Ekaterina Vologzheninova
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
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
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
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution ends
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
The case of Ekaterina Vologzheninova
Criminal case
The case of Ekaterina Vologzheninova
Details and sources
Full summary
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
Other people prosecuted under Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.