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Ekaterina Vologzheninova

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Ekaterina Vologzheninova, born 1969, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); “The case of Ekaterina Vologzheninova”. Sentence (February 19, 2016): 320 hours of compulsory labour. Status: at large.

In brief

Sverdlovsk Oblast · Yekaterinburg · Extremism cases

Sentence

320 hours of compulsory labour

Verdict February 19, 2016

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

incited national hatred against Russians, state authorities, residents of South-East Ukraine who do not support the course of modern Ukraine, "volunteers from Russia fighting on the side of militias from the east of Ukraine" through publications in social networks

Latest event

February 2, 2018 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list

  2. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict

  3. · Persecution ends

  4. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  5. · Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)

  6. · Persecution begins

    The case of Ekaterina Vologzheninova

Criminal case

The case of Ekaterina Vologzheninova

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

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On 10 December 2014, Vologzheninova's internet was disconnected on behalf of the special services, after which an unknown person, who introduced himself as an employee of an ISP, arranged a visit to fix the problem; on 12 December, Vologzheninova was searched, with witnesses participating in the search; She was first accused of posting links to the Ukrainian talk show "Horobri Sertsya" dedicated to the Anti-Terrorist Operation fighters, a film about Euromaidan "Winter that Changed Us" and a video "Putin's Yacht", as well as publishing a portrait of Stepan Bandera; The indictment accuses Vologzheninova of publishing a poem by Anatoliy Marushkevich entitled "Katsaps" (an ethnophaulism in Polish and Ukrainian for Russians), an image of a man resembling Putin and a hand with a knife with the inscription "Stop the contagion", an image of a girl in Ukrainian national costume with a weapon with the inscription "Death to the Moscow occupiers", an image of a cross with an appeal to Russian citizens that entry to Ukraine is restricted due to a shortage of morgue beds, a text by journalist Vladimir Shreidler, and an open appeal to "so-called volunteers from Russia"; placed on the Rosfinmonitoring list, due to which her accounts have been blocked; sentenced to 320 hours of compulsory labour on 20 February 2016

All fields of the record
Citizenship
Russia

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