MOSCOW, February 27 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – A judge from the Supreme Court of Russia has requested an inquiry into criminal case against Yevgeniya Chudnovets, kindergarten teacher, who was sentenced for distribution of pornography by sharing video in a social network, RAPSI learnt from lawyer Aleksey Bushmakov on Monday.

Earlier, Deputy Prosecutor General Leonid Korzhinek has asked the Supreme Court to repeal the sentence and close the case against Chudnovets.

Chudnovets’ legal team filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) earlier today.

According to the case documents, Chudnovets published video, where a little child was shown naked, on the Vkontakte social network. Aleksey Bushmakov earlier told RAPSI that this was a video made by someone else, shared by Chudnovets to bring attention to situation in recreational camps for children. She was sentenced to six months in a penal colony.

Later, the Kurgan Regional Court ruled to reduce her sentence to five months. Prosecutors asked to choose another punishment for Chudnovets, one not related to imprisonment. During the initial hearings prosecutors asked for five years in prison.