The court reinstated a student expelled for pacifist posts at the university

Lysenko and her friend posted on Instagram stories about what is happening in Ukraine and pacifist appeals. After these posts, they were expelled from the Russian University of Economics. G. V. Plekhanov.  

The Zamoskvoretsky District COURT of Moscow satisfied the claim of a former student of the Russian University of Economics. G. V. Plekhanov Polina Lysenko, who was expelled from the university for pacifist calls on Instagram, and decided to reinstate her to study, RBC was told in the press service of the court.

As lawyer Roman Kiselev told RBC, on February 24, Lysenko and her friend Antonina Begacheva posted "a number of rather emotional posts on social networks." “It turned out that their social networks were monitored by the HEAD of the security department of Plekhanov University. He took screenshots, wrote a memo addressed to the vice-rector stating that these posts contain signs of an administrative offense and that this does not correspond to the charter of the university. Among other things, he recommended the girls for expulsion,” the lawyer said.

Begacheva, in an interview with Novaya Gazeta, said that she accidentally found out about her expulsion on March 15, when she could not log into her school account, and then told Lysenko about it. The defense insisted that the girls had not received any official notification of the start of the expulsion process, while the university, according to Kiselyov, claimed that it had sent a notification on the evening of February 24 to the personal accounts of the students, asking them for an explanation.

“It was Thursday [February 24] in the evening. On Monday [February 28] an act of refusal to give written explanations is drawn up and an act of misconduct is drawn up. And a decision is made that the girls need to be expelled, ”continued the lawyer.

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According to him, the girls continued to attend lectures and online seminars (study was remote due to covid restrictions) and only later found out that they had been expelled. “There were no documents, except for the expulsion order, even at the faculty they did not know that they had been expelled. The expulsion took place through the administration, and not the faculty, as usual, ”Kiselev noted.

As a result, it turned out that the girls were expelled due to posts on social networks. The defense insisted that the girls were not brought to administrative responsibility, “that is, the university took over the functions of a policeman and a judge, imposing a punishment,” the lawyer said. Secondly, the university applied a strict disciplinary measure without analyzing the severity of the misconduct and its causes, he noted. “In our case, it turns out that the reason is extraordinary: not every day a military operation begins, it affects the psychological and emotional state of people,” Kiselev explained.

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In addition, he added, the severity was not taken into account - “there was nothing cruel in the posts that the girls showed,” and they did not try to get feedback from the students. The defense also insisted that bringing to disciplinary responsibility for activities not related to education is a violation of the constitutionally protected right to education. “Girls were essentially deprived of the constitutional right to access to education as a result of the implementation of another constitutional right to freedom of expression,” the lawyer said.

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According to Kiselev, the girls are not going to return to the university. “One thing is a formal process where repression is applied, and another thing is when it is done in an informal way. The university has many ways to ruin their lives. Well, among other things, they waste time. If they still wait for recovery, then a lot of time will pass, and studies begin in September. Polina has already entered another university and will go there to study in the new academic year, ”the lawyer explained.

The court has not yet made a decision on Begacheva's claim. According to Kiselyov, the meeting is scheduled for August 22.

RBC asked for a comment to the press service of the Russian University of Economics. G. V. Plekhanov.