Nika Belotserkovskaya

The Moscow Basmanny Court arrested Nika Belotserkovskaya in absentia for deliberately spreading false information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces. He faces a fine of up to 3 million rubles and a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

– quotes the court’s message “Kommersant”.

Nika Belotserkovskaya publicly condemned the military special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. He has lived abroad for many years: he has a villa on the Cote d’Azur in France, where the blogger has hosted refugees from Ukraine, including his friend, Ukrainian singer Olga Polyakova.

Belotserkovsky became one of the first public figures in criminal proceedings for fraud against the RF Armed Forces. The reason for this was Belonika’s posts on social networks, which, according to the Investigative Committee, deliberately contained false information about the use of the RF Armed Forces to destroy cities and the civilian population of Ukraine, including children, during a military special attack. operation. In early May, Belotserkovskaya was put on the wanted list.

Nika Belotserkovskaya is known as a blogger, author of cookbooks and the founder of Sobaka.ru magazine. After a criminal case was opened against her, Belotserkovskaya left the magazine and handed over all the cases to the editor-in-chief Yana Miloradovskaya and the publisher of the magazine Inessa Gaevskaya. She ran the magazine for 23 years before that, she.