The court sentenced the resident of Komi to a real term in the libel case. This is the first time in 10 years.

Resident of Komi, 37-year-old Mikhail Umanets, was sentenced to eight months in prison in May on charges of libel. How notes edition “Kholod”, this is the first verdict with a real term under this article in the last ten years.

Umanets was sent to serve his sentence in a strict regime colony.

According to the investigation, in March 2021, the man published on his page on VKontakte “knowingly false information” about his acquaintance, with whom he had “hostile relations.” In particular, he argued that the girl is a thief who pours potent substances on men to bring them to a helpless state.