“I don’t want to ask for justice, I can’t ask for mercy.” The final statment of a teacher who is going to prison for a post about Vladimir Putin and the Crimean bridge explosion
Никита Тушканов. Фото: личный архив On May 11, Nikita Tushkanov, a 29-year-old history teacher from Komi Republic, was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison. He was accused of justifying terrorism and discrediting the Russian army over several comments on social media. Among other things, he called the 8 October 2022 explosion on the Kerch bridge, which connects Russia to occupied Crimea, “a little gift for Putler.” The court carried out the sentence single day.