Anna Andrievska

Anna Andrievska is a Crimean journalist and investigative reporter who has worked in the profession since the early 2000s. Her reporting has focused on human rights, corruption and abuses by Crimean authorities. She worked with the Center for Investigative Journalism and, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, also contributed to Crimea.Realities. She left Crimea for Kyiv in May 2014 because of security concerns.

The Russian criminal case against her concerned an article titled “Volunteers of the Crimea Battalion” published by the Center for Investigative Journalism. The article described volunteers supporting Crimean residents fighting on the Ukrainian side in the Donbas conflict.

On February 2, 2015, the Crimean branch of Russia’s Federal Security Service opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code, concerning public calls to violate Russia’s territorial integrity using mass media or the internet. Investigators alleged that the article contained such calls.

By that point, Andrievska had already been outside Crimea for months.

On March 13, 2015, FSB officers searched her parents’ apartment, where she remained officially registered, and seized her father’s computer. During the same investigation, officers searched the home of fellow journalist Natalia Kokorina and questioned her for several hours.

Human-rights monitors described Andrievska’s case as one of the earliest examples of Article 280.1 being used against journalists in Crimea after the annexation. Mediazona later included her prosecution among cases targeting people who had already left Russian-controlled territory.

No reliable public source confirms that Andrievska was ever tried or convicted. A 2019 monitoring report still described her as free but under investigation.