Svetlana Gorina
Svetlana Gorina, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of "Citizens of the USSR" in the Sverdlovsk region”. Sentence (July 4, 2025): 6 years of suspended imprisonment with a probation period of 4 years. Status: at large.
In brief
Sverdlovsk Oblast · Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil · Journalists · Extremism cases
Sentence
6 years
of suspended imprisonment with a probation period of 4 years
First instance, August 14, 2024: 6 years
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, in the Citizens of the USSR movement, she held the position of the “acting head of the Sverdlovsk region of the RSFSR”; from the summer of 2019 to the spring of 2020, she distributed propaganda materials and held meetings where she discredited Russian government authorities.
Latest event
July 4, 2025 — appeal
The court changed the sentence to 6 years.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 6 years
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of "Citizens of the USSR" in the Sverdlovsk region
Criminal case
The case of "Citizens of the USSR" in the Sverdlovsk region
Other defendants in the case
- Pyotr Afanasenko — Imprisoned, 6 years
- Aleksandr Bersenev — At large, 2 years
- Nadezhda Dubina — At large, 2 years
- Dmitrii Koval — At large, 2 years
- Valerii Kriukov — At large, 2 years
- Liudmila Larionova — At large, 2 years
- Alexandr Maurin — At large, 2 years
- Aleksei Makhlanov — At large, 2 years
- Oleg Novopashin — At large, 2 years
- Sergei Chibikov — At large, 2 years
Details and sources
Full summary
She is a resident of Yekaterinburg. She was charged with organising the activities of an extremist organisation: the investigation believed that she was the head of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Citizens of the USSR movement (“Acting Head of the Sverdlovsk Region of the RSFSR”). The supporters of this movement deny the collapse of the USSR; how well structured this movement is and how serious a threat it poses to Russian society is unclear. Gorina was under personal recognizance. On 14 August 2024, she was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony. On 4 July 2025, in an appellate procedure, her real term was changed to a suspended sentence with a four-year probation period.
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.