The Pushkinsky District Court of St. Petersburg received a case under the article on military "fakes" against hairdresser Anna Aleksandrova. OVD-Info found information about this on the court's website.
Aleksandrova is charged with two counts of the article on dissemination of "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (clause "d" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The case was submitted to the court on May 27.
According to investigators, between March 20 and April 22, 2023, the hairdresser posted at least four publications on VKontakte under the nicknames “Irochka Sergeeva,” “Anka Pulemetchitsa,” and “Boris Nutrom” with “fakes” about the Russian army, and also talked on social networks about how to avoid mobilization.
The first case against Aleksandrova under the article on "fakes" was opened in November last year, when she was detained and placed under arrest. In April, it became known about a second criminal case against her under the same article. Probably, these cases were later combined into one proceeding. At the same time, Aleksandrova was transferred from the pretrial detention center to the hospital at the Federal Penitentiary Service. It is unknown what this is connected with.
The project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" reported in detail on the case against Alexandrova. The woman has a ten-year-old son, whose fate after her arrest is unknown.
Since February 24, 2022 — the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine — residents of Russian cities have been taking part in anti-war protests and talking about the tragedy online every day. Anti-war speeches and statements are becoming grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 900 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protests against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our infographic .
Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) was included in the Criminal Code in March 2022 — this is how the authorities responded to anti-war speeches and statements, as well as the dissemination of information about the war that does not come from official Russian sources. The maximum penalty under the article is 15 years in prison.