St. Petersburg woman who asked Putin's late parents to "take him in" has been given a suspended sentence

The Primorsky District Court sentenced St. Petersburg pensioner Irina Tsybaneva, who left a note on the grave of Vladimir Putin's parents, to two years of probation with two years of probation. This was reported by SOTA.

The prosecution reports that the woman will be given three years probation.

requested that a case be opened against the St. Petersburg resident in October 2022. She was charged with desecration of the bodies of the deceased and their burial sites, committed for reasons of political hatred (clause "b" of Part 2 of Article 244 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, Tsybaneva, while near the grave of Putin's parents at the Serafimovskoye Cemetery, "left a note with an offensive inscription" addressed to the president. Thus, as the investigation believes, the woman desecrated the burial site.

Mediazona learned , citing the case materials attached to the court, that the text of the note read: “Parents of the maniac, take him to yourselves, he is causing so much pain and trouble, the whole world is begging for his death <inaudible> Death to Putin, you have raised a freak and a murderer.” According to Tsybaneva herself, she left the letter after “watching the news, realizing that everything is very scary, everything is very sad, there are a lot of dead.”

Initially, Tsybaneva was placed under house arrest, but later a preventive measure was imposed to prohibit certain actions.

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