Irina Dmitrieva (Nelson)
Irina Dmitrieva (Nelson), born 1988, Novgorod Oblast. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); “Irina Nelson's case of public justification of terrorism”. Sentence (October 17, 2023): fine of 300 thousand rubles. Status: at large.
In brief
Novgorod Oblast · Veliky Novgorod · Entrepreneurs · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
fine of 300 thousand rubles
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
The case was initiated in connection with a series of comments made on VKontakte from August 2021 to March 2022. Two of them concerned the war and the deployment of Russian soldiers to Ukraine.
Latest event
April 8, 2025 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Irina Nelson's case of public justification of terrorism
Criminal case
Irina Nelson's case of public justification of terrorism
- Case number
- 1-178/2022
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
Lawyer, entrepreneur, mother of four children. In recent years, she has been going on solitary pickets in the district centre of Parfino settlement. She was prosecuted for public justification of terrorism. The occasion was the series of comments in VKontakte from August 2021 to March 2022, two of them devoted to the war and sending Russian soldiers to Ukraine. On 18 October 2022, the court sentenced Nelson to a fine of 300,000 rubles. About six months later, when Nelson's son turned 14 and the family tried to get a bank card for him, it turned out that his data had been blocked under the terrorism financing law.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.