She was served up to seven years in prison, as required by law, or six plus another four years of interdiction from the journalistic profession, as requested by the prosecution. Therefore, it could be concluded that Svetlana Prokopyeva, journalist of Radio Liberty and collaborator of another radio station, Eco di Mosca, got away with “just” a fine of 500,000 rubles (6,160 euros).
In November 2018, the journalist had commented in the course of a live (the text was later published online) a suicide attack carried out in the headquarters of the Federal Security Services in the city of Arkangelsk, in which three people were injured and was The author, 17-year-old Mikhail Zhlobitsky, died. Propopyeva expressed the opinion that the attack was a reaction to the government’s iron fist against criticism and peaceful protests. For that comment, in February 2019 Prokopyeva was accused of “justification of terrorism”, based on article 205.2 of the criminal code and, as mentioned, she ran the risk of spending several years in prison.
