“The court ... ruled to impose a fine of 500 thousand rubles,” the chairman of the panel of judges announced the verdict.
The state prosecutor previously requested a sentence of six years in a general regime colony and a ban on journalism for a period of four years.
In November 2018, a program was broadcast on Echo of Moscow in Pskov, in which Prokopieva spoke about the possible causes of the terrorist attack in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk. The text was posted in the form of an article in the publication “Pskov News Feed”.
Later, the broadcast and the article were deleted at the request of Roskomnadzor, and the UK opened a case to publicly justify terrorism using the media.
The journalist does not admit her guilt.