article_snippet.sent: Miss Sumner, left, appeared in court along with an interpreter, right, and was ordered to pay a £23.50 fine .
article_snippet.sent: A migration service spokesman said the hearing on Wednesday April 1 in the city of Nizhny Novgorod was ‘not an April Fool joke’.
article_snippet.sent: Nottingham University said Miss Sumner Miss Sumner appeared to have fallen foul of a ‘minor infringement in visa regulations’ but did not respond to the spying claims.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Sumner has been offered consular support by the British Embassy.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Sumner, from Solihull, describes Miss Sumner as a feminist and dog lover on Twitter, and has been working on Miss Sumner thesis for more than a year.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Sumner was unavailable for comment and Miss Sumner Twitter account had been deleted yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Badcock was also unavailable and was said to be on holiday with Professor Badcock family.