According to the indictment, Nikolai posted a video on his Instagram account in July 2021 in which he made comments about two police officers from the Berezovsky Department of the Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. The video included their photographs. His actions were classified as a crime under the article "insulting a government official," as his verbal comments contained "indecent, derogatory, and negative assessments of the victims."
In November 2021, the court sentenced Nikolai to arrest and granted the claims for moral damages to each police officer.
He was released at the end of March 2022, having fully served his sentence.
