A teacher from a village in the Smolensk region left Russia due to pressure from security forces

A teacher from the village of Shestakovo (Smolensk region), Alexandra Korotaeva, left Russia due to pressure from security forces after her anti-war statements. About this SOTAvision.

reports Korotaeva said that she left the country with her children a month ago, she was helped. According to the teacher, before leaving, security forces took her to the police station and wanted to initiate several criminal and administrative cases because of anti-war posts on VKontakte.

“Alliance of Teachers” “They tried to sew [Article of the Criminal Code] 207 and [Article of the Criminal Code] 280, but there are some moronic episodes there, they can’t even get enough material on a page for an article, if you really want to become a lieutenant colonel. In addition, they wrote a lot of denunciations against me,” Shestakova noted.

On May 14, a court in the Smolensk region fined a woman 30 thousand rubles because of her avatar on VKontakte with the inscription “No to war.” Korotaeva was found guilty under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). In August, on VKontakte, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, its page.

fined blocked - Since February 24—the first day of the “special operation” in Ukraine—residents of Russian cities have been going out to anti-war rallies every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 200 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our. guide - After the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian authorities began to react sharply to protest sentiments: they not only ordered to call the invasion a “special operation”, but also made lightning-fast amendments on imprisonment for up to 15 years for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army. Dissenters are persecuted not only under the new article of the criminal code: in various cases, security forces charge hooliganism, vandalism, violence against authorities and other violations.

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