Alina Olekhnovich
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism casesCases against Navalny/ACF supporters
- Verdict
- Sentence unknown
- Date of verdict
- 2024-03-13
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
- Facility
- ФКУ СИЗО-6 ГУФСИН России по г. Москве ("Печатники")
- Address for letters
- 109383, г. Москва, ул. Шоссейная, д. 92, ФКУ СИЗО-6 ГУФСИН России по г. Москве ("Печатники"), Олехнович Алина Александровна, 2001 г.р.
Case summary
A student at the Department of Contemporary Art at the HSE School of Design. On 27 July 2023, she was detained and placed under house arrest as part of a case concerning alleged participation in an extremist organisation. TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov claimed that Olekhnovich and her fellow student, Ivan Trofimov, were activists with ‘Navalny’s underground headquarters’ and were ‘helping the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)’.
In August 2023, the decision to place Olekhnovich under house arrest was overturned and she was taken into custody.
It was later reported that the charge had been reclassified from participating in the activities of an extremist organisation to participating in an extremist community.
On 14 March 2024, Olekhnovich was sentenced to three and a half years in a general-regime penal colony.
In December 2025, it became known that Olekhnovich had been released from the colony.
Others charged under Article 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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