Anna Aleksandrova
Anna Aleksandrova, born 1978, Saint Petersburg. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Anna Aleksandrova's case on "fakes" about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. Sentence (April 15, 2025): 5 years 2 months' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, January 11, 2024.
In brief
Saint Petersburg · Saint Petersburg · Hairdressers · Anti-war cases
Sentence
5 years 2 months
imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
Upheld November 6, 2025
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity in relation to any social group)
Full wording of the charges
The reason for intiating the case was anti-war posts published on VKontakte from May to July 2022 under the names "Boris Nutrom" and "Irochka Sergeeva". Later, another case was opened under the same article: according to the investigation, from 20 March to 22 April 2023, Aleksandrova posted "at least four" publications on VKontakte under the nickname "Irochka Sergeeva" containing "fakes" about the Russian army, as well as shared information on social media under different nicknames on how to avoid mobilisation.
Latest event
May 28, 2026 — preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, January 11, 2024
Timeline
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years 2 months
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Persecution begins
Anna Aleksandrova's case on "fakes" about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Criminal case
Anna Aleksandrova's case on "fakes" about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Case number
- 1-308/2024
Thematic group: Anti-war case
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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
187010, Ленинградская область, Тосненcкий район, п. Ульяновка, Ульяновское шоссе, д. 76, ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН России по Санкт-Петербургу и Ленинградской области», Александрова Анна Вячеславовна, 1978 г.р.
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Full summary
A female resident of St. Petersburg, she holds a veterinarian degree and worked as a hairdresser in a past few years. On 22 November 2023 she was taken into custody in the case of spreading deliberately false information about the Armed Forces of Russia. On 31 May 2024, during a hearing to appeal the decision to extend the measure of restraint, Aleksandrova said that she was threatened by prosecution witnesses. In her opinion, the reason for the case was a land conflict: she was slandered by a neighbour on her summer house plot. On 15 April 2025, Aleksandrova was sentenced to five years and two months in a general regime penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- pre-trial detention
Other people prosecuted under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.