Nikolai was found guilty in June 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left in the "Country for Life" chat under a photograph of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, in which he placed his foot on a person's head.
According to human rights activists, Nikolai was released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
