Police detained Olga Archibasova, an activist from the Altai region, at Novosibirsk airport, according to the Telegram channel "Razoblacheno," which had covered her activities. She faces charges under Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism or calls for terrorism), with the trigger being a clip set to the revolutionary anthem "The Internationale." Archibasova is currently held at a police station in the village of Soloneshnoye, where a search of her home lasted five hours.
Archibasova is the third supporter of Svetlana Lada-Rus, founder of the Volya party, to be charged in connection with "The Internationale." Similar cases were previously opened against Aruna Arna from the Altai Republic and Kamchatka schoolteacher Vasilisa Vershinina. The songs in their clips feature altered lyrics tied to Lada-Rus's conspiracy views; for example, the anthem includes the line "Bankers, digital money, want to lead us into slavery."
Archibasova ran a Telegram channel where she reported on the persecution of Aruna Arna, who led protests against municipal reform in the Altai Republic and in June was sentenced to five years in a penal colony on charges of justifying terrorism. The activist had also supported farmers whose livestock were culled in Siberia under the pretext of a pasteurellosis outbreak, and campaigned against illegal gold mining.
In June, Archibasova recorded a video alleging that teenagers at a lyceum in Soloneshnoye were being recruited to fight in the war against Ukraine. Afterward, she complained that rumors were circulating in the village that she was a foreign agent. "This looks like a response to my actions regarding the lyceum. But I want to state openly — I spoke, speak, and will speak the truth!" the activist wrote on her channel the day before the searches.