Olga Sofronova-Moskvina
Olga Sofronova-Moskvina, born 1982, Mordovia. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “Olga Sofronova-Moskvina's case of incitement to extremism and publicly justifying terrorism”. Status: imprisoned. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, November 13, 2025.
In brief
Mordovia · Saransk · Politicians · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Extremism cases
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
- Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
Presumably, the reason for the case was comments about the sentencing of Kirill Butylin, an arsonist of a military recruitment centre, and about torture against the participants of the "Mayakovskiye Readings".
Latest event
November 13, 2025 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, November 13, 2025
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Olga Sofronova-Moskvina's case of incitement to extremism and publicly justifying terrorism
Criminal case
Olga Sofronova-Moskvina's case of incitement to extremism and publicly justifying terrorism
- Case number
- 2-328/2025
Thematic group: Anti-war case
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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
620024, Свердловская область, г. Екатеринбург, ул. Елизаветинское шоссе, д. 19, ФКУ СИЗО-5 ГУФСИН России по Свердловской области, Софронова-Москвина Ольга Евгеньевна, 1982 г.р.
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Full summary
A resident of Saransk, an animal rights activist. In the late 2000s, she was the First Secretary of the Leninist Communist Youth Union in Saransk and took part in organising protest actions. In March 2025, she was added to the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring. In May 2025, it became known that she had been taken into custody on charges of calling for extremism and public justification of terrorism. According to the project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial", the case was initiated over her comments about the sentence given to Kirill Butylin, who set fire to a military recruitment centre in the Moscow region, and about the torture of detained participants of the "Mayakovsky Readings" in Moscow, which led to a case against three poets.
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.