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The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow has appointed seven years in prison in conjunction with the previous sentence to the former shiigumen Sergiy (Nikolai Romanov) in the case of extremism. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“By partial addition of punishments for the totality of crimes … to appoint Romanov Nikolai Vasilyevich seven years in a general regime colony,” judge Natalya Kurysheva announced the decision.
His assistant Vsevolod Moguchev was sentenced to five years in prison. It was these terms for the defendants that the public prosecutor asked for. It was alleged that Moguchev’s channel on the Web distributed videos that promoted hatred of Jews and Muslims.
Confessor and founder of the Sredneuralsk convent, Sergius, came into the spotlight after he began to say in sermons that COVID-19 is a “pseudo-pandemic”, that they want to put Russians in an “electronic camp of Satan”, “lawlessly put them in self-isolation”, deprive freedom and work. Subsequently, the church court defrocked him, but he continued to hold services and speak publicly in violation of the ban of the ruling bishop, in connection with which he was excommunicated in September 2020.
The first case against Romanov was initiated due to the fact that he, already excommunicated from the church, refused to leave the monastery and closed himself with supporters on its territory, not letting in, including representatives of the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Investigative Committee then stated that his arbitrariness was expressed in “obstructing the conduct of religious rites”, the prosecution also claimed that he interfered with the inventory of real estate on the territory of the monastery. In addition, according to the prosecution, Romanov publicly called for suicide of the nuns who lived there and posted fragments of the speech on the Web.
In November 2021, the Izmailovsky Court of Moscow sentenced him to 3.5 years in prison for inciting suicide, arbitrariness and violating the right to freedom of conscience.
Source: Rosbalt
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