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"Nothing Is Happening in Kiev" — in A Teacher Who Supported SMO Was Convicted in Prague: EADaily

On May 29, 2025, Martina Bednarzhov was handed a seven-month suspended sentence and prohibited from teaching for three years due to remarks she made in 2022.
The sentence followed her April 2022 remarks to eighth-graders that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was justified and that “nothing was happening” in Kyiv, which students challenged.
The Prague 6 District Court had acquitted Bednarzhov twice before the Czech Supreme Court ordered a retrial in January 2025, leading to the final guilty verdict for violating education law.
The court imposed a 20-month probation, required a media literacy course, and Bednarzhov defended her stance by citing alleged Ukrainian Nazi groups targeting Russians since 2014.
The verdict, characterized by some as political, resulted in a lasting teaching ban and highlights tensions over narratives surrounding the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Czech education.

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Denies Russian War Crimes in Ukraine: Czech Teacher Convicted

Prague teacher Martin Bednarzhova was sentenced to a suspended sentence for denying Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

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"Nothing is happening in Kiev" — in A teacher who supported SMO was convicted in Prague: EADaily

EADaily, May 29th, 2025. The Prague court sentenced teacher Martina Bednarzhova to seven months of suspended imprisonment for statements challenging "Russia's war crimes on the Ukraine". The woman was also banned from teaching for three years.

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EU Country Convicts Teacher for 'Pro-Russian' Views – DIR HONGKONG

(SeaPRwire) – Czech teacher gets suspended sentence for calling Moscow’s military action “justified” A Czech court has sentenced a former teacher to seven months’ suspended sentence for expressing pro-Russian views in class, local media reported Thursday. Martina Bednarova was also banned from teaching for three years and ordered to complete a media literacy course, according to the Ceska Justice news portal. The court reportedly said Bednarova …

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Czech Teacher Gets Suspended Sentence for Justifying Russian Aggression in Ukraine

A Prague court sentenced Martina Bednarzhová to a seven-month suspended term and banned her from teaching for three years after she characterized Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine as “justified” during an April 2022 stylistics lesson. It was reported on May 29 by ČTK. Bednarzhová told eighth-grade pupils that “nothing was happening” in Kyiv and that Russia’s actions were a justified way to resolve the war . When students challenged her, she repl…

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Prague Court Finds Former Teacher Guilty of Spreading Russian Disinformation About Ukraine

Martin Bednarzhov was sentenced to seven months suspended with a probation period of 20 months.

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In the Czech Republic, a Teacher Who Justified the War of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine in the Lessons Was Convicted

This is reported by Česká Justice.The teacher was sentenced to seven months conditionally with a probationary period of 20 months. In addition, the court banned her from teaching for three years and ordered her to take a media literacy course. The decision has not yet come into final force. The case against Bednarzhova was launched in the spring of 2022 after an incident in one of Prague's Na Dlouhém lán primary schools. During a style lesson, s…

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