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Viktoria Kosheleva

Being clarifiedChecked October 18, 2026

Viktoria Kosheleva is listed as imprisoned, but other details in the same record do not agree:

  • the 1 year term (verdict of July 16, 2025), counted from July 1, 2025 without credit for time served, ended on June 30, 2026.

Viktoria Kosheleva, born 1974, Krasnodar Krai. Charges: Article 284.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of an undesirable organization); “The Sochi resident's case on financing "Renaissance" church”. Sentence (July 16, 2025): 1 year's imprisonment in a settlement prison.

In brief

Krasnodar Krai · Sochi

Sentence

1 year

s imprisonment in a settlement prison

Sentence changed July 16, 2025

First instance, December 11, 2024: 2 years

Charges

Full wording of the charges

According to the investigation, being a member of a regional group, Kosheleva transferred money to the organiser of the donations collection or All-Ukrainian spiritual centre "Renaissance" and the Vladimir Muntian's charitable foundation "Renaissance", both organisations recognised as "undesirable" on the territory of the Russian Federation. Kosheleva provided the money to the organiser. The money was knowingly "intended to support the activities of the international projects".

Latest event

July 16, 2025 — appeal

The court changed the sentence to 1 year.

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Appeal ruling

    sentence changed · 1 year

  2. · Imprisonment begins

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 2 years

Criminal case

The Sochi resident's case on financing "Renaissance" church

There are no other defendants in this case in the database.

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

A resident of Sochi. A case was opened against her for financing an "undesirable" organisation. According to the investigation, she transferred money to the Ukrainian organisations Spiritual Centre "Renaissance" and Vladimir Muntian's Charity Foundation "Renaissance", which were recognised as "undesirable" in the Russian Federation. On December 11, 2023, Kosheleva was sentenced to two years in a settlement prison. On July 16, 2025, the court of appeal reduced the sentence to one year.

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