65-year-old jeweller from Gatchina, Alexander Dotsenko, has been hospitalised following a heart attack. This was reported on 14 February by his lawyer Sergei Podolsky on his channel.
The lawyer said that he received a call from an unknown number, asking him to let Dotsenko’s daughter know: “He’s had a heart attack, he’s in intensive care.”
According to Podolsky, from 12 February, Federal Penitentiary Service staff concealed from the convict’s family what had happened to him. Before being hospitalised, he was held in penal colony-settlement No. 8 in St Petersburg.
After the heart attack, Dotsenko was in a critical condition. He was placed in an induced coma. On 14 February, his daughter visited the hospital where he had been taken. In the following days, Dotsenko’s support group reported that there had been no change in his condition.
On 17 February, his level of sedation was reduced. The support group reported that Dotsenko was “slowly regaining consciousness,” but his heart condition was deteriorating. The next day, Dotsenko’s condition worsened and he was placed back in an induced coma.
17:23 The support group has reported that Alexander Dotsenko died in hospital today at 16:00.
- In July 2024, the jeweller was sentenced to three years in a penal colony-settlement. His wife, artist Anastasiya Dyudyaeva, was sentenced in the same case to three and a half years in a penal colony-settlement. They were found guilty of making public calls to terrorism (Part 1, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation , the couple had left leaflets in Ukrainian in a Lenta grocery store. Included among them was the phrase ‘putinyaku na gilyaku’.
- Dotsenko and Dyudyaeva were detained in January 2024. Since then, they had been held in custody.