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.