Former schema monk Sergiy, whose secular name is Nikolai Romanov, sits inside a defendants' cage during a verdict hearing at Babushkinsky district court in Moscow, Russia. On November, 2021 he was convicted to three and a half years in prison of inciting suicide and seizing control of a convent. Last August a Russian court a Russian court started a new criminal trial against the former priest and his assistant Vsevolod Moguchev on charges of extremism in online preaching.
- Package: Russia Renegade Priest New Trial
- Categories: Religion & Belief, Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 27.01.2023
- Date published: 27.01.2023
- Author: Ilya Pitalev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 6264x3959px, 17.6Mb
- Job-ID: 445cb2d24a970309