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Ravil Nabiullin, a resident of Naberezhnye Chelny, a major city in Tatarstan, has been given a three-year suspended sentence over comments insulting Russian military personnel. He personally shared this information with OVD-Info.
The Naberezhnye Chelny City Court found the young man guilty of repeat “discrediting” of the army (Part 1, Article 280.3 of the Russian Criminal Code).
The criminal case was opened over Nabiullin’s comments in the “Nevzorov” Telegram channel, in which he insulted Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Nabiullin admitted his guilt.
According to Nabiullin, in February 2024 he was fined 30,000 roubles (about US$330) under an administrative article for “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). At that time, he had called a Russian soldier an orc in a group chat on VKontakte. Nabiullin believes that he was reported by one of the chat participants, of whom there were about one hundred. In November, officers from “Centre E” detained him as part of the criminal case.
From October 2022 to May 2024, Naberezhnye Chelny City Court considered six protocols against Nabiullin. Alongside “discrediting” the army, he was also accused of the display of banned symbols (Part 1, Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code), violation of rules on official use of Russian state symbols (Article 17.10 of the Administrative Code) and three separate counts of inciting hatred (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code). In every case, he was found guilty.
In spring 2022, Nabiullin was added to Rosfinmonitoring’s “list of terrorists and extremists.” He explained that this was due to a criminal case for “incitement to extremism” (Part 2, Article 280 of the Russian Criminal Code) which was opened over his comments about migrants from Central Asia. According to Nabiullin, he was given a two-year suspended sentence in this case in February 2023.