Alina Shumskikh
- Criminal Code
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war casesCases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (in absentia)
- Sentence
- 6 years
- Date of verdict
- 2025-11-21
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Case summary
An activist from Moscow and a member of the Freies Russland NRW (“Free Russia North Rhine-Westphalia”) association. In 2022, she moved to Germany to study and participated in anti-war and anti-Putin actions in Europe. A case was opened against her for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army motivated by hatred. The outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti, without naming its source, reported that the case was initiated over a video by Freies Russland NRW from an anti-war rally in Berlin, in which Shumskikh condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On 15 September 2025, the court placed her under arrest in absentia. On 21 November 2025, Shumskikh was sentenced; further details are unknown.
Others charged under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
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