Day of Anastasia Rybachenko

April 17 - Solidarity Day with Anastasia Rybachenko, one of the 27 defendants in the "Swamp business".

Nastya was born in September 1991 in Moscow, 20 days after the failure of the August coup. At the time of the arrest, she studied in the fourth year of the faculty of political science of the State Academic University of Humanities.

On May 6, she was detained after the end of events in Bolotnaya, in the evening in a cafe. Sentenced to 5 days of administrative arrest.

In July, mother Nastya was a search. She herself was in Germany at that time: “Due to the fact that staying in Russia became unsafe for me, my friends and I decided to do something in Europe. And, in fact, we went to Strasbourg, to the PACE Summit, demanded that the unicorns did not invite the Summites at all. We find the guys, some of them work in Europe, part of them are learning there with their parents, and this action was together with them. organized. " In September, she was put on the federal wanted list, in December - was charged under Article 212, part 2. Anastasia decided not to return to Russia.

Now she lives in Estonia, entered the Tallinn Technical University with a degree in International Relations (the Gaugn leadership expelled the emigrated activist).

Ilya Yashin in support of Anastasia Rybachenko

On the day of solidarity with Rybachenko, her associates in "solidarity" hung a banner on a large stone bridge, and she herself recorded a video message .

From the age of 17, Nastya is one of the most striking and brave activists of Moscow. In 2009, she came to Solidarity, starting with the collection of signatures for nomination of candidates to the Moscow City Duma. A year later, she headed the Youth Committee of Solidarity. Member and organizer of dozens of shares, rallies and demonstrations. And not only in the framework of "solidarity". Each 31st of it could be found on the triumphal. I have been detained more than once, conducted reports from autosaks and ATS. They tried to start a criminal case for her for a penny of a police finger during the detention. At the same time, she suffered much more at the hands of law enforcement officers. In the "Faces" they remember well how, being in the police department, she charged the policeman who beat her during the detention.

May 31: Anastasia Rybachenko

In 2010, during mass performances after the presidential election in Belarus, Nastya was in Minsk. She was detained by the Belarusian special services, spent 15 days under arrest.

In prison with Old Man: the story of the prisoner

But, according to her, all the most importantly in her political life happened later. "My favorite actions? December 5, March 5, May 6. And before that, everything was not that, but - no way . It all started on December 5, when Yashin and I were a rally ..." We hope that in the life of Nastya everything really begins.

Blog of Anastasia Rybachenko on "Faces"