenced. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred, enmity, as well as humiliation of a group of persons on the basis of nationality, committed in public).